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FACULT Y F O RUM
S T E T S O N L AW Y E R
FACULTY FORUM
ANDREW APPLEBY,
Assistant Professor of Law,
coauthored two articles
published in TAX NOTES;
State Tax Credit Issues Raised
by SALT Cap Workaround
Legislation (2021) and State
Estate Taxes and the Due
Process Clause (2020). Prof.
Appleby’s article Designing the
Tax Supermajority Requirement
was accepted for inclusion
in 71 Syracuse Law Review
(forthcoming 2021), and he
presented Subnational Digital
Services Taxes at the Junior
Tax Scholars conference.
In addition, Prof. Appleby
hosted the Stetson Tax Law
Society’s inaugural Stetson Tax
Innovators Exchange (STIX)
event, which brought several
of the nation’s top tax law
minds together (virtually).
Through the Tax Law Society,
he was instrumental in
moving the Florida Bar Tax
Section’s National Tax Moot
Court Competition from
the University of Florida to
Stetson starting in 2021.
Prof. Appleby also became a
coauthor of the leading treatise
on state and local taxation,
Hellerstein & Hellerstein,
STATE TAXATION (3d. ed.,
2021 rev.).
ROY BALLESTE,
Assistant Professor of Law,
was an invited speaker for the
Annual Strategic Space Law
Course at McGill University
Institute of Air and Space Law
in November 2020. Designed
for military lawyers, public
policy practitioners/scholars,
commercial lawyers, and other
relevant stakeholders, the
course considered space objects
as key elements in global
security, while increasingly
vulnerable to harmful radio
interference, space debris,
and counter-space weapons.
This is the world’s first course
focusing on various legal
and policy considerations
surrounding the strategic uses
of outer space. Prof. Balleste’s
contribution addressed
the cutting-edge subject
of Cybersecurity Policy and
Standards for Space Operations.
MARK D. BAUER,
Professor of Law, virtually
attended the 2021 annual
meeting of the Association of
American Law Schools (AALS),
where he spoke at a colloquium
on privacy law sponsored by
the Business and Commercial
Law Section of the AALS. Prof.
Bauer was also reelected to the
Section’s executive board.
ELIZABETH I. BOALS,
Assistant Professor of
Law, was appointed as the
inaugural Vice President of
Trial Advocacy Programs for
the National Association of
Legal Advocacy Educators
(NALAE) in October 2020.
Prof. Boals hosted 20 trial
advocacy teams for the
National Pretrial Competition
held entirely online. She
served on the “Awakening
the Advocate Within” panel
in December 2020 and
prerecorded materials for
inclusion in programming on
challenges in part-time legal
education presented at the
2021 Association of American
Law Schools (AALS) annual
meeting. Prof. Boals presented
on feedback strategies at the
Campus to Career Conference
and served as an instructor on
cross-examination strategies
at the For Women By Women
Advocacy Skills Workshop.
Professor Boals continues her
work on the third edition of
her casefiles State v. Peyton and
Addison v. Peyton, published by
the National Institute for Trial
Advocacy (NITA) and scheduled
for release in June 2021.
BROOKE J. BOWMAN,
J.D. ’02,
Professor of Law was invited
to join the National Education
Committee of the American
Inns of Court. Prof. Bowman
serves as co-chair of the
ALWD Guide to Legal
Citation Task Force, which
involves reviewing drafts and
developing marketing plans.
The seventh edition of the
ALWD citation manual for
teaching and learning legal
citations is scheduled for
a May 2021 release. Prof.
Bowman co-hosted Region
V of the 71st Annual NYC
Bar Association National
Moot Court Competition in
November. She also co-coached
five moot court teams in the
fall, and the Stetson team won
the third-best brief award and
were quarterfinalists at the 20th
Annual Leroy R. Hassell, Sr.
National Constitutional Law
Moot Court Competition.
Stetson won the Best Brief Award
and were semifinalists at the
Appellate Lawyers Association’s
2020 National Moot Court
Competition. All fall 2020
Moot Court competitions
were conducted virtually.
PAUL BOUDREAUX,
Professor of Law, served as
editor-in-chief of the Journal
of International Wildlife Law
and Policy, completing issues
23-3 and 23-4. He also served
as assistant editor of ABA’s
Journal of Affordable Housing
and Community Development
Law. Prof. Boudreaux was
elected chair-elect of the
Association of American
Law Schools’ (AALS) section
on Environmental Law. He
completed the edits of his
article, Rethinking Segregation,
to be published in early 2021
by the Michigan State Law
Review.
JAMES FOX,
Professor of Law, recently
published Black Progressivism
and the Progressive Court in
the Yale Law Journal Forum.
Prof. Fox’s essay was solicited
by the journal editors as part
of a symposium titled “The
Progressive Era, 100 Years Later.”
ROYAL C. GARDNER,
Professor of Law, presented
on the Clean Water Act at a
University of Georgia River
Basin Center symposium,
a Florida Conservation
Voters Facebook Live event,
and an Association of State
Wetland Managers webcast.
He wrote about the role of
biodiversity-related scientific
advisory bodies in the
context of zoonotic diseases
for an upcoming book to
be published by Springer
and remotely presented on
that topic at the University
of Soongsil’s 10th Godang
International Conference on
Law (Republic of Korea). Prof.
Gardner presented on the
same topic at a virtual seminar
organized by the University
of Barcelona Faculty of Law
(Spain). He also was a remote
panelist at the University of
the Philippines’ 2nd Southeast
October 2020 - January 2021