Faculty
Andrea Biondi
Professor of European Law, Director
Centre for European Law at King's College London
Andrea Biondi is a professor of European Union Law and the director of the Centre for European Law at King's College London. He is a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Warsaw and at Georgetown University. He is a member of the Bar of Florence as well as being an Academic Member of Francis Taylor Buildings Chambers in London. Professor Biondi is on the International Advisory Board of European Public Law, King's College Law Journal, London Law Review, the European Public Private Partnership Law Review, and he is the general editor of the Kluwer European Law Collection.
Robert K. Flowers
Professor of Law
Stetson University College of Law
Roberta K. Flowers is a professor of law at Stetson University College of Law. Within the Elder Law LL.M. program, Professor Flowers teaches Ethics in an Elder Law Practice. She also teaches Evidence, Criminal Procedure, and Professional Responsibility. While at Stetson, Professor Flowers has successfully coached trial teams, arbitration teams and moot court teams to national championships. She has served as the director of the Center for Excellence in Advocacy and as the William Reece Smith Jr. Distinguished Professor in Professionalism. During her time at Stetson, Professor Flowers has received the university-level Excellence in Teaching Award, Most Inspirational Teacher Award from the Student Bar Association, and an award from the Student Bar Association for supporting student life. She also has received the university-level Homer and Dolly Hand Award for Excellence in Scholarship, the Dean's Award for Extraordinary Service, and been awarded the Distinguished Service Award four times. In 2005, the Florida Supreme Court awarded Professor Flowers the Faculty Professionalism Award.
Professor Flowers has lectured worldwide on the topic of ethics. She won a Telly Award for Excellence in Educational Films for having produced a series of educational videos on the ethical issues faced by prosecuting attorneys. Along with Professor Rebecca Morgan, she created a video series used to train and educate attorneys nationwide on the ethical dilemmas faced by elder law attorneys. The Florida Supreme Court awarded Professor Morgan and Professor Flowers the Florida Supreme Court Professionalism Award for their video productions. Additionally, with Professor Morgan, Professor Flowers designed the nation's first "elder friendly courtroom," which serves as model for courtrooms of the future.
Before arriving at Stetson, Professor Flowers worked as a prosecutor in both the state and federal system. She began her career in 1984 as a deputy district attorney for the 18th Judicial District of Colorado, where she served as a trial attorney in the criminal division. In 1989, she was appointed assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, where she served in the Appellate Division, the Major Crimes Unit and the Public Corruption Unit.
Professor Flowers graduated magna cum laude from Baylor University in 1979 with a bachelor's degree in psychology. She received her J.D. from the University of Colorado in 1984, where she was selected to be a member of the Order of the Coif.
Professor Flowers' research interests center on the issues of ethics and professionalism. Professor Flowers' articles have appeared in such journals as the Fordham Law Review, the Boston College Law Review, Missouri Law Review, the Nebraska Law Review, the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, the Stetson Law Review, and the NAELA Journal.
Professor Flowers is active in several professional associations. She has served on numerous committees of The Florida Bar, including the Professional Ethics Committee, the Evidence Committee, and the Standing Committee on Professionalism. She is currently the chair of the Professionalism Sub-Committee of the Litigation Section's Ethics and Professionalism Committee of the American Bar Association.
Lawrence Hellman
Dean Emeritus, Professor of Law
Oklahoma City University School of Law
Dean Hellman practiced law with the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and was a member of the faculty at Washington & Lee University School of Law before joining the faculty at Oklahoma City University School of Law in 1977.
He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and the Oklahoma Fellows of the American Bar Foundation. He was co-chair of the Oklahoma Bar Association's (OBA) Rules of Professional Conduct Committee from 2000 through 2008. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma, the National Advisory Council of the American Judicature Society, and the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar Professionalism Committee.
Hellman is a recipient of the Oklahoma Bar Association's Award for Legal Ethics and the Presidents' Awards for Service from the Oklahoma Bar Association, the Oklahoma County Bar Association, and the Ruth Bader Ginsburg American Inn of Court.
He served as Dean from 1998 until 2011.
Kandice Horsey
Solicitor
Saunders Law Limited
Kandice Horsey is a solicitor-advocate in England and Wales with Higher Rights of Audience in the criminal courts. She defends a wide range of criminal cases. Prior to moving to London, she was a prosecutor in the U.S.; first as an assistant district attorney in the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, then as an assistant state's attorney in the State's Attorney's Office for Prince George's County, Maryland. As an assistant district attorney, she tried cases ranging from simple drug possession to attempted murder. She is licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania, D.C., and Maryland. She holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Maryland - College Park, a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, and a LL.M. in Trial Advocacy from Temple University, Beasley School of Law.
