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Educating To Meet The Demands Of Florida Business And Law Schools - A. Introduction, Jon L. Mills
Educating To Meet The Demands Of Florida Business And Law Schools - A. Introduction, Jon L. Mills
UF Law Faculty Publications
Proceedings of the Second Annual & Legal and Policy Issues in the Americas, 2001
Diversity In Law Schools: Where Are We Headed In The Twenty-First Century, Jon L. Mills
Diversity In Law Schools: Where Are We Headed In The Twenty-First Century, Jon L. Mills
UF Law Faculty Publications
While we had historically recruited a large number of minority candidates to campus, because of the departures of our minority faculty, we needed to evaluate both our ability to recruit and our ability to retain minority faculty. Discriminatory hiring based on race is forbidden by law. The University of Florida is an equal opportunity employer. As a practical and legal matter, and in contrast to our current student admissions policy, we can consider race in employment decisions only to remedy past discrimination and only if narrowly tailored to serve a compelling state interest. First, it is important to understand the …
Teaching Torts Without Insurance: A Second-Best Solution, David A. Fischer, Robert H. Jerry Ii
Teaching Torts Without Insurance: A Second-Best Solution, David A. Fischer, Robert H. Jerry Ii
UF Law Faculty Publications
Teachers, scholars and practitioners have long appreciated the symbiotic relationship of torts and insurance. The authors examine how the study of torts is enriched when insurance concepts play a role in students' analysis. The discussion is divided into two parts. Part I offers a "macro" perspective on the connections between tort and insurance, summarizing the principal issues in play when the purposes of tort law are analyzed against the backdrop of first-party and third-party insurance compensation mechanisms. Part II provides a "micro" perspective on tort-insurance connections, taking a sample of discrete tort law principles, representative of those discussed in a …