Florida Coastal School of Law is a once again a sponsor of the Independent Film and the Law Seminar, co-presented by the Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law Section of the Florida Bar and the Jacksonville Film Festival. The day-long seminar will include the following topics: Legal Issues related to Filming Documentaries, Animated and Short Films and the Use of Special Effects, Ethical Issues Portrayed in Film, and Traditional and New Models in Distribution of Independent Films. Professor Carolyn Herman is Chair of the Event and Dean Donald Jones and Professor Lucille Ponte are panelists. CLE credit will be awarded. Students may attend at a reduced price. For more information and to register, see attached brochure.

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Coastal Law is pleased to host the 2008 Appellate Court Workshop, "Successful Appellate Advocacy" on July 30-August 1, 2008. For more information or to register for this popular workshop, click on the link below:

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Volume 1, No. 2 of The Coastal Environment is now available for viewing. Read more: here

FCSL's ABA, BLSA & CAPIL organizations are working with the national ABA's International Law Section in coordinating the collection of donated legal textbooks. Since its delegation meeting in 2007, the ILEX Ghana Task Force has embarked on an initiative to assist the Ghana Bar Association with its dire need for legal textbooks. The basic tenet is to collect donated law textbooks in GOOD condition (used or new on substantive law, as well as rule of law subjects) to be shipped to Ghana, West Africa. For example, Contracts, Property, Torts, Insurance Law, Human Rights, legal dictionaries etc. are needed; however, US specific topics such as Civil Procedure will not be needed. Collection will commence on May 12th and will end on May 23rd, 2008. Drop-off will be on the FCSL campus in room 152. Individuals may claim a tax deduction for their fair market value of the used books. Please contact Angela Aifah at aaaifah@fcsl.edu for more information.

Issue 1, Volume 4 of Coastal Law's school paper, "The Rainmaker" is now available for viewing. Read more here

For the third year in a row, Florida Coastal’s Moot Court Honor Board clinched the regional title at the Jessup International Competition held in Miami, Florida. Florida Coastal now faces several leading teams from across the world during the International Competition held in Washington, D.C in March 2008. During the Regional Competition, oralists Valarie Linnen and Rick Lasseter overshadowed dozens of competitors and Valarie Linnen received Best Advocate Award during the final round. Brief writers Rick Marshall, Marika Sevin and Coral Williams won Best Brief during the competition. Prof. Chris Roederer coached the team. In the preliminary rounds at the Southeast Regional, Coastal defeated teams from Vanderbilt, Georgia State and St. Thomas. In the out-rounds our team then went on to defeat teams from Florida International University and the University of Georgia before defeating the University of Alabama in the finals. There were a total of 22 teams in the Southeast Regional. Congratulations and good luck to all the members in the International Competition.

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