Professor Shi-Ling Hsu was featured in an Associated Press article titled "Singapore faces pressure to reveal carbon tax concessions to oil giants."

We are proud to highlight the accomplishments of recent alumna Alexis Fulton (’25), who has joined the Claude Pepper Elder Law Clinic as a clinical fellow with the Borchard Center on Law and Aging. In this role, she launched the Elder Domestic Violence Assistance Project, an innovative program within the clinic that expands services for elder survivors of domestic violence and abuse.

On Monday, October 20, we were honored to welcome The Honorable Melissa Damian to the College of Law as part of our Jurist in Residence Program.

This week, the Center for Environmental, Energy, and Land Use Law welcomed Professor Kirsten Engel, the Charles E. Ares Professor of Law at the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law and Interim Chief of the Environmental Protection Unit in the Arizona Office of the Attorney General, as the featured speaker for the Spring 2025 Distinguished Environmental Lecture.

This week, we were honored to welcome three judges of Florida's First District Court of Appeal back to the FSU College of Law Advocacy Center to hear live oral arguments in our historic courtroom with our students in attendance. Judges Stephanie Ray ('95), Thomas “Bo” Winokur, and Raymond Treadwell presided over the proceedings, providing this annual learning opportunity.

It's always ranking season, and we are excited to share a few new highlights in our rankings. FSU College of Law is proud to celebrate several new distinctions from National Jurist and preLaw magazine:

Health Law – A

Last Friday, the FSU College of Law hosted its third annual Business Law Review Symposium, focused on "Encapsulating Product Packaging Trade Dress." The event, which attracted over 500 attendees both virtually and in person, brought together leading intellectual property scholars and practitioners to discuss the protection of trade dress—the distinctive packaging, colors, or designs that define a brand’s identity.

The Hispanic Law Students Association (HLSA) had the distinct honor last month of hosting a virtual Q&A session with Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor.

This past weekend, FSU College of Law was honored to host the National Trial Competition for Region Six, administered by the Texas Young Lawyers Association (TYLA). A total of 25 teams from across Florida, Georgia, and Puerto Rico competed, including two teams from FSU Law. In total, over 300 people attended, including advocates, judges, timekeepers, coaches, and spectators. The competition had two brackets with simultaneous semifinal rounds, leading to two final rounds and two winning teams.

FSU Law’s Legislative Practice course welcomed Speaker Daniel Perez for an engaging discussion on his role as Florida Speaker of the House and his leadership approach. Former FSU President John Thrasher, who co-teaches the course alongside Associate Dean Debra Henley, moderated the conversation.