Office
St. Thomas University School of Law
16401 N.W. 37th Avenue
Miami, Florida 33054
Phone: (305) 623-2322
Fax: (305) 623-2390
Email: aronner@stu.edu
Legal Education
J.D., University of Miami School of Law, 1985
Magna Cum Laude
Pre-Legal Education
Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1980
Major: 19th Century British Literature
Minor: Creative Writing and Old English
M.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1976
English Language and Literature
B.A., Beloit College, Wisconsin, 1975
Major: English Composition and Creative Writing
Minor: Education
Honors Law School
University of Miami Law Review, Member
Order of the Coif
American Jurisprudence Awards:
Civil Procedure
Trusts and Estates
Torts
Constitutional Law
Best Brief in Advanced Moot Court Competition, 1985
Honors Graduate School: University of Michigan
Distinguished Graduate Student Department Award (1980)
Distinguished Teaching Award (1979)
Award for Distinguished Achievement in Ph.D. Area Examinations (1978)
Legal Honors
Board Certified Appellate Lawyer (Effective June 1, 1995)
Elected Fellow of the American Bar Foundation in recognition of professional attainment, distinguished service and commitment (1998)
Selected as a Leading Florida Attorney in Civil Appellate Law by the American Research Corporation (1997): To be selected attorneys must receive multiple recommendations for their peers in a statewide survey and fewer than 6% of the state’s attorneys are selected.
Recipient of the Florida Association of Women Lawyers 50th Anniversary Golden Star Award (2001)
Recipient of Certificate of Appreciation from the Circuit Court of the State of Florida, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, For Contribution to the North Dade Justice Center Law Week (2002)
Award for Meritorious Committee Service to the Legal Profession And The Florida Bar (Appellate Court Rules Committee) (2003)
Legal Employment
1992 to the present
St. Thomas University School of Law
16400 N.W. 37th Avenue
Miami, Florida 33054
Tenured Professor of Law:
Property I and II, Appellate Practice, Wills and Trusts, Criminal Procedure; Creator and Director of the St. Thomas University School of Law Appellate Litigation Clinic (1992-99)
Recipient of the Professor of the Year Award
By the Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, The Student Bar Association and the Students Of St. Thomas University of Law (2002)
2002-2003
University of Miami School of Law
P.O. Box 248087
Coral Gables, Florida 33124-8087
Visiting Professor of Law:
Family Law, Professional Responsibility, And Trusts and Estates
1989-92
Holland & Knight
Miami, Florida 33131
Associate: Appellate work and some commercial litigation
1986-89
Greer, Homer, Cope & Bonner, P.A.
Miami, Florida 33131
Associate: Commercial litigation and some appellate work
1985-86
The Honorable Eugene P. Spellman,
United States District Judge For the Southern District of Florida
Law Clerk
1984-85
University of Miami School of Law
Miami, Florida 33124
Part-Time Instructor (Position held as a third-year law student)
Pre-Legal Employment
1980-84
University of Miami
Miami, Florida 33124
Lecturer: English Literature, American Literature, World Literature, Composition and Creative Writing
1975-80
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
Teaching Fellow: English Composition, Great Books (for honors students), Composition and Creative Writing
Legal Publications
Book
LAW, LITERATURE, AND THERAPEUTIC JURISPRUDENCE (Carolina Academic Press, 2010).
HOMOPHOBIA AND THE LAW (American Psychological Association, 2005).
ENGLAND AND RONNER’S PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE APPELLATE COURTS OF FLORIDA (Revere Legal Publishers, 2001) (co-authored with Arthur J. England, Jr., ex-Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court).
Articles In Books
The Antitherapeutic Per Curiam Affirmance, in JUDGING IN A THERAPEUTIC KEY: THERAPEUTIC JURISPRUDENCE AND THE COURTS, Bruce J. Winick and David B. Wexler, eds. (Carolina Academic Press, 2003).
Some In-House Appellate Litigation Clinic’s Lessons In Professional Responsibility: Musical Stories of Candor and the Sandbag, in CLINICAL ANTHOLOGY READINGS FOR LIVE-CLIENT CLINICS, Alex Hurder, ed. (Anderson Publishing Co., 1997).
