University of Florida Levin College of Law
• Second-year UF law student Matthew Brannen was awarded the Cruz del Merito Militar award in a ceremony on the Spanish warship Juan Sebastian in April. Brannen, a captain in the Marine Corps, was awarded for his heroic actions during a 14-month deployment in Iraq. He also received a Bronze Star with a “V” for valor.
Florida State University College of Law
• Professor Curtis Bridgeman was chosen as one of 16 scholars nationwide to present his work at the 2005 Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum at Stanford Law School in May. The forum allows selected junior law faculty from around the U.S. to submit unpublished papers for “blind evaluation.”
University of Miami School of Law
• Certified public accountant, attorney and UM law alum Lewis B. Freeman, founding principal of Miami-based forensic accounting and consulting firm Lewis B. Freeman & Partners, received the 2005 Henry King Stanford Alumnus of the Year award. Freeman received the award in part for his action in securing a $1 million gift from the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida in order to sponsor the first of the 2004 presidential debates which was held at UM.
Stetson University College of Law
• Dean Darby Dickerson and alumna Carrie Ann Wozniak (2004) were recently selected for national recognition for excellence in legal writing. They were selected by The Burton Foundation, in association with the Law Library of Congress, for the awards. Dickerson will receive the 2005 Burton Award for Outstanding Contributions to Legal Writing Education and Wozniak will be one of 15 students to receive a 2005 Burton Award for Legal Achievement.
University of Georgia School of Law
• The Education Law Consortium at UGA recently received a $23,500 grant to create the nation’s first online interdisciplinary student journal for education law and policy. The grant came from the UGA committee for applied instructional technologies. Organizers said there were more than 40 submissions for the first edition and anticipate that the journal will be up and running by the fall.
Florida Coastal School of Law
• The monthly FCSL alumni meeting will be held June 7th at the Mudville Grill at 6:30 p.m. A large turnout is expected being that graduation was three weeks ago.
(On Campus notes compiled from the schools’ web sites and newsletters. Submissions from alumni are welcome and should be submitted to [email protected] or faxed to 353-2628.