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FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS OCTOBER 2021–JANUARY 2022 ANDREW APPLEBY, Associate Professor of Law, presented his paper, Now You Can’t Leave: State and Local Exit Taxes, at the National Tax Association (NTA) Annual Conference, where he was also a discussant on the Optimal Tax and Transfer Design panel. Professor Appleby co-authored Does the U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision in Wayfair Apply Retroactively? 102 TAX NOTES STATE 715. Professor Appleby was also quoted several times in TAX NOTES, BLOOMBERG LAW, and LAW360 discussing important tax issues, and he was featured multiple times on the TaxProf Blog. He also coached Stetson Law’s team in the ABA Tax Challenge Competition.
ROY BALLESTE, Assistant Professor of Law, presented on cybersecurity policy and standards at the Annual Strategic Space Law Course sponsored by the Center for Research in Air and Space Law at McGill University. The course was designed for military lawyers, public policy practitioners/scholars, commercial lawyers, and relevant stakeholders. Professor Balleste co-authored Cybersecurity Policy and Standards for Offworld Operations, 42 NATO LEGAL GAZETTE 129 (December 2021). Professor Balleste continued his editorial work on the MILAMOS Project, now in its final stages. The project will offer the first Manual on 22
International Law Applicable to Military Uses of Outer Space (MILAMOS). It is expected to be published in December of 2022. Professor Balleste’s latest article, The Law of Space Cyber Operations: Gripping Mysteries, Entangled Frontiers, and Security Challenges, will be published in volume 13 of the CASE WESTERN RESERVE’S JOURNAL OF LAW, TECHNOLOGY AND THE INTERNET.
ELIZABETH BERENGUER, Associate Professor of Law, and Lance N. Long, Professor of Law and Coordinator of Legal Research and Writing, co-chaired a conference on Looking Forward: Strategies for Assessment that Ensure Equity, Measure Learning, and Prepare Students for the Demands of Practice and participated on the Responsive Panel following the Keynote Address. This event was part of the One-Day Workshop Series sponsored by the Legal Writing Institute. The Keynote and Responsive Panel were sponsored by Stetson University College of Law. Professor Berenguer also spoke on a panel at the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) annual meeting addressing Contemporary Scholarly Methods. The panel was co-sponsored by the LWRR, who also elected Professor Berenguer to its Executive Committee. Professor Berenguer was previously a member of their Awards Committee. Professor
Berenguer served as the co-chair of LWI LIVES, a publication of the Legal Writing Institute and is responsible for the August 2021 and February 2022 editions. She also serves as the Chair of Operations for the JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLITICAL ECONOMY. Professor Berenguer recently received a contract to publish a book titled CRITICAL RHETORIC, LAW AND POWER to be co-authored with Lucille Jewel and Teri McMurtry-Chubb. Further, Professor Berenguer was nominated to the Governing Board of Sirico Scholars in Fall 2021. Professor Berenguer also argued before the Georgia Supreme Court in January 2022 in the case of McInerney v. McInerney.
ELIZABETH I. BOALS, Assistant Professor of Law, hosted the 14th Annual National Pretrial Competition (NPTC) in early October 2021. Professor Boals hosted 20 schools and coordinated 135 mock judges for the six rounds of the competition. After NPTC, Professor Boals was interviewed for the podcast Unscripted Direct hosted by UCLA regarding the unique format of NPTC and the results of the competition. Professor Boals also served on the planning committee for the Second Annual All-Star Bracket Mock Trial Competition and hosted the East Regional Rounds of that competition in late October 2021. The Regional Rounds included 16 schools
and required 120 mock judges to evaluate four rounds of the competition. Professor Boals created and hosted an online Advocacy Writing Workshop in December 2021 in conjunction with offering the second annual Stetson Law Advocacy Writing Competition. This writing workshop was developed as part of Professor Boals’ service as the Chair of the Professional Development Committee of the National Association of Legal Advocacy Educators (NALAE). Professor Boals completed her work on two case files, State v. Peyton and Addison v. Peyton, and the accompanying Teacher’s Guides in December 2021. The case files and Teacher’s Guides will be published by Aspen and the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA) in Spring 2022. Professor Boals also finished her first draft of the eighth edition of CASES AND PROBLEMS IN CRIMINAL LAW with co-authors Myron Moskovitz and J. Amy Dillard. The casebook will be published by Carolina Academic Press in Fall 2022.
PAUL BOUDREAUX, Professor of Law, completed six years as editor of the JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE LAW AND POLICY but remains an associate editor, overseeing work of Stetson Law students in preparing articles for publication. He also served as associate editor of the American Bar Association’s JOURNAL OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND COMMUNITY
