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school and in practice. And I thought that
some of the suffering was attributable
to the adversary process, and to the
fact that the adversary process for law
school education bred a lot of misery,”
he said. “Education in alternative dispute
resolution and mindfulness can help
address this problem.”
The prevalence of alternative dispute
resolution in Florida was a factor that
attracted Riskin to UF. Alternative dispute
resolution has been utilized by the Florida
Court System to resolve disputes for over
30 years, starting with the creation of
the first citizen dispute settlement center
in Dade County in 1975. Since then,
the uses of mediation and arbitration
have grown as the Florida Legislature
and judiciary have created one of the
most comprehensive court-connected
mediation programs in the country.
“Florida is a terrific laboratory for
studying dispute resolution,” he said.
Uphoff Serves As
Visiting Professor
Fulbright Scholars
Gordon and Jones
Among Faculty
Awarded Grants
Levin College of Law Professor
Michael W. Gordon and Clifford
Jones, associate in law research
and lecturer in the schoolʼs Center for
Governmental Responsibility, are among
seven University of Florida faculty
members who have been awarded
Fulbright Scholar grants to lecture or
conduct research in other countries
during the 2006-07 academic year.
Gordon, the John H. and Mary
Lou Dasburg Professor, will be going
to the Portuguese Catholic University
in Portugal, while Jones heads off to
Germany to conduct research at the Max
Planck Institute for Intellectual Property,
Competition and Law. They are among
about 800 U.S. faculty and professionals
who will travel abroad as part of the
program sponsored by the U.S. Department
of State to build mutual understanding
between residents of the United States and
the rest of the world. UF also is hosting
five Fulbright Visiting Scholars during the
current academic year.
KRISTEN HINES
Jones (left) and Gordon
“The Fulbright program is highly
competitive and selects talented faculty
from all over the world,” UF Provost
Janie Fouke said. “The University of
Florida is proud both to be the home for
these recipients and to be the home of
faculty who attract awardees from other
countries. Our students are the ultimate
winners, though, because they have the
opportunity to interact with folks who
are among the most accomplished in
the world.”
KRISTEN HINES
Uphoff
Rodney J. Uphoff has joined the
faculty as a visiting professor and
interim director of clinical and skills
programs. He comes to UF from the
University of Missouri School of Law,
where he was Elwood Thomas Missouri
Endowed Professor of Law and director
of the University of Missouri South
Africa Educational Program.
Before joining the Missouri faculty
in 2001, Uphoff taught for 11 years
at the University of Oklahoma, where
he served as their director of clinical
education for three years. Uphoff also
was one of the lawyers appointed to
defend Terry Nichols in the Oklahoma
bombing case.
Harrison’s Work Cited by Highest Court
Two different works co-authored by Professor
Jeffery L. Harrison, who holds the Stephen C.
O’Connell Chair, have been cited three times
in U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’
opinion for a unanimous court in Weyerhauser Co.
v. Ross-Simmons Hardwood Lumber Company, Inc.
The antitrust case (WL 505794, U.S. 2/20/07)
concerned a practice by buyers who purchase raw
materials to keep those raw materials away from
competing firms. This is known as “predatory buying.”
“The court adopted an approach Professor Roger Blair of the UF Department
of Economics and I wrote about in an article (published by the Cornell Law
Review) and a book (published by Princeton University Press),” said Harrison.
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