Welcome to Florida Coastal School of Law

BACKGROUND

• B.S. Legal Studies, Specialty, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Nova Southeastern University, 1994
• J.D., Florida State University College of Law

EXPERTISE

• Constitutional Law
• Commercial Law & Transactions
• Human Rights Law
• Nonprofit Organizations

EDUCATION

• B.S. Legal Studies, Specialty, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Nova Southeastern University, 1994
• J.D., Florida State University College of Law

TEACHING and SCHOLARSHIP

• Contract Law
• Sales
• Florida Constitutional Law
• Election Law
• Administrative Law
• Human Rights Law
• The First Amendment

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Commissioner, City of Jacksonville Economic Development Commission (JEDC)
• ABA International Nongovernmental Organizations Committee, Vice Chair
• Florida Legal Services, Inc., Board of Directors
• Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., Director-Corporate and Foundation Relations
• American and Caribbean Law Initiative, Editor-in-Chief

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

A Practical Approach to Florida Constitutional Law (Carolina Academic Press, 2011)

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

• Casting One Voice: Defining States’ Rights on Dormant Treaty Power, COASTAL LAW MAGAZINE (2008);
• Rate Regulation in the U.S.: An Appraisal, ENCYCL. OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE U.S., (Gale 2008);
• Separation of Powers: An Appraisal, ENCYCL. OF THE U. S. CONSTITUTION, (NY: Facts on File, Inc., 2008);
• Federal Maritime Commission v. South Carolina State Ports Authority, ENCYCL. OF THE U. S. CONSTITUTION, (NY: Facts on File, Inc., 2008);
• Turner Broadcasting v. FCC (Turner I) and (Turner II), ENCYCL. OF THE U. S. CONSTITUTION, (NY: Facts on File, Inc., 2008);
• Does a Corporation Have First Amendment Rights in an Election ex Post BCRA?, ENCYCL. FIRST AMEND., (CQ Press 2007);
• Disclosure: Satisfying the Public’s Right to Know Who is Funding Political Candidates or Chilling Speech?, ENCYCL. FIRST AMEND., (CQ Press 2007);
• History of Yellow Journalism, ENCYCL. FIRST AMEND.,(CQ Press 2007);
• McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission, ENCYCL. FIRST AMEND., (CQ Press 2007);
• Public Utilities Commission of District of Columbia v. Pollak, ENCYCL. FIRST AMEND.,(CQ Press 2007);
• Consolidated Edison Co. v. Public Service Commission, ENCYCL. FIRST AMEND., (CQ Press 2007);
•  The Needs of Children: Looking to the Cities for Leadership (with Eric Smith) at 80 QUAL. CITIES MAG. 87 (2006).

LAW REVIEW ARTICLES

• International Legal Developments in Review:  2009 International Human Rights (editor) 44 Int'l Lawyer 473 (2010). 
  Of Republicrats and DemPublicans: Can African American Voting Patterns at the Local Level Translate Into Broader Support for National Republican Candidates? U. FLA. J.L. & PUB. POL’Y (2008);
• Of Politics and Policy: Can the U.S. Maintain its Credibility Abroad While Ignoring the Needs of its Children at Home?—Revisiting the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child as a Transnational Framework for Local Governing, 14 TULSA J. OF COMP. & INTL L. 191 (2007);
• Incrementalism, Ideology, and Social Choice: Should the United States Ratify the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child?—A Practical Perspective, 1 FAMU L. REV. 15 (2006);
• Increasing the Number of Lawyer-Legislators Begins With an Understanding of Campaign Finance Regulation, FLA. B.J. Oct. 2005, at 66;
• Scattered, Smothered & Covered Under Water Regulation: Have the Courts (Finally) Unscrambled Franchise Rights of IOUs and Local Governments? FLA. B.J. Nov. 2002, at 22;
• Agency Discipline Proceedings – the Preponderance of Clear and Convincing Evidence, FLA. B.J. Jan. 1998, at 71;
• The Politics of Ethics and Elections: Can Negative Advertising be Regulated in Florida? 24 FLA. ST. L. REV. 463 (1997).