Danne L. Johnson
Professor of Law
Oklahoma City University School of Law
Professor Johnson worked for six years at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in the Division of Enforcement in New York City. She served as a staff attorney, senior counsel, and finally as a branch chief. In the latter role, she trained, supervised, and guided attorneys who were investigating possible violations of federal securities laws.
In 2000, she moved to Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., while in the Mutual Fund Unit she focused on the registration of the Met Series Fund and life products, and mutual fund governance. She later moved to the Variable Products Unit and concentrated on the development and registration of variable annuity products. Meanwhile, she served on the New York Urban League's Manhattan Advisory Board of Directors and chaired the board of directors for The Miracle Makers, Inc., New York's largest day-care provider. Professor Johnson was an arbitrator with the National Association of Securities Dealers Dispute Resolution.
Professor Johnson joined the Oklahoma City University School of Law faculty in 2003.
Timothy S. Kaye
Professor of Law
Stetson University College of Law
Professor Kaye joined Stetson's faculty in fall 2006 after serving one year as a visiting professor. Before joining Stetson, he taught at the University of Birmingham, England, where he served as undergraduate admissions dean and taught and published in the fields of torts, jurisprudence and education law. Professor Kaye also formerly taught at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. He co-authored Blackstone's Book of Moots and he co-founded the Oxford University Press National Mooting Competition.
Kaye was the first chairman of the LNAT Consortium Ltd., a company formed by eight top British law schools to oversee the National Admissions Test for Law. Formerly a consultant with one of the largest education law practices in the United Kingdom, he has advised numerous schools, colleges and universities. On three occasions, he was commissioned by the Estonian government to carry out evaluations of law teaching at higher education institutions in Estonia. He co-wrote the United Kingdom's general guidance for schools on the Human Rights Act.
Marc Mason, MSc, GDL, Barrister, has held a number of academic posts at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (London), University College London, and the University of Westminster. His research has been in the areas of mediation, legal aid, and the legal profession. He has also taught in these fields and in the fields of public law and empirical research skills. He is currently a family law barrister, although he continues to pursue teaching and research interests. His most recent research looks at the treatment of children in military tribunals in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Joseph F. Morrissey
Professor of Law
Stetson University College of Law
Professor Morrissey received his A.B. from Princeton University and his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law. He practiced corporate and securities law for Mayer, Brown & Platt and later Kirkland & Ellis. He also spent several years overseeing a Russian asset portfolio for an investment company in Switzerland. His practice led him to run offices in Tashkent, Uzbekistan; Geneva, Switzerland; and Moscow, Russia.
In the summer of 2001, Professor Morrissey began his full-time academic career at Chicago-Kent College of Law. He joined Stetson Law in the summer of 2004.
Professor Morrissey has taught and published in the areas of contracts, constitutional law, corporations, securities and international private law. In 2008, Aspen published his first book, International Sales & Arbitration, which combines a focus on international contract law with the mechanism of dispute resolution most often used in those contracts and arbitration.
Lisa Webley is a reader in law at University of Westminster School of Law. Webley is a member of the LLB Executive Committee, which considers issues of teaching, learning, assessment and employability policy for the LLB, as well as issues of curriculum design and quality assurance. She teaches on undergraduate and postgraduate courses offered by the School of Law. She is a joint module leader on the LLB Legal Skills and Process 1 module and the Public Law module. She teaches occasional classes on dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration. She is a Ph.D. supervisor at Westminster, as well as a dissertation supervisor for LLB and LL.M. students. She is course director and principal teacher on the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies two-week intensive Introduction to Legal Research Methods course for MPhil/Ph.D. students. She has taught on the LL.M. research methods course at Westminster, including providing online lectures and other tuition.
Stuart Weinstein
Associate Dean
University of Hertfordshire School of Law
Stuart Weinstein is an associate dean at University of Hertfordshire School of Law. He received his Doctor of Laws from Columbia University School of Law, a bachelor of arts with honors from Williams College and a Master of Business Administration from University of Hertfordshire Business School. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Hertfordshire, he was general counsel with a major multinational. Weinstein is a member of the California, District of Columbia and New York Bars and a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales. He is the author or co-author of numerous books and articles on subjects including company law, intellectual property law, commercial law, Internet law, and law and popular culture.
