NSU Law Student Newsletter
September 2020
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The Florida 2020 Bar Exam |
For law school graduates, "canceling the Bar Exam is like canceling the Super Bowl, twice." Judge Robert Diaz
Thank you to the NSU Law and Broward legal community for coming together to discuss the challenges faced by the most recent legal graduates from across the state.
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Over 190+ people from 27 firms and businesses and 13 colleges and universities attended the Zoom presentation hosted by the Broward County Bar Hispanic Bar Association and the Broward Bar Association along with 10 other leading bar organizations in South Florida. The event was recorded and the link available HERE
Panelists included: Florida Bar President Morales, President Young Lawyers Division White, NSU Law Dean Juárez, Judge Diaz (J.D. 1984) and recent alumni:
Fredrick C. Givens (J.D. 2019) Gabrielle Alexa Penalta (J.D. 2019)
Elaine Martin Pérez (J.D. 2020) Jihad Sheikha (J.D. 2020)
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Virtual & In-Person Orientation a success for class of 2023/2024 |
"Faculty and current students made sure the incoming class was welcomed and engaged. Everyone went the extra mile to connect."
Eric Dabiri
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"Attending the informative online Zoom sessions prior to Orientation made the whole experience more manageable for me. The transition to the first week of law school was extremely smooth and highly engaging. Despite learning remotely, I still felt connected to the NSU community thanks to the Blend Flex classrooms, knowledgeable professors, friendly student body, and welcoming faculty."
Amanda Pravder
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Our J.D. class of 2023/2024 is 215 members strong with a median undergraduate GPA of 3.19 and a median LSAT score of 152—both increasing in quality and diversity over the past 3 years! This 1L class represents 49 undergraduate schools, 35 different majors, 14 states and 23 countries. For the second year, our incoming 1L class has over 50% female students and our diversity reached 48% full time. Our part-time JD program reached 59% diversity. We’re excited to welcome all our new students to the NSU Law community. |
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Honoring Chris Byrd J.D. 2008
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NSU Law continues to honor the legacy of Christopher Byrd through the Christopher T. Byrd Environmental Law Fellowship. Chris was selected as the student speaker for the NSU Law Class of 2008 and worked tirelessly for the Department of Environmental Protection as well as numerous legal organizations and the Fanconi Anemia Research Fund.
The fund allocates funding for qualified law students who choose to spend the summer working for a nonprofit public interest organization with a commitment to protecting the environment.
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The Christopher T. Bryd Environmental Law Fellowship was established in 2016 by his NSU Law friends and colleagues. Jordan Snyder and Blaze Walsh were both recipients of the Fellowship. Your support for this and other NSU Law Fellowships provide internship opportunities for our NSU Law students. |
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Jordan Snyder J.D. 2018
Jordan Snyder's internship with The Center for Wildlife Ethics focused on creating humane interaction guidelines for shark dive operations. "Instituting these guidelines could bring together the operators, maintain the safety of the divers and preserve the health of the sharks. This internship was invaluable in advancing my communication skills specifically explaining the legal need for guidelines and understanding environmental and tort laws."
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Blaze Walsh J.D. 2021
Blaze Walsh continued in Byrd's footsteps during his internship with the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE)
"I was able to help directly with the Florida Energy Efficiency and Conservation Act." Blaze's research, organizational input, and communications skills provided him an opportunity to speak on behalf of SACE to pass a signed resolution from the City of Miami.
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NSU Law 2020 Virtual Commencement |
Friday, October 2, 2020 10:00 AM
NSU Law Community including Faculty, Staff, Administration, current students and alumni congratulate the NSU Law Class of 2020!
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PILS - Florida Bar Government Lawyers Section: Speaking Panel on Public Service Lawyering |
Wednesday, October 7, 2020 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Zoom, of course!
Panelists Include:
Bradley H. Weissman, Esq. (J.D. 1987)
Patyl A. Oflazian, Esq. (J.D. 2010)
Gregg Rossman, Esq
Michelle Denis, Esq. (J.D. 2015) Moderator
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SELS Panel
Athletes and Activism - From Tommie Smith to LeBron James
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Friday, October 9, 2020
6:00 - 8:30 PM
Panelists:
Dan Lust, Esq.
Luke Fedlam, Esq.
