University of Georgia School of Law
Walter Hellerstein, the Shackelford Distinguished Professor of Taxation Law, has been elected as a trustee for the American Tax Policy Institute, which fosters the improvement of the U.S. tax system by providing non-partisan analysis of federal, state, local and international tax issues. Hellerstein joins other leading tax professionals from academia, government and the legal community on this panel.
University of Alabama School of Law
Alabama’s law school is going though a major renovation and construction process. November marked the installation of underground utilities to the new addition and above-ground construction is soon to begin. The framing of the building essentially will be complete by the Christmas holidays.
The project overall now has a completion date of August 15, which is two or three weeks behind the original schedule. The school has set up a Web site for alumni and current students who are tracking the construction. Log on to http://www.law.ua.edu/building/.
Florida Coastal School of Law
Florida Coastal’s Moot Court Honor Board won the school’s first national moot court competition Nov. 5 at the Chicago Bar Association National Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition. The win also marks FCSL’s third moot court competition victory this year. The winning FCSL team — David Hollander, Cory Simmons and Katy Peters — took out Pepperdine University in the semifinal round before defeating Loyola University, Chicago, the competition’s defending champion, in the final. Florida Coastal professor Jeff McFarland accompanied the team to Chicago. Besides taking the top award, FCSL’s brief was recognized as third-best in the competition and team member Hollander was recognized as third-best oralist among more than fifty oralists. Team member Simmons ranked fifth among the oralists.
Stetson University College of Law
A student trial team from Stetson recently won both first and second place at the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers 2005 Honorable E. Earle Zehmer Memorial Mock Trial Competition in West Palm Beach. Stetson’s team competed against teams from schools all over Florida including Florida State and Florida Coastal School of Law. Beating all of the other schools in preliminary rounds, two teams from Stetson ended up facing each other in the final round. The student team of Senovia Lance, Art Rios, Brandon Held, Rosa Brown and Dennis McCarthy defeated Stetson’s other student team of Andrew Hill, Laurie Sharpe, Bethany Allen, Eric Ochotorena and Melanie Andre in the final round.
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