Academic Workshops and Events
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 this Spring.
January
Tuesday, January 20
Law and Government Lunch Series Event
Time: Noon ET
Location: HH 180 Brock Hall
Brandice Canes-Wrone
Brandice Canes-Wrone, Professor of Political Science, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Professor, by courtesy, of Political Economics at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences, presents Public Opinion, Politics, & Higher Education: How What Universities Do Shapes Public Perceptions. Please contact Program Manager, Mieke Zylstra for more information.
Monday, January 26
Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Faculty Workshop
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space
Jill E. Fisch
Jill E. Fisch, Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, presents Corporate Values and the Role of Shareholders. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Friday, January 30
Graduate Tax Colloquium
Time: 11:30 a.m. ET
Location: HH 359
Daniel N. Shaviro
Daniel N. Shaviro, Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation, New York University School of Law, presents The Rise, Fall, and Survival of the Haig-Simons Income Definition as a Policy Guide. Please contact brauner@law.ufl.edu for more information.
February
Monday, February 2
Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Faculty Workshop
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space
C. Eric Hintz
C. Eric Hintz, Associate Professor, University of Missouri School of Law, presents Mistaking Good Faith. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Wednesday, February 4
The Life of Ben Ferencz
Time: 4-7 p.m. ET
Location: HH 180 and virtually
UF Levin College of Law Program in Law and Government presents, The Life of Ben Ferencz: A Discussion of the Nuremberg Prosecutor, Justice Pioneer, and International Criminal Court Advocate. Natalia Aleksiun, Harry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies at Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies, Gregory S. Gordon, Professor of Law at Peking University School of Transnational Law, Jocelyn Kestenbaum, Benjamin B. Ferencz Human Rights & Atrocity Prevention Clinic at Cardozo Law, and Zachary D. Kaufman, Professor of Law at UF Levin College of Law kick off the discussion at 4 p.m. with reception to follow at 6 p.m.
RSVP to attend in person or join the webcast.
Please contact Program Manager, Mieke Zylstra for more information.
Friday, February 6
Ellen Bellet Gelberg Tax Policy Symposium
Time: 9:00 a.m. ET
Location: Martin Levin Advocacy Center 106 and virtually
Please join us for the 2026 Ellen Bellet Gelberg Tax Policy Symposium. Elena Spatoulas Patel, Co-Director, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center and Pozen Director’s Chair, Brookings Institution, presents, The Big Beautiful? Bill. William G. Gale, Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy, Brookings Institution and Senior Fellow, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, moderates. David S. Mitchell, Senior Fellow, Washington Center for Equitable Growth, and Kyle Pomerleau, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, serve as discussants. Lunch will be served in the Bailey Event Space, where Kerry Ryan, Associate Professor, Saint Louis University School of Law, presents Mothers in Jail: A Taxing Problem. Please contact farley@law.ufl.edu for more information, including the webinar link.
Monday, February 9
Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Faculty Workshop
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space
Ra’Shya Ghee
Ra’Shya Ghee, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Law School, presents Free Speech, Racial Capitalism, and Democratic Decline in the United States. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Wednesday, February 11
Law and Government Lunch Series Event
Time: Noon-1 p.m. ET
Location: Martin Levin Advocacy Center Ultima & John Morgan Courtroom
O. David Barksdale, Attorney at Law, Managing Director at Bedell, Mellissa W. Nelson, State Attorney, 4th Judicial Circuit of Florida, and Ryan L. Scott, Fellow in Practice, University of Florida Levin College of Law present Criminal Law & Policing: Examining Aspects of Law (on the Books) and Policing (on the Street). Please contact Program Manager, Mieke Zylstra for more information.
Thursday, February 12 and Friday, February 13
2026 Public Interest Environmental Conference
Time: Various
Location: Various
The 2026 Public Interest Environmental Conference, hosted by the University of Florida Levin College of Law, will be held on Thursday, February 12 and Friday February 13. Please visit ufpiec.org for more information and to register. Please contact hawkins@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Monday, February 16
Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Internal Faculty Workshop
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space
John Stinneford
John Stinneford, Edward Rood Eminent Scholar Chair and Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, presents Originalism and the Common Law. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Tuesday, February 17
Annual Wolf Family Lecture on the American Law of Real Property
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space
Lior Strahilevitz
Lior Strahilevitz, Sidley Austin Professor of Law, The University of Chicago Law School, presents Dammed if You Do: Governmental Liability for Hurricane-Related Flooding under the Takings Clause. Please contact farley@law.ufl.edu for more information.
February 19-21
18th Annual International Conference on Contracts
The University of Florida Levin College of Law is pleased to host the 18th Annual International Conference on Contracts (KCON XVIII). KCON is the largest annual international academic conference dedicated to contract law and related areas of commercial law. It brings together contract law scholars, expert practitioners, and aspiring academics from around the world.
Friday, February 20
Graduate Tax Colloquium
Time: 11:30am ET
Location: HH 359
Bridget Crawford
Bridget J. Crawford, University Distinguished Professor and Professor of Law, Pace University Elizabeth Haub School of Law, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
February 24-26
13th Annual UF Law E-Discovery Conference
E-discovery professionals analyze and learn the data, email, chat, mobile, and cloud, to answer who did what, and when. When you can surface the right evidence and explain what it means, you become the voice teams rely on across plaintiff and defense, in-house and outside counsel, legal ops, litigation support/eData, and solution providers, driving clarity, defensibility, and results. The UF Law E-Discovery Conference brings those perspectives together. The aim is simple: help you spot openings, fill gaps, and contribute where strategy is set.
March
Monday, March 2
Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Internal Faculty Workshop
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space
Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky
Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky, Raymond & Miriam Ehrlich Eminent Scholar Chair in U.S. Constitutional Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
March 5-6
2026 Originalism Conference
University of Florida Levin College of Law is pleased to host its second Originalism Conference on March 5-6, 2026, in Gainesville, Florida.
Monday, March 9
Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Faculty Workshop
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space
Janet Freilich
Janet Freilich, Professor of Law and Class of 1960 Scholar, Boston University School of Law, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Monday, March 23
Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Faculty Workshop
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space
Sarath Sanga
Sarath Sanga, Professor of Law and Co-Director, Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law, Yale Law School, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Monday, March 30
Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Faculty Workshop
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space
Kenneth S. Abraham
Kenneth S. Abraham, David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
April
Monday, April 6
Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Internal Faculty Workshop
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space
Nicholas J. Christopolis
Nicholas J. Christopolis, Legal Skills Professor, University of Florida Levin College of Law, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.