Articles
The Learned-Helpless Lawyer: Clinical Legal Education and Therapeutic Jurisprudence as Antidotes to Bartleby Syndrome, 24 TOURO LAW REVIEW 601 (2008).
The Crucible, Harvard's Secret Court, and Homophobic Witch Hunts, 73 BROOKLYN LAW REVIEW 217 (2007).
Dostoyevsky and the Therapeutic Jurisprudence Confession, 40 JOHN MARSHALL LAW REVIEW 41 (2006).
Denaturalization And Death: What It Means To Preclude The Exercise of Judicial Discretion, 20 GEORGETOWN IMMIGRATION LAW JOURNAL 101 (2005).
Voiceless Billy Budd: Melville’s Tribute To the Sixth Amendment, 41 CALIFORNIA WESTERN LAW REVIEW 103 (2004).
Homophobia and Death: In The Closest and In the Coffin, 21 LAW AND INEQUALITY 65 (2003).
Songs of Validation, Voice and Voluntary Participation: Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Miranda and Juveniles, 71 UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI LAW REVIEW 89 (2002).
Scouting for Intolerance: The Dale Court’s Resurrection of The Medieval Leper, 11 LAW SEXUALITY 53 (2002).
Good Fences Make Bad Neighbors: Is the North American Free Trade Agreement A Lie for Lawyers, 32 UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI INTER-AMERICAN LAW REVIEW 437 (2001) (co-authored with Dennis J. O’Connor).
Fleeing While Black: The Fourth Amendment Apartheid, 32 THE COLUMBIA HUMAN RIGHTS LAW REVIEW 383 (2001).
The Per Curiam Affirmance: A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Critique, IX THE RECORD: JOURNAL OF THE APPELLATE PRACTICE SECTION OF THE FLORIDA BAR 1 (Spring 2001).
Silencing the Appellant’s Voice: The Antitherapeutic Per Curiam Affirmance, 24 SEATTLE UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 499 (2001) (co-authored with Bruce Winick).
Therapeutic Jurisprudence on Appeal, 37 COURT REVIEW 64 (2000).
Women Who Dance on the Professional Track: Custody and the Red Shoes, 23 HARVARD WOMEN'S LAW JOURNAL 173 (2000).
Punishment Meted Out for Acquittals: An Anti-Therapeutic Jurisprudence Atrocity, 41 ARIZONA LAW REVIEW 461 (1999).
The Demise of the Reasonable Doubt Standard: The Toxic Watts and Putra Decision, 60 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH LAW REVIEW 383 (1999).
The Cassandra Curse: The Stereotype of the Female Liar Resurfaces in Jones v. Clinton, 31 U.C. DAVIS LAW REVIEW 123 (1997).
Husband And Wife Are One - Him: Bennis v. Michigan As The Resurrection of Coverture, 4 MICHIGAN JOURNAL OF GENDER & LAW 129 (1996).
Prometheus Unbound: Accepting a Mythless Concept Of Civil In Rem Forfeiture With Double Jeopardy Protection, 44 BUFFALO LAW REVIEW 655 (1996).
Some In-House Appellate Litigation clinic’s Lessons In Professional Responsibility: Musical Stories of Candor and the Sandbag, 45 THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 859 (1996).
Amathia and Denial of "In the Home" in Bowers v. Hardwick and Shahar v. Bowers: Objective Correlatives and The Bacchae as Tools for Analyzing Privacy and Intimacy, 44 THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAW REVIEW 263 (1996).
When Judges Impose The Death Penalty After the Jury Recommends Life: Harris v. Alabama as the Excision of the Tympanic Membrane in an Augmentedly Death-Biased Procedure, 23 HASTINGS CONSTITUTIONAL LAW QUARTERLY 217 (1995).
Bottoms v. Bottoms: The Lesbian Mother and the Judicial Perpetuation of Damaging Stereotypes, 7 YALE JOURNAL OF LAW AND FEMINISM 341 (1995).
Destructive Rules of Certainty and Efficiency: A Study in the Context of Summary Judgment Procedure and the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits, 28 LOYOLA OF LOS ANGELES LAW REVIEW 619 (1995).
