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Virtual Academic Workshops

Many outstanding scholars present their research and forthcoming scholarship throughout the year. Below you may explore a list of the distinguished scholars who participated in our virtual academic workshop series this spring, and several who will present via Zoom this summer.

SPRING 2020
SUMMER 2020

 

Monday, March 30

Internal Speaker Series

John F. Stinneford, Professor of Law, presents.

Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Tuesday, March 31

Tax Colloquium

Sarah Lawsky, Benjamin Mazur Summer Reach Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, presents as part of the University of Florida Levin College of Law Tax Colloquium, sponsored by the Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Lecture Series.

Time: 11:15 am
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Thursday, April 9

Tax Colloquium

Johanna Hey, Full Professor and Director of the Institute of Tax Law, University of Cologne, presents as part of the University of Florida Levin College of Law Tax Colloquium, sponsored by the Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Lecture Series.

Time: 11:15 am
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Monday, April 13

The Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Lecture Series

Deborah Dinner, Associate Professor of Law, Emory Law, presents as part of the Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Lecture Series.

Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Tuesday, April 14

Tax Colloquium

Yvette Lind, Assistant Professor at Copenhagen Business School, presents as part of the University of Florida Levin College of Law Tax Colloquium, sponsored by the Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Lecture Series.

Time: 11:15 am
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Thursday, May 7

Summer Antitrust Virtual Workshop Series

Scott Hemphill, Moses H. Grossman Professor of Law at NYU Law, and Timothy Wu, Julius Silver Professor of Law, Science and Technology at Columbia Law, present as part of the University of Florida Levin College of Law Summer Antitrust Virtual Workshop Series.

Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Thursday, May 14

Summer Antitrust Virtual Workshop Series

D. Daniel Sokol, Professor of Law, presents.

Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Thursday, May 21

Summer Antitrust Virtual Workshop Series

Louis Kaplow, Finn M. W. Caspersen and Household International Professor of Law and Economics at Harvard Law School, presents.

Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Wednesday, May 27

Summer 2020 Internal Faculty Workshop Series

Danaya Wright, Clarence J. TeSelle Endowed Professor of Law, presents.

Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Thursday, May 28

Summer Antitrust Virtual Workshop Series

Rebecca Allensworth, Tarkington Chair in Teaching Excellence and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School, presents.

Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Thursday, June 4

Summer Antitrust Virtual Workshop Series

Abraham Lee Wickelgren, The Bernard J. Ward Centennial Professor in Law at Texas Law, and Albert H. Choi, Professor of Law at University of Michigan Law School, present.

Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Thursday, June 11

Summer Antitrust Virtual Workshop Series

Eleanor M. Fox, Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Trade Regulation at NYU Law, presents.

Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Wednesday, June 17

Summer 2020 Internal Faculty Workshop Series

Merritt McAlister, Assistant Professor of Law, presents.

Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Wednesday, June 17

Can a Broken System Be Fixed?

The Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations (CSRRR) at the University of Florida Levin College of Law invites you to attend a discussion and conversation with Professor Paul Butler, Alfred Brick Professor in Law, Georgetown Law School, on Wednesday, June 17, 2020 at 3:00pm, via Zoom.

Professor Butler will discuss race, policing, and the Black Lives Matter movement. He is the author of the book Chokehold: Policing Black Men (2018).

An RSVP is required to receive the Zoom invitation. If you have an accommodations request, please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu by noon on June 15.

Time: 3:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Thursday, June 18

Summer Antitrust Virtual Workshop Series

Barak Orbach, Professor of Law at University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, presents.

Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Wednesday, June 24

Summer 2020 Internal Faculty Workshop Series

Yariv Brauner, Hugh Culverhouse Eminent Scholar Chair in Taxation, presents.

Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Thursday, June 25

Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations

The Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations at University of Florida Levin College of Law presents a panel discussion, “Should Colleges Mandate a Course on Race/Anti-Racism?”

Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Thursday, June 25

Summer Antitrust Virtual Workshop Series

Christopher Leslie, Chancellor’s Professor of Law at UC Irvine Law, presents.

Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Thursday, July 2

Summer Antitrust Virtual Workshop Series

Erik Hovenkamp, Assistant Professor of Law at USC Gould School of Law & Steven C. Salop, Professor of Economics and Law at Georgetown Law, present.

Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Monday, July 6

Center for Governmental Responsibility

The Center for Governmental Responsibility at UF Levin College of Law presents on online webinar, Legal & Policy Impacts of the Pandemic: A Global Perspective. This Zoom webinar will consist of three panels with experts from the United States & Brazil looking at the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in the areas of Privacy & Data Protection; Government Authority; and Effects of the Pandemic on the Environment & Urban Sustainability. Via Zoom at 2pm EDT.

Time: 2:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Wednesday, July 8

Summer 2020 Internal Faculty Workshop Series

Peter Molk, Associate Professor of Law, and D. Daniel Sokol, Professor of Law, present.

Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Thursday, July 9

Summer Antitrust Virtual Workshop Series

Daniel Crane, Frederick Paul Furth Sr. Professor of Law at Michigan Law, presents.

Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Wednesday, July 14

Summer 2020 Internal Faculty Workshop Series

David Hasen, Professor of Law, presents.

Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Wednesday, July 15

National Security Junior Scholars Workshop

UF Law’s National Security Workshop provides an opportunity for junior scholars to receive feedback from senior faculty and other scholars on works-in-progress. A total of 7 papers will be presented at the workshop. If you would like to participate as an audience member, please RSVP here. RSVPs received by 12 pm EST on Saturday July 11 will receive copies of the papers shortly thereafter. If you have any questions, please contact Maryam Jamshidi at jamshidi@law.ufl.edu.

Time: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm EDT
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Thursday, July 16

Summer Antitrust Virtual Workshop Series

William E. Kovacic, Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy; Professor of Law; Director, Competition Law Center at GW Law, presents.

Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Thursday, July 23

Summer Antitrust Virtual Workshop Series

Alan J. Meese, Ball Professor of Law and Co-Director, Center for the Study of Law and Markets at William & Mary Law School, presents.

Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Monday, July 27

Internal Faculty Workshop Series

Rachel Arnow-Richman, Incoming Professor of Law and Gerald A. Rosenthal Chair in Labor & Employment Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law; Steven Davidoff Solomon, Professor of Law, Berkeley Law; and James David Hicks, Academic Fellow, Berkeley Law; present

Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Tuesday, July 28

Virtual Conversations: Law Firms in a Post-FLoyd World: Same Challenge, Different Day

UF Law students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend a webinar moderated by Professor Kenneth Nunn.

Click here to register for the event.

Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Thursday, July 30

Summer Antitrust Virtual Workshop Series

Hiba Hafiz, Assistant Professor at Boston College Law, presents.

Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Wednesday, August 5

Law & Economics Virtual Series

Julian Nyarko, Assistant Professor at Stanford Law School and Eric Talley, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School present.

Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Thursday, August 6

Summer Antitrust Virtual Workshop Series

Spencer Waller, Professor of Law; Justice John Paul Stevens Chair in Competition Law at Chicago Loyola School of Law; Director, Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies; presents.

Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Virtual
Invitation

Thursday, August 13

Summer Antitrust Virtual Workshop Series

Felix B. Chang, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Professor of Law, University of Cincinnati College of Law, presents.

Time: 12:00 pm
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.