The Office of Career and Professional Development and the Law Alumni Association is proud to partner with the Broward County Bar Association in an effort to provide mentors for all of our students. We believe all law students can benefit from the guidance of a practicing attorney. We invite you to register to become a mentor and to participate in mentoring activities throughout the year, including the upcoming Mentoring Picnic on February 4, 2012. The guidance you provide to a law student is invaluable.

2012 NSU Law Student Mentoring Picnic

Helping Today's Students Become Tomorrow's Leaders 

Saturday, February 4, 2012

12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

NSU Shepard Broad Law Center

South Lawn and Atrium

3305 College Ave., Davie, FL 33314

To RSVP for the Picnic and Register to become a Mentor, click here.

 

Space is limited. Casual attire.

 

If you have questions about our Mentoring Program, please contact  Assistant Dean Robert Levine.

The Office of Career and Professional Development is proud to partner with the Broward County Bar Association in an effort to provide mentors for all of our students. We believe all law students can benefit from the guidance of a practicing attorney. We invite you to register to become a mentor and to participate in mentoring activities throughout the year, including the upcoming Mentoring Picnic on February 4, 2012. 

If you have questions about our mentoring program, please contact Assistant Dean Robert Levine at 954-262-6227.

To become a mentor and RSVP for the Mentoring Picnic, please register here.

The Caribbean Law Clinic (CLC) was held at the Law Center November 9-11, 2011.  The CLC is a program created by the American and Caribbean Law Initiative (ACLI), a consortium of four Caribbean and five U.S. law schools.  Each semester law students meet in a selected venue to coordinate research and prepare a joint presentation on topical legal issues. This semester, the CLC will include about 30 law students and 10 faculty members from the following Caribbean and U.S. Law Schools: Cayman Islands Law School (George Town, Grand Cayman), Eugene Dupuch Law School (Nassau, Bahamas), Hugh Wooding Law School (Tunapuna, Trinidad), Norman Manley Law School (Kingston, Jamaica), Florida Coastal University School of Law (Jacksonville, Florida), Florida International University College of Law and Stetson University College of Law.

The Criminal Law Society and Nova Trial Association at the Law Center held a Symposium on the Influence of Social Media on Highly Publicized Criminal Trials on October 27, 2011. The symposium featured a panel discussion on the effects of Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube as well as, commentary on the Casey Anthony Trial and other highly publicized criminal trials, and ethical constraints on mental health professionals who involve themselves in media proceedings.

Guest speakers included:

Bradford Cohen `97
Bradford Cohen is a Fort Lauderdale based criminal lawyer. He has been noted as a “Top Notch Criminal Defense Lawyer" by Catherine Crier of Court TV, and called the "go to miracle worker" by TMZ.com. He is a requested expert legal commentator on CNBC, NBC, The Dan Abrams Show, Nancy Grace, Fox News, CNN and Celebrity Justice. He has criminal trial experience in both Federal and State Courts. He has handled Federal criminal matters in and outside the State of Florida, including but not limited to White Collar Crimes, Extortion, Gun Charges, Mortgage Fraud, Bank Fraud, Theft, Drug Trafficking, and 1st degree Violent crimes. Bradford is a sought after criminal attorney for tax matters, both civil and criminal due to his extensive background in finance and accounting. Although, high profile in regards to legal commentary and his experience in Criminal Defense, his notable clients recognize his representation is discreet and aggressive, without compromising their rights.
 

Hugh Mundy
Professor Mundy is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Law Center. He teaches Lawyering Skills & Values I & II and supervises the Criminal Justice Clinic. He joined the Shepard Broad Law Center after eight years with the Federal Public Defender in the Middle District of Tennessee and the Southern District of New York. As an assistant federal defender, Professor Mundy represented clients in a broad range of cases involving narcotics, firearms, immigration, federal benefits, and internet-based offenses. In addition, he argued multiple appellate cases in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Prior to serving as an assistant federal defender, Professor Mundy was an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Tennessee Justice Center in Nashville where he participated in litigation to expand services for children under the state’s managed Medicaid program. Professor Mundy also clerked for the Honorable A. Richard Caputo in the Middle District of Pennsylvania. Professor Mundy holds a Juris Doctorate from The Catholic University of America where he was a Charles & Louise O’Brien Public Interest Fellow and a Dulin-Haynes Law & Public Policy Fellow. He received a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Notre Dame.
 

Terence M. Lenamon `92
Terry Lenamon is a Florida Bar Board Certified Trial Lawyer - a significant accomplishment that few attorneys have achieved.  Martindale Hubbel rates Terry as an AV Preeminent attorney. An AV Preeminent rating is given to only the top 2% of the legal profession for excellence in both ability and integrity. With over 17 years experience and more than 100 jury trials under his belt, Mr. Lenamon has built a reputation as one of Florida’s most respected criminal defense lawyers. His skilled, high-quality defense has been sought by many high-profile clients including Ceasar Mena and Casey Anthony. He has experience with 20 first-degree murder trials and eight death penalty cases. That experience has brought him national recognition as a go-to commentator on death penalty issues. Whether it be capital crimes or DUI, Mr. Lenamon puts his trial skills to work for clients accused of the most serious of crimes and facing the most serious of punishments. His cases have been profiled on national television shows including “The Point”, Nancy Grace and “The First 48.” He has successfully persuaded the State to waive the death penalty more than 26 times. Mr. Lenamon is an active participant in the Trial Lawyer’s College, has taught techniques in mitigation investigation for the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and was chosen to present techniques on creative brief writing in capital litigation.
 

David Shapiro, Ph.D.
Dr. Shapiro is a Professor of Psychology at the Center for Psychological Studies where he teaches in the Forensic Concentration.  He has taught at the Law Center since 2000 and has previously taught at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and at Johns Hopkins University.  He is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at the New York Law School's online program in Mental Disability Law. He has been Board Certified in Forensic Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology since 1979 and has taught many continuing education courses in psychology and law. He has also been involved in ethics education for over thirty years and led a task force which made significant contributions to the APA Code of Ethics. He has served on the ethics committee of the American Psychological Association and has chaired the Ethics committee of the American Board of Professional Psychology. He has been President of the APA Dision of Media Psychology. His recent presidential address dealt with ethical issues when psychologists interact with the media.

Click here to see photos of the event.

The Law Center congratulates Sharon Booth (Director, Public Interest Programs and Disability Services), former Judge Frank Orlando (Director, Center for Study of Youth Policy), Nancy Sanguigni (Assistant Dean for Clinical Programs), and Fran Tetunic, (Director, Alternative Dispute Resolution Clinic & Professor of Law) who were recognized at Nova Southeastern University’s External Funding Recognition Reception on September 21, 2011.  Each year, NSU honors the recipients of these grants and awards for their hard work in applying for and utilizing the funding.

Sharon Booth, Nancy Sanguigni and Fran Tetunic were recognized for their efforts in securing grants from the Florida Bar Foundation to support the Law Center’s public interest law program, pro bono initiatives and clinical programs. Frank Orlando is recognized for his efforts in securing funds for the Center for the Study of Youth Policy from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.  Judge Orlando recently received an award from the Casey Foundation for his project entitled, Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative. Every grant received by the Law Center is important to fulfilling key educational programs for our students and service projects to the Broward County community.

