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S T E T S O N L AWY E R
FACULT Y F O RUM
FACULTY FORUM
ANDREW APPLEBY,
Assistant Professor of Law,
presented Targeted Taxes:
Localities Take Aim At Large
Employers to Solve Homelessness
and Transportation Challenges,
at the Junior Tax Scholars
Workshop, and at the
Southeastern Association of
Law Schools (SEALS) Annual
Meeting. This paper was
also selected for the National
Tax Association Annual
Conference. Prof. Appleby also
presented Designing the Tax
Supermajority Requirement
and participated in the Tax
Policy Discussion Group at the
SEALS Annual Meeting.
LINDA ANDERSON,
Professor of Law, authored
Florida Bar Exam Essay Prep:
Strategies and Study Material
(preliminary edition) for
Cognella publishing. The book
is a combination of substantive
rules important for the Florida
Bar Exam essays and specific
study techniques and tools.
JASON R. BENT,
Associate Dean for Academic
Affairs and Professor of
Law, published the article Is
Algorithmic Affirmative Action
Legal? which was selected for
publication in the Georgetown
Law Journal and won the
Southeastern Association of
Law Schools (SEALS) Call
for Papers contest. Assoc.
Dean Bent also presented the
article at the annual SEALS
conference in July in Boca
Raton, Fla. Assoc. Dean Bent
also attended the American Bar
Association’s (ABA) Bi-annual
Associate Deans Conference in
Chicago, IL.
PAUL BOUDREAUX,
Professor of Law, who edited
volume 22 of the Journal of
International Wildlife Law and
Policy, taught the course, The
World at Stake! International
Environmental Adjudication
and Arbitration, as part of
Stetson’s summer program in
The Hague, Netherlands. Prof.
Boudreaux also drafted the
article Species … in Law, as
well as the article Rethinking
Suburban Segregation.
BROOKE J. BOWMAN, J.D.
’02, Professor of Law; Director
of Finances, Advocacy Boards;
Director, Moot Court Board;
Interim Director of the Law
Library, was invited to join the
editorial board of Perspectives:
Teaching Legal Research and
Writing, an online journal
published for legal research
and writing professors, as well
as law firm and law school
librarians. At the editorial
board retreat in early May,
Prof. Bowman was elected to
be the journal’s first Managing
Editor. In May, Prof. Bowman
oversaw the logistics of hosting
125 students participating
in Stetson’s 2019 Advocacy
Workshops and Tryouts. In
June, Prof. Bowman coached
Stetson’s Orseck Moot Court
Team of Christopher Pate
and Christopher Lawson,
who advanced to the final
round of the competition,
and Christopher Pate won
the best oralist award in the
final round. The final round
is judged by the justices of
the Florida Supreme Court.
Additionally, Prof. Bowman
was one of two panelists for the
“Open Forum About the ABA’s
National Appellate Advocacy
Competition (NAAC),”
at 2019 Coaches and
Competitions Clinic, American
University Washington College
of Law, Washington, D.C.,
Aug. 16, 2019.
CATHERINE J. CAMERON,
Professor of Law, completed
the second edition of the
book titled The Science Behind
the Art of Legal Writing. The
Carolina Press publication was
coauthored with Lance N.
Long, Professor of Law, and
Coordinator of Legal Research
& Writing.
KIRSTEN K. DAVIS,
Professor of Law, and
Director of the Institute
for Advancement of Legal
Communication, was
appointed Chair of the Florida
Bar’s Standing Committee
on Professionalism for
2019-20. Dr. Davis is a
regular contributor to the
Law Professor Blog Network’s
Appellate Advocacy Blog,
and her Aug. 8, 2019, post,
“Setting Off Text for Attention
and Meaning—The Visually
Rhetorical Em-Dash,” was
selected by Litigation World
as its Pick of the Week article
in August. Further, in August,
Dr. Davis’ article “Reading
Legal Writing Together:
Reading Groups Can Build
the Disciplinary Community
of Legal Writing Scholars” was
listed on SSRN's Top Ten
download list for the Legal
Writing eJournal and in the
Legal Practice topic area. Dr.
Davis also co-chaired Stetson
Law committee planning
the “Reimagining Advocacy”
conference. The conference
brought together law school
faculty, judges, practitioners,
and others to explore ideas
about the future of legal
advocacy.
KELLY M. FEELEY,
J.D. ’95, Professor of Law,
served as co-chair of the
ADR panelists presentations,
and spoke on four panels
at the 2019 Coaches and
Competitions Clinic at
American University’s
Washington College of Law.
Prof. Feeley continues to
serve as the ABA Law Student
Division Competitions
Co-Chair, which presides over
four law school competitions,
and on the Negotiation and
NAAC committees. She also
submitted the final manuscript
for the Carolina Academic
Press published co-authored
text Mastering Interviewing
and Counseling. Prof. Feeley
also participated in oversight
of the Stetson Law dispute
resolution board tryouts,
which included conducting
two of the three mandatory
lectures and judging three
preliminary rounds as well as
the final round.
MICHAEL S. FINCH,
Professor of Law, and his
co-author(s) revised the
following Aspen publications:
An Illustrated Guide to Civil
Procedure (4th Ed. 2019) by
M. Finch, J. Bent, and M.
Allen, and Federal Courts--
Context, Cases, and Problems
(3rd Ed. 2019) by M. Finch,
C. Roberts, and M. Allen.
ROBERTA K. FLOWERS,
Interim Director of the Center
for Excellence in Advocacy
January – February 2020