Levin College of Law
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 2024.
The University of Florida Levin College of Law, the Center for Governmental Responsibility (CGR), the Bob Graham Center for Public Service, and the Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education welcome you to the CGR Lunch and Learn Workshop Series on recent Supreme Court cases, occurring every other Wednesday during the Fall 2024 semester. Learn about the cases, their implications, and what they mean for the future.
Michael Allan Wolf, Richard E. Nelson Eminent Scholar Chair in Local Government and Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, will discuss gun related cases U.S. v. Rahimi and Garland v. Cargill. Pizza will be served. Please RSVP here. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Location: Chesterfield Smith Ceremonial Classroom, Holland Hall 180.
Emily Satterthwaite, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: 11:45 a.m.
Location: Holland Hall 359 and via Zoom
The University of Florida Levin College of Law welcomes Keith Hylton to deliver the 2024 Heath Lecture, Antitrust Law and Common Law. Keith Hylton is the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, Boston University, and Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. Lunch will be served; please RSVP here.
Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space.
The University of Florida Levin College of Law Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations and the Florida Law School Consortium for Racial Justice present the Zoom webinar The Power of Your Vote 2024: Voter Suppression and Voting Rights in Florida. Please register for the webinar here. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: 6:00-7:30 PM ET
Location: Virtual
The University of Florida Levin College of Law, the Center for Governmental Responsibility (CGR), the Bob Graham Center for Public Service, and the Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education welcome you to the CGR Lunch and Learn Workshop Series on recent Supreme Court cases, occurring every other Wednesday during the Fall 2024 semester. Learn about the cases, their implications, and what they mean for the future.
Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky, Raymond & Miriam Ehrlich Chair in U.S. Constitutional Law and Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, will discuss social media cases Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton. Pizza will be served. Please RSVP here. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: Noon ET
Location: Chesterfield Smith Ceremonial Classroom, Holland Hall 180.
Beth A. Colgan, Professor of Law, University of California Los Angeles School of Law, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space
Please join the University of Florida Levin College of Law for our 2024 Constitution Day Celebration. Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol, Stephen C. O’Connell Chair and Professor of Law; Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky, Raymond & Miriam Ehrlich Chair in U.S. Constitutional Law; and Jonathan Marshfield, Professor of Law; will discuss Current Topics in Constitutional Law. Lunch will be served. Please RSVP here. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: Noon ET
Location: 285B Holland Hall
Annie Brett, Associate 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
The University of Florida Levin College of Law, the Center for Governmental Responsibility (CGR), the Bob Graham Center for Public Service, and the Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education welcome you to the CGR Lunch and Learn Workshop Series on recent Supreme Court cases, occurring every other Wednesday during the Fall 2024 semester. Learn about the cases, their implications, and what they mean for the future.
Tracey Maclin, Raymond & Miriam Ehrlich Chair in U.S. Constitutional Law and Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, will discuss immigration case Department of State v. Munoz. Pizza will be served. Please RSVP here. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Location: Chesterfield Smith Ceremonial Classroom, Holland Hall 180.
Brian Quinn, Professor of Law, Boston College Law School, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. The University of Florida Levin College of Law; the Bud Shorstein Center for Jewish Studies at the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, University of Florida; The Center for African Studies at the University of Florida; and the Issa and Rae Price Library of Judaica, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida; are co-sponsoring Remembering Rwanda & Lessons Learned: Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Please join Zachary D. Kaufman, Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law; as he welcomes Consolee Nishimwe, a survivor of the genocide to dicuss her personal account. Sarah L. McKune, Associate Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Environmental and Global Health, College of Public Health and Health Professions; and Jorge A. Hernandez, College of Veterinary Medicine Director of Graduate Education and Professor; will discuss their current research in Rwanda. Please contact kaufman@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: 2:00-5:00pm ET
Location: The Judaica Suite, 2nd Floor, Smathers Library
Hilary J. Allen, Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space
This event has been canceled due to hurricane closure. Please check back for a new date! The University of Florida Levin College of Law, the Center for Governmental Responsibility (CGR), the Bob Graham Center for Public Service, and the Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education welcome you to the CGR Lunch and Learn Workshop Series on recent Supreme Court cases, occurring every other Wednesday during the Fall 2024 semester. Learn about the cases, their implications, and what they mean for the future.
Gary Lawson, Levin, Mabie & Levin Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, will discuss Chevron doctrine cases Relentless v. DOC and Loper Bright Ent. v. Raimondi. Pizza will be served. Please RSVP here. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Location: Chesterfield Smith Ceremonial Classroom, Holland Hall 180.
This will be rescheduled for Spring 2025. Please check back!
The Marion. B. Brechner First Amendment Project, the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, the University of Florida Levin College of Law, and the Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education welcomes The Fifth Column podcast co-hosts Michael Moynihan (The Free Press), Kmele Foster (Freethink) and Matt Welch (Reason) to campus to address The Demand for B.S., a conference that takes audience capture seriously. In this public Keynote conversation, the hosts of the popular podcast will discuss how consumer demand spurs the proliferation of misinformation in politics, media, and academia, and what can be done to tackle the problem.
Time: Noon ET
Location: Holland Hall 383
Steven L. Schwarcz, Stanley A. Star Distinguished Professor of Law & Business, Duke University School of Law, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space
The University of Florida Levin College of Law welcomes you to join us on our Gainesville campus for a live Continuing Legal Education event, Litigator Mediator Forum. Please join Donna Erez-Navot, Legal Skills Professor and Director, Mediation Clinic, University of Florida Levin College of Law; and Harold Oehler, Esq., Oehler Mediation; for this two hour event with state and federal judges, litigators, and mediators. This free CLE event has been approved for 2.0 Ethics and 2.0 General credits by The Florida Bar; lunch will be served. You may register here. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: 11:00am to 1:00pm
Location: University of Florida Levin College of Law; more details will be forthcoming
Justin Weinstein-Tull, Professor of Law, Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space
The University of Florida Levin College of Law, the Center for Governmental Responsibility (CGR), the Bob Graham Center for Public Service, and the Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education welcome you to the CGR Lunch and Learn Workshop Series on recent Supreme Court cases, occurring every other Wednesday during the Fall 2024 semester. Learn about the cases, their implications, and what they mean for the future.
Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol, Stephen C. O’Connell Chair and Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, will discuss abortion cases Moyle v. U.S. and Idaho v. U.S. Pizza will be served. Please RSVP here. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Location: Chesterfield Smith Ceremonial Classroom, Holland Hall 180.
The University of Florida Levin College of Law proudly announces its Inaugural Originalism Conference, where distinguished federal and Florida state jurists, and eminent constitutional legal scholars will converge on the Gainesville campus for thoughtful discussions on various topics related to Originalism and other constitutional interpretative methods. The event is free and open to the public. A detailed agenda is forthcoming. Registration is now closed. Please visit the conference website for the agenda. Please direct inquiries to Ruth McIlhenny, ruthm@law.ufl.edu or 352-273-0864.
Location: University of Florida Levin College of Law campus, Gainesville, FL
Michelle Layser, Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: 11:45 a.m.
Location: Holland Hall 359 and via Zoom
Tucker Carrington, Associate Dean for Clinical Programs, Professor of Law and Director, George C. Cochran Innocence Project; University of Mississippi School of Law, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space
Teresa Drake, Senior Legal Skills Professor, University of Florida Levin College of Law, delivers this year’s Weyrauch Distinguished Lecture in Family Law, Trauma and the Rippling Effects in Family Law. Judge Denise R. Ferrero, Eighth Judicial Circuit of Florida, introduces her. Lunch will be served. Please RSVP here. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: Noon ET
Location: Holland Hall 180 – Chesterfield Smith Ceremonial Classroom
Leading tax scholars will present papers at the University of Florida Levin College of Law on November 1 and 2. Attendance is open to all interested persons. You may view the agenda with presenter information and zoom links here. Please contact hasen@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: 9:00am
Location: Holland Hall 382 and virtual
Yesha Yadav, Associate Dean and Robert Belton Director of Diversity, Equity & Community, Milton R. Underwood Chair, and Faculty Co-Director, LL.M. Program; Vanderbilt University Law School, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space
The University of Florida Levin College of Law hosts the Obervatorio Iberoamericano de Tributacion Internaciónal and the Iberoamerican Tax Moot Court over five days. The International Tax Symposium will be held on Friday, November 8, as part of the event. Please see the agenda for more information. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu with any questions.
The University of Florida Levin College of Law, the Center for Governmental Responsibility (CGR), the Bob Graham Center for Public Service, and the Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education welcome you to the CGR Lunch and Learn Workshop Series on recent Supreme Court cases, occurring every other Wednesday during the Fall 2024 semester. Learn about the cases, their implications, and what they mean for the future.
John Stinneford, Edward Rood Eminent Scholar Chair Professor of Law, and Senior Fellow, Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education, University of Florida Levin College of Law, will discuss obstruction of official proceedings case Fischer v. U.S. Pizza will be served. Please RSVP here. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Location: Chesterfield Smith Ceremonial Classroom, Holland Hall 180.
The University of Florida Levin College of Law Center for Governmental Responsibility presents this lunchtime lecture. Jane Bambauer, Professor of Law, Levin College of Law and Brechner Eminent Scholar Chair, College of Journalism and Communications and Julio Garcia, Visiting Scholar, Levin College of Law and Post Graduation Professor and Researcher, Univel, Brazil, will discuss this case. Pizza will be served. Please contact mclendon@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: Noon ET
Location: Brock Hall 355C.
The Florida Law Review presents the 2024 Allen L. Poucher Lecture of Law: America’s Next Constitution. In an era marked by intense debate over the future of American governance, the question of whether to convene a federal constitutional convention has taken on newfound urgency. This symposium, co-organized by Professor Johnathan Marshfield (University of Florida Levin College of Law), will explore the virtues, vices, and complexities surrounding a federal constitutional convention and examine its potential impact on the foundational document of American democracy. The event brings together leading scholars, legal practitioners, policymakers, and students to engage in critical discussions on a topic of growing national relevance. Speakers include Richard Albert (Texas), John Dinan (Wake Forest), Viki Harrison (Common Cause), Sanford Levinson (Texas), Stefanie Lindquist (Washington University in St. Louis), Jonathan Marshfield (Florida), Miriam Seifter (Wisconsin), and Julie Suk (Fordham). You may find the agenda here. Please see speaker biographies here.
You may register here. Please contact rileypatrick@ufl.edu or gabriellross@ufl.edu for more information. This event has been approved for 2.5 General CLEs and 2.5 State and Federal Government and Administrative Practice CLEs by the Florida Bar.
Time: 10:00 am ET
Location: Chesterfield Smith Ceremonial Classroom, Holland Hall 180.
Jiaying Jiang, Assistant 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
The University of Florida Levin College of Law, the Center for Governmental Responsibility (CGR), the Bob Graham Center for Public Service, and the Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education welcome you to the CGR Lunch and Learn Workshop Series on recent Supreme Court cases, occurring every other Wednesday during the Fall 2024 semester. Learn about the cases, their implications, and what they mean for the future.
Merritt McAlister, Interim Dean and Mabie, Levin, & Mabie Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, will discuss presidential immunity case Trump v. U.S. Pizza will be served. Please RSVP here. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Location: Chesterfield Smith Ceremonial Classroom, Holland Hall 180.