NSU prides itself on the number and amount of externally funded research grants it receives each year. This fiscal year, NSU had $71.4 million of active externally funded grants and awards for various projects and research efforts across the university

The Law Center hosted the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) Florida Deposition Skills Program on October 20-22, 2011.  This was the twenty-second year that the Law Center -was designated as the Florida site for this prestigious NITA skills training program.  NITA, headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, is nationally and internationally renowned for providing skills training programs for lawyers.  NITA invented the “learning by doing” skills instruction methodology which has been adopted by many law schools, law firms and government agencies for teaching lawyering skills.  This year’s program featured lawyers from around the country as instructors and utilized Law Center students as program witnesses.   Program Director and Law Center Professor Michael Dale discusses the program in this video.

The Law Center held A Symposium on Water: A Human Right on Friday and Saturday, September 16 and 17, 2011.

The symposium covered why safe and clean drinking water and sanitation is a human right essential to the full enjoyment of life and all other human rights – a declaration that was made by the U.N. General Assembly in 2010. The U.N. has voiced deep concern that almost 900 million people worldwide do not have access to clean water.

At the symposium treaty obligations, implementation and barriers to clean water were discussed. There was a Water Art Fundraiser with all proceeds going to supply potable water to those in need.

Guest speakers included Ms. Kenza Robinson, United Nations Secretary of Water. Her presentation can be viewed here http://www.youtube.com/user/NSULawCenter

Florida Supreme Court Justice Peggy A. Quince was the keynote speaker for the 2011 Law Center Commencement Ceremony, which was held on Saturday, May 14 at 4:00 p.m. at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise. Dean Athornia Steele also bestowed an honorary doctor of laws degree to Justice Quince at the commencement ceremony. NSU law professor Randolph Braccialarghe and NSU law student Jeremy Singer also spoke at the ceremony. Justice Peggy A. Quince was the first African-American female to be appointed to one of Florida’s district court of appeal. On December 8, 1998, she was appointed to the Florida Supreme Court, where she also served a term as Chief Justice. Justice Quince received her B.S. degree from Howard University in 1970 and her J.D. degree from the Catholic University of America in 1975. While in school, Justice Quince was active in Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity and the Black American Law Students Association, and received an award for her work with Catholic’s Neighborhood Legal Services Clinic. After beginning her legal career in Washington, D.C. as a hearing officer with the Rental Accommodations Office administering that city’s new rent control law, she entered private practice in Norfolk, Virginia in 1977, with special emphasis in real estate and domestic relations. In 1978, she moved to Bradenton, Florida where she opened a law office, and then in 1980, began her tenure with the Attorney General’s Office, Criminal Division. She handled numerous appeals in the Second District Court of Appeal, the Florida Supreme Court, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. Her thirteen-and-a-half-year tenure at that office included five years as the Tampa Bureau Chief and three years handling death penalty cases exclusively.

Jennifer Cruz ’11 and Anna Galeano ’11 have received the 2011 Bar Gift Award. Funded through the generous contributions of alumni and faculty donors, the Bar Gift Award provides monetary assistance to graduates during their 10 weeks of preparation for the Florida Bar exam. The award enables these recipients to concentrate fully on their studies. Eligible graduates must have a qualifying grade point average, demonstrate financial need, agree to forego employment between graduation and the Bar exam, and commit to supporting the Bar Gift fund in the future.Photo from left to right: Jennifer Cruz, Dean Athornia Steele and Anna Galeano.

Frank Orlando, Director of the Center for the Study of Youth Policy ( C.S.Y.P) at the Law Center and former judge, recently received an award from the Annie E. Casey Foundation in support of his project entitled, Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative (JDAI). The JDAI was designed to support the Casey Foundation’s vision that all y...outh involved in the juvenile justice system have opportunities to develop into healthy, productive adults. After more than 15 years of innovation and replication, JDAI is one of the nation’s most effective, influential, and widespread juvenile justice system reform initiatives. JDAI focuses on the juvenile detention component of the juvenile justice system because youth are often unnecessarily or inappropriately detained at great expense, with long-lasting negative consequences for both public safety and youth development. The Annie E. Casey Foundation is a private charitable organization, dedicated to helping build better futures for disadvantaged children in the United States. The primary mission of the Foundation is to foster public policies, human-service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today’s vulnerable children and families.

Director of Public Interest Programs & Disability Services, Sharon Booth, was recently appointed as National Chair for the Public Service Law Network (PSLawNet) Advisory Group. PSLawNet is the nation’s online clearinghouse for law students and lawyers to connect with public interest opportunities and information on public interest careers. It is a collaborative project among over 200 American and Canadian law schools. In addition to its database, PSLawNet offers an online library of educational and career-building resources for those interested in pursuing a career in public service. PSLawNet is the online meeting place for public interest advocates and employers, and the virtual career services office for tomorrow’s public interest attorneys. The PSLawNet Advisory Group includes representatives of PSLawNet subscriber schools and public service employers. Its members provide long-term guidance to PSLawNet staff to ensure continued growth and development of the website. The Advisory Group welcomes comments, constructive criticism, and all ideas about how to make PSLawNet the best resource for all of its users: job-seekers, employers, and law school administrators. For more information click here.

Dean Athornia Steele and the Faculty of the Law Center cordially invite you to a golf tournament on Sunday, May 1, 2011 at Woodlands Country Club in Tamarac. Entry Fee: $100 PER PLAYER or $400 PER FOURSOME. Entry fee includes food, on-course soft drinks, greens fee, unlimited practice balls and goodie bag with an NSU Law Center golf shirt, towel and sleeve of golf balls. Limited rental clubs available. For more details, registration and sponsorship information click here

The Law Center will host the Joint 2011 Southeast/Southwest and Mid-West People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference March 31-April 3, 2011 in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. The theme of the conference is The Role of the Lawyer in Fostering Social, Political and Economic Equality. The conference provides an important opportunity for legal scholars and community leaders to come together to exchange ideas and to discuss legal, cultural, and social issues that affect communities of color. For nearly six years, this Conference has promoted professional development in the academic arena by providing law faculty, especially junior faculty, the opportunity to present works-in-progress and to participate in discussions during the panel and roundtable sessions. This conference has been instrumental in the development of legal scholarship by and about people of color. The conference will include a New Law Teachers Pipeline Program sponsored by the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) and a reception for alumni in southeast Florida. For more information, click here.

Please join the Law Center's Florida Association of Women Lawyers (FAWL) and Evening Law Students Association (ELSA)for A Tea and Networking Event Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 11:30 AM at the Law Center in the Faculty Terrace. RSVP:Alison Churly, Treasurer of NSU FAWL at churlya@nsu.law.nova.edu.

