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Academic Workshops Fall 2021

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 fall 2021.

SEPTEMBER 2021
OCTOBER 2021
NOVEMBER 2021

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To see our 2020 series, click here.


Friday, September 17

Tax Policy Colloquium

Ruth Mason, Edwin S. Cohen Distinguished Professor of Law and Taxation, University of Virginia School of Law; and Michael Knoll, Theodore K. Warner Professor of Law & Professor of Real Estate; Co-Director, Center for Tax Law and Policy, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School; present, with comments from Brian Galle, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: 11:20 am – 12:50 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Friday, September 17

Constitution Day 2021

Clay Calvert, Professor of Law and Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication, University of Florida Levin College of Law and University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications; Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol, Stephen C. O’Connell Chair, University of Florida Levin College of Law; Merritt McAlister, Associate Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law; and John F. Stinneford, Edward Rood Eminent Scholar Chair, University of Florida Levin College of Law; present. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Friday, October 1

Tax Policy Colloquium

Eleanor Wilking, Assistant Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, presents, with comments from David Weisbach, Walter J. Blum Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School.
Time: 11:20 am – 12:50 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Tuesday, October 5

A Tribute to Justice: Remembering Judge Hatchett

The Nelson Initiative on Ethics and Leadership is hosting a tribute to the late Judge Joseph Woodrow Hatchett, the first Black Justice on the Florida Supreme Court, the first Black man to win a state-wide election in Florida, and the first Black man appointed to a federal appeals court in the Deep South, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Former Senator Bill Nelson, now Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), will introduce Judge Rosemary Barkett of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, Professor Kenneth Nunn, Dr. Patricia Hilliard-Nunn Memorial Racial Justice Term Professor and Professor of Law, and Professor Danaya Wright, T. Terrell Sessums and Gerald Sohn Professor in Constitutional Law and Professor of Law who will discuss Judge Hatchett’s many accomplishments. Excerpts from a 2017 presentation by Judges Hatchett and Barkett will be presented by Dr. James Cusick, Curator of the P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History. The event is co-sponsored by the Center for Governmental Responsibility at the Levin College of Law, the George A. Smathers Libraries, and the African American Studies Program of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida.

Seating is limited. Please RSVP in-person attendance by October 4, 2021 to ruthm@law.ufl.edu.

For virtual attendance, please register here.

COVID Precautions: To ensure the safety of in-person event attendees, face coverings are expected, even if you’re fully vaccinated

Time: 4:00 pm ET
Location: Holland Hall 180 and Virtual via Zoom
Invitation

Wednesday, October 13

The 2021 Allen L. Poucher Lecture

The Florida Law Review presents The Final Frontier: Exploring the Legal Implications of Commercializing Space. Panelists include Matthew Schaefer, Veronica A. Haggart and Charles R. Work Professor of International Trade Law, University of Nebraska College of Law; Alex Vinson, Assistant Chief Counsel, NASA; and Daniel Sennott, Partner, Holland & Knight. Trevor Tezel (JD 19), Assistant Chief Counsel, NASA, moderates. For more information, please visit floridalawreview.com.
Time: 4:00 pm ET
Location: Chesterfield A. Smith Ceremonial Classroom, Holland Hall 180
Invitation

Thursday, October 14

Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere Speaker Series

Michele Brachter Goodwin, Chancellor’s Professor of Law, UC Irvine School of Law, presents Policing the Womb: Invisible Women & the Criminalization of Motherhood, co-sponsored by the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Please register for the Zoom link here.
Time: 4:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Monday, October 25

Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Faculty Workshop

Alan Rozenshtein, Associate Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Friday, October 29

International Tax Symposium

The University of Florida Levin College of Law and the Graduate Tax Program presents the 17th Annual International Tax Symposium. Please join presenters Joachim Englisch, Professor of Law, University of Muenster Institute of Tax Law; Carlo Garbarino, Associate Professor, University of Bocconi, Department of Law; and Yvette Lind, Assistant Professor of Law, Copenhagen Business School; Yariv Brauner, Hugh Culverhouse Eminent Scholar Chair in Taxation, University of Florida Levin College of Law, moderates.  Please email ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: 8:30 am ET
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Monday, November 8

Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Faculty Workshop

Aziz F. Rana, Richard and Lois Cole Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Wednesday, November 10

2021-2022 Bayard Wickliffe Heath Memorial Lecture Series on U.S. Antitrust Policy

Christopher Leslie, Chancellor’s Professor of Law, UC Irvine School of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Friday, November 12

Tax Policy Colloquium

Daniel N. Shaviro, Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation, New York University School of Law, presents, with comments from Sarah Lawsky, Stanford Clinton Sr. and Zylpha Kilbride Clinton Research Professor of Law, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.
Time: 11:20 am – 12:50 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Monday, November 15

Walter O. Weyrauch Distinguished Lecture in Family Law

Jane M. Spinak, Edward Ross Aranow Clinical Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Wednesday, November 17

Artificial Intelligence as Evidence

Maura Grossman, Research Professor, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo; and Hon. Paul Grimm, District Judge, United States District Court for the District of Maryland; will present their paper, Artificial Intelligence as Evidence. Seth Katsuya Endo, Assistant Professor, University of Florida Levin College of Law; and Rebecca Wexler, Assistant Professor and Faculty Co-Director Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at UC Berkeley School of Law will provide commentary. William F. Hamilton, Senior Legal Skills Professor, University of Florida Levin College of Law, will moderate. Please register here.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Monday, November 22

Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Faculty Workshop

Jamelia Morgan, Assistant Professor of Law, UC Irvine School of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Invitation

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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.