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Professor Nagle traveled to
Quito, Ecuador, on behalf of
the U.S. State Department
to make presentations to
Ecuadorian police investigators,
prosecutors, judges, and
financial intelligence officials
on combating transnational
organized crime, tracing and
recovery of assets, asset forfeiture,
and foreign mutual legal
assistance. She also addressed
the Ecuadorian national
assembly and its drafting
committee on strengthening
proposed legislation to address
those crimes. Professor Nagle
additionally met with Ecuador’s
United Nations Office on
Drugs and Crime to discuss
best practices on implementing
legislation for recovery of
criminal proceeds, and she
spoke to a large audience of
law students and faculty at the
Universidad Central regarding
the legal tools necessary to
combat drug trafficking and
corruption. Domestically,
Professor Nagle was retained
by the Innocence Project of
Florida as an expert witness
for a Honduran national in his
retrial in Florida state court
on charges of double murder.
Professor Nagle published
“Pirates Plundering World War
II Shipwrecks for High Tech
Demand” in the International
Enforcement Law Reporter, and
her new book (as co-author),
Negociación en Casos de Corrupción:
Fundamentos Teóricos
y Prácticos, was published in
November in Spain. Professor
Nagle spoke at the National
Attorneys General Training
& Research Institute and the
International Association of
Prosecutors Global Conference
on Human Trafficking in
Puerto Rico. Professor Nagle
was recently selected as a
Fulbright Award Recipient. She
plans to serve her Fulbright at
the Universidad de la Laguna
law school in San Cristobal,
Tenerife, Canary Islands.
JASON S. PALMER,
Professor of Law, was invited
to present at the Cognitive
Emotion and the Law Symposium
at Wake Forest University
on emotional intelligence and
homophobia. His paper on
the topic will be published in
the Wake Forest Law Review.
Additionally, Professor Palmer
will author the 7th edition
of International Litigation
and Arbitration, published by
Carolina Academic Press.
GEORGE A. B. PEIRCE,
Culverhouse Distinguished
Practitioner in Residence, met
with Ms. Karlijn Jans, Defense
Policy Advisor, British Embassy
to the Netherlands, to discuss
current Transatlantic peace and
security issues and challenges.
Their meeting was part of Ms.
Jans’ visit to the United States
sponsored by the U.S. State
Department’s International
Visitor Leadership Program.
Additionally, in November,
Professor Peirce presented to
the Association of Retired
Attorneys of Sarasota, Florida
on the “Craft of Intelligence
and the Rule of Law.”
ANN M. PICCARD,
Wm. Reece Smith, Jr.,
Distinguished Professor of
Law, was the first faculty
member from the College of
Law to receive a Nina B. Hollis
Research Impact Award. The
grant rewards those engaged in
research that explores ways to
improve P-12 educational outcomes
for marginalized youth.
Professor Piccard received the
award for her project at the law
school that seeks to help teenaged
foster children to avoid
the “school to prison pipeline,”
using law student volunteers as
education partners to get and
keep the teens in school.
ELLEN S. PODGOR,
Gary R. Trombley Family
White-Collar Crime Research
Professor and Professor of Law,
served as the official reporter
for the Florida Bar Criminal
Justice Summit in October
2018, and is currently writing
the report for this summit.
In November 2018, she
presented at the ABA-AALS
Criminal Justice Roundtable
on “Payments to Third Parties
in Corporate Criminal Cases.”
Her articles, “White Collar
Shortcuts” for the Illinois Law
Review, “Disruptive Innovation
in Criminal Defense: Demanding
Corporate Criminal Trials,”
for the Mercer Law Review, and
“Recognizing Inclusiveness,”
for the UMKC Law Review,
were all recently published.
Professor Podgor also provided
an update to the board of
directors of the National
Association of Criminal
Defense Lawyers (NACDL),
on her forthcoming report as
chair of NACDL’s Strategic
Litigation Strategy Group.
Professor Podgor continued
her service as a member of the
AALS Membership Review
Committee and continued to
be listed in the top 10 percent
of authors on SSRN. Professor
Podgor spoke as a discussant
at the AALS Session - “Insider
Trading and Cryptoassests:
The Future of Regulation in
the Blockchain Era.” She also
represented Stetson at the two
AALS House of Representatives
Committee Meetings.
Professor Podgor held an
ALI dinner and program on
campus and also completed an
updated version of the Overview
of U.S. Law book with
Assistant Dean JR Swanegan.
SUSAN D. ROZELLE, Professor
of Law, was recently invited
to write an article on death
qualification of jurors, for a
forthcoming Capital Punishment
symposium issue of the
Texas Tech Law Review.
CIARA TORRES-SPELLISCY,
Leroy Highbaugh Sr. Research
Chair and Professor of Law,
looks forward to her second
book, Political Brands, being
published by Edward Elgar
Publishing. She spoke at the
American Association of Law
Schools annual meeting in
New Orleans on preventing
foreign interference in American
elections. In October,
Professor Torres-Spelliscy
presented, “Free Speech and
Campaign Finance: Debating
the First Amendment
and Citizens United,” at the
Mary L. Hilfiker Symposium,
held at the University of
Wisconsin-Eau Claire. She
also spoke at Mercer School
of Law at the Corporate Law
in the Trump Era symposium
and at Washington & Lee
Law School’s faculty workshop
about her new book,
Political Brands. In October,
Professor Torres-Spelliscy also
published “Florida Voters
Have the Chance to Expand
the Franchise in 2018” in the
Harvard Law Review Blog and
“Explainer: Object Lessons in
Mismanagement at the Donald
J. Trump Foundation” in Just
Security. She was also interviewed
on the Scholars Strategy
Network No Jargon Podcast
Episode 150, Giving the
Vote Back, on Oct. 4, 2018.
In November, she published
“Florida Has A Chance To
Make Civil Rights History In
This Election,” in the Huffington
Post. Professor Torres-
Spelliscy was interviewed and
quoted numerous times by the