Faculty - Oxford, England

Professor Stephanie Vaughan is an alumna of Stetson University College of Law, graduating in 1991 after having received her Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Alabama. Professor Vaughan returned to the Stetson Community as a professor in 1996. She has taught numerous skills courses during her tenure at Stetson University College of Law, including International Sales Law and Arbitration, Advocacy and Negotiation Skills, U.S. Legal Research and Writing, Legal Research and Writing I & II, Legal Drafting, and Interviewing and Counseling.

Roberta K. Flowers is a professor of law at Stetson University College of Law. Within the Elder Law LLM 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.

Katherine (Kate) Donoghue earned her Bachelor of Arts from Bowdoin College with an All-Academic Honor in 2007, and her Juris Doctor Magna Cum Laude from Fordham Law School in 2010. While at Fordham, Kate was a member of Fordham’s Trial Advocacy Team and Champion of the 2009 Lone Star Classic Mock Trial Tournament. 

Following graduation, Kate practiced complex commercial litigation in New York, with a particular focus on contract and land-use disputes. Kate subsequently transitioned into public service advocacy where she initially represented abused and neglected children in juvenile court and then spent six years as an Assistant State's Attorney prosecuting felony cases on behalf of the State of Connecticut at both the trial and appellate levels. As a prosecutor, Kate was appointed as a Domestic Violence Coordinator and to Connecticut’s Human Trafficking Task Force. During her ten years of legal practice, Kate was also employed as an Adjunct Professor of Trial Advocacy at Fordham Law School.

In 2020, after her family relocated to Florida, Kate transitioned to full-time academia. She was a Professor of Legal Studies at Keiser University where she received the “Rising Star” Award, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Legal Studies at Franklin University, before joining Stetson Law School.  At Stetson, Kate teaches Jury Selection and Trial Advocacy, as well as courses in Stetson’s Masters of Law in Advocacy Program.  Kate has been published by the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and the Stetson Journal of Advocacy and the Law and has received multiple awards in recognition of her hard work and dedication to Stetson, including Stetson Law Employee of the Year and Stetson Trial Team Coach of the Year.

Instructor:
Carlos G. Concepción Castro
Assistant Professor of Law and Director, Trial Advocacy, Inter American University of Puerto Rico School of Law,
San Juan, Puerto Rico

Carlos Concepción graduated with honors from the University of Puerto Rico School of Law, where he was Editor of the Law Review. He has a Masters degree from New York University and from Temple University Beasley School of Law; the latter one with a concentration in Evidence and Litigation. His doctorate studies are focused on jury’s perception of the evidence, science in information retention and influences of demographics. He joined Pietrantoni Mendez & Alvarez LLP in 1998, one of the most prestigious law firms in Puerto Rico, and in 2000, he started teaching at the University of Puerto Rico School of Law, where he directed the litigation program. His experience at the Law School includes coaching students for trial advocacy competitions, as well as teaching Legal Research and Writing, Injunctions and other Special Remedies, Evidence, Civil Procedure, Federal Civil Litigation and various litigation courses. He also directed the UPR Legal Research and Writing Department, Co-founded the UPR’s Pro-Bono Program and served as Auxiliary Dean. Prof. Concepción has published works on Evidence and directs the Puerto Rico Trial Advocacy Competition. In 2009, he joined the faculty of the Inter American University of Puerto Rico School of Law, where he teaches, coaches and coordinates the litigation program. Prof. Concepción has also been a member of Stetson University College School, where he teaches master's degree related to litigation skills; the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Law, where he teaches courses related to Evidence and Litigation; as well as participated in litigation programs in San Francisco (Golden Gate University School of Law), Stetson at Oxford University and Ohio Northern University School of Law at Iceland University. He has also collaborated in the American Bar Association program on penal reform processes in Central and South America. In addition to his academic experience, Prof. Concepción has extensive experience in various areas, and has participated in scores of trials, both at the administrative and judicial levels, including criminal and jury trials.  

Louis V. Fasulo is Professor of Trial Practice and Director of Advocacy, Moot Court, and Client Skills Programs at Haub Law. Professor Louis Fasulo is a partner in the law firm of Fasulo Giordano & Di Maggio. The firm focuses in white collar criminal defense, criminal defense, education law, real estate, employment discrimination, family law, banking and securities compliance work and civil criminal and commercial litigation.

Professor Fasulo has been the adjunct faculty recipient of the Barbara C. Salken Outstanding Professor of the Year Award, chosen by students, for the 2000–2001, 2007–2008, 2013–2014 and 2015–2016 academic years. He also received the Pace Leadership Award in 2020. Additionally, Haub Law has named the first-year moot court competition the Louis V. Fasulo Moot Court Competition in honor of Professor Fasulo.

Professor Fasulo serves as Vice President of the National Association of Legal Advocacy Educators, and he is currently Chair of New York County Defenders. He teaches and has run international law program in comparative advocacy in Oxford England, for Stetson University Law School, and teaches in Iceland at the Ohio Northern University and University of Iceland joint advocacy program.

Professor Fasulo has led New York City Police Department Detective Training on direct and cross examination. He is also a lecturer on closing arguments for the New York City Law Department and teaches in their NITA program. He has served on panels at the Educating Advocacy Teachers Seminar on various topics, including course development, ABA compliance issues, development of faculty and trial skills programs, and diversity equity and inclusion. He frequently lectures to Bar Associations and CLE Program.


Instructor:
S. Rafe Foreman
Douglas Stripp Dean's Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of Advocacy,
University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, Kansas City, Missouri

Rafe Foreman joined UMKC as the Douglas Stripp Dean’s Distinguished Professor and Director of Advocacy in 2011 after a distinguished career as a trial lawyer, most recently as a partner at Foreman, Lewis & Hutchison P.C. in Grapevine, Texas. He served as a litigation specialist, including criminal defense, plaintiff’s personal injury, civil rights, employment, discrimination, wrongful death, excessive force and 1983 actions.

After receiving his bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University in agricultural education, Professor Foreman received his JD degree from Texas Tech University School of Law, where he was on the Moot Court championship team, regional co-chair of the Client Counseling Competition and a member of the Board of Barristers. He has advanced education in psychology at Fielding University and at the National Psychodrama Training Center. Professor Foreman is a graduate of the Trial Lawyers College and now serves as an instructor and board member.

Professor Foreman is Board Certified in Criminal Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He will teach Trial Advocacy and Evidence and coach the Trial Advocacy teams. He will also be developing the overall advocacy program to bring it to national prominence.


Instructor:
Gillian More
Former Crown Prosectutor
Tutor, The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland

Gillian More is a lifelong prosecutor, recently retiring after a career spent in public service where she held multiple positions, to include time as Crown Prosecutor in the High Courts of Justice. She has taught advocacy worldwide, for both the American Bar Association, National Institute of Trial Advocacy, Stetson University College of Law, Scottish Prosecution College Glasgow, University of Edinburgh, and courses in Ukraine and Istanbul. Recognized for her natural teaching skills, More’s ability to improve her students is legendary. She has served as an integral part of Stetson’s Educating Advocate’s program and recently taught in Stetson’s overseas program in London and Oxford. More is currently a course tutor at the University of Strathclyde’s LLM in Communication Negotiation and Advocacy program.