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St. Thomas University College of Law

2019

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To Friend Or To Unfriend?: It's Time To Update The Status On What It Means To Be Facebook Friends, Carolina A. Del Campo Jan 2019

To Friend Or To Unfriend?: It's Time To Update The Status On What It Means To Be Facebook Friends, Carolina A. Del Campo

St. Thomas Law Review

This comment analyzes what a Facebook friendship encompasses in the legal profession and focuses on what courts, specifically Florida, recognize this relationship to mean. Part II provides an overview of the process for judicial disqualification and reviews the opinions released by the Florida Judicial Ethics Committee regarding judicial participation on social media." Part III discusses how traditional friendships have been considered in regards to judicial disqualification and compares what other states have understood a Facebook friendship to encompass versus what Florida has concluded. Lastly, Part IV proposes a new Judicial Ethics Opinion that reflects a more modernized understanding of the …


Differing Schools Of Thought: Changing Perceptions Of Oral Argument, Spencer D. Levine Jan 2019

Differing Schools Of Thought: Changing Perceptions Of Oral Argument, Spencer D. Levine

St. Thomas Law Review

In this paper I will examine the changing perceptions of oral argument, as well as examine and review the data provided by the Office of State Courts Administrator ("OSCA") for Florida's appellate courts. Their data summarized the dispositions of all appeals in Florida from 2011 to 2015. The dispositions are separated between those cases disposed by oral argument and those cases disposed without oral argument. From this research, we can observe whether this data comports with the changing perceptions of oral argument. If there is a divergence in views, one may attempt to determine why. Is it rooted in the …


Law Or Justice? What Future For The Legal Profession?, William P. Quigley Jan 2019

Law Or Justice? What Future For The Legal Profession?, William P. Quigley

Intercultural Human Rights Law Review

Is the future of our profession law or justice? There is a lot of law in our profession. There is some charity and some generosity. Justice? Not nearly enough to suggest it is at the core of our profession, our mission, or our future.