University Of Florida Levin College of Law
The Military Law Students Association has created a Veteran’s Outreach Clinic to arrange pro bono services for veterans. The clinic is sponsored by the MLSA and Three Rivers Legal Services.
A new sculpture by artist Jim Cole was recently installed at the west entrance to the law school. Aptly named, “Separation of Powers” is a group of sculptures that Cole installed on campus throughout October. So far, Cole has installed two of the group’s three pieces. “The Executive” and “The Legislator” have been placed in the law school’s main entrance on the west side of the campus and a larger piece named “The Jurist” will be installed in the area in January.
University of Georgia School of Law
Distinguished UGA Law research professor Alan Watson recently received another honorary doctorate degree, his sixth, from the University of Stockholm. Though a Nobel Prize isn’t on his list of honors yet, Watson’s Doctor of Laws ceremony was held in the Stockholm Congress Hall where the Nobel Prize dinners are held each year. Watson’s other honorary doctorates are from the universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Pretoria, Palermo and Belgrade. Besides honorary degrees, Watson also holds seven traditional degrees from the universities of Oxford, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Florida Coastal School of Law
The Jacksonville legal community is invited to a Meet and Greet hosted by Florida Coastal on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at the Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art. Attendees will have the opportunity to mingle with FCSL’s student leaders and also sign up for on-campus interviews next Spring. Beverages and hors d’oeuvres will be served. To attend, contact FCSL’s Dionne Smith at 680-7744 or via e-mail at [email protected].
Stetson University College of Law
Ten new alumni, faculty and friends were inducted into Stetson Law’s Hall of Fame recently. The Hall of Fame now includes 28 members. The newly-inducted members are: William R. Eleazer, former Florida Supreme Court chief justice E. Harris Drew; Ruth Fleet Thurman, the first female Florida assistant state attorney; William J. Clapp, celebrated civil rights attorney Gardner Beckett; famed trial attorney Murray Sams; Mary Stewart Howarth-Hewitt, the first woman in Florida to attend law school and earn a law degree; Florida legislator James T. Russell; former Pinellas-Pasco County Public Defender Robert E. Jagger and Stetson board member Walter Mann.
(On Campus notes are 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.)