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Florida trial court’s invalidation of aWashington second-parent adoption(2008)■ Provided background information onconstitutional issues for Miami Heraldstory discussing a Key West case inwhich judge ruled that Florida’s banon gay adoptions is unconstitutional(2008)Michael SeigelAlumni Research Scholar; Professor■ Quoted in Gary Blankenship, “DOJRevises How It Deals With CorporateProbes,” The Florida Bar News (Sept.15, 2008)■ Received “2008 FacultyProfessionalism Award,” awardedby the Florida Supreme Court’sCommission on Professionalism andthe Florida Bar’s Standing Committeeon Professionalism (2008)■ Presented “U.S. Law andProcedure for White Collar CriminalCases,” Summer Program inAmerican Law for Brazilian Judges,Prosecutors and Attorneys, UFLaw, Center for GovernmentalResponsibility, Tampa (2008)Michael SiebeckerAssociate Professor■ Published “The Duty of Care andData Control Systems in the Wake ofSarbanes-Oxley,” 83 Chicago-Kent L.Rev. (2008)■ Presented “Encapsulated Trust andthe Tragedy of Corporate Transparency,”Washington University School of Law(2008)■ Participated on panel titled,“Global Banks as Global Regulators:The Equator Principles,” CorporateSocial Responsibility: Perspectivesfrom Law and Business Conference,Georgetown University Law Center andthe McDonough School Of Business,Georgetown University (2008)■ Invited to join the Network forSustainable Financial Markets (aninternational think tank addressingregulation of capital markets) (2008)■ Presented “Legal Ethics andInternational Corporate SocialResponsibility,” University of Costa RicaSchool of Law, San Jose, Costa Rica(2008)■ Presented “Trust and Disclosure,”Monash University Centre, Italy (2008)■ Presented “Trust, Efficiency, andCorporate Transparency,” CambridgeUniversity, United Kingdom (2008)D. Daniel SokolAssistant Professor■ Published “Order Without(Enforceable) Law: Why CountriesEnter into Non-Enforceable CompetitionPolicy Chapters in Free TradeAgreements,” 83 Chicago Kent L. Rev.231 (2008)■ Presented “The Past and Future ofLaw & Entrepreneurship Scholarship– A Multidisciplinary Perspective”(written with Mark Suchman andGordon Smith), Third Annual Law& Entrepreneurship Retreat, DrexelSchool of Law, Philadelphia (October2008)■ Participated in “Networks inCommunications,” an academicBook round-up: Barbara Bennett WoodhouseHidden in Plain Sight: The Tragedy of Children’s Rights from Ben Franklin to Lionel TateHidden in Plain Sight reveals whyfundamental human rights and principlesof dignity, equality, privacy, protection,and voice are essential to a child’s journeyinto adulthood. In her book, Barbara BennettWoodhouse explores how understandingrights for children leads to a betterunderstanding of human rights for all. Ina moving account of children’s rightsthroughout American history fromBenjamin Franklin to Lionel Tate,Woodhouse asks why the UnitedStates alone rejects the mostuniversally embraced human-rightsdocument in history, the UnitedNations Convention on the Rights ofthe Child. She calls on the UnitedStates to again become a leader inhuman rights and children’s rights.Hidden in Plain Sight tells thetragic untold story of children’srights in America. It asks whythe United States today, aloneamong nations, rejects the mostuniversally embraced human-rightsdocument in history, the UnitedNations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Thisbook is a call to arms for America to again be a leader inhuman rights, and to join the rest of the civilized worldin recognizing that the thirst for justice is not for adultsalone.Barbara Bennett Woodhouse explores the meaning ofchildren’s rights throughout American history, interweavingthe childhood stories of iconic figures such as BenjaminFranklin with those of children less known but no lesscourageous, like the heroic youngsters who marched forcivil rights. How did America become a place where twelveyear-oldLionel Tate could be sentenced to life in prisonwithout parole for the 1999 death of a young playmate? Inanswering questions like this, Woodhouse challenges thosewho misguidedly believe that America’s children alreadyhave more rights than they need, or that children’s rightspose a threat to parental autonomy or family values. Shereveals why fundamental human rights and principles ofdignity, equality, privacy, protection, and voice are essentialto a child’s journey into adulthood, and why understandingrights for children leads to a better understanding of humanrights for all.Compassionate, wise, and deeply moving, Hiddenin Plain Sight will force an examination of our nationalresistance — and moral responsibility — to recognizechildren’s rights. http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8613.html94 UF LAW