Regent Law News

When Ronald Fick, shareholder and attorney at Dunwody White & Landon, P.A. in Palm Beach, Florida, learned that his daughter, Allison Fick ’14 (LAW) received the highest grade in her Contracts I course, he proudly proclaimed that she would receive the book award for her efforts. But he didn't know that, at the time, Regent University’s School of Law had no book award program. “I decided I’d make a concerted effort to see if I could convince Regent to begin giving these awards to honor future students, like today’s recipients,” said Fick. Due to that effort, Regent launched its first set of book awards in January 2014. The second set was awarded in September 2014, just in time for Fick’s daughter to be presented with an award for the highest marks in her Corporate Tax class. “All’s well that ends well,” Fick said to LAW students, faculty and staff at the Ronald L. Fick Book Award Ceremony on Thursday, January 21st. This semester’s ceremony honored students who received t...

Regent University's School of Law Faculty members willingly share their knowledge and expertise beyond the classroom to spark scholarly debate and advance the practice of law. Their latest endeavors include the following. WEEK OF OCTOBER 30, 2015: Assistant Professor Tessa Dysart is the featured scholar on the Scholastica blog . This is a great feature for Professor Dysart and for Regent as Scholastica is the elite law review submission distribution site, and their article featuring her work is now being disseminated to a nation of elite legal scholars.  At the Law Library Faculty Colloquium this past week, Assistant Professor Tessa Dysart presented her article " The Affordable Care Act, the Origination Clause, and Indirect Constitutional Violations ," published by the Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy. Associate Professor Brad Jacob was a featured speaker for the forum at Cedarville College on October 21, where he presented and a Cedarville political...