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FACULTY Scholarship Since November 2006 Mary Jane Angelo Assistant Professor ■ Presented “Rapanos, Carabell and Beyond” (an analysis of recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions addressing jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act at the Florida Wetlands Conference). Thomas T. Ankersen Legal Skills Professor; Director, Conservation Clinic ■ Published “Anchoring Away: Government Regulation and the Rights of Navigation in Florida, Technical Publication USA Today, Sept. 9, 2006 “ Our families are more unstable. There are more divorced and blended families. We also are more aware of the psychological impact of children losing emotional attachments with close relatives. # 157, Florida Sea Grant (revision of 1999 work) (with R. Hamann). ■ Served as co-chair and presenter, “From Stem to Stern: Boating and Waterway Management in Florida” conference (Florida Sea Grant, Center for Governmental Responsibility, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission). ■ Presented “Vamos a la Playa: The Law of Coastal Access in a Comparative Context,” at the International Seminar: Sustainable Tourism and Coastal Development, University of Costa Rica. ■ Published Costanera Sur: Gateway to the Osa. A Scenic and Conservation and Development Corridor in Costa Rica, proceedings of the “Sustainable Tourism 2006” Conference, Verona, Italy (with M. Gurucharri). ■ Appointed to serve as UF provostʼs ex officio representative on UF sustainability committee and to assist in the development of proposals to advance sustainability in the curriculum. ■ Funded to develop a “Program of Land Use Law Extension and Service ” Barbara Woodhouse, Professor, Center on Children and Families Director, commenting about courts increasingly siding with grandparents over visitation rights, especially in the cases in which one of the parents is dead. Learning,” UF IFAS Cooperative Extension Service, $40,000. ■ Co-principle investigator, “Protecting Floridaʼs Water Quality, Identifying and Overcoming Barriers to Implementation of Low Impact Development Practices,” UF Water Institute Program Initiation Fund, $25,000. Fletcher N. Baldwin, Jr. Director of UF Center for International Financial Crimes Studies; Chesterfield Smith Professor ■ Published article, “Exposure of Financial Institutions to Criminal Liability,” 13 J. of Financial Crime 387 (2006). ■ Co-authored article, “Down to the Wire: Assessing the Constitutionality of the National Security Agencyʼs Warrantless Wiretapping Program: Exit The Rule of Law,” (with Robert Shaw), 17 University of Florida Journal of Law and Public Policy 430 (2006). Jonathan R. Cohen Professor; Associate Director, Institute for Dispute Resolution ■ Published chapter, “The Culture of Legal Denial,” in The Affective Assistance of Counsel: Practicing Law as a Healing Profession, ed., Marjorie A. Silver (Carolina Academic Press, 2007). Stuart R. Cohn Associate Dean for International Studies; Professor; Gerald A. Sohn Scholar; Director of International and Comparative Law Certificate Program ■ Appointed as the Florida liaison to the American Bar Associationʼs Business Lawʼs Committee on Corporate Laws. ■ Published revised two-volume treatise, Securities Counseling for Small and Emerging Companies (Thomson/West). ■ Spoke on “Overlapping Financial and Legal Concerns for Start-up and Capital Raising Companies” to the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants at the Florida Gulf Coast University Accounting and Tax Conference. 50 U F L A W
Jeffrey Davis Professor; Gerald A. Sohn Scholar ■ Presented to the Bankruptcy/UCC Committee of the Business Section of The Florida Bar concerning the amicus curiae brief he submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of a petition for writ of certiorari. His argument on behalf of the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees concerns application of the in pari delicto doctrine against a trustee in bankruptcy. ■ Participated in Jacksonville Bankruptcy Bar Association panel discussion on the developments in Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases following the sweeping 2005 amendments to the bankruptcy code. George R. Dekle Legal Skills Professor; Director, Criminal Law Clinic-Prosecution ■ Spoke on pretrial motion practice in capital cases at the Western Regional Capital Litigation Seminar sponsored by the National District Attorneys Association and other organizations. Patricia E. Dilley Professor ■ Spoke for the Section of Employee Benefits program on “Teaching Employee Pensions in the Land Where 401(k) Plans are King” at AALS annual conference. Mark Fenster Associate Professor ■ Presented “The Dependency of Independence: 9/11 and the Independent Commission Form” to the faculty at the Brooklyn Law School. St. Petersburg Times, Oct. 20, 2006 “ USA Today, Oct. 10, 2006 “ One of the concerns about the death penalty (is) that the stakes are so high, defense attorneys pull out all the stops. So there’s a real tension between the defense attorney’s desire to explore every avenue and the court’s desire to get an efficient resolution of the case. What’s interesting about this case is that (Scheff) was so vested in being vindicated, she was willing to pay court costs. They knew before trial that the defendant couldn’t pay, so what’s the point in going to the jury ” Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky, Professor, UF Research Foundation Professor, commenting on the case in which a Florida woman sued a Louisiana woman for defaming her on an Internet blog and was awarded $11.3 million. Alyson Flournoy Professor; Director, Environmental & Land Use Law Program ■ Presented “Wetlands Conservation and Metropolitan Growth” at Georgia State University College of Law. ■ Published CPR for the Environment: Breathing New Life into the Nationʼs Major Environmental Statutes, A Legislative Sourcebook of Progressive Ideas for Members of Congress and Staff (co-edited and co-authored introduction with Matthew Shudtz). Michael W. Gordon John H. & Mary Lou Dasburg Professor ■ Published article, “Forum Non Conveniens Misconstrued: A Response to Henry Saint Dahl,” 38 Inter-American Law Review 141 (2006). ■ Organized and presented two panels on “A Documentary Sale from the United States to Chile” and “Foreign Investment and Trade Issues in Contemporary Latin America,” and appeared on a third panel on “Doing Business in Civil Law Tradition Nations” at the ABA International Law Section Fall meeting. ” George Dekle, Legal Skills Professor, Director of Criminal Law Clinic-Prosecution, quoted in an article about the numerous measures attorneys, like those representing alleged cop killer Alfredie Steele, Jr., go through to effectively represent their client. ■ Prepared and presented “International Commercial Transactions” and “International Civil Litigation” for Nokia lawyers in Latin American offices. ■ Participated in a panel on Canadian culture and the NAFTA at the Canadian Embassy in Washington. ■ Spoke on litigation and arbitration between parties in Mexico and the United States, and on recent decisions of U.S. courts applying Mexican law, at the U.S.- Mexico Law Institute program. He was re-elected to the Board of Directors of the Institute and elected vice chairman. Linda Calvert Hanson Assistant Dean for Career Services ■ Published article, “The Law School Perspective of Small Firm Practice,” in the Fall 2006 issue of Link, a journal of the General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Section of The Florida Bar. ■ Panelist at the ABA mid-year meeting in Miami on “Small Firm Practice: A Blue Print for Success.” Jeff Harrison Stephen C. OʼConnell Chair ■ Cited three times (two different works, with R. Blair as co-author on each) in U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thomasʼs opinion for a unanimous court in Weyerhauser Co. v. Ross- Simmons Hardwood Lumber Company, Inc., 2007 WL 505794 (U.S. 2/20/07). ■ Published article, “Trademarkand Status Signaling: Tattoos for the Privileged,” Florida Law Review, November 2006. ■ Published article, “An Instrumental Approach to Market Power and Antitrust Policy,” SMU Law Review, December 2006. S U M M E R 2 0 0 7 51
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