Professor Dorothea Beane received inscribed book by 2012 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award winner
Professor Robert Bickel presented an inscribed copy of University of Minnesota professor Kathryn Sikkink’s book, The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Changed World Politics, to Stetson Law professor Dorothea Beane in the Dolly & Homer Hand Law Library on Sept. 6.
The new book by Sikkink is the winner of the 2012 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. Professor Sikkink inscribed the copy of her… » Read more
Stetson Law alumni, professors making a difference in the Caribbean
Story by third-year student Valeria Obi and Brandi Palmer
For most people, the Caribbean is a tropical paradise, a getaway destination where reef fish dart among sunken pirate gold in a boundless turquoise sea. For the people who live and work for equality and human rights in the Caribbean, a different picture emerges, one focused on the struggle for social justice.
Hundreds of years of… » Read more
ASIL Academic Bulletin – Aug. 10, 2012 – Professor Dorothea Beane and Professor Darryl Wilson
Professor Dorothea Beane and Professor Darryl Wilson’s work in the Caribbean along with alumni was the subject of the ASIL Academic Bulletin article, “Stetson University College of Law alumni, professors advocate for human rights in the Caribbean.”… » Read more
Jamaican Senator Teaches at Stetson
A.J. Nicholson, a member of the Jamaican Senate, is serving as a Distinguished International Fellow at Stetson Law.
Panel Talk: Chocolate Industry Child Labor
On Feb. 8, students, faculty and experts discussed the issue of child labor in the international cocoa industry.
Law Students Discuss Human Rights
Professor Dorothea Beane and her law
class discussed human rights issues with sixth-graders.
Human Rights Teach-In
This spring, a dozen students from Professor Dorothea Beane’s law class addressed 278 eighth-graders at middle school assemblies designed to get students thinking about the value of protecting human rights.
Human Rights Teach-In
Eighteen of Professor Beane’s international human rights law students met with nine Thurgood Marshall middle-schoolers to share ideas about how lawyers can do the important work of helping people around the globe protect themselves from being victims of discrimination.
Stetson Law Moot Court Team wins prestigious international human rights competition
A team of three Stetson Law students defeated teams from across the
U.K., India, and the U.S. to win the International Criminal Court Moot
Court Competition in White Plains, N.Y., on Oct. 28. Add to their
victory—this is the first time that a Stetson team has entered the
competition.
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