Business, Law & Policy

Compassion, cooperation and policy took center stage March 1 at the keynote event of the “Celebrating Civility” speaker series hosted by the Institute of Politics at Florida State University.  The virtual forum featured U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia, and former U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez, a Republican and FSU alumnus. Al Cardenas, who is an adjunct faculty member at the […]

The Florida State University College of Law Moot Court Team has won first place in the 2021 National Moot Court Competition in Child Welfare & Adoption Law. The virtual competition was held February 26-27 and hosted by the Family & Youth Law Center at Capital University Law School. Twenty-six teams participated in the competition, including […]

U.S. Sens. Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) will appear together Monday, March 1, during a rescheduled keynote kickoff event of the new Institute of Politics at Florida State University (IOP@FSU). The virtual forum, which was initially planned for Jan. 12 but was rescheduled in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the […]

The Florida Legislature is set to convene March 2 and the Institute of Politics at Florida State University will present an online webinar to get an early look at the issues and potential outcomes of the 2021 session. The event will feature expert analysis by Gary Fineout of Politico magazine and Jennifer Green of the […]

The topics of city planning and communities of color will take center stage Thursday, Feb. 25, at the next Wicked Webinar series at Florida State University’s College of Social Sciences & Public Policy.  The online panel discussion, “Neighborhoods First: Community Action for Equitable City Planning,” will be led by Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning Tisha Holmes and feature leaders from Tallahassee’s […]

For the second year in a row, Florida State University College of Law’s Black Law Students Association (BLSA) placed first in the Constance Baker Motley Mock Trial Competition during the Southern Region of the Black Law Students Association’s convention.  Winning team members were first-year students David Akintonde, of Chicago, Illinois; Samantha Seiglie, of Sunny Isles Beach, […]

After a highly successful fall series in a virtual webinar format, the Policy Pub series will return for three more sessions this spring beginning Jan. 19. Scholars from the Florida State University College of Social Sciences and Public Policy (COSSPP) will be featured in all three sessions. They will discuss resilience, Florida’s charter schools and the future of higher education.  Pub-goers […]

The newly established Institute of Politics (IOP) at the Florida State University College of Social Sciences and Public Policy (COSSPP) has awarded five research grants to FSU faculty. The grants, each about $20,000, went to three faculty members and one doctoral candidate within COSSPP and four faculty from other FSU colleges. The projects all had some connection to the IOP’s […]

preLaw magazine has ranked Florida State University College of Law the 8th best value law school in the nation. The ranking, which is published in preLaw’s fall 2020 issue, weighs important student outcomes—bar passage and employment rates—against tuition, cost of living and indebtedness. According to preLaw, the rankings are “designed to recognize schools whose graduates have excellent chances of passing the […]

The Florida State University College of Law Trial Team won first place in the 2020 Buffalo-Niagara Mock Trial Competition on October 25. The competition was held virtually over three days and hosted by the University of Buffalo School of Law. FSU Law’s Trial Team also won the Buffalo-Niagara Mock Trial Competition in 2016. Twenty-four law […]