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Academic Workshops — Spring 2025

Many outstanding scholars present their research and forthcoming scholarship throughout the year. Below you may explore a list of the distinguished scholars who will present in our academic workshop series, both in-person and virtually, this year.

JANUARY 2025
FEBRUARY 2025
MARCH 2025
APRIL 2025


Monday, January 13

Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Faculty Workshop

Jared Ellias, Scott C. Collins Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, presents.  Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space
Invitation

Friday, January 24

University of Florida Levin College of Law Tax Colloquium

Andrew Appleby, Associate Professor, Stetson University College of Law, presents. Please contact brauner@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: 11:30
Location: HH 359
Invitation

Monday, January 27

Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Internal Faculty Workshop

Mindy Herzfeld, Professor of Practice, University of Florida Levin College of Law, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space
Invitation

Monday, February 3

Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Faculty Workshop

Wendy Netter Epstein, Vincent de Paul Professor of Law and Associate Dean of Research and Faculty Professional Development; Faculty Director, Jaharis Health Law Institute, DePaul University College of Law, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space

Wednesday, February 5

University of Florida Levin College of Law Tax Colloquium

Georg Kofler, Professor for International Tax, Vienna University, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: 12:00-1:30 ET
Location: Holland Hall 359

Monday, February 10

Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Faculty Workshop

Vincent Buccola, Professor of Law, The University of Chicago Law School, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space

Wednesday and Thursday, February 12-13

12th Annual UF Law E-Discovery Conference

UF Law’s 12th Annual E-Discovery Conference will be held on February 12 and 13, 2025, with in-person and virtual options. Please register here.
Location: UF Law Campus and Virtual

Friday, February 14

2025 Technology, Media, and Privacy Law Conference

University of Florida Levin College of Law and the University of Florida College for Journalism and Communications Brechner Center for the Advancement of the First Amendment present the 2025 Technology, Media, and Privacy Law Conference: Demand for BS on February 14. Please see the conference agenda, speaker information, and registration link here. This free conference has been approved for 8.0 General and 1.5 Technology CLEs by the Florida Bar. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Location: Chesterfield Smith Ceremonial Classroom Holland Hall 180 and Virtual
Invitation

Thursday, February 20

Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Faculty Workshop

David Pozen, Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space

Thursday and Friday, February 20-21

31st Annual Public Interest Environmental Conference

Please join UF Law for the student run 31st Annual Public Interest Environmental Conference. This year’s topic is Preserve Today, Protect Tomorrow. It is anticipated that the Florida Bar will award 7.5 General CLEs for this free conference. More information, including the agenda, speaker information, and registration, is available at the conference website. Please contact mercer.noelle@ufl.edu for more information.
Time: TBD
Location: University of Florida Levin College of Law

Friday, February 21

University of Florida Levin College of Law Tax Colloquium

Diane Lourdes Dick, Charles E. Floete Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: 11:30am
Location: Holland Hall 359

Monday, March 3

Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Faculty Workshop

Charquia Fegins, Assistant Professor, Florida State University College of Law, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space

Friday, March 7

2025 Ellen Bellet Gelberg Tax Policy Lecture: The Antitax Movement in America

Please join William G. Gale, Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy, Senior Fellow – Economic Studies & Co-Director – Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, as he moderates the 2025 Ellen Bellet Gelberg Tax Policy Lecture. Michael J. Graetz, Justus S. Hotchkiss Professor Emeritus of Law and Professorial Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School, presents The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America; Vanessa Williamson, Senior Fellow – Governance Studies and Senior Fellow – Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, The Brookings Institution; and George Callas, Executive Vice President of Public Finance, Arnold Venture comments. Lunch will follow in the Bailey Event Space and Patio from noon-2pm; William Gale will present Rethinking Wealth Transfer Taxation during lunch. Please see the tentative schedule here. Registration for lunch is required; please register here. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information..
Time: 9:30am ET
Location: Morgan and Morgan Courtroom, Martin Levin Advocacy Center 106 (9:30-noon) and Bailey Event Space (noon-2:00)

Monday, March 10

Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Faculty Workshop

Emmanuel Mauleon, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota Law School, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space

