Stetson University College of Law presented Joshua Karton, who specializes in teaching how to apply the communication skills of theatre, film and television to the art of trial advocacy, with this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching Advocacy on May 24 on the Gulfport campus. The award recognizes people who have fundamentally changed […]
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Roderick L. Ireland, the first African-American chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, will deliver Stetson law school’s commencement address at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 14, in the Plaza Mayor courtyard on Stetson’s Gulfport campus, 1401 61st St. South. When he was appointed an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in […]
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Nine members of Stetson University’s faculty have recently earned tenure and/or promotion. The new status for these faculty will be effective August 2016 with the start of the 2016-2017 academic year. “It is an honor and a pleasure to celebrate the accomplishments of these teacher-scholars,” said Provost Elizabeth Paul, who made the announcement. “I […]
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A team of students from the University of San Carlos, Cebu, in the Philippines, won the 20th Annual International Environmental Moot Court Competition on April 16 at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, Fla. For two decades, students from across the globe have honed their skills as environmental advocates in the annual competition. The runner-up was […]
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Stetson University College of Law students won the 2016 Law Student Professionalism YouTube Contest for their training and educational video depicting professional conduct for lawyers. It is the second year in a row that Stetson students have won the Florida Bar contest. The video showcased Stetson law students Dan Kavanaugh and Shaheen Nouri as television […]
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Stetson University College of Law students won the 31st Annual Dean Jerome Prince Memorial Evidence Moot Court Competition on April 2 at Brooklyn Law School in New York. The Stetson team of Brittany Cover, Kristina Hartman and Jeremy Rill won rounds against teams from the University of Florida, Wayne State, Michigan State, Louisiana State, Georgetown […]
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Law students excel internationally in the areas of advocacy, research and writing.
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Stetson University College of Law’s trial team members were named champions and won three awards at national competitions this past weekend in California and Illinois. Stetson’s trial team of Silvia Amador, Nathan Bruemmer, Kishantevia Carson and Dan Kavanaugh won the National Ethics Trial Competition at the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law in […]
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Jim Wallis, bestselling author, public theologian, national preacher, social activist and international commentator on ethics and public life, will be speaking at Stetson University on Fri., Apr. 8, at 10:30 a.m., in the Stetson Room, second floor of the Carlton Union Building, 131 E. Minnesota Ave., on Stetson’s DeLand Campus. His lecture is titled, “The […]
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Stetson University College of Law has selected Joshua Karton for this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching Advocacy and American University Washington College of Law Professor Elizabeth L. Lippy for the Edward D. Ohlbaum Award. Both awards will be presented during the Educating Advocates Teaching Advocacy Skills Conference at Stetson law school in […]
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Stetson University’s College of Law has again topped the U.S. News & World Report national rankings by placing first in Trial Advocacy and third in Legal Writing. This is the 18th time in Stetson University history that it has ranked in the top of the U.S. News rankings in Trial Advocacy. Stetson has ranked among […]
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New academic leadership, diversity on campus discussed also on agenda Stetson University Board of Trustees approved more than $26 million in capital improvement projects at the university’s DeLand and Gulfport campuses, as well as improvements at the university’s location in Celebration. The move came at its Feb. 19 meeting at Stetson’s campus in Celebration, Fla. […]
Continue ReadingStetson University College of Law’s moot court teams competed over the weekend to win a regional tournament of the American Bar Association National Appellate Advocacy Competition and win the Best Oralist Award at the South Regional of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. A Stetson Law moot court team advanced to the National Finals of […]
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Stetson University College of Law’s Vis International Commercial Arbitration team is heading to Vienna later in March after placing first in the pre-moot in Miami, Fla., on Feb. 27. Stetson’s team will compete with more than 300 teams from around the world in the international competition in Austria. Stetson’s team of Jonathan Diamond, Sadiya Hashem, […]
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Stetson University Professor of Law Tim Kaye has reinvented the law book in the form of an interactive website. This month, Kaye publicly launched his Law of Torts book on the Webby Books website that he designed to bridge the gap between traditional law books and modern legal research. Kaye’s Webby Books is a responsive website where law […]
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Stetson University College of Law student and Bradenton, Fla., native Starcee Brown, a member of the Stetson trial team and single parent to her two-year-old son, recently received the Bar Study Scholarship from the Malcolm Cunningham, Sr. Bar Association. The bar association awards scholarships to well-deserving third-year African American students preparing to sit for the Florida Bar exam. Brown […]
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Seven years after she first stepped foot onto Stetson University’s campuses, Executive Vice President and Provost, Elizabeth L. “Beth” Paul, Ph.D., announced she is leaving in mid-June to become President of Capital University near Columbus, Ohio. As Stetson University’s executive vice president and provost, Paul is the University’s senior academic officer and leads the University’s […]
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Stetson University College of Law invites future law students to attend an open house, “The Stetson Experience,” on Saturday, Feb. 27 from 10 a.m.- 2p.m. at 1401 61st St. S. in Gulfport. “If you ever wondered what law school is like, visit us for a few hours on a Saturday and don’t miss this open […]
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The first Friday of February is National Wear Red Day, a single day sponsored by the American Heart Association to bring attention to the fact that one out of three deaths among women each year is caused by heart disease and stroke. According to the Heart Association, more than 80 percent of cardiac events can […]
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Stetson University moves forward in creating A Diverse Community of Inclusive Excellence.
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