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STETSON LAW WELCOMES NEW FACULTY
Professor Alicia Jackson
Director, Academic Success and Bar
Preparation and Assistant Professor
of Law
Alicia Jackson is the new director of
Academic Success and Bar Preparation
and a member of the law faculty. She
previously served as the Associate Dean
for Student Learning and Assessment and
Academic Success and Bar Preparation at Florida A&M
University College of Law. Jackson was also the Critical Skills
Instructor and an assistant professor at Nova Southeastern
University. Prior to her academic career, she owned a private law
practice and worked with law enforcement agencies in Fort
Lauderdale.
Professor Roy Balleste
Director, Dolly & Homer Hand
Law Library and Assistant Professor
of Law
Roy Balleste is the new director of the
Dolly & Homer Hand Law Library and
a member of the law faculty. Balleste
previously served as the Law Library
director, a tenured professor of law, and director of the Graduate
Program in Cybersecurity Law & Policy at St. Thomas University
School of Law in Miami Gardens, Fla. He has been working in
law libraries for 20 years and in administration for 15 years.
Professor Balleste teaches and has concentrated his scholarship in
space law and cybersecurity law and policy.
Professor Elizabeth Berenguer
Associate Professor of Law
Elizabeth Berenguer is a member of the
law faculty. Berenguer previously served
as an associate professor of law at
Campbell Law School in Raleigh, N.C.,
where she taught advanced legal writing
and advocacy, trial advocacy,
foundations of critical legal thought, and research and scholarship,
and coached moot court. Berenguer was an associate professor of
law and director of Legal Skills & Professionalism at Savannah Law
School, a visiting professor of law at Mercer University Walter F.
George School of Law in Macon, Ga., and an assistant professor of
law at Barry University School of Law in Orlando. In all three
capacities, she coached moot court and mock trial teams.
Professor Robyn Powell
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Robyn Powell is a new visiting assistant
professor of law. She is principal of
Robyn Powell Consulting, LLC,
providing disability law and policy
consulting, speaking, and compliance
assessment services to public and private
entities. Prior to that, she was an
attorney advisor for the National Council on Disability in
Washington, D.C. She has published extensively on topics related
to disabilities, including journal articles, book chapters,
government reports and other commentary.
Professor Andrew Appleby
Assistant Professor of Law
Andrew Appleby is a member of the law
faculty and focuses his teaching and
scholarship on tax and business law. He
has published in prominent law journals,
and has expertise in state and local
taxation, sports taxation, and applied tax
policy. Prior to joining Stetson Law, Professor Appleby practiced
tax law at leading law firms for nearly a decade, including
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Eversheds Sutherland
(US) LLP, and Alston & Bird LLP. Prior to his legal career,
Professor Appleby was an information technology and business
consultant.
Professor Charles J. Tabb
Distinguished Visiting Lecturer
Charles J. Tabb has been a
Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at
Stetson Law this year. He currently
serves as a professor emeritus at Illinois
College of Law, as well as Of Counsel
with the law firm Foley & Lardner LLP
in Chicago. He is considered one of the
nation’s leading bankruptcy scholars. Prior to his academic career,
he practiced bankruptcy and commercial law, handling cases such
as the Continental Airlines Chapter 11 reorganization. Tabb was
appointed to the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure of the
Judicial Conference of the United States and worked with the
National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China on
the reform of the Chinese bankruptcy law.