Bill Kaplin
Professor Kaplin presented "Getting Up to Speed on Higher Education Law’s Essentials with the Experts: Basic Principles and Practices for Administrators and Attorneys" and "The Roberts Court and Free Speech on Campus: Examining CLS, West Borough, Citizens United, and More."
Kirsten Davis
Professor Davis has been invited to speak at the Rocky Mountain Regional Legal Writing Conference, in Las Vegas, Nevada, in March 2011; her program is What? Take a Gamble on a Legal Research and Writing Exam?: Yes, You Can Bet on It! She has also been invited to speak at the Association of Legal Writing Directors Biennial Conference, in Sacramento, CA, in June 2011 as part of a roundtable titled Legal Writing “Faculty”: What Does That Mean In A Legal Writing "Program"? She will also speak on You Are Already Writing An Article: A Workshop.
Roy Gardner
Professor Gardner recently spoke in Mexico at the 40th anniversary celebration of the Ramsar Convention. As part of the event, Ramsar launched "Wetlands in the Americas: The Role of the Ramsar Convention and the Benefits of Ramsar Site Designation," a book to which Professor Gardner contributed chapters and co-edited. Professor Gardner has also written a chapter about the Ramsar Convention for "Wetlands: Integrating Multidisciplinary Concepts," which Springer will publish next month. Moving to the domestic front, this month's Environmental Law Reporter just published "Stacking Opportunities and Risks in Environmental Credit Markets." Finally, "Lawyers, Swamps, and Money: U.S. Wetland Law, Policy, and Politics" will be published by Island Press in May.
Darryl Wilson
Professor Wilson has been elected Chair of the Code Enforcement Board for the City of St Petersburg.
Mike Allen
Professor Allen will be speaking this June in Palm Beach at the annual meeting of the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers about judicial independence as part of a reception honoring several members of the Florida Supreme Court. In September 2011, he will be speaking at the Florida Appellate Judges Conference about the U.S. Constitution. In November 2011, he has been invited to speak in Washington, D.C. to the annual meeting of the Appellate Judges Education Conference, an organization that focuses on educational programs for U.S. appellate judges at the federal and state level.
Ellen Podgor
Professor Podgor will speak at the 20th Annual National Seminar on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, co-sponsored by The Tampa Bay Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and The Criminal Justice Section of the American Bar Associationthe Federal Bar Association; the conference will be held May 4-6, in Orlando.
Ellen Podgor
Professor Podgor has been selected to serve on the AALS Criminal Justice Working Group; she is also chairing the ABA's Legal Education Committee on Technology and Education.
Joe Morrissey
Professor Morrissey is a member of the executive committee of the AALS New Law Professors Section.
Jason Palmer
In San Francisco last week Professor Palmer presented at the AALS Section on International Law's Year-in-Review program. He spoke on the Human Rights panel about “The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: A Holistic Approach to Disabilities.”
Lou Virelli
Professor Virelli is a member of the programming board for the AALS Constitutional Law section.
Ellen Podgor
Professor Podgor's article, "The Tainted Federal Prosecutor in an Overcriminalized Justice System," has been published in the Fall 2010 issue of the Washington & Lee Law Review.
Michael Allen
Professor Allen was re-elected to the Executive Committee of the AALS Remedies Section.