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Stetson University College of Law (Stetson Law), founded in 1900 and part of Stetson University, is Florida's first law school. Originally located near the university's main campus in DeLand, Florida, the law school moved in 1954 to Gulfport, Florida. The law school occupies a historic 1920s resort hotel, the Rolyat Hotel, designed by Richard Kiehnel. The College of Law is accredited by the American Bar Association and has been a member of the Association of American Law Schools since 1931. The college also has a campus in Tampa, Florida that shares space with a working court, Florida's Second District Court of Appeal. Academics Stetson Law currently employs more than 40 full-time faculty members and has more than 900 students enrolled in its Juris Doctor (J.D.) program. The J.D. program offers six concentrations: Advocacy, Business Law, Elder Law, Environmental Law, International Law, and Social Justice Advocacy. Stetson also offers advanced legal degrees, including a Master of Laws (LL.M.) with three concentrations: Advocacy, Elder Law and International Law. The law school also offers a Master of Jurisprudence (M.Jur.) with three concentrations: Aging, Law and Policy; Healthcare Compliance; and International and Comparative Business Law. The J.D. degree may be combined with an LL.M or a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) with the Stetson University School of Business Administration. The J.D. degree may also be combined with an exchange program: an LL.M. in Exchange in Ireland/England with the University College Dublin Sutherland School of Law, a Master in International Economic Law (MINTEC) with Toulouse University or a Master in International and European Business Law (M.I.E.B.L.) with Comillas Pontifical University.The school is home to several institutes, centers, programs, and initiatives, including the National Clearinghouse for Science, Technology and the Law; Centers for Excellence in Advocacy, Elder Law and Higher Education Law and Policy; and Institutes for Caribbean Law and Policy and Biodiversity Law and Policy. Clinics Stetson Law is one of few U.S. law schools that guarantees a clinic or externship for every student. More than 300 clinic and externship opportunities are available to students each year. Publications The Stetson Law Review was the headquarters for the National Conference of Law Reviews from 2003 to 2008. The Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy and the Journal of International Aging Law and Policy are produced in conjunction with the school. Rankings Stetson University is nationally ranked 84th among law schools by U.S. News & World Report. Among specialty rankings, the school ranked first in trial advocacy and third in legal writing. Stetson had a 74.4 percent first-time Bar passage rate for takers of the October 2020 Florida Bar Examination. 77.6 percent passed the July 2019 exam, 67.2 percent passed the July 2018 exam and 76.8 percent passed the July 2017 exam. Competitions Since 1980, Stetson Law has won five world championships, 79 national championships, 97 regional championships, 53 state championships, 61 brief awards, 176 brief oralist/advocate awards and six professionalism awards.As of 2021, Stetson Law has won The Florida Bar Trial Lawyers Section of the Chester Bedell Mock Trial Competition 25 times in 38 years.Stetson Law was the first-ever American Bar Association (ABA) Competitions Champion in 2018 and earned the title for a second time in 2021.Stetson Law won The Florida Bar Foundation 2021 Florida Pro Bono Law School Challenge. Law libraries In order to obtain, and maintain, accreditation through the American Bar Association (ABA), law schools must meet certain standards set by the ABA. The Council and Accreditation Committee of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar is the accrediting agency for law schools. Among the standards evaluated is the requirement that law schools have a law library. The standards also establish the requirements relative to the administration of the law library, the law library director, personnel, services, and the collection the library shall hold. As such, Stetson University College of Law maintains a main library on the Gulfport campus—the Dolly and Homer Hand Law Library—and a satellite library at the Tampa Law Center. History of Stetson's law libraries As the Board of Trustees authorized the establishment of the Stetson University College of Law in 1899, creating a law library immediately became a concern.: 56–62  To create a core collection for the law library, book and monetary donations were sought and obtained from Florida attorneys.: 61  By its opening in October 1900, the College of Law had a law library and the 1901 annual report indicated that the library donation goals had been met.: 61–62 Upon the law school's move from DeLand to Gulfport in 1954, the library collection also had to be moved.: 285  The new house for the law library consisted of "several small cubicles" and at the time "all the law books 'fit into one moving van.'": 286  The collection contained less than 18,000 books.: 402  In 1955, an anonymous donor pledged $250,000 to assist in paying for the creation of a new law library and classroom building.: 319  Within one year, the law school was able to raise the money to match the anonymous donation and met its $750,000 goal.: 319  It became known that the anonymous donor was Charles A. Dana and the Charles A. Dana Foundation.: 319  Construction on the new Charles A. Dana Library began in 1957.: 321  Students and staff transferred the small law library collection from the original location on the Gulfport campus to the new library in less than thirty minutes.: 321  This new library included space to expand the collection (housing for 70,000 volumes) and study space for 100 students.: 322  In 1958, the Charles A. Dana Law Library opened.: 322  The dedication of the library, made in the presence of Charles A. Dana, included a convocation by Florida's Governor, LeRoy Collins.: 322  The Charles A. Dana Foundation provided a gift in 1971 for the purpose of doubling the law library's size.: 387  The school completed the expansion in 1973 and provided space for 275 students and 160,000 volumes.: 387  During this time, the Charles A. Dana Library also became "the first law library in Florida to be a depositary for Federal Government documents.": 388  By 1981, the library's collection contained more than 165,182 volumes.: 402 By the mid-1990s, Stetson University College of Law "had been put on notice years earlier that its library was on shaky grounds regarding ABA requirements, and that the problems were of such magnitude that a new structure might have to be built.": 606  Some individuals did not believe a new library was warranted as they doubted the future of libraries, but Dean Moody proceeded with the planning stated by her predecessor Dean Bruce Jacob, Emeritus Law Librarian Lamar Woodard, and a.... Discover the Edward Stetson popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Edward Stetson books.

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    Jailhouse Logic Notes on Legal Reasoning and Argument

    Edward Stetson

    Student notes on legal reasoning and argument including classical and modern solutions for legal and argumentative writers, this text surveys a broad literature, and offers a pract...

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    Scene Stylistics

    Edward Stetson

    Study Notes on Fiction Story, Style, Scene and Structure : With a Case Study of Dennis Lehane's Mystic River A handy reference for aspiring novelists and a novel insight into the ...

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    Jailhouse Stylistics Notes on Legal Style and Rhetoric

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    Student notes on legal style and rhetoric including rhetorical figures of speech, structure, and dramatic techniques, elements of functional grammar, sentence analysis, and suggest...