Story by Valeria Obi Nicole Martingano, a third-year law student at Stetson, experienced a severe and unexpected hardship at the age of 19 that motivated her to go to law school. In 2006, Martingano was an undergraduate student at the University of Florida in Gainesville with uncertain academic plans. On Feb. 25 of that year, Martingano’s life changed dramatically when she was hit head-on by… » Read more

Stetson University College of Law graduate Jason L. Turner ’04 and his family have established an endowed scholarship to support students concentrating in the area of elder law. With his mother, Laura Turner, and grandmother, Maurelle Hooks, the family created the LeRoy Y. Hooks Elder Law Scholarship to honor Jason Turner’s late grandfather, a life-long professional educator who lost his life to Lou Gehrig’s Disease.… » Read more

Driving Directions to the Gulfport Campus>> Stetson University College of Law is opening a new Veterans Law Institute on May 31 in Gulfport, Fla. The institute will serve the growing population of active duty military, veterans and their families in the Tampa Bay area, one of the largest concentrations of military veterans in the U.S. The institute’s Veterans Advocacy Clinic will provide representation to veterans… » Read more

Lt. Cmdr. Nieva M.S. Brock, who serves as staff judge advocate and ethics counselor to the director of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), will present the commencement address at Stetson University College of Law at 9 a.m. on Saturday, May 12. Commencement is scheduled to take place in the courtyard on Stetson’s Gulfport campus, 1401 61st St. S. A total of 317 students are… » Read more

Story by Valeria Obi Stetson’s Amnesty International hosted a panel discussion, “Demand Dignity Campaign: A Panel on Homeless Advocacy,” on April 10 at Stetson Law in Gulfport. The purpose was to bring awareness to the plight of those who become homeless, and to provide students with an opportunity to learn how to help the homeless community through legal action and community activism. Two of the… » Read more

Students from the National Law University in Jodhpur, India, traveled from the other side of the world to win Stetson University College of Law’s 16th Annual International Environmental Moot Court Competition on March 31 in Gulfport, Fla. More than 80 teams competed worldwide, and the top 26 were invited to Stetson for the International Finals. Student Aritra Roy of the National Law University in Jodhpur,… » Read more

Kenneth Feinberg, an attorney who has mediated some of the nation’s most challenging and widely known disputes, met with honors students, visited a class, and presented the Nichols Distinguished Lecture to more than 100 students on March 29 at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport. Feinberg presented “Unconventional Responses to Unique Catastrophes: Tailoring the Law to Meet the Challenges.” Professor Michael Allen introduced Feinberg… » Read more

The public is invited to a screening and discussion of the documentary film, Las Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo and the Search for Identity, at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport. The film tells the story of human rights abuses during the military dictatorship in Argentina between 1976-1983, and several grandmothers’ 35-year search for their missing children. WHEN: Monday, April 2. Doors open at… » Read more

Stetson University College of Law’s Juvenile Justice Initiative will host a reenactment on March 27 of two pending U.S. Supreme Court cases, Miller v. Alabama and Jackson v. Hobbs. “These cases are pivotal because the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion will either endorse the concept that children are capable of being rehabilitated or they will reject this notion. In either instance, the opinion will have broad… » Read more

Every Tuesday and Thursday morning, students in Professor Robert Batey’s spring seminar class at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, Fla., crack open their books to discuss the latest assigned readings. It is a typical law school seminar, except instead of pouring over case law, Professor Batey’s students are reading Kafka and watching Spike Lee’s Malcolm X. “The course draws people who are natural… » Read more

U.S. News & World Report has again ranked Stetson University College of Law as the top law school in the nation for trial advocacy and number three for legal writing, in its 2013 “Best Graduate Schools” issue. Stetson Law has been ranked the top school in the United States for advocacy 14 times and has consistently ranked among the top programs for legal writing by… » Read more

Stetson University College of Law won the National Professional Responsibility Moot Court Competition this weekend in Indianapolis. The championship team of Chad Burgess, Darcie Mulay, and May Smith also won the Best Respondent Brief Award and two oralist awards at the competition. Burgess was named the best oralist overall and Smith was named the third best oralist. Professors Brooke Bowman and Roberta Flowers coached the… » Read more