Faculty - Madrid, Spain

RESIDENT DIRECTOR (WEEK 1):   TBA  
RESIDENT DIRECTOR (WEEK 2):   TBA
RESIDENT DIRECTOR  (WEEK 3):  TBA
RESIDENT DIRECTOR  (WEEK 4):   TBA 

WEEK 1: June 3-6, 2024:  COMPARATIVE WORKPLACE AUTONOMY AND PRIVACY LAW – US & EU   (1 credit)
INSTRUCTOR:   Jason R. Bent, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, Stetson University College of Law, Gulfport, Florida

Professor Bent focuses his work on employment law, employment discrimination law, and civil procedure. His scholarly interests include systemic theories of employment discrimination, federal workplace safety regulation, and the use of economic theory and statistical techniques in the development of legal doctrine. He co-authors a leading treatise on the use of statistics in employment discrimination cases, The Statistics of Discrimination: Using Statistical Evidence in Discrimination Cases. He is also a co-author of An Illustrated Guide to Civil Procedure. His most recent journal article focuses on efforts to counteract unintended bias when using algorithms in employment decisions and was selected for publication in the Georgetown Law Journal. His work has also been featured in the BYU Law Review, the Connecticut Law Review, the Ohio State Law Journal, the Buffalo Law Review, the Denver University Law Review, the Tennessee Law Review, and the Michigan Journal of Law Reform. Prior to joining the faculty at Stetson, Professor Bent was a Shughart Fellow and visiting assistant professor at the Penn State University Dickinson School of Law.


WEEK 2: (June 10-13, 2024):   CYBER-LAW   (1 credit)

INSTRUCTOR:   Roy Balleste, Professor of Law and Director of the Dolly & Homer Hand Law Library, Stetson University College of Law, Gulfport, Florida. 

Dr. Roy Balleste is a tenured Professor of Law at Stetson University College of Law. He is the Director of International Initiatives at the Office of International and Graduate Programs. As the Director for International Initiatives, Balleste oversees the strategic outreach and coordination to advance global engagement and expand learning opportunities for the College of Law. Professor Balleste is also the Director of the Dolly & Homer Hand Law Library. He teaches cyber-law and space law and has concentrated his scholarship on the areas of internet governance, cybersecurity law, space law, space cybersecurity, and astronautical ethics. Balleste holds a J.S.D. in Intercultural Human Rights (St. Thomas University); M.S. in Cybersecurity (Norwich University); LL.M. in Air and Space Law (McGill University); LL.M. in Intercultural Human Rights (St. Thomas University); and a J.D. (St. Thomas University).  He is a doctoral candidate (PhD) in space cybersecurity at Capitol Technology University (expected summer 2024). Balleste holds a certificate in cybersecurity (in policy and technology) from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Most recently, Balleste was accepted at the National Defense University College of Information and Cyberspace to earn the prestigious Chief Information Security Officer Graduate Certificate.

Professor Balleste is a member of the International Institute of Space Law and Upsilon Pi Epsilon Association (the only National Honor Society for the computing and information disciplines). Balleste has participated in discussions at the United Nations on internet governance and space law matters. He is a core expert and editorial board member of the Manual on International Law Applicable to Military Uses of Outer Space (MILAMOS). Balleste was the 2017 recipient of the Nicolas Mateesco Matte Space Law Prize at McGill University and the  2016 Jean Key Gates Distinguished Alumni Award at the University of South Florida, School of Information.

Professor Balleste served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (ICANN GNSO) as the Representative for North America (December 2013 - December 2015) and a member of ICAAN’s ‘Thick’ Whois Policy Development Process Working Group (November 2012- November 2013). The Policy Development Process (PDP) Working Group (WG) was chartered to provide the Council of the Generic Names Supporting Organization with a policy recommendation regarding the use of ‘thick’ Whois by all gTLD Registries, both existing and future. Balleste was an active NCUC member until November 2017. He also served as Assistant Editor of the Annals of Air and Space Law (2016-2017) at the Center for Research in Air and Space Law, McGill University.

