{"id":11818,"date":"2013-02-21T13:21:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T18:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.law.stetson.edu\/news\/?p=11818"},"modified":"2014-04-03T13:39:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T17:39:40","slug":"professor-spearheads-celebration-of-the-contributions-of-civil-rights-scholar-robert-d-bickel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2013\/02\/21\/professor-spearheads-celebration-of-the-contributions-of-civil-rights-scholar-robert-d-bickel\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor spearheads celebration of the contributions of civil rights scholar Robert D. Bickel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Feb. 19, alumni, faculty, staff and friends gathered in the Great Hall on Stetson&#8217;s Gulfport campus to celebrate the scholarly contributions of Stetson law professor and civil rights scholar Robert D. Bickel. Bickel&#8217;s former students Wil H. Florin JD \u201980 and Thomas D. Roebig Jr. JD \u201986, who regularly fund Stetson&#8217;s travel course on Constitutional Law and the Civil Rights Movement, sponsored the dinner program.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11819\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11819\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.stetson.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/bickel_festschrift_feb_2013_32_Bickel-Listens.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11819\" title=\"Professor Robert Bickel, second from the right, listens to a presentation Feb. 19 at Stetson honoring his scholarly contributions.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.law.stetson.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/bickel_festschrift_feb_2013_32_Bickel-Listens-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Robert Bickel, second from the right, listens to a presentation Feb. 19 at Stetson honoring his scholarly contributions.\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11819\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Robert Bickel, second from the right, listens to a presentation Feb. 19 at Stetson honoring his scholarly contributions.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Professor Timothy Kaye spearheaded the event, which included the presentation of an online tribute book to Bickel, called a <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/bickel\/Webfestschrift\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Webfestschrift<\/a>, composed of articles written by faculty colleagues and former students. The book entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/bickel\/Webfestschrift\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Shaking the World Gently: A Webfestschrift in Honor of Professor Robert D. Bickel&#8221;<\/a> was edited and produced by Kaye in the tradition of the Festschrift, a book written to honor a respected person and presented during his or her lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>Bickel, who joined the Stetson faculty in 1978, has no plans to retire. 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