Download Magazine - Levin College of Law - University of Florida

NOTAS BENEFaculty Scholarship & ActivitiesMary AdkinsLegal Skills Professor■ Published “Seven Qualities forBeginning Appellate Attorneys,” 16The Record (2008) (the journal of theAppellate Practice Section, FloridaBar)■ Received scholarship grant fromthe Association of Legal WritingDirectors to support development of anarticle on the effect of trial courtroomtechnology on appellate practice andstandard of review (2008)Mary Jane AngeloAssociate Professor■ Published “Harnessing the Power ofScience in Environmental Law: WhyWe Should, Why We Don’t, and HowWe Can,” 86 Texas Law Review 1527(2008)■ Published “Where Did Our WaterGo? Give the Law a Chance” (op-ed,with Richard Hamann and ChristineKlein), Orlando Sentinel (Sept. 23,2008) and Ocala Star-Banner (Sept.28, 2008)■ Published “Reforming the FloridaWater Resources Act of 1972: Beyondthe First 35 Years” (monograph,with Richard Hamann and ChristineKlein), in connection with the CenturyCommission for a Sustainable Florida,2008 Water Congress, Orlando (2008)■ Presented “When the Rivers RunDry: Water Challenges in Florida” (withRichard Hamann and Christine Klein),Common Reading Program, Universityof Florida (October 2008)■ Presented “Stumbling TowardSuccess: A Story of Adaptive Law andEcological Resilience,” Symposium onEnvironmental Resilience and the Law,University of Nebraska College of Law(September 2008)■ Presented “The Killing Fields:Reducing the Casualties in the BattleBetween U.S. Endangered Species andPesticide Law,” Vermont Law School(July 2008)■ Presented “Agricultural Impacts andthe Management of Water Resources:A Case Study of Lake Apopka,Florida,” Annual Conference on Legaland Policy Issues in the Americas, Riode Janeiro, Brazil (May 2008)Miami Herald, June 3, 2008Quoted in an article discussing The Miami-Dade PublicDefender’s Office plans to begin turning away thousands of casesin the coming weeks, arguing it is so short-staffed and underfunded that attorneys can’t effectively cover their assigned cases.Legal experts disagreed on whether public defenders can refusecases simply because they are overworked. Dekle said, “The firstshowdown you’re looking at is between the public defenders andthe judge and how quick they can get out of jail after the judgeputs them in jail for not accepting cases. Refusing to acceptappointments in that situation is basically refusing to perform hisconstitutional duty.”—George R. “Bob” Dekle, Legal Skills ProfessorFletcher N. BaldwinChesterfield Smith Professor Emeritus■ Received an Emerald LiteratiNetwork 2008 Award for Excellencefor publishing the “OutstandingPaper” of 2007, “The Rule of Law:An Essential Component of theFinancial War Against OrganizedCrime and Terrorism in the Americas”(with Theresa A. DiPerna), 14 J. ofFinancial Crime 405 (2007)Jonathan R. CohenProfessor; Associate Director Institutefor Dispute Resolution■ Presented “Coping with LastingSocial Injustice,” Justice and Policingin Diverse Societies, sponsored by theJohn Jay College of Criminal Studiesand several other universities, PuertoRico (2008)■ Presented “The Benefits andLimitations of Apology” to a statewideweb seminar for Florida judgesand mediators addressing workers’compensation claims within the Office ofJudges of Compensation Claims (2008)Stuart R. CohnJohn H. and Mary Lou DasburgProfessor; Associate Dean forInternational Studies■ Published “Freeze-Outs andSqueeze-Outs in American and PolishLaw: Comparison, Contrasts andReform Recommendation,” 8 WarsawUniversity Law Review 38 (2008)Elizabeth DaleAffiliate Professor of Law; AssociateProfessor of Constitutional and LegalHistory, Dept. of History■ Published “People v. Coughlin andCriticism of the Criminal Jury in LateNineteenth-Century Chicago,” 28N. Illinois U. L. Rev. 503 (2008)(symposium)■ Published “Death or Transformation?Educational Autonomy in the RobertsCourt,” 43 Tulsa L. Rev. 725 (2008)■ Published “People v. Coughlin andthe Criminal Jury in Late Nineteenth-Century Chicago,” 28 Northern IllinoisUniv. L. Rev. 503 (2008)■ Participated in panel discussion,“Religion Clauses of the FirstAmendment and Mark deWolfe Howe’sThe Garden and the Wilderness,American Academy of ReligionNational Conference (November 2008)Jeff DavisGerald A. Sohn Term Professor■ Presented “Ethical Challenges in thePractice of Bankruptcy Law,” AnnualSeminar, Central Florida BankruptcyLaw Association (September 2008)Patricia E. DilleyProfessor■ Won one of 12 RockefellerFoundation Innovation Awards($30,000) to Strengthen SocialSecurity for Vulnerable Groups for herproposal, “Restoring Old Age IncomeDEKLEFor a complete, threeyearlisting of UF Lawfaculty scholarship,view the UF LawFaculty Report,available online atwww.law.ufl.edu.FALL 2008 87