The University of Florida is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville,Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida. The university traces its origins to 1853 and has operated continuously on its Gainesville campus since September 1906.
Fredric Gerson Levin was an American plaintiffs' lawyer who served as chairman of Levin,Papantonio,Rafferty,Proctor,Buchanan,O'Brien,Barr,Mougey,P.A.,a law firm in Northwest Florida. The Fredric G. Levin College of Law at the University of Florida is named for him because of a monetary donation he made to the school in 1999.
The Independent Florida Alligator is the daily student newspaper of the University of Florida. The Alligator is one of the largest student-run newspapers in the United States,with a circulation of 14,000 and readership of more than 21,000. It is an affiliate of UWIRE,which distributes and promotes its content to their network.
Jack Greenberg was an American attorney and legal scholar. He was the Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund from 1961 to 1984,succeeding Thurgood Marshall. He was involved in numerous crucial cases,including Brown v. Board of Education,which ended segregation in public schools. In all,he argued 40 civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court,and won almost all of them.
The government of Florida is established and operated according to the Constitution of Florida and is composed of three branches of government:the executive branch consisting of the governor of Florida and the other elected and appointed constitutional officers;the legislative branch,the Florida Legislature,consisting of the Senate and House;and the judicial branch consisting of the Supreme Court of Florida and lower courts. The state also allows direct participation of the electorate by initiative,referendum,and ratification.
Thomas Eugene Baker is a constitutional law scholar,Professor of Law,and founding member of the Florida International University College of Law. With four decades of teaching experience,Baker has authored eighteen books,including two leading casebooks,has published more than 200 scholarly articles in leading law journals,and has received numerous teaching awards.
The University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law is the law school of the University of Florida located in Gainesville,Florida. Founded in 1909,it is the oldest operating public law school in Florida and second oldest overall in the state.
Marshall McAllister Criser,Jr. is an American corporate lawyer and former university administrator. Criser is a native of New Jersey,and earned his bachelor's and law degrees before becoming a practicing attorney. He was the eighth president of the University of Florida,serving from 1984 to 1989.
Mercer University School of Law is the professional law school of Mercer University. Founded in 1873,it is one of the oldest law schools in the United States;the first law school accredited by the bar in Georgia,and the second oldest of Mercer's 12 colleges and schools. The School of Law has approximately 440 students and is located in Macon,Georgia on its own campus one mile (1.6 km) from Mercer's main campus. The law school building,one of Macon's most recognizable sites,is a three-story partial replica of Independence Hall in Philadelphia and is located on Coleman Hill overlooking downtown Macon. According to Mercer's official 2020 ABA-required disclosures,72% of the Class of 2020 obtained full-time,long-term,JD-required employment nine months after graduation.
Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. was an American lawyer and politician from Florida who served ten terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1949 to 1969. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Harold Leon Sebring,nicknamed Tom Sebring,was a Florida Supreme Court justice,and an American judge at one of the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials of German war criminals after World War II. Sebring was a native of Kansas and an alumnus of Kansas State Agricultural College. While Sebring attended law school at the University of Florida,he also served as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team that represented the university.
Robert Armistead Bryan was an American former university professor,administrator and university president. He was as a professor of English literature and later a long-time professor and academic administrator at the University of Florida,and was appointed as the university's interim president,serving from 1989 to 1990. Bryan also served as the interim president of the University of Central Florida from 1991 to 1992,and interim president of the University of South Florida from 1993 to 1994.
Stephen Cornelius O'Connell was an American attorney,appellate judge and university president. O'Connell was a native of Florida,and earned bachelor's and law degrees before becoming a practicing attorney. He later was chosen to be a justice of the Florida Supreme Court from 1955 to 1967,and served as the sixth president of the University of Florida from 1967 to 1973.
James Walter Kynes Jr. was an American college and professional football player,lawyer,political appointee,and corporate executive. Kynes served as Florida Attorney General.
Benjamin Frederick Overton was a justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.
Bruce C. Kone is an American professor,nephrologist and molecular biologist. He is also a World Aquatics Masters Swimming world record holder,United States Masters Swimming (USMS) national record holder,twenty-three-time USMS national champion,and eight-time FINA Masters world's top-ranked age group swimmer. He is currently a tenured professor of medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).
Robert "Bob" H. Jerry,II is the former dean of the University of Florida's Levin College of Law,serving from 2003 to 2014. He succeeded Jon Mills,who stepped down and returned to the University of Florida's law faculty. Jerry became Dean of the College in July 2003.
The Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center at the Levin College of Law is part of the library system at the University of Florida. The Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center contains legal research materials supporting the study of state,federal,and international law. Notable collection areas housed by the library include materials on and relating to Florida law,United States federal taxation,and the British Commonwealth.
John Francis Manning is an American legal scholar who serves as the 13th Dean of Harvard Law School. He was previously the Bruce Bromley Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (HLS),where he is a scholar of administrative and constitutional law.
The history of the University of Florida is firmly tied to the history of public education in the state of Florida. The University of Florida originated as several distinct institutions that were consolidated to create a single state-supported university by the Buckman Act of 1905. The oldest of these was the East Florida Seminary,one of two seminaries of higher learning established by the Florida Legislature. The East Florida Seminary opened in Ocala 1853,becoming the first state-supported institution of higher learning in the state of Florida. As it is the oldest of the modern University of Florida's predecessor institutions,the school traces its founding date to that year. The East Florida Seminary closed its Ocala campus at the outbreak of the American Civil War and reopened in Gainesville in 1866.
