F A C U LT Y F O R U M
S T E T S O N L AW Y E R
FACULTY FORUM October 2020 - January 2021
ANDREW APPLEBY,
Assistant Professor of Law, coauthored two articles published in TAX NOTES; State Tax Credit Issues Raised by SALT Cap Workaround Legislation (2021) and State Estate Taxes and the Due Process Clause (2020). Prof. Appleby’s article Designing the Tax Supermajority Requirement was accepted for inclusion in 71 Syracuse Law Review (forthcoming 2021), and he presented Subnational Digital Services Taxes at the Junior Tax Scholars conference. In addition, Prof. Appleby hosted the Stetson Tax Law Society’s inaugural Stetson Tax Innovators Exchange (STIX) event, which brought several of the nation’s top tax law minds together (virtually). Through the Tax Law Society, he was instrumental in moving the Florida Bar Tax Section’s National Tax Moot Court Competition from the University of Florida to Stetson starting in 2021. Prof. Appleby also became a coauthor of the leading treatise on state and local taxation, Hellerstein & Hellerstein, STATE TAXATION (3d. ed., 2021 rev.).
ROY BALLESTE,
Assistant Professor of Law, was an invited speaker for the Annual Strategic Space Law Course at McGill University Institute of Air and Space Law in November 2020. Designed for military lawyers, public policy practitioners/scholars, commercial lawyers, and other relevant stakeholders, the course considered space objects 24
as key elements in global security, while increasingly vulnerable to harmful radio interference, space debris, and counter-space weapons. This is the world’s first course focusing on various legal and policy considerations surrounding the strategic uses of outer space. Prof. Balleste’s contribution addressed the cutting-edge subject of Cybersecurity Policy and Standards for Space Operations.
MARK D. BAUER,
Professor of Law, virtually attended the 2021 annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), where he spoke at a colloquium on privacy law sponsored by the Business and Commercial Law Section of the AALS. Prof. Bauer was also reelected to the Section’s executive board.
ELIZABETH I. BOALS,
Assistant Professor of Law, was appointed as the inaugural Vice President of Trial Advocacy Programs for the National Association of Legal Advocacy Educators (NALAE) in October 2020. Prof. Boals hosted 20 trial advocacy teams for the National Pretrial Competition held entirely online. She served on the “Awakening the Advocate Within” panel in December 2020 and prerecorded materials for inclusion in programming on challenges in part-time legal education presented at the 2021 Association of American Law Schools (AALS) annual meeting. Prof. Boals presented on feedback strategies at the Campus to Career Conference and served as an instructor on
cross-examination strategies at the For Women By Women Advocacy Skills Workshop. Professor Boals continues her work on the third edition of her casefiles State v. Peyton and Addison v. Peyton, published by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) and scheduled for release in June 2021.
BROOKE J. BOWMAN, J.D. ’02,
Professor of Law was invited to join the National Education Committee of the American Inns of Court. Prof. Bowman serves as co-chair of the ALWD Guide to Legal Citation Task Force, which involves reviewing drafts and developing marketing plans. The seventh edition of the ALWD citation manual for teaching and learning legal citations is scheduled for a May 2021 release. Prof. Bowman co-hosted Region V of the 71st Annual NYC Bar Association National Moot Court Competition in November. She also co-coached five moot court teams in the fall, and the Stetson team won the third-best brief award and were quarterfinalists at the 20th Annual Leroy R. Hassell, Sr. National Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition. Stetson won the Best Brief Award and were semifinalists at the Appellate Lawyers Association’s 2020 National Moot Court Competition. All fall 2020 Moot Court competitions were conducted virtually.
PAUL BOUDREAUX,
Professor of Law, served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy, completing issues
23-3 and 23-4. He also served as assistant editor of ABA’s Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law. Prof. Boudreaux was elected chair-elect of the Association of American Law Schools’ (AALS) section on Environmental Law. He completed the edits of his article, Rethinking Segregation, to be published in early 2021 by the Michigan State Law Review.
JAMES FOX,
Professor of Law, recently published Black Progressivism and the Progressive Court in the Yale Law Journal Forum. Prof. Fox’s essay was solicited by the journal editors as part of a symposium titled “The Progressive Era, 100 Years Later.”
ROYAL C. GARDNER,
Professor of Law, presented on the Clean Water Act at a University of Georgia River Basin Center symposium, a Florida Conservation Voters Facebook Live event, and an Association of State Wetland Managers webcast. He wrote about the role of biodiversity-related scientific advisory bodies in the context of zoonotic diseases for an upcoming book to be published by Springer and remotely presented on that topic at the University of Soongsil’s 10th Godang International Conference on Law (Republic of Korea). Prof. Gardner presented on the same topic at a virtual seminar organized by the University of Barcelona Faculty of Law (Spain). He also was a remote panelist at the University of the Philippines’ 2nd Southeast