Assistant Professor of Law, Ishaq Kundawala's, article, "Unveiling the Mystery, History and Problems Associated with the Jurisdictional Limitations of Bankruptcy Courts Over Personal Injury Tort and Wrongful Death Claims," will be published as the lead article in Volume 42.4 of the McGeorge Law Review (May 2011). His article explores and examines the current jurisdictional structure of the bankruptcy courts, the jurisdictional limitations of these courts over personal injury tort and wrongful death claims, the historical basis for such limitations and finally, the various and substantial problems that have arisen and continue to arise. Professor Kundawala's article challenges many of our current notions of the distribution of power in the bankruptcy court system. Kundawala’s areas of expertise are Bankruptcy and Commercial Litigation. His research interests include Bankruptcy Reform and the intersection of Bankruptcy and Mass Tort Law. Kundawala teaches Contracts, Bankruptcy, UCC: Secured Transactions and UCC: Sales and serves on the Law Faculty's Admissions Committee and the Ad Hoc Professionalism Committee. He is also the advisor to the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, co-advisor to the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund and co-coach to the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court Team. He has also been appointed by Dean Steele to serve on the Board of Ethics for the City of Pompano Beach.

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, addressed an audience of about 300 Law Center students, faculty and staff at the Law Center on Feb. 8, 2011. This marks the second time Stevens has visited the NSU campus in five years. Students posed questions on a broad range of legal issues such as: Supreme Court case load, the value of oral advocacy in court, and the political nature of the Congressional approval process for Supreme Court nominees. Justice Stevens shared his judicial philosophies and insights with the students. In speaking on oral arguments, he indicated that while justices usually have their minds made up before hearing arguments, a justice’s mind or approach to a case can definitely change through the process. When asked what contributed most to his success in law school, Justice Stevens said it was “the great faculty and students.” “It’s an incredible honor for us,” said Athornia Steele, NSU Law Center dean. “His visit helps highlight the Law Center’s commitment to students by providing a connection to the bench and bar. This was an opportunity for the students to learn more about the Supreme Court from a Justice of the Court.”” Justice Stevens served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from December 19, 1975 until his retirement on June 29, 2010. At the time of his retirement, he was the oldest member of the Court and the third-longest serving justice in the Court's history. He was nominated by President Gerald Ford to replace the Court's longest serving justice, William O. Douglas. Prior to that, he served as a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He also served as second vice president of the Chicago Bar Association and was a member of the Attorney General’s National Committee to Study Antitrust Law.

Today is Public Interest Law Day at the Law Center. This event began in 1993 as a small gathering of organizations and individuals who came together to share information with our students about the public interest community and how they might get involved. Since then the annual event, which takes place each February, has expanded to ...include over 30 public interest and government organizations from South Florida. The goal of Public Interest Law Day is to educate students about how they might contribute, through summer internships and other volunteer opportunities, to the legal needs of those individuals who are traditionally underserved and/or underrepresented in the community. For more information on how you can participate, please contact: Sharon Booth, boothsh@nsu.law.nova.edu

The Sports & Entertainment Law Society present: "Seeing the Future Through 20-20 Vision." Keynote Speaker: Luther Campbell. CLE CREDIT 5.0 hours, Course #: 44891. Register Online/Fax or Mail by clicking here.

The National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) and the Law Center hosted a three day Trial Skills Training Program for 48 lawyers employed by the Florida Office of Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel. These lawyers represent indigent parents involved in dependency and termination of parental rights cases throughout Florida. Law Center students will participate in the training by serving as witnesses in the learning-by-doing trial skills portion of the program. NITA is the nation’s leading provider of legal advocacy skills training. A not-for-profit organization based in Boulder, Colorado, NITA pioneered the legal skills learning-by-doing methodology over 35 years ago and has since remained the ultimate standard in continuing legal education. With an average student/faculty ratio of 4:1 and an all-volunteer faculty drawn from a cadre of judges, law professors, and practicing attorneys, NITA’s multi-day “boot camps” deliver unparalleled professional development for nearly 6,000 attorneys each year. As a public service organization, NITA provides, at little or no cost, the same high-caliber training we provide to the nation’s largest firms to legal service attorneys, public defenders, and attorneys who have chosen to work in child advocacy, tribal law, death penalty defense, immigration, domestic violence and other vital areas of public interest. NITA is also the nation’s third largest publisher of legal publications. NITA’s references, texts, case files, and audio-visual materials are used by thousands of attorneys and are incorporated into the curriculum at over 85% of the nation’s law schools.

Law Center students Martavis Clarke and  Lydia Charles are helping make advance health care planning better for Creole-speaking Floridians. As part of their work toward satisfying the health law concentration requirements, Martavis and Lydia teamed up to have Creole translations of Florida’s advance directive forms posted on the website of Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration. Lydia translated the documents into Creole, and Martavis made the connection with the agency. Congratulations to Martavis and Lydia for this amazing public service!

South Florida community association law firm Kaye & Bender P.L. has named Jonathan Picard,  second year student at the Law Center the recipient of the 2011-2012 Kaye & Bender Scholarship.

“The quality of the applicants impressed us and made it a difficult decision to select this year’s scholarship recipient.  However, in his application submission, Jonathan clearly demonstrated an insightful understanding of the essay topic and made a persuasive presentation,” said Robert Kaye, managing member of Kaye & Bender.  “His strong assessment and passion for the topic ultimately swayed our decision.”

To be eligible for the $2,500 annual Kaye & Bender Scholarship, students must be a second or third year full-time, or fourth year evening student at Nova Southeastern who is in good standing with a grade point average above a 3.0, demonstrate community involvement and have prepared an essay on the challenges facing community associations in South Florida.

“We appreciate the generosity of Kaye & Bender in creating this scholarship and value their ongoing partnership with the law school,” said Athornia Steele, dean of the Shepard Broad Law Center at Nova Southeastern University. 

Kaye & Bender provides legal services to more than 800 associations throughout Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach and Monroe counties.  For more information, visit KayeBenderLaw.com

Congratulations to third year law student Robert Lamarche. He is the recipient of the Bar Gift Award. Funded through generous contributions of alumni and faculty donors, the Bar Gift Award provides monetary assistance to graduates during their 10 weeks of preparation for The Florida Bar Exam. The award enables recipients to concentrate fully on their studies. Eligible graduates must have a qualifying grade point average, demonstrate need, agree to forego employment between graduation and the Bar exam, and commit to supporting the Bar Gift fund in the future.

Law Center students collected and donated more than 11,000 cans of food to Feeding South Florida. The cans were collected during the “Canned Immunity” food drive held November 14- 18, 2011.  As part of the food drive, law students donate cans in their class to receive immunity from being called on by the professor for that class.  "Canned Immunity is a wonderful law school tradition.  While participating students may be entitled to 'pass' if called on in class by their professor, their primary motivation is reach out to those less fortunate. Competition also plays a role.  This year, two 1L sections set a challenge.  I'm proud that my Section 5 topped Section 4 by almost 150 cans.  Even more important, the 120 students and seven professors from the two Sections combined to donate almost 6,300 cans to make Thanksgiving more meaningful for many, " Joseph D. Harbaugh, Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus. Last year, Law Center students donated more than 10,000 cans of food.

Law Center students Ryan Brenton and Isha Kochhar won first place at the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) Regional Thomas Tang Moot Court Competition held in Philadelphia at Drexel University.  During the preliminary rounds of the competition, Ryan and Isha competed with teams from the University of Pennsylvania and Brooklyn Law School.  In the semi-final round, they competed against a team from Fordham University.  Ryan and Isha defeated a team from The John Marshall Law School in the championship round to win first place at the competition. As winners of the Philadelphia Regional Competition, Ryan and Isha will represent the Law Center in the national competition in Atlanta in November.

