University of Florida Levin College of Law
• UF’s Journal of Law and Public Policy has some new contributors: Kenneth Angell, Sabrina Brooks, Lacey Diggs, Michael James, Brian Roof, John Seibert, Edward Volz, Jonathan Wallace and Susan Warner.
University of Miami School of Law
• UM Law professor Bernard P. Perlmutter is the 2005 recipient of Miami ACLU’s C. Clyde Atkins Civil Liberties Award. Perlmutter, assistant professor of clinical legal education and director of the law school’s children and youth law clinic, was chosen to receive the award for his extensive work regarding legal protection for juveniles.
Stetson University College of Law
• Two professors, Roberta Kemp Flowers and Peter Lake, were recently honored with endowed faculty positions. Flowers is the first William Reece Smith Jr. Distinguished Professor and Lake has been appointed to the Charles A. Dana Chair.
Florida State University College of Law
• Adam Hirsch, a leading authority on wills and trusts, has been named the William and Catherine VanDercreek Professor of Law. The professorship is a collaborative effort of the VanDercreeks and friends and William’s former students. It was created to allow the law school to recruit or retain an exceptionally productive legal scholar. Hirsch teaches Bankruptcy Policy Seminar, Creditor’s Rights, Estate Planning and American Legal History. He is an Academic Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.
University of Alabama School of Law
• The school is making law professors available to media to comment on the upcoming trial of terrorist Eric Rudolph, the suspected culprit in the 1992 Atlanta Olympics bombing. Rudolph is facing trial in Alabama for a 1998 bombing of a Birmingham abortion clinic. Alabama is directing questions on the trial to professors Pam Bucy, an expert on Criminal Law and Procedure and Bryan Fair, for questions on Constitutional issues.
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