In November of 2017, Balleste participated at the United Nations High-level Forum on Space as a driver for sustainable socio-economic development. Balleste also participated in the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (UN IGF) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2007 and in Vilnius, Lithuania, in 2010. In October of 2012, Balleste participated—at the invitation of the U.S. Air Force Research Institute—in the second cyber power conference at Maxwell’s Officer Training School. From 2006 to 2009, Professor Balleste was head of IT at the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law and library director, where he collaborated with the university’s CIO and CFO. From 2009 to May 2020, Balleste supervised the law library and media department at St. Thomas University School of Law. Most recently, Balleste was accepted at the National Defense University College of Information and Cyberspace to earn the prestigious Chief Information Security Officer Graduate Certificate.


WEEK 3 (June 17-20, 2024):   INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS, COURTS, AND ADVANCING TECHNOLOGIES   (1 credit)

INSTRUCTOR Steven Friedland, Professor of Law and Senior Scholar/Director of the Center for Engaged Learning in the Law, Elon University School of Law,
Greensboro, North Carolina

Steve Friedland is a founding member of the law school faculty who taught at the law schools of the University of Georgia, Miami, Nova Southeastern and Georgia State before coming to Elon Law. In addition to law teaching, Friedland has served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia and as an Assistant Director of the Office of Legal Education in the Department of Justice.

Friedland is an accomplished scholar who has published articles in such journals as the Northwestern U. Law Journal, the Duke Law Journal (online), the Washington & Lee Law Review, and the Stanford Law & Policy Review. His books on Evidence Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law and Procedure and Law School Teaching have been published by the West Publishing Company, Aspen Press, Lexis Publishing Company and Carolina Academic Press.

Friedland was elected to the American Law Institute, served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Law School Admission Council, and is a current member of the Lexis Advisory Board. He has won numerous teaching awards at several law schools over three decades and was named one of the best law teachers in America by the Harvard University Press book, What the Best Law Teachers Do. He is an internationally known speaker on legal education who has worked with the Japan Legal Foundation to develop law schools in Japan, and with Afghanistan law schools to improve the rule of law in that country pursuant to a USAID initiative. He has lectured to thousands of students across the country preparing for the bar exam. Friedland holds a juris doctor degree with honors from Harvard Law School, as well as a master of law and doctor of the science of law degrees from Columbia University Law School, where he was a Dollard Fellow in Law, Medicine and Psychiatry.


WEEK 4 (June 24-27, 2024):   INTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE LAW & GLOBALIZATION  (1 credit)
INSTRUCTOR Paul Boudreaux
, Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Institute for Biodiversity Law and Policy, and Director, Stetson Law Honors Program,
Stetson University College of Law, Gulfport, Florida

Paul Boudreaux teaches and writes on topics of law and geography, including land use law, environmental law, natural resources law, and property. Areas of interest include suburban sprawl, urban redevelopment, endangered species protection, and water quality.

His book The Housing Bias explored the effects of exclusionary zoning against low-cost housing. He founded and wrote the Land Use Prof Blog from 2006 to 2009. He is currently working on a book about the role of the suburbs in modern America.

Professor Boudreaux is the editor of the Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy, which has published articles from scholars across the world for more than 20 years. He advises national and local environmental groups.

After clerking for the late Judge George Revercomb of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, he worked at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he litigated civil cases in federal courts across the nation for more than a decade.  

Paul Boudreaux teaches and writes on topics of law and geography, including land use law, environmental law, natural resources law, and property. Areas of interest include suburban sprawl, urban redevelopment, endangered species protection, and water quality.

His book The Housing Bias explored the effects of exclusionary zoning against low-cost housing. He founded and wrote the Land Use Prof Blog from 2006 to 2009. He is currently working on a book about the role of the suburbs in modern America.

Professor Boudreaux is the editor of the Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy, which has published articles from scholars across the world for more than 20 years. He advises national and local environmental groups.

After clerking for the late Judge George Revercomb of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, he worked at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he litigated civil cases in federal courts across the nation for more than a decade.

He served as Stetson's Highbaugh Chair from 2008-2010.