 

The Thomas Tang Regional Competitions are held throughout the month of October in Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver, and Houston.  The Philadelphia Regional Competition included multiple teams from the University of Pennsylvania, Fordham University, Brooklyn Law School, University of Maryland, Boston University, Hofstra University, Drexel University and The John Marshall Law School. The competition problem was based on the issue of whether an Act that provided for certain limitations on the courses taught and course-related materials used in state-funded institutions of higher education violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

 

Law Center students Martavis Clarke and Curtis Davis also competed at the competition and received compliments from the judges regarding their oral advocacy skills. Law Center Professors Amanda Foster and Michele Struffolino served as coaches for both teams.

The International Association of Gaming Advisors (IAGA) has announced the winners of the 2012 Shannon Bybee Scholarships at the 2012 IAGA International Gaming Conference held in Las Vegas. The IAGA is a nonprofit professional corporation dedicated to the study and development of gaming regulation and compliance. The scholarships are awarded annually to law student authors of articles of significance to the understanding and practice of gaming law. Law Center student Michael Salad was awarded a $2,500 scholarship underwritten by International Game Technology for his article titled, Royally Flushed: The Legislative Fight to Legalize Internet Gambling. The articles are judged on their merit by an IAGA national panel of attorneys whose practices reflect significant emphasis on gaming law. Panel member Richard Nathan of Denver, Colorado said, "The task of judging the entrants becomes more difficult each year as we are asked to single out two papers from amongst all of those we receive as meriting special consideration. IAGA founder Shannon Bybee, a former gaming attorney, regulator and industry executive, would be proud at the level of quality in authorship and value to the gaming industry that his namesake award generates."

Professor Joel Mintz has co-authored an introduction to a set of ten articles on Law and Sustainability, which he also co-edited for the journal Sustainability. These articles were downloaded in full in excess of 500 times during the month of April. The abstract for that introduction, as well as the articles in the symposium, each received more than 800 downloads. A white paper that Mintz co-authored for the Center for Progressive Reform concerning regulatory failures and the BP oil spill has been downloaded over 185 times since it was posted. This work was also listed on eight different Social Science Research Network (SSRN) top ten lists. The paper can be accessed here. In May, another piece that Mintz co-wrote, "Throwing Precaution to the Wind: NEPA and the Deepwater Horizon Blowout," will be published in the George Washington University Journal of Energy and Environment. This piece was listed on the SSRN top ten download list in the category of Policy Analysis. Visit the SSRN's website to review Mintz's writings. Mintz has taught a variety of substantive and clinical environmental law courses, including offerings on the federal law of pollution control, comparative environmental law, environmental aspects of land use planning, environmental enforcement, and other subjects. He has authored or co-authored seven books on various aspects of environmental law and state and local taxation and finance.

Carli Pierson won this year’s $10,000 Rising Star scholarship presented by the Broward County Women Lawyers' Association and the NSU Law Center. Pierson was recognized for her dedication to “promoting women as leaders.” She is deeply involved in the area of microfinance and has traveled to Haiti several times with the Haitian Microfinance Institution, Fonkoze. Her plan after law school is to open a microfinance office in South Florida to assist local women in financial need become economically self-sufficient. She has been on the Dean’s List in fall 2009, 2010, and also serves as a research and teaching assistant. She is also a member of the NSU Public Interest Law Society, and the Inter-American Center for Human Rights. Pierson is one of the founding members of “Beyond the Game,” an organization that works with low income student athletes to educate them about their legal rights, important life choices and future career decisions. She has also been a volunteer for the following organizations: Civil Rights Restoration Clinic; Haitian Temporary Protected Status Clinic; Florida Immigrant Advocacy Clinic; and Bureau Des Avocats Internationaux. Picture from left to right: Dean Athornia Steele, Carli Pierson, Professor and Associate Dean Catherine Arcabascio.

Director of Environmental and Land Use Law Clinic and Professor of Law, Richard Grosso was featured in The Miami Herald today. His opinion piece “Proposed land-use law would be huge mistake” can be read in its entirety here. Grosso is a widely recognized legal expert and policy advocate with over 25 years of experience litigating and advocating on state-wide and South Florida environmental issues. His teaching and legal practice specializes in land use, growth management and environmental policy and permitting issues.

Second year students, Kendra Stephen and Rochelle Ramsay, were the recipients of the T.J. Reddick Bar Association Scholarship. The students were presented with the scholarship at the 20th Annual Awards & Scholarship Banquet. The event celebrates the achievements of the T.J. Reddick Bar Association and presents an opportunity to recognize members of the community who have worked tirelessly to improve the lives of others through community service and legal service, and to present scholarships to deserving law students. At the event, adjunct professor Roshawn Banks, Esq. and alumnus Barry Butin, Esq. ‘ 84, received T.J. Reddick’s Pro Bono Service Award. Both attorneys have put in their time and legal expertise to ensure that low income individuals receive the best possible representation. The T.J. Reddick Bar Association is a organization of attorneys dedicated to promoting the professional excellence of Black lawyers in Broward County, providing community service, creating a greater awareness and commitment to the civil and political rights of the local Black community and promoting the general welfare of all citizens in Broward County. Photo from left to right: Kendra Stephen and Rochelle Ramsay.

The Florida Supreme Court has released the results of the February 2011 Florida Bar Examination, which consists of the General Bar Examination (Part A and Part B) and Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE). NSU law graduates surpassed the statewide average on both exams. NSU law graduates had a passage rate of 85.4 percent on the Florida Bar Exam and a passage rate of 84.8 percent on the MPRE. The state's overall pass rate for the General Bar Examination was 79.5 percent and for the MPRE was 81.7 percent. On Tuesday, April 12, Law Center graduates were sworn into The Florida Bar at a special ceremony at the Law Center. The ceremony honored the recent graduates for accomplishing their goal of becoming attorneys, having successfully completed three rigorous years of law school, a stringent character and fitness evaluation by The Bar, and the oft dreaded Bar exam. Judges Melanie May ‘81, Robert Diaz ‘84, and Hope Tieman Bristol ’89 presided over the ceremony. Family, friends, faculty members, and Law Center administrators were in attendance to celebrate the welcomed membership into The Bar.

The team of Karen Milia and Alexander Annunziato, both second year students, won regional first place at the American Bar Association (ABA) National Client Counseling Competition finals at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. As winners of the southeast regional competition and the only team to earn perfect scores in each round of the competition, Milia and Annunziato received automatic bids to represent the Law Center in the national finals. There were 12 regional winners from Canada and the U.S. that competed for the national title. Of the 137 teams from the 95 ABA member schools that entered the competition, the Law Center team was one of only six teams to advance to the semi-final round. The ABA Law Student Division Client Counseling Competition simulates a law office consultation in which law students, acting as attorneys, are presented with a client matter. They conduct an interview with a person playing the role of the client and then explain how they would proceed further in the hypothetical situation. The Law Center is scheduled to host the Region 5 competition in February 2013. Professors Cleveland, Arcaro and Braccialarghe, along with student Jennifer Rosinski, assisted the team with the competition. Final rankings and other information about the 2011 competition can be found here.

