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crisis, and was part of a live
town hall discussing Crossing
Party Lines held at Ferg’s in
Orlando, Florida. Additionally,
Professor Rose traveled with
the AAJ Trial Team Squad
to the regional competition
where they returned as regional
champions for the second
straight year. He also coached
the ABA National Criminal
Trial Competition in Chicago
this spring.
JUDITH A.M. SCULLY,
Professor of Law, has been
appointed as a Guardian Ad
Litem in Pinellas County. Prof.
Scully also recently received the
Fred G. Minnis, Sr. Bar Association
Award for Community
Service for her juvenile justice
work. Additionally, she helped
coordinate and moderate two
community forums, which
included participation from the
State’s Attorney’s Office, the
Public Defender’s Office, the
Sherriff’s Office, the Juvenile
Probation Office, and the St.
Petersburg Police Department,
as well as a number of state
elected officials. Professor
Scully is currently on the
planning committee for the
National Conference of Black
Lawyers for their upcoming
50th Anniversary Conference.
During the spring and summer
Professor Scully worked closely
with judges from Pinellas
County and West Palm Beach
to develop awareness around
the impact of implicit bias
on judicial decision making.
She also spoke on the topics
of “Gender Bias; Implications
for Legal Practice” and the
“#metoomovement” at a recent
Florida Association of Women’s
Lawyers luncheon coordinated
by members of the judiciary.
STACEY-RAE SIMCOX,
Associate Professor of Law,
Director, Veterans Law
Institute, and Director,
Veterans Advocacy Clinic,
was elected president of the
National Law School Veterans
Clinic Consortium. She
helped coordinate the third
Law Schools Serving Veterans
Conference, which drew more
than 120 participants from
law school clinics across the
country to Washington, D.C.
She also presented or moderated
on four different panels
during the two-day event.
Professor Simcox additionally
oversaw the work of five law
students who participated in
drafting an amici brief to the
United States Court of Appeals
for Veterans Claims regarding
due process rights for veterans
and class action lawsuits.
CIARA TORRES-SPELLISCY,
Leroy Highbaugh Sr. Research
Chair and Associate Professor
of Law, spoke at Tulane University
at the Unrig the System
summit, on a panel discussing
foreign influence in American
elections which was broadcast
on C-SPAN. Further, Professor
Torres-Spelliscy’s work on the
expansion of corporate personhood
was mentioned on the
SCOTUS Blog. She was also
scheduled to speak about election
law at a symposium on
federalism held at Pepperdine
University College of Law.
STEPHANIE A. VAUGHAN,
Associate Dean for Student
Engagement and Professor
of Law, along with Joseph F.
Morrissey, Professor of Law,
coached the Stetson Vis Team
that competed in the Florida
Bar Richard Dewitt Vis Pre-
Moot in Miami, Florida, where
Stetson won the competition
and the Best Oralist Award.
LOUIS J. VIRELLI III,
Professor of Law, agreed
to publish an article titled
“Secret Policies,” which he
co-authored with Ellen S.
Podgor, Professor of Law, in
the University of Illinois Law
Review. He currently serves
on the Board of Trustees of
the Southeastern Association
of Law Schools (SEALS), and
as chair of the SEALS Worksin
Progress committee. He
is chair of the Association of
American Law Schools (AALS)
Section on Administrative
Law and the chair-elect of
the AALS Section on Constitutional
Law. As chair of the
Administrative Law Section,
Professor Virelli is coordinating
a panel of top scholars
from across the country on the
topic of “Presidential Control
of Administrative Agencies”
for the 2019 AALS Annual
Meeting in January. He is the
acting editor-in-chief of the
ABA Section of Administrative
Law and Regulatory Practice’s
quarterly publication, the
Administrative and Regulatory
Law News. Professor Virelli
has done numerous press
appearances in 2018, discussing
pending Supreme Court
cases, criminal investigations
of school shooting threats,
and decisions by Facebook
and other social media outlets
to deny access to white
supremacist users. He has
also done several in-person
presentations, including a talk
on the role of the Supreme
Court in American government
to the Teacher’s Law
School, a Florida Bar program
designed to educate Florida
high school civics and history
teachers about the law, and
presentations on campus on
the Masterpiece Cakeshop case
before the Supreme Court, and
the Mueller investigation.
DARRYL C. WILSON,
Associate Dean for Faculty and
Strategic Initiatives, Attorneys
Title Insurance Fund Professor
of Law and Co-Director,
Institute for Caribbean Law
& Policy, participated in the
Annual Association of Law
Schools (AALS) annual conference
in San Diego, California.
Dean Wilson also attended the
second annual conference on
Masters of Laws for Non-
Lawyers, held in Sacramento,
California, as part of his work
in helping establish the law
school’s three new Masters of
Law programs which begin
in Fall 2018. Additionally,
he supervised students in the
American Caribbean Law Initiative
(ACLI) clinic in Nassau,
The Bahamas, where he and
Dorothea A. Beane, Professor
of Law, also participated in
governance meetings as ACLI
board members. Dean Wilson
continued as a contributing
editor to the ABA Probate &
Property magazine columns
Keeping Current Property and
Keeping Current Probate. He
also continued in his role as
Chair of the Code Enforcement
Commission for the City
of St. Petersburg and Pinellas
County, where Professor Beane
also is a commissioner, and as a
hearing officer for the Pinellas
County Housing Authority.
CANDACE M. ZIERDT,
Professor of Law, was
appointed by the president
of the Uniform Law Commission
(ULC) to a two-year
term as one of five Division
Chairs for the ULC. In that
capacity, she is responsible for
a portfolio of approximately
16 drafting and study committees.
Additionally, Professor
Zierdt was appointed to the
ULC’s Uniform Commercial
Code Committee, which
is a standing committee to
monitor the UCC. She has
also recently been appointed as
the next chair of the Uniform
Commercial Code Committee
for the ABA Business Law
Section, and is a member of
the ABA Business Law Section
Publications Board.