Monday, March 24

Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Internal Faculty Workshop

Elizabeth D. Katz, Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space

Friday, March 28

University of Florida Levin College of Law Tax Colloquium

Antonio Vásquez del Rey Villanueva, Professor, Universidad de Navarra, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: 11:30am
Location: Holland Hall 359

Monday, March 31

Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Faculty Workshop

Adam C. Pritchard, Frances and George Skestos Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space

Monday, April 7

Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Internal Faculty Workshop

Judy Clausen, Senior Legal Skills Professor, University of Florida Levin College of Law, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space

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The Florida Constitutional Law Endowment in memory of Justice Ben F. Overton was created by Judge Karen Miller in 2013. This fund supports lectures and presentations by Justices of the Florida Supreme Court at the Fredric G. Levin College of Law.

HISTORY

Justice Overton, who earned his B.S. in 1951 and his Juris Doctor in 1952 from the University of Florida, was the first merit appointment to the Florida Supreme Court. Throughout his career he was active in legal education and served as an Adjunct Professor at the Levin College of Law through December 2012, the month of his death. Although he resided at Oak Hammock at the University of Florida, a continuing care retirement community developed in cooperation with UF, he also considered the Florida Supreme Court “home.” Among the high points of his later years was hosting Justices of the Florida Supreme Court in Gainesville and taking his class to Tallahassee to hear oral arguments at the Florida Supreme Court.
Judge Miller, who earned her B.S. cum laude from New York University in 1974 and her Juris Doctor from New York Law School in 1977, served as Chief Administrative Law Judge of the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, New York City’s business regulatory agency, before she retired to Oak Hammock at the University of Florida. Having accompanied Justice Overton on his excursions to Tallahassee and joined him in welcoming guests to Oak Hammock at the University of Florida, she created the endowment in memory of Justice Overton to ensure that the Levin College of Law continues to have the funding necessary to continue and enhance the interaction between its students and the Florida Supreme Court.

 

Judge Miller remembered the event that motivated the endowment.

 

Prior to a dinner at the home of Dean Robert Jerry and Lisa Jerry shortly after Justice Overton’s death, Justice Barbara Pariente and I were discussing a suitable memorial. Justice Pariente, who had been Justice Overton’s colleague on the Florida Supreme Court and who understood the importance to him of the interaction between his students and the Court, suggested the outline of what has become the Overton lectures. Dean Jerry, who has since retired, as has Dean Emeritus Jon Mills, who assumed responsibility for implementing the Overton lectures, were very supportive from the beginning. Since Dean Mills’ retirement, Professor Timothy McClendon, who assisted both Justice Overton and Dean Mills teaching Florida Constitutional Law and who co-authored the recent Florida Constitutional Law casebook, has continued the Overton lectures with the support of Interim Dean Merritt McAlister and CGR director, Professor Danaya Wright.

Justice Overton was a devoted jurist, educator, and ethical leader of the Florida legal profession. The Overton Lecture Series brings Florida Supreme Court Justices to the University of Florida, Levin College of Law, and serves to introduce students to the inner workings of the Court. CGR and the students of the College of Law extend our deepest gratitude to Judge Karen Miller for making the Overton Lectures possible in perpetuity.

You can watch an interview for the Florida Historical Society by Mary Adkins, professor emeritus of the UF Levin College of Law, with Justice Overton here.

Justice Overton was also interviewed for the Samuel Proctor Oral History Project and a transcript of his interview is available at the Smathers Library, and here.
Justice Overton sat on the Constitution Revision Commission of 1977-78 that proposed a right to privacy in the Florida Constitution. Although it failed as part of the Constitution Revision Commission recommendations, it passed in 1980 when proposed by the legislature. The bill was co-sponsored by our very own Jon Mills. The privacy provision prevailed by greater than 60%. Justice Overton then wrote a concurrence in a critical reproductive rights case in 1989 affirming that the privacy provision of the Florida Constitution included the right to obtain an abortion. That decision was overruled in Planned Parenthood of SW and Central Florida v. Florida. You can read about the role of Justice Overton, Jon Mills – director emeritus of CGR, and the history of the 1989 case here.