FACULT Y F O RUM
committee for the National
Academy of Elder Law
Attorneys (NAELA). She spoke
at the 5th World Congress
on Guardianships in Seoul,
Korea; to the Aging, Law, and
Society Collaborative Research
Network in Toronto, Canada;
NAELA’s Advanced Review
Course in Chicago, Illinois; the
Oklahoma NAELA Annual
Conference; and the Missouri
Joint Estate Planning and Elder
Law Annual Conference.
ROYAL C. GARDNER,
Professor of Law and Director
of the Institute for Biodiversity
Law and Policy, was a lead
coordinating author of the first
GWO, the flagship publication
of the Ramsar Convention
on Wetlands, which was
launched at the 13th Ramsar
Conference of the Parties in
October in Dubai. At COP13,
he presented the GWO to over
1360 participants from 143
countries. He also delivered
his final report as chair of the
Ramsar Convention’s scientific
advisory body, concluding
six years of service. Professor
Gardner attended the
Multidisciplinary Expert Panel
meeting of the Intergovernmental
Platform on Biodiversity
and Ecosystem Services in
Germany as part of his work
with Ramsar and a seminar on
international biodiversity law
at the University of Barcelona
as part of his work with a
Spanish government Global
Wetland Outlook grant project.
He was a member of a Stetson
Law band that performed at
the Justice, Soul & Rock ‘n’
Roll fundraiser for Gulfcoast
Legal Services.
CYNTHIA G. HAWKINS,
Professor of Law, will have
her new book, The Child
Support Enforcement Handbook,
published soon by Cognella
Academic Publishing.
MARCO JIMENEZ, Professor
of Law, wrote an article that
was recently recognized and
recommended on Larry Solum’s
Legal Theory Blog entitled
“Retribution in Contract Law”
that was published in the UC
Davis Law Review, Vol. 52,
No. 2, 2018.
TIMOTHY KAYE, Professor
of Law, was recently recognized
on Larry Solum’s Legal Theory
Blog for his article entitled
“A Sound Taxonomy of
Remedies,” published in the
Quinnipiac Law Review, Vol.
36, 2017.
REBECCA C. MORGAN,
Professor of Law and Boston
Asset Management Chair
in Elder Law, worked with
Professor Roberta Flowers on
administering two grants and
received a year-two award on
their pooled special needs trust
project. Professor Morgan
has co-authored Mastering
Interviewing and Counseling for
Carolina Press with Professor
Kelly Feeley. Professor Morgan
received the Ben Willard award
at the Stetson alumni reception
during the Florida Bar 2018
annual meeting, and she was
inducted into the Stetson
University College of Law Hall
of Fame in October. Professor
Morgan continues to write blog
posts for the elderlawprofblog.
She is working on a new book
and a new article on the use of
powers of attorney to exploit
elders financially. Professor
Morgan chaired Stetson’s
20th Annual Special Needs
Planning conference and has
given several speeches. Along
with several elder law attorneys
and Judge Michael Allen,
she is scheduled to train JAG
officers at Ft. Stewart on elder
law issues. Professor Morgan
received an award from the
Missouri Chapter of NAELA
for her support of their
programs.
JOSEPH MORRISSEY,
Professor of Law, completed
a draft of an article, “A Call
to Reject Instrumentalism;
Medical Deductions for Family
Formation Denied.”
ANNE E. MULLINS,
Associate Professor of Law,
co-authored the article,
“Psichologija JAV ir Lietuvos
Teiseje: Pakeliui ar Atskirai?”
in American Psychology and
Lithuanian Law: Together
or Separate?, 29:1 Teismai
(2018), with Grant Christensen.
Professor Mullins also
published “Reframing the
Mundane: From Research to
Relationships,” 26 Persp. 26
(2018). Further, Professor
Mullins was selected to be one
of the authors of the Feminist
Judgments Project: Rewritten
Employment Discrimination
Opinions, edited by Ann
McGinley & Nicole Porter,
forthcoming from Cambridge
University Press. She is
re-writing Desert Palace v.
Costa, 539 U.S. 90 (2003).
Professor Mullins presented at
Washburn University School of
Law’s symposium, “Law in the
Post-Truth Era” as a panelist
on “Legal Reasoning in the
Age of Alternative Facts.” At
the Legal Writing Institute’s
Biennial Conference, she
presented “Meeting Students
Where They Are: Developing
Self-Direction at the Law
School Level.” There, she
argued that most law school
curricula are designed on
the flawed assumption that
incoming students are selfdirected
learners, when in fact,
self-directed learning is a skill
that law schools should teach.
Professor Mullins currently
serves all three of the national
legal writing organizations.
She is the president-elect of the
Association of Legal Writing
Directors, and serves on the
board of directors. She serves
on the Nominations Committee
for the AALS Legal Writing
Section, and on the Scholarship
Grants Committee and
the Administrative Options
Committee for the Legal
Writing Institute.
LUZ ESTELLA NAGLE,
Professor of Law, continues
her service as a trustee of the
International Bar Association
Human Rights Institute Trust
and is co-chair of the Crimes
against Women Subcommittee
of the IBA’s Criminal Law
Section. In October, she was
a panelist/presenter for the
session, “Business, Human
Rights, and Poverty: Strategic
Advantages and the Lawyer’s
Personal Responsibility,” at the
IBA Annual Conference in
Rome. She was also cited as a
contributor in two IBA articles
on new and pending legislation
addressing negligence in
sexual abuse and assault in two
Scandinavian countries. In
November, she was a panelist
for the session, “Media as a
Cornerstone for Peace—The
Assault on Media Freedom
and Freedom of Expression”
at the United Nations Internet
Governance Forum in Paris.
Professor Nagle recently met
with Omani officials at Stetson
to discuss combating human
trafficking in Oman and
throughout the Horn of Africa
as part of her pro bono work
as a foreign policy expert with
the U.S. State Department’s
Distinguished Foreign Visitors
Program. Also in November,
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