Tickets are still available for members of the public and the Stetson community for Stetson University’s second TEDxStetsonU event, Friday, March 28 from 2:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Allen Hall, 508 N. Woodland Blvd., on Stetson’s DeLand campus. The theme for the event will be Significance in Action: Creating Learning, Innovation and Happiness. You can purchase […]
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Category: Law & Justice
Adam Liptak, a lawyer, author and New York Times Supreme Court correspondent, will address 260 graduates of Stetson University College of Law on May 17 in Gulfport, Fla. Stetson’s commencement takes place at 8:30 a.m. in the courtyard on the law school’s Gulfport campus, 1401 61st St. S. Liptak was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his series […]
Continue ReadingIn 1932, Julia Ruth Stevens was a teenager with the most famous father in the world ─ Babe Ruth. Her parents stayed at St. Petersburg’s prestigious Rolyat Hotel, where the “Sultan of Swat” signed his legendary contract with the New York Yankees and stayed during spring training. According to an article in the 2001 St. Petersburg […]
Continue ReadingFor the 16th time, U.S. News & World Report ranked Stetson University College of Law first in trial advocacy. Stetson also is ranked sixth in the nation for legal writing and is listed among the top 100 law schools in the country. “It goes without saying that the advocacy program at our College of Law […]
Continue ReadingRecent upgrades to the Stetson University mobile app, interactive map and online calendar of events have resulted in new features and functionality that enhance the user experience. Mobile app: The free Stetson University mobile app has been redesigned from the ground up and puts the university at your fingertips in more ways than ever before. […]
Continue ReadingStetson University will host an interdisciplinary conference on the state of democracy titled Democracy in America: Participation and Social Justice, Mar. 27-28. The conference will address problems as well as solutions in the contemporary practice of democracy in the United States from a variety of perspectives, with an emphasis on issues of access, forms of […]
Continue ReadingAstrid Baumgardner, J.D., Professional Certified Coach (PCC), Coordinator of Career Strategies and lecturer at the Yale School of Music, will speak at Stetson University, Thursday, March 13. The one day residency is presented by Stetson University’s School of Music in collaboration with Stetson’s Office of Academic Advising. Baumgardner will facilitate two discussions that are open […]
Continue ReadingThe following information, from the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT’s 511 Traveler Information System) is important to share with Hatters planning to travel during Stetson’s Spring Break, March 3-7, 2014. ARRIVE EARLY TO YOUR SPRING BREAK DESTINATION WITH 511 – Know Before You Go. As millions of students pack up for spring break trips traveling home […]
Continue ReadingStetson University College of Law student Elisabeth Fontugne was recently honored with two awards for excellence in writing. Fontugne won the Mollie and Paul Hill Student Writing Competition in Medical-Legal Interprofessional Collaboration, hosted by Florida State University. She took second place in the American College of Legal Medicine Student Writing Competition in Law, Medicine and […]
Continue ReadingWhile most university curriculums require seven years for students to receive their bachelor’s and Juris Doctor degrees to become an attorney, Stetson University’s carefully crafted 3+3 program provides highly motivated and focused students a quicker and more financially advantageous way of obtaining both degrees. Students in the recently revised accelerated program spend three years at […]
Continue ReadingStetson’s University Marketing Office won 11 communications awards from CASE III (Council for Advancement and Support of Education, District III), including three Grand Awards, the district’s highest honor. “These prestigious awards put us among the best university, college and independent school marketing programs in the region,” said Greg Carroll, Stetson’s vice president for university marketing. […]
Continue ReadingLet’s put it this way. Unless Florida takes significant steps to conserve, reuse and look for alternative supplies, the state’s fresh water supplies will not meet the needs of its ever-growing population. That’s according to almost 60 participants at a recent St. Johns River Basin Supply Workshop held on the Stetson campus. These Central Florida […]
Continue ReadingThe activities and festivities scheduled in the Palm Court on Wednesday, Feb. 19, will help make Stetson’s recognition of the national Through With Chew campaign the teachable moment that is intended. Chewing tobacco is not a safe alternative to cigarettes. It’s deadly. Smokeless tobacco is a major problem. Learn more about why, find out how to detect its […]
Continue ReadingStetson University College of Law is hosting Raising the Bar: Florida’s Legal Community Service Day, on Feb. 22 on the Gulfport campus. The initiative collects donations from the local legal community for American Red Cross care packages. WHO: Members of the legal community, including lawyers, law students, law firms, judges and friends, are encouraged to […]
Continue ReadingSTETSON UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE’s current winter issue investigates what the experts say about the Millennial generation and how, specifically, Stetson students reflect those descriptions. “In some ways,” said Bill Noblitt, editor of the magazine, “Stetson students are much like any other Millennials. They are tech savvy and want to please their parents. But in other ways, […]
Continue ReadingTo mark the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) developed a special project as part of its Bridging Cultures initiative: Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle. Stetson University’s duPont-Ball Library is one of 473 institutions in the United States that was awarded a grant to participate in the […]
Continue ReadingMilitary couple from St. Augustine leaves gift to endow academic scholarship – In February, 2013, Kate Pearce, assistant vice president of university relations at Stetson University, received a most welcomed telephone call. Attorney Melvin D. Stack, a partner in the Daytona Beach law firm of Every, Stack and Upchurch, and a 1979 Stetson College of Law […]
Continue ReadingDistinguished Professor of Law Emeritus William Eleazer will receive Stetson University’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching Advocacy on May 21 on the Gulfport campus.
Professor Eleazer will be presented with the lifetime achievement award during Stetson’s annual Educating Advocates: Teaching Advocacy Skills conference, May 20-24 in Gulfport, Fla.
Professor Eleazer helped establish Stetson’s reputation for excellence in ethical and effective trial advocacy, building… » Read more
Renowned trial team coach Amelia Michele Joiner has accepted the position of Associate Professor of Legal Skills and Trial Advocacy at Stetson University College of Law starting in July of 2014.
Joiner is Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Trial Advocacy Program at Duquesne University School of Law.
She has received numerous awards for outstanding achievement in the area of trial advocacy, and… » Read more
Stetson’s new Institute for the Advancement of Legal Communication hosted Noah Messing of Yale Law School as its first Distinguished Speaker on Jan. 16. Messing is Lecturer in the Practice of Law and Legal Writing at Yale.
While at Stetson, Messing addressed more than 150 first-year law students on the basics of written persuasion. He encouraged Stetson moot court team members and alumni to challenge… » Read more