Joy Foglietta and Bennett Lessmann, both third year students, won first place at the Billings, Exum and Frye National Moot Court Competition after a well-contested final round against Regent University School of Law. Lessmann also won the Best Oral Advocate award for the final round. Seventeen law schools and 32 teams of law students participated in the inaugural competition at Elon University School of Law. David Gergen, adviser to four U.S. presidents, CNN senior political analyst, and director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, delivered the keynote address at the competition banquet. The competition honors three of North Carolina's most distinguished lawyers: Rhoda Bryan Billings, James G. Exum, Jr. and Henry E. Frye. Each has served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina and in a variety of leadership positions within the legal profession and in public life. All three justices are founding members of Elon Law’s national advisory board. More than 100 distinguished judges and lawyers volunteered to serve as judges for the competition, including Steven M. Colloton, Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, five justices of the North Carolina Supreme Court, including Chief Justice Sarah Parker, four judges of the North Carolina Court of Appeals, and two judges of the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. Competitors were judged on the quality of their appellate brief and oral arguments. During the two-day competition at Elon, each team participated in a minimum of four rounds, arguing a hypothetical problem before panels of accomplished jurists, legal scholars and attorneys. The problem focused on a constitutional law issue currently under consideration by the federal courts. Foglietta and Lessmann was the top scoring team in the preliminaries then defeated University of Virginia in the quarterfinals, again receiving the top score out of the eight advancing teams. In the semifinals, they defeated Florida Coastal. In the final, they defeated Regent University. Professors Khan, Webber, Rohr, Masinter, Jarvis, Litman, Dobson, Duhart, Britzke, Propheter, and Dean harrison assisted with the team’s preparation. Photo- left to right: James G. Exum, Jr., Rhoda Bryan Billings, Joy Foglietta, Bennett Lessmann and Henry E. Frye.

Third year student, Jerry Donnini, has co-authored an article in the March/ April issue of Florida CPA Today magazine. The article “Florida sales tax audits: When is an assessment an assessment?” explores the legal issues that arise in Florida sales tax audits. Specifically, the article argues that a Notice of Proposed Assessment (NOPA) is not an assessment as required by Florida statutes. The article suggests that the NOPA is merely a proposal to assess and not an actual assessment and Florida taxpayers may be able to escape their tax liability due to the running of the statute of limitations. The word ‘assessment’ has not been defined by Florida statute or by a court and will likely be litigated in the near future.

Second year student Paul Edwards won second place at the 5th Annual Mock Madness 2011 Closing Argument Competition, hosted by the Nova Trial Association. Sixty-four students from University of Miami, NSU and St. Thomas competed. Four Law Center students advanced to the top 16. Michelle Dessimoz, third year student, and Katherine Newcomer, first year student, made the top 16. Lee Ballard, second year student, made the top eight, and Paul Edwards won second place.

Nikeisha Williams, third year student, has been awarded the Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. Bar Association Scholarship. The Wilkie D. Ferguson Bar Association’s mission is to advocate for the inclusion of people of color in every aspect of the legal profession; to increase enrollment, retention, and graduation of black law students; to foster and encourage professional excellence; to uphold the honor and integrity of the legal profession; and to protect the civil and human rights of all people. Williams was presented with the scholarship at the 33rd Annual Awards Gala on February 26, 2011 in downtown Miami.

Third year students Michael "Mick” Jacobsen and Jacquelyn Trask and fourth year student Bruno Renda, competed at the American Bar Association National Appellate Advocacy Competition 2011 in Brooklyn. The team argued extremely well through three rounds of competition and won the oral advocacy portion of one of the rounds by over 16 points. All three competitors were given consistently high scores from the judges. The regional competition consists of three qualifying rounds with each team arguing at least once on behalf of the respondent and once on behalf of the petitioner. Teams are power-matched for the first two rounds based on their brief scores. After the qualifying rounds, the top 16 teams advance to the semifinal round, with the winners advancing to the final round. The winning four teams from each regional competition advance to the National Finals. The ABA Law Student Division National Appellate Advocacy Competition (NAAC) emphasizes the development of oral advocacy skills through a realistic appellate advocacy experience. Competitors participate in a hypothetical appeal to the United States Supreme Court. The competition involves writing a brief as either respondent or petitioner and then arguing the case in front of the mock court.

Second year students Molena Mompoint, Kandia Batchelor and Harold Pryor, and third year student Nikeisha Williams won third place at the 2011 Thurgood Marshall National Mock Trial Competition and won third place in the Southeast Regional Competition of the National Black Law Students Association. Each year, hundreds of competitors compete on the regional levels in the hopes of ultimately becoming one of the top three teams in the Nation. Eighteen teams competed including teams from Harvard and Georgetown. The team took a commanding lead in the preliminary rounds beating Thomas Jefferson by an amazing 11 points and narrowly missing a win over Georgetown by 0.5 points. They advanced to the quarterfinals ranked in the top four and defeated Ole Miss, who was the regional champion, by a significant margin of 7 points to advance to the semi-finals ranked in the top two teams. The team defeated Seattle University in the quest for third place. Nikeisha Williams won Second Runner Up, Best Oral Advocate at the competition. Photo from left to right: Molena Mompoint, Nikeisha Williams, Professor Tania Williams, Kandia Batchelor, and Harold Pryor.

Members of the Nova Trial Association and second year students, Andrew Dunkiel and Patricia Johnson and third year students, Bennett Lessman and Lauren Schlossberg competed in the 2011 Texas Young Lawyers Association and the American College of Trial Lawyers 36th Annual National Mock Trial Regional Competition in Birmingham, AL. The team of Lessman and Schlossberg advanced to the semi-final round. The competition is an exceptional opportunity for law students to develop and practice their trial advocacy skills before distinguished members of the bar and bench. The mock trial cases are criminal. Teams are judged on their skills in case preparation, opening statements, use of facts, the examination of lay and expert witnesses, and closing arguments. Congratulations to our students and Professors Dobson and Mundy that helped coach this team. From left to right: Andrew Dunkiel, Lauren Schlossberg, Patricia Johnson and Bennett Lessman. For more information on the competition, click here.

Third year student, Illan Moshe-Romano's article, " Is Miranda on the Verge of Extinction? The Supreme Court Loosens Miranda’s Grip in Favor of Law Enforcement" will be published in the March issue of the Nova Law Review. This article contains a detailed look into the purpose, policy, scope, and development and of the Miranda warning ...requirement used during custodial police interrogations and how it has become ingrained in our criminal jurisprudence. The focus of the article will present an in-depth examination of three Supreme Court decisions rendered in 2010 including Florida v. Powell, Maryland v. Shatzer and Berghuis v. Thompkins. It will illustrate how each of these cases dealt significant blows to the long standing Miranda warning requirements and its underlying purpose. Lastly, the article will meticulously analyze whether or not the Court’s most recent opinions do or do not pose a threat to the viability of Miranda. This article will be published this month and will be available on Westlaw and LexisNexis, along with articles from our distinguished faculty and alumni.

