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S T E T S O N L AWY E R
FACULT Y F O RUM
FACULTY FORUM
KRISTEN DAVID ADAMS,
Interim Dean and Professor of
Law, and Candace M. Zierdt,
Professor of Law, along with
Professor Juliet M. Moringiello
from Widener University
Harrisburg School of Law,
have published “Essential
UCC Concepts: A Survey of
Commercial Transactions,”
with West Academic Publishing.
Dean Adams was invited
to serve on the Council for
the American Bar Association’s
Business Law Section for a
three-year term, and Professor
Zierdt was invited to serve as
chair of the Uniform Commercial
Code Committee for
a three-year-term beginning in
September 2018. As head of
Stetson’s Dispute Resolution
board, Dean Adams oversaw
Stetson advancing to national
rounds in all four areas in
which the ABA offers competitions.
Dean Adams has been
selected as one of 13 members
of the ABA Commission on
Homelessness & Poverty.
LINDA S. ANDERSON,
Professor of Law, was recently
named to the Accessibility
Committee of the Woodhull
Freedom Foundation, a
national human rights organization
focused on protecting
sexual freedom and ending
sexual violence.
DOROTHEA A. BEANE,
Professor of Law, participated
in governance meetings as an
ACLI board member. Professor
Beane serves as a commissioner
at the Code Enforcement
Commission for the City of St.
Petersburg and Pinellas County.
PAUL BOUDREAUX, Professor
of Law, edited the Journal
of International Wildlife Law
and Policy and spoke on the
topic of illegal wildlife trade at
the recent ABA International
Law Conference in Miami.
BROOKE J. BOWMAN,
Professor of Law, Director of
Finances and Advocacy Boards,
and Director of the Moot
Court Board has been named
interim director of the Dolly
& Homer Hand Law Library.
She continued her work on the
ABA Competition Committee,
specifically, the ABA National
Appellate Advocacy Competition
subcommittee, of which
she is the chair for 2017-
2018. This is the fifth year that
Professor Bowman has served
on the Committee.
CATHERINE J. CAMERON,
Professor of Law, recently published
the article, “In the Eyes
of the Law Student: Determining
Reading Patterns with
Eye-Tracking Technology,” in
the Rutgers Law Record.
CHRISTINE E. CERNIGLIA,
Assistant Professor of Law,
and Director of Clinical and
Experiential Education, is
presenting “The Politics of
Law School Engagement in
Post-Disaster Relief Efforts,”
at the Association of American
Law Schools (AALS) Clinical
Conference, in Chicago. Professor
Cerniglia is also presenting
at the upcoming Externship 9
Conference at the University of
Georgia School of Law.
KELLY M. FEELEY, Professor
of Law and Coordinator of
Legal Research and Writing
continues to serve as the
ABA Law Student Division
Competitions Committee
co-chair. She assisted running
the ABA Law Student Division
National Negotiation
Competition in Chicago for
20 teams that advanced from
their regional competitions
across the country. Along with
Kristen David Adams, Interim
Dean and Professor of Law, she
co-hosted the ABA Representation
in Mediation Competition
at Stetson Law for eight teams
from across the country. Additionally,
she assisted running
the ABA Law Student Division
National Appellate Advocacy
Regional Competitions in
Manhattan and Boston for 60
teams from across the country.
JAMES W. FOX JR., Associate
Dean for Academic Affairs
and Professor of Law, recently
attended the annual meeting
of the American Association
of Law Schools in San Diego,
California, where he presented
his paper, “African-American
Constitutionalism and the
Second Founding,” as part
of the joint program titled
“Reconstruction: the Second
Founding,” by the Section on
Constitutional Law and the
Section on Legal History. He
was invited to participate in
the half-day program that featured
presentations by leading
scholars in constitutional law
and legal history.
ROYAL C. GARDNER,
Professor of Law and Director
of the Institute for Biodiversity
Law and Policy, chaired the
21st meeting of the Ramsar
Convention’s Scientific and
Technical Review Panel
(STRP) in Switzerland and
presented on behalf of the
STRP at the Americas Preparatory
Meeting for Ramsar
COP13 in San José, Costa
Rica. He gave virtual presentations
to the Association of
State Wetland Managers and
the Association of Clean Water
Administrators (on the Clean
Water Act), as well as to the
graduate fellows of the University
of Florida’s Water Institute
(on the Ramsar Convention).
Professor Gardner was a
co-author of “Satellite Sensor
Requirements for Monitoring
Essential Biodiversity Variables
of Coastal Ecosystems,” which
was published in the journal,
Ecological Applications.
CYNTHIA G. HAWKINS,
Professor of Law, recently
published her article, “Child
Sex Trafficking and Adoption
Re-Homing: America’s 21st
Century Salacious Secret,”
in the Wake Forest Journal of
Law & Policy; and has another
article forthcoming; “Throwing
the Baby Out with the Bath:
Florida’s Flawed Approach to
Post-Adoption Inheritance”
accepted for publication in the
Connecticut Public Interest Law
Journal. Professor Hawkins was
also a recent discussant at the
American Association of Visually
Impaired Attorneys Annual
Meeting, in Reno, Nevada, and
was invited to discuss, “How to
Get a Book Published,” at the
Southeastern Association of Law
Schools annual meeting. She
was also an invited presenter
at the ABA Dispute Resolution
Section Annual Meeting
where she discussed Teaching
Collaborative Law in Law
Schools. Professor Hawkins’
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