Professor Peter Lake will assume the role of Interim Director of Title IX Compliance for the University and has agreed to lead our Title IX compliance efforts.  Professor Lake has great depth of experience in assisting organizations fulfill their Title IX responsibilities.… » Read more

Professor Cynthia Batt’s paper, “DELIVERING EFFECTIVE EDUCATION IN EXTERNSHIP PROGRAMS (FROM BUILDING ON BEST PRACTICES)”, was recently listed on SSRN’s Top Ten download list for: Clinical Law Teaching & Practice eJournal, LSN: Education Research (Topic), LSN: Legal Education (Topic), Law Educator: Courses, Materials & Teaching eJournal and Legal Education eJournal. As of 17 February 2015, Professor Batt’s paper has been downloaded 106 times. You may… » Read more

Professor Roy Gardner presented in a webinar for the Convention on Biological Diversity in Granada this week.  Next week, he heads to the UK to speak at a biodiversity and sustainable development symposium at Cambridge University.… » Read more

Stetson faculty papers top the charts for Clinical Education.  Professor Cynthia Batt is #6 and #8 and Professor Stacey-Rae Simcox is #5 on the chart (Faculty papers top the charts for clinical law education).… » Read more

The MacArthur Foundation just announced that the 2015 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions was given to the National Institute on Money in State Politics (www.followthemoney.org)  where Professor Torres-Spelliscy is on the Board of Directors.  http://www.macfound.org/press/press-releases/nine-nonprofits-recognized-exceptional-creativity-and-effectiveness-awarded-1-million-each/… » Read more

Professor Candace Zierdt and Professor Kristen Adams have been invited to take on the CISG portion of the UCC Survey that the ABA’s Business Lawyer publishes every year.  The Business Lawyer is the Section’s scholarly publication that goes to all section members and has a large readership.… » Read more

Professor Kristen Adams has been nominated to serve on the Board of Regents of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers for a four-year term.  Also, Kristen and Professor Candace Zierdt have been invited to take on the CISG portion of the UCC Survey that the ABA’s Business Lawyer publishes every year.  The Business Lawyer is the Section’s scholarly publication that goes to all section… » Read more

Professor Torres-Spelliscy’s latest law review article has been published by the Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy. The citation is Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Kathy Fogel & Rwan El-Khatib, Running the D.C. Circuit Gauntlet on Cost-Benefit Analysis after Citizens United: Empirical Evidence from Sarbanes-Oxley and the JOBS Act, 9 Duke J. Const. L. & Pub. Pol’y 135 (2014).… » Read more

Carolina Academic Press has recently published The Science Behind the Art of Legal Writing by professors Catherine J. Cameron and Lance N. Long.  As a supplemental text for a first-year legal writing course, or as a primary text for an advanced legal writing course, this book provides the evidence — besides saying “because I told you so” — for requiring students to follow many common… » Read more

The National Clearinghouse for Science, Technology and the Law website ncstl.org has been added to the U.S. Department of Justice Researching Experts Guide and will be used in their training programs at U.S. Attorneys Offices.… » Read more

Professor Ciara Torres-Spelliscy spoke at the 2015 Annual Convention of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) on a panel entitled “Citizens Invited: Scholars and Professors in the Campaign Finance Wars” on January 4, 2015.  The panel was moderated by Professor Richard Albert and included the following co-panelists Professors Joshua Douglas, Joseph R. Fishkin, Lawrence Lessig, Eugene D. Mazo, Spencer Overton, Jamin Ben Raskin, Bradley… » Read more

Stacey-Rae Simcox’s article, Lightening the VA’s Rucksack: A Proposal for Higher Education Medical-Legal Partnerships to Assist the VA in Efficiently and Accurately Granting Veterans Disability Compensation, made the SSRN’s Top Ten Download list for eight different eJournals, including Clinical Law Teaching & Practice, Disability Law, and Health Economics.… » Read more