Scott Leaser, Nikeisha Williams, Jenny Fitch and Joe Fahrendorf, all second year students, placed second in the Florida Justice Association Earle Zehmer Mock Trial Competition. The team won both of their preliminary rounds against the University of Miami and Florida International University. They also defeated Florida International University in the semi- finals to make it to the final round. The final round was against Florida State University. Picture from left to right: Brian Engel,H.Dohn Williams(coach), Jenny Fitch,Andrew Courtney, Lauren Schlossberg, Scott Leaser, Nikeisha Williams, Kristina Davis, Joseph Fahrendorf and Gary Sheres(coach).

Vanessa Coe, third year student, was recently awarded a two-year, postgraduate fellowship by Equal Justice Works (formerly the National Association for Public Interest Law). Lunched in 1992 to address the shortage of attorneys working on behalf of traditionally underserved populations and causes, Equal Justice Works Fellowships provide the opportunity for lawyers to positively impact vulnerable communities around the country. The two-year, postgraduate fellowship allows attorneys passionate about public interest law to develop and implement new legal projects that impact thousands of lives and serve communities in desperate need of legal assistance. Fellows receive a competitive salary and generous loan repayment assistance, a national training and leadership development program and additional support during their tenure. Coe was one of 40 students selected nationwide to receive this very competitive and prestigious fellowship for her continued work with the Florida Legal Services’ Migrant Farm Worker Justice Project. She will use this fellowship to advocate for Filipino H2-B guest workers.

Yale Galanter ’83 was named by the Shepard Broad Law Center as the 2012 NSU Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award recipient. Given in recognition for outstanding accomplishments in one’s field, the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award is the highest honor bestowed by the NSU Alumni Association. Galanter accepted his award at NSU’s annual Celebration of Excellence ceremony held at the Signature Grand in Davie on January 19.

Galanter is a renowned criminal defense attorney with a well-earned reputation for handling high-profile cases. His client list has included O.J. Simpson, Charlie Sheen, Kobe Bryant, and Scott Peterson. With over 20 years of experience in criminal litigation, he is frequently called upon as a television guest to offer commentary and analysis of big name cases, appearing on CNN, FOX News, and such national programs as The Today Show, Good Morning America, The O’Reilly Factor, and The Abrams Report.  He has also been interviewed and mentioned in such publications as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today.

The Florida Association of Counsel for Children (FACC) has announced Abigail Beebe `06, has been elected by the board of directors to serve as treasurer for 2011-2012. The FACC serves to provide legal representation for children.  It is the FACC’s goal to ensure effective representation of children in the child welfare system in this state.  Currently, children in Florida child welfare proceedings are the only unrepresented party.  There exists no law in Florida that provides for representation in a dependency proceeding. While forty other states have mandated representation of these children, Florida has not.   At this time, the appointment of counsel for children in these cases is completely discretionary.  Thousands of children go unrepresented by an attorney in these cases. 

Beverly Vesel ’79 was recognized as a “Community Champion” at Deliver the Dream’s inaugural awards dinner in Fort Lauderdale on September 15. An attorney specializing in family law and children’s rights, Vesel was honored for her work helping disabled children and their families. She is a member of the NSU Law Center’s Board of Governors and Alumni Association Board of Directors. Deliver the Dream, a South Florida-based nonprofit that organizes retreats for families experiencing serious illness or crisis, held this event to honor leaders who are both successful in their professions and champions in giving back to the community. For more information, click here http://www.deliverthedream.org/

Law Center alumnus, Richard St. Denis, '83 has been nominated as a 2011 CNN Hero as the founder of World Access Project, a nonprofit that provides custom-fit wheelchairs and other mobility aids to people living with disabilities in rural Mexico. In addition to distributing the equipment and showing the recipients how to use it, St. Denis and his group offer sports clinics and events to keep people active. For more information on St. Denis and his organization, click here.

The NSU Law Alumni Association invites you to a five (5) credit CLE program featuring five panels of distinguished appellate, civil, criminal, and county court judges from the Broward County 17th Judicial Circuit and 4th DCA. The CLE program “View from the Bench: what you always wanted to know, but were afraid to ask” is Friday, May 20. Registration and check-in begins at noon. Program starts at 12:30 p.m. This pending program has been specifically designed to satisfy 5 FL CLE credits (including 1 ethics credit) for both newly admitted and experienced attorneys. The registration fee for NSU Law alumni is $25. Judges and NSU Law faculty receive complimentary admission. For registration and more information, click here.

Law Center alumnus and executive committee member of the Board of Governors, Michael C. Greenberg, ’01, was recently published in The Florida Bar Journal (April 2011, Vol.85, No. 4). His article “What Type of Police Officer Testimony Regarding the Common Practices of Drug Dealers Is Admissible in the Courtroom?” examines the rules regarding what is admissible, whether inadmissible testimony is always reversible error, who can testify, and alternatives to having a witness testify regarding the common practices of drug dealers. To read the article, click here. Greenberg is a retired special agent from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) and former assistant attorney general in the criminal appeals section of the office’s criminal division in Miami. He presently is a member of The Florida Bar’s Appellate Rules Committee and Senior Counsel for The Florida Bar in Broward.

Law Center graduate Yuri Mantilla, ‘10, who is finishing the second phase of the dual degree program partnership with the University of Barcelona, has been offered an internship at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva. The UNCTAD Headquarters Internship Programme is offered to students enrolled in graduate school, with a view to promoting a better understanding of trade and development issues and giving them insight into how UNCTAD attempts to find solutions to these problems. Established in 1964, UNCTAD promotes the development-friendly integration of developing countries into the world economy. UNCTAD has progressively evolved into an authoritative knowledge-based institution whose work aims to help shape current policy debates and thinking on development, with a particular focus on ensuring that domestic policies and international action are mutually supportive in bringing about sustainable development.

For many, the word Prohibition conjures up scenes of gang wars in New York, New Jersey and Chicago along with some of the decade’s most infamous characters, Bugs Moran, Meyer Lansky and Al Capone. Yet few realize the prominent role South Florida, and its Caribbean neighbors, played in the transportation of illegal booze into the U.S. during this infamous era. Depicting the prohibition era experience from Palm Beach to Key West is “Prohibition and the South Florida Connection,” a documentary film produced and directed by Steve Waxman for WLRN that includes interviews by Shepard Broad Law Center Professor Robert Jarvis, J.D.

As part of the WLRN Writer Series, the documentary will be screened on Friday, February 24 at 7:30 p.m. in the Knight Auditorium, located on the first floor of the Carl DeSantis building. For additional details, please contact Steve Waxman by e-mail at: info@shadowwavemedia.com. A question and answer session will follow the film.

Filling the demand for the illegal hooch were a host of bootleggers and rum runners transcending both gender and racial lines. Suave and sophisticated men, like Bill McCoy and Cracker Johnson, who along with their savvy female contemporaries, Gertrude Lythgoe and Marie Waite, all relied on their wits and bravado to amass sometimes fleeting fortunes that were often fraught with risks and danger. Pirates, illicit still makers, an unmotivated local police force, along with an undermanned but determined Coast Guard all added to an intoxicating South Florida cocktail of peril, profits and corruption.

Al Capone, local speakeasies and the hanging of Horace Alderman, a rum runner convicted of murdering Coast Guard officials, are also included, as are the poignant and humorous personal recollections of those directly connected to one of America’s most notorious periods.

Filmed in an intimate style with telling photographs, obscure footage, vivid recreations, and a lively soundtrack, “Prohibition and the South Florida Connection,” reveals yet another fascinating and intriguing chapter in our region’s colorful past.

