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popular press regarding issues
involving elections and the
presidency.
STEPHANIE VAUGHAN,
Professor of Law, was invited
to serve as an arbitrator at the
10th Annual Willem C. Vis
International Commercial
Arbitration Pre-Moot at the
Peace Palace in The Hague,
Netherlands.
LOUIS J. VIRELLI III,
Professor of Law, was retained
as a consultant by the
Administrative Conference
of the United States, a federal
agency responsible for recommending
improvements in
administrative process and
procedure, to provide a report
on best practices for recusal of
administrative adjudicators.
Professor Virelli’s report,
“Recusal Rules for Administrative
Adjudicators,” served as
the basis for the proposed
ACUS Recommendation
of the same name. As the
project consultant, Professor
Virelli presented his research
to the ACUS plenary session
in Washington, D.C., on
Dec. 13, when the proposed
recommendation was adopted
by the ACUS membership.
During the nomination process
for retired Supreme Court
Justice Anthony Kennedy’s
replacement, Professor Virelli
was contacted by the special
counsel for the Senate Judiciary
Committee and by the
American Constitution Society
to provide his insight on
potential recusal issues facing
the nominees. Professor Virelli
currently serves as the chair of
the Administrative Law Section
of the Association of American
Law Schools. He served as
moderator for the section’s
main program, Presidential
Control of Administrative
GIVING BACK AND PAYING IT
FORWARD: TAMMY BRIANT J.D. ’06
B Y M I C H A E L C A N D E L A R I A
STETSON REMEMBERS RETIRED
DELAWARE SUPREME COURT
JUSTICE DREW MOORE
Agencies, at the AALS Annual
Meeting this January. He is
also the chair of the AALS
Section on Constitutional
Law. He currently serves on
the board of trustees of the
Southeastern Association of
Law Schools, and as chair of
the SEALS Works-in-Progress
committee, and is a managing
editor of the ABA Section
of Administrative Law and
Regulatory Practice’s quarterly
publication, Administrative and
Regulatory Law News. Professor
Virelli appeared numerous
times in the popular press
commenting on the appointment
of Florida Supreme
Court justices and the work
of the Florida Constitution
Revision Commission. He also
made presentations regarding
the U.S. Supreme Court at the
Goldberg-Cacciatore Criminal
Law American Inn of Court,
the Hillsborough County Bar
Association, Eckerd and St.
Petersburg Colleges, and the
Rotary Club of Tampa.
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, assisted Dorothea
A. Beane, Professor of Law,
and Co-Director, Institute
for Caribbean Law & Policy,
in hosting the American
Caribbean Law Initiative fall
clinical experience at Stetson
in November. He also recently
attended a conference on
Technology and Teaching
in the 21st Century at Penn
State Law School, and the
Inaugural Lawyers Conference
on Diversity and Inclusion at
George Mason’s Scalia School
of Law.
Tammy Briant J.D. ’06 has departed from her full-time role at
Stetson University College of Law. Yet Briant certainly won’t
be forgotten.
The former Stetson Law assistant dean for student affairs
has been tapped for a position with The NCHERM Group,
LLC (TNG), one of the
largest education-specific
law and consulting practices
nationwide. Briant will
continue to teach the
Law and the Civil Rights
Movement course at Stetson
as an adjunct professor. Even
more notably, in the spirit
of paying it forward and as a
way of saying thank you to
the College of Law, Briant
has endowed a scholarship to benefit future students in her
popular course.
Retired Delaware Supreme Court Justice Drew Moore, who
taught corporate law between 2004-2015 as a Distinguished
Professorial Lecturer at Stetson Law, passed away in December
of 2018. Justice Moore received an honorary LL.D. degree
from Stetson Law.
He co-taught a one-of-akind
course with Professor
Emeritus Clark Furlow. The
book, Big Deal, summarized
Justice Moore’s influence
on corporate law: “Justice
Moore may well have had
more of an impact on
modern corporate law than
any other person.” The book, The Iconic Cases in Corporate
Law, included four cases authored by Justice Moore among
the most important corporate law cases of the 20th century.
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