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William R. Eleazer

  • Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus, Stetson University College of Law
  • B.A., Vanderbilt University
  • J.D., George Washington University
  • LL.M., Emory University

Professor Eleazer is a member of the Florida, Georgia and District of Columbia Bars. Before joining the Stetson University School of Law faculty, Professor Eleazer served in the United States Marine Corps as Senior Military Judge, Sierra Circuit (California and Arizona); he also served as an assistant state attorney and felony prosecutor of the Fifth Judicial Circuit of Florida. He served on the Executive Council of the Criminal Law Section of The Florida Bar for nine years, serving two of these years as Chairman of the Trial Practice Manual Committee.

For six years he served as a member of the Code and Rules of Evidence Committee of The Florida Bar. Professor Eleazer is the co-author of Florida Criminal Trial Practice, (1982), was Legal Editor of Florida Pretrial Practice in Criminal Cases, a 1987 Florida Bar Publication, and is the original author of the Florida Evidence Courtroom Manual. His subject areas are Evidence, Trial Advocacy, Advanced Trial Evidence, and the Prosecution Clinic. For 18 years he served as a faculty advisor for Stetson's national award-winning trial competition teams, and was the 1996 recipient of the "Richard S. Jacobson Award for Excellence In Teaching Trial Advocacy" from the Roscoe Pound Foundation.

Howard P. Fink

  • Professor of Law Emeritus, The Ohio State University College of Law
  • B.S., Cornell University
  • LL.B., Yale Law School

Howard P. Fink is Isadore and Ida Topper Professor of Law, Emeritus, The Ohio State University College of Law. He holds a B.S. degree from Cornell University and an LL.B. degree from Yale Law School. Professor Fink's primary teaching areas are Civil Procedure and Federal Courts.

Professor Fink served from 1961 to 1963 as Special Assistant to the Judicial Conference of the United States Advisory Committee on Rules of Evidence for the Federal Courts. He joined the Ohio State faculty in 1965. He is Of Counsel to the law firm of Porter, Wright, Morris, and Arthur in Columbus, Ohio. He was a visiting professor at the University of Illinois, the University of San Diego, George Washington University, Wake Forest Univesity and Santa Clara University, and a distinguished visiting scholar at Stetson College of Law.

He was also co-chair of the Editorial Board of the Lexis Law Publishing Company. Professor Fink is a co-author of Moore's Federal Practice (1958-1978), Federal Jurisdiction: Policy and Practice (2d ed.1987), Civil Procedure (2d ed.1989), Guide to the Ohio Rules of Civil Procedure (2d ed.1999), Federal Courts Law Outlines, (1997) and Federal Practice in the 21st Century (1996, Supp., 1999).