Janice McClendon
Professor McClendon spoke at SEALS on a panel titled "Corporate Law: The Future of Executive Compensation." She also moderated a workshop panel titled "The Role of ERISA in Health Care Reform."
Rebecca Morgan
Professor Morgan spoke at SEALS on a panel titled "Interacting with Medical Professionals in Representing Clients with Questionable Capacity: Advice for Law School Clinical Program Personnel and Law Professors Who Do Pro Bono Work."
Ellen Podgor
Professor Podgor moderated a SEALS corporate law workshop discussion group titled "Re-Evaluating Corporate Criminal Liabliity." She also served as a mentor for a new scholar as part of the new scholars workshop program.
Rebecca Morgan and Terri Radwan
Their article, "The Elderly in Bankruptcy and Health Reform," has been accepted for publication in Volume 18 of the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy.
Ellen Podgor
Yesterday in Toronto, Professor Podgor received the Heeney Award, which has been described as the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers' "most prestigious award” and is given annually to one person.
Luz Nagle
Professor Nagle has accepted an offer to publish her child soldiers article as the lead article in the fall issue of the Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law. In early July, she also participated in a panel at the federal court discussing human trafficking for a group of Canadian government officials visiting Tampa under the U.S. State Department Distinguished Foreign Visitors program.
Brooke Bowman
Professor Bowman has been named Assistant Editor in Chief of Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute. She has served as Managing Editor for several volumes.
Peter Fitzgerald
Professor Fitzgerald has been selected as a MacCormick Fellow at the University of Edinburgh School of Law for the spring 2011 term. This appointment, along with other appointments he has received at Cambridge University, will provide him with formal affiliations and a base for his work during the coming academic year both in England and Scotland. The MacCormick Fellowship program was created in 2008 as one of Edinburgh’s premier fellowship programs to honor Professor Sir Neil MacCormick, Professor Emeritus at Edinburgh Law School, and formerly the Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations at the University of Edinburgh.
Luz Nagle
On April 21, Professor Nagle spoke on human trafficking at the Social Justice Dinner at Eckerd College. The event involved several human rights and government social services organizations. Professor Nagle spoke about the practice of trafficking in human organs and tissue. On April 26, the Professor Nagle received an offer to publish “Terrorism and Universal Jurisdiction: Opening a Pandora’s Box?” in the Georgia State University Law Review. This week, she attended the national conference on human trafficking task forces, hosted by the DOJ in Washington, DC. This was an invitation-only conference that she attended as a member of the Florida Governor's Task Force on Human Trafficking. AG Eric Holder and Homeland Security Director Donna Shalala were speakers. She also attended the Florida Governor's Task Force meeting, held at SPC Allstate Campus, to work on various agendas. Florida AG Bill McCollum attended as well as a couple of State Senators. She then participated in a board meeting with the Florida Coalition Against Human Trafficking.
Ellen Podgor
On April 2, Professor Podgor participated in the Washington & Lee Workshop on Prosecutorial Power.
Luz Nagle
Professor Nagle recently served as a roundtable panelist at the 2010 International Congress on Human Trafficking at the University of Minnesota Law School. During the event, she was presented with an award by the University of Minnesota Law School in recognition of her "Outstanding Contributions to the Achievement of Social Justice and Human Rights."
Dorothea Beane
On April 17, Professor Beane will participate in a program at John Marshall Law School in Chicago titled "Tips for Practitioners on How to Become a Law Professor."