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Steve Willis
Professor; Associate Director,
Center on Children and Families
■ Panelist on “Teaching Non-profit
Law” at the AALS annual meeting of
the Section of Non-profits.
■ Published “People in Glass Houses”
in 113 Tax Notes 477 (2006).
■ Presented “Family Law
Economics: Ruminations on
Property” to Family Law Section
of the Collier County Bar Association
at its annual Family Law
Conference.
Michael Allan Wolf
Richard E. Nelson Chair in Local
Government Law; Professor
■ Published an Expert Commentary
for LexisNexis on Mendota Golf, LLP
v. City of Mendota Heights, 708 N.W.
2d 162 (2006).
■ Spoke at the “Preservation 101”
seminar sponsored by Florida Trust
for Historic Preservation in “Whoʼs
Afraid of Property Rights, Or: How
I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love
the Constitution.”
■ Hosted and served as a presenter for
the Sixth Annual Richard E. Nelson
Symposium, “From Fairways to
Driveways: Legal Implications of Golf
Course Conversions.”
■ Spoke at CLE Internationalʼs
Regulatory Takings program.
■ Published “Looking Backward:
Richard Epstein Ponders the
ʻProgressiveʼ Peril,” 105 Michigan Law
Review 1233 (2007).
Barbara B. Woodhouse
David H. Levin Chair; Director,
Center on Children and Families
and the Family Law Certificate
Program; Co-Director, Institute for
Child and Adolescent Research and
Evaluation (ICARE)
■ Advised Fordham University in
developing its multidisciplinary center
on child advocacy.
■ Presented the keynote speech at a
St. Johnʼs University conference on
Boston Globe, March 3, 2007
“
When the CEO of HSBC, one of the
world’s largest banks, and legal aid
attorneys who represent povertystricken
Americans find something to
agree on, it is no small event.
”
Christopher L. Peterson, Associate Professor, in an op-ed piece
that encouraged leaders to rethink national credit policies.
“Race, Class, Culture and the Child
Welfare Crisis.”
■ Spoke at a ceremony for the renaming
of Arizona Stateʼs law school, in
honor of retired U.S. Justice Sandra
Day OʼConnor.
■ Published “Waiting for Loving:
The Childʼs Fundamental Right to
Adoption,” 34 Capital U. L. Rev.
297-329 (2005).
■ Named the Fernand Braudel
Senior Fellow at the European
University Institute in Florence, Italy,
for September 2007-January 2008
to do a comparative law study of
child welfare rights and the ecology
of childhood in the U.S. and the
European Union.
Monique Haughton Worrell
Legal Skills Professor; Supervising Attorney,
Child Welfare Clinic
■ Presented “In Defense of Juveniles:
Due Process Failures in the United
States Juvenile Justice System” at the
International Society on Family Law
Conference in 2005; proceedings published
in 2007.
The Washington Post, Feb. 26, 2007
■ Spoke on objective expert witness
testimony at the Florida State Child
Protection Team Conference.
■ Presented at the Harvard Law Child
Advocacy Conference on the Center
on Children and Families Multidisciplinary
Programs.
■ Spoke to the UF Department of
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry on
eyewitness testimony of children,
“The Child Witness.”
Danaya C. Wright
Professor
“
The attorney-client privilege is not an
end unto itself but a means to an end.
”
Michael L. Seigel, Professor, in an op-ed article about the push
by big business to restrict or prohibit prosecutors of big business
cases from requesting material that would be confidential under
attorney-client privilege.
■ Published column in “The Blog,” Inside
UF, on UF Senate Policy Councils,
through which the Senate takes a proactive
role in policy changes and guards the
academic mission of UF. Wright currently
serves as Faculty Senate Chair.
■ Presented “The Legacy of Colonialism:
Religion, Law, and Womenʼs Rights
in India” at a conference at Washington
and Lee School of Law on gender relevant
legislation in Muslim and non-Muslim
countries. It was sponsored by Washington
and Lee and Harvard University.
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