Seven Stetson Law students in Professor Carol Henderson’s Scientific Evidence Workshop had an opportunity to learn firsthand what it’s like to work a crime scene investigation on Feb. 12. Pinellas County crime scene investigators walked the students through the process of collecting evidence at a mock crime scene on the Gulfport campus. The law students learned how evidence presented in the courtroom is collected during… » Read more

Shivani Alamo, a student at Stetson University College of Law, has won the prestigious Lewis Hine Award for her volunteer work with children. Alamo received the New Generation Award, a special Lewis Hine Award for Service to Children and Youth, named for the National Child Labor Committee photographer who documented early 20th century exploitation of children to facilitate child labor reform. Traveling to New York… » Read more

Stetson University College of Law’s Black Law Students Association was recently named Chapter of the Year for the Southern Region for outstanding community activism. The Stetson student group was selected from a pool of 43 law school chapters in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. The students were honored during the Southern Regional BLSA Convention in Nashville, Tenn., Jan.… » Read more

Stetson University College of Law students Andrew Harris, Julia McGrath and Victoria San Pedro won the New York City Bar’s 63rd Annual National Moot Court Competition on Jan. 31. McGrath was also honored with the runner-up best individual speaker award. This competition is one of the most prestigious in the nation. Teams from more than 150 law schools competed in 15 regional rounds across the… » Read more

Stetson University College of Law students Chad Burgess, Erin Okuno and Morgan Vasigh won the Best Brief Award at the prestigious Andrews Kurth Moot Court National Championship on Jan. 26 in Houston, Texas. The invitation-only law school competition, hosted by the University of Houston Law Center Blakely Advocacy Institute, drew students from 16 law schools around the country. The invitation is based on the schools’… » Read more

Stetson University College of Law students won the Florida Bar Chester Bedell Mock Trial Competition on Jan. 18 in Orlando, Fla. Stetson has won the competition 20 out of 30 times, including last year. A total of 22 teams from 11 Florida law schools competed. Two teams of four Stetson Law students advanced to compete against each other in the final round of the competition.… » Read more

Venable partner Peggy Strand, an expert in federal wetlands and environmental law, talked with Stetson Law students about challenges to protecting biodiversity through the law at the Edward and Bonnie Foreman Biodiversity Lecture on Jan. 17. Strand explained that one challenge to protecting biodiversity through the law is the lack of consensus among lawmakers on environmental issues. “If you can’t get consensus on climate change… » Read more

Two Stetson University College of Law students and their environmental law professor worked with the National Wildlife Federation to prepare an amicus brief in a wetlands case being heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in January. » Read the amicus brief Stetson second-year student Marc Shumaker and third-year law student Erin Okuno helped prepare the brief with Stetson law professor Royal Gardner and NWF attorney… » Read more

Stetson University College of Law student Jeffrey Harvey, who helped establish a scholarship to help veterans pay for law school, has  received a prestigious Douglas B. Henderson Leadership Scholarship from the Federal Circuit Bar Association. Only one scholarship is awarded each year, in honor of Douglas B. Henderson, founding president of the Federal Circuit Bar Association. Harvey was awarded $10,000 and a membership in the… » Read more

Stetson Law recently hosted a panel of experts discussing the benefits of judicial clerkships. The noontime program for students drew a crowd on Nov. 15 in the Great Hall. Professor Catherine Cameron moderated the panel, which included Professor Jason Bent and alumni attorneys Melissa Madsen ’08, Jennifer McPheeters ’09, Daniel Smith ’08 and Katherine Wachter ’10, who talked about their own formative experiences with clerkships.… » Read more

Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Ricky Polston received the J. Ben Watkins Award for Excellence in the Legal Profession during the annual Stetson Law Review Banquet on Nov. 16 at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport. Chief Justice Polston was appointed to the Florida Supreme Court by former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist in October 2008. He previously served with the First District Court of… » Read more

A panel of attorneys spoke with Stetson Law students on Nov. 8 on the Gulfport campus at a banquet celebrating public service sponsored by the Public Service Fellows. Tampa Public Defender Keh’ara Hendrieth ’11, Pinellas County Public Defender Noah Kores ’10, and Assistant Attorney General Caroline Johnson Levine talked with students about the importance of being engaged in public service. Lee Feldman, student president of… » Read more