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LIDSKYTime Magazine, Aug. 6, 2008A new Internet site, WhoCanISue.com, plans to help consumersdetermine whether they actually have a case and help them find anattorney from a list of lawyers who advertise their expertise on theWeb site. The attorneys will pay an annual fee of $1,000 to appearon the site. University of Florida Professor of Law Lyrissa Lidskybelieves the service “is likely to increase the number of lawsuits.”But, adds Lidsky, who specializes in Internet law and the FirstAmendment, “It’s a good thing to the extent people are vindicatingtheir legal rights to the extent they didn’t years ago.”—Lyrissa Lidsky, Professor of Law; UF Research Foundation ProfessorWinston P. NaganProfessor; Samuel T. Dell ResearchScholar; Director, Institute of HumanRights and Peace Development;Affiliate Professor of Anthropology■ Published “Globalism from anAfrican Perspective: The Training ofLawyers for a New and ChallengingReality” (with Marcio Santos), 17Transnational Law & ContemporaryProblems 414 (2008)■ Published “The Rise of Outsourcingin Modern Warfare: SovereignPower, Private Military Actors, andthe Constitutive Process” (with CraigHammer), 60 Maine L. Rev. 430(2008)■ Presented “Love, Hate and theHuman Rights Boundaries of the Law,”The Anthropocene Crisis: Perils andPossibilities of the 21 st Century, WorldAcademy of Art and Science Assembly,Hyderabad, India (October 2008)■ Presented “Legal Culture ConfrontsScience in Search of a NewParadigm of Humane Governance,”The Expanding and ConstrainingBoundaries of Legal Space, Curvatureof Time, and the Challenge ofGlobalization World Academy ofArt and Science, Hyderabad, India(October 2008)■ Presented “The Problems ofBiodiversity and Biopiracy and theProtection of Indigenous Knowledge,”Vivekananda School of ProfessionalStudies (Law School) and Delhi LawSchool, Delhi, India (October 2008)■ Discussed developments underthe UN Convention on Biodiversity,Conference of the States Parties, Bonn,Germany (2008)■ Presented a paper dealing with thehuman rights of indigenous people inthe Amazon (the case of the Shuar),Conference on the Inclusive Museum(2008)Lars NoahAlumni Research Scholar; Professor■ Published “The Little AgencyThat Could (Act with Indifferenceto Constitutional and StatutoryStrictures),” 93 Cornell L. Rev. 901(2008)William H. PageSenior Associate Dean for AcademicAffairs; Marshall M. CriserEminent Scholar in ElectronicCommunications and AdministrativeLaw; Professor■ Published “Bargaining in theShadow of the European MicrosoftDecision: The Microsoft-SambaProtocol License” (with Seldon J.Childers), 102 Northwestern U. L.Rev. Colloquy 332 (2008)IN MEMORIAM Dexter DelonyProfessor Emeritus Dexter Delony, passed away Oct. 16 following long illness. He was 91.Delony taught at UF Law for more than 30 years, educating thousands of Florida’s lawyers and leaders,including former governors Lawton Chiles and Rueben Askew. As a professor, Delony was revered by his studentsfor teaching classes that successfully combined a generous helping of both theoretical law and its application. Heretired from UF Law in 1983 and stated he was very proud to have seen the dramatic increase in women law studentsduring his tenure at UF.Delony specialized in labor law, commercial law and arbitration, and was a nationally recognized and publishedauthority in all three. Delony wrote Florida’s Uniform Commercial Code, and served for several years as chairman ofthe Labor Law Council of the Association of American Law Schools.Delony was recruited to the University of Florida in 1948 by then-President J. Hillis Miller from the University ofDenver law school, where he served as an assistant professor. Before entering legal academia, Delony worked withJudge Beale at Beale & Delony in Tuscaloosa, Ala. He also worked as an attorney for the U.S. Department of Interiorand the National Labor Relations Board.Delony earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Alabama and his Juris Doctor from HarvardUniversity. He was involved in numerous legal organizations and was a member of both the American Bar Associationand The Florida Bar.He is survived by his wife of 66 years, Jean Campbell Delony, daughter, Christine Vigue, two sons, Charles andJohn, three grandchildren and two great grandchildren.92 UF LAW