Professor of Law Robert Jarvis was featured on National Public Radio (NPR) to discuss the recent incident of the Costa Concordia. To read and listen to the NPR segment, click here.

Professor Jarvis came to the Law Center in 1987 and was awarded tenure in 1992. Prior to entering academia, he practiced admiralty and international law in New York City, first with Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens (now Holland & Knight) and then with Baker & McKenzie. In addition to NSU, Bob has taught at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Fordham University, Saint Thomas University, Tulane University, and Yeshiva University and has served as a Bar/Bri bar review lecturer.

Bob's scholarship includes 18 books and more than 100 articles. His writings, eclectic and diverse, have explored a wide variety of topics, ranging from the serious to the whimsical. Thus, for example, he has examined the AIDS epidemic and the disputed 2000 presidential election, but also penned such articles as "Babe Ruth as Legal Hero" and "Legal Tales from Gilligan's Island." Bob's work has been cited in decisions of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Hawaii Supreme Court, Florida District Court of Appeal, and New York Supreme Court.

Bob often is called on by the media to provide commentary on current events. He has appeared on ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, CNN, HBO, and National Public Radio and has been quoted in such newspapers as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, New York Times, Times of London, Toronto Globe & Mail, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. Bob also has delivered papers at meetings of such organizations as the American Arbitration Association, American Bar Association, American Society of International Law, Canadian Bar Association, Daughters of the American Revolution, Federal Judicial Center, International Congress of Maritime Arbitrators, and Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution.

From 1996 to 2000, Bob served as the Editor of the Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce. He also has been the Chair of the Admiralty Law Committee of The Florida Bar, Vice Chair of the Miami International Arbitration and Mediation Institute, and a member of the Executive Council of the International Law Section of The Florida Bar. Bob is a current or past member of the editorial boards of numerous publications and serves on the Carolina Academic Press Law Casebook Series Advisory Board. His biography appears in both Who's Who in the World and Who's Who in America.

During the semester break, Assistant Professor of Law Michele N. Struffolino presented at the New England Consortium of Legal Writing Teachers conference held at University of New Hampshire School of Law.  The conference focused on creating practice ready assignments and exercises for the classroom.  Professor Struffolino presented, “Who Are You and What Did You Do With My Real Attorney?”  This presentation addressed ways to build real life client management and ethical considerations into the basic client interview assignment.  Professor Struffolino used her classroom mock client interview exercise to exhibit how even first year law students can be introduced to concerns clients often have when dealing with first year associates and some common ethical issues that can arise in the first client meeting.

Assistant Professor of Law Amanda Foster was recently published in The Law Teacher, a bi-annual publication by the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning.  Her article, “Google It: Responding to Tough Economic Times by Integrating Free Electronic Research in the Classroom,” discusses a professor’s responsibility to teach students in a way that will make them both competent and competitive when they enter practice.  Specifically, the article addresses the need to expose students to advancements in technology such as Google Scholar, a free legal research tool.  Professor Foster teaches Lawyering Skills I & II, Civil Procedure, and Women & the Law.  

Professor of Law Michael Richmond spoke on a panel with Outreach Director at Talmudic University Rabbi Akiva Zweig at a CLE titled “American Cases through the Eyes of the Talmud – Defamation:  Libel and Slander.”  The CLE was held at Greenberg Traurig, P.A. in Miami and was sponsored by the South Florida Center for Jewish Ethics.

Professor Amanda Foster (far left) and Professor Olympia Duhart (far right) hosted a distinguished panel of women attorneys Tuesday, Oct. 18, in their Women and the Law seminar. The guests shared their personal experiences as women in the practice of law. Students participated in a panel discussion and engaged in a question and answer session with the guests.  The invited speakers included Attorney Yeemee Chan `08, an associate with Toral Garcia Battista, Attorney Andrea Gundersen `92, a solo practitioner and Co-Chair of the Professionalism Committee of the Broward County Bar Association and Professor Kate Webber, formerly a partner at an employment law firm and an associate at Proskauer Rose in New York City.

Professor Bruce Rogow has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for the 25th time. This year, Rogow was listed in six separate categories: Appellate, Bet The Company, First Amendment, Municipal Litigation, Commercial Litigation and White Collar Criminal Defense. Rogow is the only remaining member of the inaugural faculty of the Law Center which, began in 1974.  During his tenure, he has served as acting dean and co-dean.  He is an outstanding leader in the growth and development of the Law Center and shares with others the credit for making this institution an excellent one for preparing lawyers.

Professor Fran Tetunic has been appointed by Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles T. Canady to the Alternative Dispute Resolution Rules and Policy Committee of the Supreme Court of Florida. The purpose of the Committee is to make recommendations to the Supreme Court regarding rules of practice for court-ordered mediation, court-ordered non-binding arbitration, voluntary trial resolution, and court-connected voluntary binding arbitration, as well as the establishment of standards for training of court-appointed mediators and arbitrators. She previously served two terms as chair of the Mediator Ethics Advisory Committee of the Supreme Court of Florida. Tetunic is the Director of the Law Center's Alternative Dispute Resolution Clinic, and teaches Elder Law and the Mediation Workshop.

Professor Olympia Duhart was recently published on SALTLAW, the official blog for the Society of American Law Teachers. Her article is in response to the White House’s recent policy shift regarding the delivery of condolence letters to families of service members who commit suicide while in a combat zone. Duhart’s posting, “A Long Overdue Condolence Letter,” tracks the policy shift and explores the federal government’s new emphasis on suicide prevention within the military. The new condolence letter guidelines, announced by President Barack Obama July 6, 2011, represent a departure from the policy of not recognizing soldiers who commit suicide while deployed. Mental health experts and troop advocates have long pushed for the changes as one means of removing the stigma associated with mental illness and suicide. The article builds on research Professor Duhart has been conducting for the past two years on the rise of soldier suicides among troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Professor Duhart teaches Lawyering Skills and Values I & II, Constitutional Law and Women & the Law. To read the article, click here.

Assistant Professor of Law Amanda Foster was a presenter at the New England Consortium of Legal Writing Teachers Conference on June 10 at Roger Williams University School of Law in Bristol, Rhode Island. The conference “ Three to Get Ready: Three Different Perspectives on Getting Students Practice Ready” featured recent graduates, legal writing professors, and The Honorable William E. Smith of the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island. Foster, along with Judge Smith, Professor Kathleen Elliott Vinson of Suffolk University Law School, and Professor Jane E. Rindsberg of Roger Williams, participated in a panel discussion on the need for professors to be more innovative in the classroom and to help students prepare for 21st century practice. Foster focused her presentation on the practical skills she infuses into her first year Lawyering Skills & Values courses such as client interviewing, settlement negotiation, and email writing in various contexts. She also teaches courses in Civil Procedure and Women and the Law.

Scholar in Residence, Gwen Handelman, is currently serving as Union Co-Chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Labor and Employment Law Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee. As Union Co-Chair, she is responsible for assuring that the perspectives of unions and employees are reflected in Committee programming and work product. Handleman has led the Committee in planning and conducting, and presented at the two-day ethics program at the Committee's Midwinter Meetings. On behalf of the Section, she prepared comments on the “Discussion Draft Regarding Domestic and International Outsourcing [of Legal Services]” submitted to the ABA "Ethics 20/20 Commission" and a Section position paper on the ethical implications of counsel for an organization conducting an internal investigation submitted to the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility for consideration in preparing a formal opinion on the subject.