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Jay A. Ziskind Inaugural Health Law Lecture Series
Dr. Akilah A. Jefferson Shah,
COVID-19 Has Devastated The Black Community. Here’s Why And What Needs To Change.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2020
4:00 - 5:30 PM
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No You Can't Touch My Hair: The Importance, Necessity and Controversy of the CROWN Act. |
Friday, November 6, 2020
6:00 - 8:30 PM
SAVE THE DATE
Keynote Speaker: Florida Senator Randolph Bracy
Panelists:
Adjoa B. Asamoah
The Honorable Ashleigh Parker Duston
Dr. Stephen Wigley, DPM
Professor linda harrison
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Congratulations to the new SBA 1L Representatives |
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SBA 1L Day
Representatives
Anna Lieberman
George Pinilla
Jaclyn Lopez
Vitor Machado
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SBA 1L Evening Representative
Tamielle Burke
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SBA 1L Elections Committee Representatives
Laura Arruda
Dalton Primeaux
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Introducing the NSU Trial Association Competition Teams
for Fall 2020
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NTA 2020 All-Star National Challenge Team
Andrea Newport-Jones and Claude Crevecoeur and Selina Pirkau and Kahalia Solano-Johnson as their witnesses.
Competition Dates November 5-7, 2020
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NTA 2020 Summit Cup Competition Team
CJ Bauer and Esther Veloz with Taylor White as their witness. Competition Dates October 1-3, 2020
Hosted by the University of Denver in Denver, CO. This competition is an invitation only.
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NTA 2020 National Pretrial Competition Team
Taylor Cowheard and Megan Breen
Alexis Beckford and Richard Sena
Competition Dates October 8-11, 2020
Hosted by Stetson University in St. Petersburg, FL.
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Founding faculty member Professor Emeritus of Law Bruce Rogow was recognized (for the 26th time) in the 2021 edition of The Best Lawyers in America© for his work in multiple categories:
- Appellate Practice
- Bet-the Company Litigation
- Commercial Litigation
- Criminal Defense: White-Collar
- Litigation - First Amendment
- Litigation - Municipal
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Professor Catherine Arcabascio
Published A Genetic Surveillance State: Are We One Buccal Swab Away From a Total Loss of Genetic Privacy? 63 HOW. L.J. 117 (Winter 2020).
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Professor Ronald Brown and Professor Emeritus Joe Grohman
Published for The Center for Computer Assisted Instruction (CALI) lesson, Notice and Knowledge in Fall 2020.
Embarked on a long-term project for CALI, designing tools to determine if CALI lessons have achieved their learning objectives.
Professors Brown and Grohman continue to serve on the CALI Editorial Board.
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Professor Jessica Garcia Brown
Moderator and Faculty Panelist on the NSU Law 2020 “Professionalism Panel Discussion,” August 14, 2020.
Co-Presenter/Trainer, NSU College of Law Fall 2020 Adjunct Training, August 13, 2020.
Panelist, “Hispanic Unity of Florida Entrepreneur Summit 2020, Bankruptcy, Contract Renegotiations & Other Legal Tools to Survive,” August 5, 2020
Facilitator of CLE panel with Judge Mindy Solomon and Judge Natasha DePrimo for Broward County Traffic Hearing Officers, “Taking a Fresh Look at Civil Traffic Evidence,” August 4, 2020.
Co-Presenter, “Teaching Tips Online Edition, Zoom Breakout Rooms and Collaborative Tools,” July 28, 2020.
Co-Presenter, along with Chief Magistrate Tom Wich, on a CLE for Broward County Traffic Hearing Officers, “Sharing the Road: Pedestrians, Bicycles, and Everything in Between,” July 7, 2020.
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Professor Richard Grosso
Is a member of the Board of Directors of the Florida Conservation Voters organization.
