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 virtual academic workshop series this spring 2021.
To view our spring, summer, and fall 2020 series, click here.
Ariel Katz, Associate Professor, University of Toronto Faculty of Law; and Eden Sarid, Lecturer, University of Essex School of Law; present.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Emre Demirezen, Assistant Professor, University of Florida Warrington College of Business, presents.
Time: 2:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Cherie Metcalf, Associate Professor, Queen’s University Faculty of Law; and Scott Baker, Vice Dean for Research and Faculty Development and William F. & Jessica L. Kirsch Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law; present.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Jorge Contreras, Professor of Law, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Darren Hutchinson, Raymond & Miriam Ehrlich Eminent Scholar Chair and Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Monica C. Bell, Associate Professor of Law, Yale Law School, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Jennifer Bennett Shinall, Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School; and Sonja Starr, Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology, University of Chicago Law School; present.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
The Ellen Bellet Gelberg Tax Policy Lecture Series is an endowed lecture series that examines tax policy and how its implementation affects the economy and people’s lives. This year’s panel addresses, “Is Universal Basic Income a Good Idea?” Panelists include William G. Gale, Ph.D., The Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy, The Brookings Institution; Daniel Hemel, Professor of Law and Ronald H. Coase Research Scholar, University of Chicago Law School; Melissa Kearney, Ph.D., Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland Department of Economics; and Ioana E. Marinescu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice.
You may watch the recording of the Tax Policy Lecture here. Please choose “Audio Transcript” if you would like to see text along the bottom of the screen, as the Audio Transcript has been corrected. Click “CC” in the bottom right of the video and choose “Audio Transcript.”
Time: 10:00 am to 1:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Melissa Murray, Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law, New York University School of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Erika Douglas, Assistant Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Aaron Hill, Assistant Professor, University of Florida Warrington College of Business, presents.
Time: 2:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Jonathan H. Choi, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota Law School, presents.
Time: 11:20 am ET
Location: Virtual
Equitable Transitions: Visions for a Sustainable and Just Future. This year’s conference is free of charge, but you must register here.
Time: February 12, 12:00 pm – 6:15 pm ET
Time: February 13, 9:00 am – 2:30 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Shirin Sinnar, Professor of Law and John A. Wilson Faculty Scholar, Stanford Law School, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Natasha Sarin, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School; and Carlos Avenancio-Leon, Assistant Professor of Finance, Indiana University Bloomington; present.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Dr. Johanna Stark, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, presents.
Time: 11:20 am ET
Location: Virtual
Myriam Gilles, Paul R. Verkuil Chair in Public Law and Professor of Law, Yeshiva University Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Erika Douglas, Assistant Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law; Hiba Hafiz, Assistant Professor of Law, Boston College Law School; Menesh Patel, Acting Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law; and Sean Sullivan, Associate Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law; will lead a roundtable discussion of teaching methods.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
James Pfander, Owen L. Coon Professor of Law, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Justice Barbara Pariente, Florida Supreme Court, presents.
Time: 1:45 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Tarek Hassan, Associate Professor, Boston University Department of Economics; and Stephan Hollander, Full Professor, Tilburg University School of Economics and Management; present.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Jeffrey Deskovic of The Deskovic Foundation presents Wrongful Conviction: It Could Happen to You.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Phyllis C. Taite, Professor of Law, Florida A&M University College of Law, presents.
Time: 11:20 am ET
Location: Virtual
Mark Fenster, Stephen C. O’Connell Chair and Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse, L. Q. C. Lamar Professor of Law, Emory Law School, presents The Ecology of Childhood in the Age of Covid. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Menesh Patel, Acting Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Carolyn Evans, Chief Economist – Intel; John List, Chief Economist – Lyft and Professor of Economics, University of Chicago; Hal Varian, Chief Economist Google and Dean Emeritus, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley; present. D. Daniel Sokol, Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law will moderate. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: 2:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Karim R. Lakhani, Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Dorothy & Michael Hintze Fellow, Harvard Business School and| Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard; and Marco Iansiti, David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration, Codirector, Laboratory for Information Science at Harvard, Codirector, Digital Initiative Harvard Business School, Harvard Business School; will discuss their new book Competing in the Age of AI.
Time: 1:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Maggie Blackhawk, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Jonah B. Gelbach, Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law; and Vikramaditya S. Khanna, William W. Cook Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School; present.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Please join the University of Florida Levin College of Law for the 8th Annual E-Discovery Conference. Please visit the conference website for more information and to register. This year’s conference is free. The Florida Bar has approved the UF Law E-Discovery Conference for 9.5 General, 9.5 Technology, and 1 Ethics Credits.
Time: 8:30 am – 6:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Tianxin Zou, Assistant Professor, University of Florida Warrington College of Business, presents.
Time: 2:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Please join experts from the around the world for the 2021 Technology, Media, and Privacy Law Conference: Implications for Public Health and Safety. Please register here for this free conference. Please visit the conference website for more information.
Time: 9:00 am – 5:30pm pm ET
Location: Virtual
Kimberly J. Robinson, Elizabeth D. and Richard A. Merrill Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Justice Jorge Labarga, Florida Supreme Court, presents.
Time: 1:45 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Viktoria H.S.E. Robertson, Professor and Head of the Competition Law and Digitalization Group
Vienna University of Economics and Business, and Professor of International Antitrust Law,University of Graz; presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Robert P. Bartlett, III, I. Michael Heyman Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Heather Field, Eucalyptus Foundation Chair, Professor of Law and Co-Director of Center on Tax Law, UC Hastings School of Law, presents.
Time: 3:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Andrew Hammond, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Francis Suarez (JD 04), Mayor of Miami, and Kapil Longani (JD 02), Chief Legal Counsel to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, join Dean Laura Rosenbury for a moderated discussion. Sponsored by the Jeffrey Bartel Leadership & Integrity Program.
Time: Noon ET
Location: Virtual
Brian Galle, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center; and Menesh Patel, Acting Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law; present.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Thomas B. Nachbar, Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Please join Nancy E. Dowd, David H. Levin Chair in Family Law, University of Florida Distinguished Professor, Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law; as she delivers Radical Brown: The Mandate for Comprehensive Educational Equality in honor of her new recognition as University of Florida Distinguished Professor. This event is open to the public. Please contact comstock@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: 3:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Shon Hopwood, Associate Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, presents. Please contact comstock@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: 10:00 am ET
Location: Virtual
H. Timothy Lovelace, Jr., John Hope Franklin Research Scholar and Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law; presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Justice John D. Couriel, Florida Supreme Court, presents.
Time: 1:45 pm ET
Location: Virtual
University of Florida Levin College of Law faculty members present early stage works over four days of workshops. For more information, please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Kathryn Zeiler, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law; and Jason Chin, Lecturer, The University of Sydney Law School; presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Andrew Chin, Paul B. Eaton Distinguished Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Please join the Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations and UF Levin College of Law professors to discuss the recent verdict in the Derek Chauvin case. Speakers include Michelle S. Jacobs, Professor of Law and Racial Justice Term Professor; Kenneth Nunn, Professor of Law and University Term Professor; Katheryn Russell-Brown, Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations and Levin, Mabie & Levin Professor of Law; Sarah Wolking, Legal Skills Professor; and Jennifer Zedalis, Senior Legal Skills Professor. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information. View the recording.
Time: 11:30 am ET
Location: Virtual