Professor Phyllis Coleman’s article, “Online Dating: When ‘Mr. (or Ms.) Right’ Turns Out All Wrong, Sue the Service!,” was published in Volume 36 of the Oklahoma City University Law Review. This article analyzes case law where a disgruntled customer sued an online dating service. It also explains that current laws attempt to protect consumers from unscrupulous sites that try to take advantage through unfair contracts or fraudulent business practices but fail to address the important safety issue that the services do not perform background checks. The article can be read here . Coleman teaches Animal Law, Contracts, Family Law and Sports Law.

Professor Charlene Smith was named as Co-Curricular Advisor of the Year at NSU’s 12th Annual Student Life Achievement Awards (STUEY). The STUEYs were created to recognize NSU’s best of the best in scholarship, leadership, involvement, service, commitment, integrity and inclusion. Smith was the winner among nominees from several other graduate and professional colleges within the University (Optometry, Medicine, Psychology and Humanities and Social Sciences) for this prestigious honor. Smith was nominated by the Law Center because of her involvement as the Executive Director of the Inter-American Center for Human Rights. As Executive Director she has organized events, worked tirelessly with students and reached out to the community locally, nationally and internationally. She has organized projects and symposiums on such ongoing issues as genocide in Darfur and homophobia in the Caribbean. This year she has helped organize, fund and coordinate symposiums on human trafficking and gay adoption. Smith joined the Law Center in 2003. She teaches Torts, Lawyering Skills and Values, Advanced Torts, and Torts in the Employment Sector for the Masters of Science in Employment Law. More information about the projects guided by Smith can be found here. Other Law Center nominees who made the final round were: Corporate Partner of the Year- Kozyak, Tropin & Throckmorton, Graduate Organization of the Year- Student Animal League Defense Fund, Staff Person of the Year- Naomi Scheiner, Administrator of the Year- Sharon Booth, Esq., Alumni of the Year- Philip Schlissel, J.D.

Professor John Sanchez's article "Two's Company, But is It a Quorum," has been published in Florida International University's (FIU) Law Review Spring 2010 Symposium Issue: "Whither the Board? The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) at 75" Volume 5, No.2. The article addresses the legal issues arising from the fact that for two years, the National Labor Relations Board operated with only two Board members. Lower courts disagreed over whether there must be two or three sitting members of the Board before it could conduct business. Even though the Supreme Court resolved this split in New Process Steel v. NLRB, by holding that the NLRB needed three members, questions remained regarding the legal status of those decisions rendered by the two-member Board. Sanchez teaches Constitutional Law II, Remedies and Employment Law.

Associate Professor of Law and Associate Dean linda f. harrison co-authored a text book with Professor Dawn Bennett-Alexander (University of Georgia) titled The Legal, Ethical, and Regulatory Environment of Business in a Diverse Society (McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0073524921.) Unlike other business law and legal environment texts that are currently available, this text focuses on the diverse workplace and brings into focus through examples and discussion how critical diversity is in all aspects of business - local, regional, national, or global. This is the first legal environment text to take the diversity implications into consideration as a normal and necessary part of business decisions. Like law in general, the legal environment of business is not static. As society changes, laws change along with it, and the law as it relates to business must also change. For decades, the required course in law for business schools was composed mostly of contracts. Realizing the growing importance of government regulations on business, the AACSB, which sets accreditation standards for collegiate schools of business, believed the coverage of legal topics should be much broader, thus the required course in the Legal Environment of Business was born. Once merely an add-on mentioned only by professors who cared to do so, the incorporation of AACSB standards and ethics coverage is now standard material in Legal Environment courses. The authors of this new text believe that U.S. business is taking place in an increasingly diverse society that is not like the one in which previous generations may have operated. It is time to address this change.

Professor Marilyn Cane's article she co-authored with former Law Center students Joong-Sik Choi and Scott R. Gitterman "Recent Developments Concerning Preferred Stockholder Rights Under Delaware Law" (5 Virginia Law & Business Review 377- Winter 2011) was recently listed on Social Science Research Network's (SSRN) Top Ten Download list. The article focuses on the conflicting duties owed to preferred and common stockholders. Delaware is the leading corporate law jurisdiction in the United States. Preferred stock is a key component in angel and venture capital transactions. Cane has taught at Nova for over 25 years. She serves as a director of the Business Practice Clinic. She is the author of a treatise on securities arbitration. Her scholarship has appeared in law journals at Harvard, Stanford, Virginia and Vanderbilt, among others. She has been Chair of the Corporations, Securities and Financial Institutions Committee, and currently serves as Academic Chair of the Antitrust, Franchise and Trade Regulation Committee, of The Florida Bar Business Law Section. She is a member of The American Law Institute and a Fellow of The American Bar Foundation. She was a Parsons’ Fellow at the University of Sydney, Faculty of Law. She also taught law in Cambridge, England, Tula, Russian Federation and in Rome, Italy. For more information on Cane, click here.

Assistant Professor of Law, Ishaq Kundawala's, article, "Unveiling the Mystery, History and Problems Associated with the Jurisdictional Limitations of Bankruptcy Courts Over Personal Injury Tort and Wrongful Death Claims," will be published as the lead article in Volume 42, Issue 4 of the McGeorge Law Review (May 2011). His article explores and examines the current jurisdictional structure of the bankruptcy courts, the jurisdictional limitations of these courts over personal injury tort and wrongful death claims, the historical basis for such limitations and finally, the various and substantial problems that have arisen and continue to arise. Professor Kundawala's article challenges many of our current notions of the distribution of power in the bankruptcy court system. Kundawala’s areas of expertise are Bankruptcy and Commercial Litigation. His research interests include Bankruptcy Reform and the intersection of Bankruptcy and Mass Tort Law. Kundawala teaches Contracts, Bankruptcy, UCC: Secured Transactions and UCC: Sales and serves on the Law Faculty's Admissions Committee and the Ad Hoc Professionalism Committee. He is also the advisor to the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, co-advisor to the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund and co-coach to the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court Team. He has also been appointed by Dean Steele to serve on the Board of Ethics for the City of Pompano Beach.

Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus Joseph Harbaugh was recently designated a Fulbright Specialist in Negotiation and Mediation. This is the first time a faculty member from NSU has been awarded this designation. Harbaugh will return in May to NSU’s academic partner university, Roma Tre in Italy where he will teach negotiation as a module in the International Business Contracts course for five weeks. Additionally, he plans to lead a faculty seminar in the use of distance education technology and simulation to enhance traditional courses. The Fulbright Specialist Program promotes linkages between U.S. academics and professionals and their counterparts at overseas universities or institutions with education-focused programming. The program is designed to award grants to qualified U.S. faculty and professionals, in select disciplines, to engage in short-term collaborative two to six week projects at higher education institutions in more than 100 countries worldwide. U.S. faculty and professionals apply to join a Roster of Specialists for a five-year term. Roster candidates are reviewed by peers in the same discipline, and by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.