Florida Tomorrow is a place...
where business and the economy thrives.
An invisible framework supports every business, every organization, every way of life. It governs how institutions and individuals interact, and can dictate who succeeds and who fails. It is the Rule of Law, and it provides the structure that allows civilizations to flourish.
The University of Florida College of Law has helped build and maintain this framework for close to a hundred years. With more living alumni than only a handful of law schools and top ranked programs in vital areas such as Taxation, Family Law and Environmental and Land Use Law, UF Law graduates are found everywhere important decisions are made.
“You cannot successfully generate or distribute assets without a sound understanding of the law,” says Dean Robert Jerry. “Businesses realize this, and you can find many of our graduates at the top of the country’s most successful organizations. Our alumni also are shaping public policy at the highest levels and leading law firms that help define how the law is applied and followed.”
UF Law’s Graduate Tax Program, for example, has impacted the nation’s formulation and interpretation of the nation’s tax laws for 30-plus years. It is widely regarded by tax scholars and practitioners nationwide as a leader among all graduate tax programs. Its faculty include internationally respected people in the field such as Culverhouse Eminent Scholar Larry Lokken and Freeland Eminent Scholar Paul McDaniel.
“My years at UF provided wonderful preparation for my career,” says Lindy Paull, a current co-managing partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Washington, D.C., who earned her J.D. and LL.M. in Taxation from UF before embarking on a career that includes service as chief of staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation of the U.S. Congress.
This respected program recently increased its impact by adding the nation’s first Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) in Taxation, and an LL.M. in International Taxation Program that places the program at the forefront in the study of international taxation.
"Legal expertise in international taxation is greatly valued in a world of multinational corporations, electronic commerce, and international business and investment transactions," says Associate Dean Michael Friel, head of the law school's Graduate Tax Program. "U.S. lawyers in cities throughout the country must become more familiar with international tax rules, and foreign lawyers must become more familiar with both U.S. and international tax rules."
