Ann Piccard
Professor Piccard has been selected to present at the AALS mid-year workshop on Women Rethinking Equality.
Luz Nagle
Professor Nagle was elected to the International Bar Association's Legal Practice Division Council.
Catherine Cameron
Professor Cameron's article, "Fixing FOIA: Pushing Congress to Amend FOIA Section b(3) to Require Congress to Explicitly Indicate an Intent to Exempt Records from FOIA in New Legislation" has been published in the most recent issue of Quninipiac Unviersity's Law Revew.
Bill Eleazer
Professor Eleazer has received the 2010 Gold Medal for "Adult Fiction" awarded to to his first novel, Savannah Law by the Florida Publishers Association.
Cynthia Hawkins DeBose
Professor DeBose authored an article in the October 2010 St. Pete Bar Association magazine, The Paraclete, titled "Community Champions." The article describes her various volunteer activities within the community.
Janice McClendon
On Wednesday, September 29th, Professor McClendon spoke at the West Coast Employee Benefits Council in Tampa regarding executive compensation and recent changes under the Wall Street Reform Act and pending tax legislation.
Kirsten Davis
Professor Davis presented a work-in-progress titled "'I know you like me, but I can't ask you to say that': The Tension Between Communicating Lawyer Reputational Information in Online Advertising and 'The Good Life' for Consumers of Legal Services" at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender held in St. Petersburg, October 14-17.
Ellen Podgor
Professor Podgor testified on September 28th before the U.S. House of Representatives Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee, which held a hearing on "Reining in Overcriminalization: Assessing the Problems, Proposing Solutions."
Catherine Cameron
Professor Cameron spoke on two panels on Septmeber 25th at the conference "Media Law in the Digital Age" sponsored by the Center for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University, in conjunction with the Harvard Law School Berkman Center for Internet and Society. She spoke on issues surrounding media access to government information. She was also invited to serve on the editorial board of the peer-reviewed Journal of Public Access Law.
Monu Bedi
Professor Bedi's article, "Excusing Behavior: Reclassifying the Federal Common Law Defenses of Duress and Necessity Relying on the Victim’s Role" was accepted for publication in The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (Northwestern).
Bobbi Flowers, Ellen Podgor, Luz Nagle, Judy Scully, and Monu Bedi
Professor Flowers organized a very successful roundtable program for the ABA Criminal Justice Section this weekend on the proposed 4th edition of the Prosecution & Defense Ethics Standards. Professor Flowers and Professor Podgor presented papers, Professor Nagle moderated a panel and filled in for a speaker, Professor Scully moderated a panel, and Monu Bedi served as reporter. The work from this roundtable will provide important feedback to the ABA on the proposed standards.
Kirsten Davis
Professor Davis has been elected to the Executive Committee of the Association of Legal Writing Directors's Board of Directors.