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Professor Donna Litman
Published casebook with Elena Maria Marty-Nelson, Eloisa C. Rodriguez-Dod, Gail Levin Richmond, and Jani Maurer, FLORIDA WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ESTATES: CASES AND MATERIALS (4th ed. 2020). LINK
Authored commentary on Egelhoff v. Egelhoff, 532 U.S. 141 (2001): Commentary in FEMINIST JUDGMENTS: REWRITTEN TRUSTS & ESTATES OPINIONS 149 (forthcoming Sept. 2020). LINK
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Associate Dean for Diversity, Inclusion, and Public Impact & Professor of Law Elena Maria Marty-Nelson
Published casebook with Eloisa C. Rodriguez-Dod, Gail Levin Richmond, Donna Carol Litman and Jani Maurer, FLORIDA WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ESTATES: CASES AND MATERIALS (4th ed. 2020). LINK
Published chapter on Via v. Putnam, 656 So. 2d 460 (Fla. 1995): Judgment in FEMINIST JUDGMENTS: REWRITTEN TRUSTS & ESTATES OPINIONS 100 (2020). LINK
Book under contract with Eloisa C. Rodriguez-Dod and Cambridge University Press, FEMINIST JUDGMENTS: REWRITTEN PROPERTY OPINIONS (forthcoming 2020).
Published, “Why Not Me?”: Intersectionality in Law School Leadership, 23 U. PA. J. L. & SOC. CHANGE 65 (2020). LINK
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Professor Jani Maurer
Published casebook with Elena Maria Marty-Nelson, Eloisa C. Rodriguez-Dod, Gail Levin Richmond, and Donna Carol Litman, FLORIDA WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ESTATES: CASES AND MATERIALS (4th ed. 2020). LINK
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Professor Emeritus of Law and Trout Senior Fellow Joel Mintz
Accepted an invitation to participate in a winter, 2021 symposium, sponsored by the Vermont Law Review, Analyzing the 45th Presidential Administration of the United States. Professor Mintz agreed to write a law review article focusing on ways to revitalize EPA’s enforcement programs following the Trump administration and (pandemic permitting) participate in the symposium in person in Vermont.
Published a blog piece on the website of the Center for Progressive Reform (CPR) regarding trends in EPA enforcement during the pandemic.
Peer reviewed an essay titled, Re-envisioning EPA for the Journal of Public Health Policy, a professionally edited journal published in the Netherlands.
Submitted a chapter for a book by former EPA enforcement officials that will focus on restoring EPA’s regulation and implementation of federal pollution control statutes.
Participated in three discussion sessions at the annual 2020 SEALS conference. Moderated and co-organized “Sustainable Development,” presented on “Newer Law Professors Workshop: Scholarship Fundamentals: Becoming a Productive and Fulfilled Scholar,” and served as a mentor for an assistant professor at the Mississippi College School of Law in the “New Scholars Workshop: Energy, the Environment, and Technology.”
Completed update to the two-volume treatise, STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY (forthcoming 2020). LINK
Published an op-ed article in the June 15, 2020, issue of the Sun-Sentinel, Misguided Health Policy Foments Confusion, Risk, and Disunity.
Wrote an essay on the future of EPA enforcement to be included in a forthcoming CPR White Paper regarding climate change.
Quoted in nine periodicals regarding the weakening of EPA environmental regulations under cover of the COVID-19 Pandemic. (These periodicals included the Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Utility Drive, The Verge, The Hill Online, AlterNet, S&P Global, Common Dreams, and EcoWatch.)
Participated in a three-day "Zoom Retreat" of the Board of Directors of the Center for Progressive Reform (CPR) in which the future direction of the organization was extensively discussed.
Participated in a half-day meeting of the board of the Everglades Law Center, a non-profit public-interest environmental law firm.
Took part in a meeting of the board of legal advisers of Quiet Communities, a national not-for-profit organization, based in New York, that works for the passage of local legislation to curb noise pollution.
Interviewed by the Wall Street Journal on an article comparing the environmental records of the Obama and Trump administrations.
Participated in a forum, to be converted to a podcast, that was sponsored by the politically conservative Federalist Society on the topic of the constitutional aspects of citizen suits under the Clean Air Act. Panelists included Professor Richard Epstein and Eric Groten, a litigation partner in the law firm of Vinson and Elkins.
Co-drafted and solicited faculty and emeriti signatures on a letter to NSU President George Hanbury urging him to remove “Thomas Jefferson Place” signs that had been posted around the campus.
Offered comments on a draft CPR report, now in final form, that urged Congress to add a citizen suit provision to the federal Occupational and Safety Act.
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Professor Emeritus Michael Richmond
Published an op-ed article in the August 15, 2020, issue of the Sun-Sentinel, Fix Infrastructure by Offering a Hand Up, not a Hand Out.
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For questions, suggestions, and to submit news for any future editions of the Student Newsletter please contact:
Lynn Acosta
Assistant Dean for Student Services
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