Real Students, Real Appeals, Real Courts; The In-House Appellate Litigation Clinic at St. Thomas University School of Law, II, No. 2 THE RECORD: JOURNAL OF THE APPELLATE PRACTICE SECTION OF THE FLORIDA BAR 13 (May 1994).
Judicial Self-Demise: Article III Separation Of Powers After Seattle Audubon and the New Section of the 1934 Securities Exchange Act, 35 ARIZONA LAW REVIEW 1037 (1993).
Brockmeyer v. Dun & Bradstreet: The Narrow Public Policy Exception to the Terminable-At-Will Rule, 39 UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI LAW REVIEW 565 (1984).
Other Publications
Book: W.H. HUDSON: THE MAN, THE NOVELIST, THE NATURALIST (AMS Press 1986).
Original poetry and other materials in the field of English Literature.
Law School Service
St. Thomas University School of Law
(dates omitted)
Faculty Advisor to the Law Review
Faculty Advisor to student chapter of
The Florida Association of Women Lawyers
Faculty Advisor to the Peter T. Fay American Inn Of Court at St. Thomas
Member of Curriculum Committee
Member of Academic Integrity Committee
Member of Academic Standing Committee
Member of Promotion and Tenure Committee
Member of Library Committee
Member of Dean Search Committee
Member of Faculty Recruitment Committee
(Chair in 1994-96)
Faculty Advisor to Moot Court Board
Faculty Liaison to Peter T. Fay American Inn Of Court at St. Thomas University School of Law; Chair of Membership Committee and Continuing Legal Education Credits
Admitted to Practice
Florida
Board Certified Appellate Lawyer (Effective June 1, 1995) (Presently Emeritus status)
United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Memberships and Service
Bar Activities
American Bar Association: Elected Fellow of the American Bar Foundation
Federal Bar Association:
- President of the South Florida Chapter (2005-6)
- Member of the Executive Board of the Federal Bar Foundation (South Florida Chapter)
- President-Elect of the South Florida Chapter (2004-5).
Florida Bar Association:
- Fellow of the Florida Bar Foundation (2003)
- Member of Editorial Board of the Florida Bar Journal and News (2000-06)
- Florida Bar Association Appellate Rules Committee (1995 to 2003); Vice Chair (1997-98 and 2001-2002)
- Florida Bar Association Appellate Rules Liaison Committee (since 1993)
Dade County Bar Association:
- Dade County Bar Association Appellate Court Committee (since 1991)
Florida Association of Women Lawyers
Other Activities
American Inns of Court Foundation
Publications Committee (1991-92)
Peter T. Fay American Inn of Court at St. Thomas University School of Law (since 1987):
- Chair of Continuing Legal Education Credits (since 1993) and Chair of Membership Committee (since 1994)
Member of Chief Justice’s Advisory Committee for the 2001 Tobias Simon Pro Bono Awards
Presentations and Lectures
Presentation: Bartleby And the Learned-Helpless Lawyer at N.Y. U. Law School, Law and Mental Health Conference, in New York City (2009).
Presentation: Dostoyevsky and The Therapeutic Jurisprudence Confession at John Jay College of Criminal Justice: International Conference on Justice and Policing in Diverse Societies in San Juan, Puerto Rico (2008).
Presentation: Guest Expert on W.H. Hudson on The Secret Voice of Nature (Directed by George Tombs) on CBC Canadian Radio (2007).
Presentation: Dostoyevsky and The Therapeutic Jurisprudence Confession at International Academy of Law and Mental health Conference in June, Padua, Italy (2007).
Presentation: Live All You Can, Key Note Speech for Black Law Student Association (2006).
Presentation: Therapeutic Jurisprudence As a Tool for Counseling Sexual Minorities at International Academy of Law and Mental Heath Conference in July, Paris, France (2005).
Presentation: Judicial Sensitivity and the Law at the 2004 Annual Business Program of the Conference of County Court Judges of Florida in Naples, Florida, July 2004.
Presentation: The Use of Therapeutic Jurisprudence and the T/J Preventive Law Model in Teaching an In-house Appellate Litigation Clinic at Association of American Law Schools Conference on Legal Education in San Diego, California, May 2004.
Presentation: Conflicts of Interest and Joint Representation, at Second Annual Criminal Justice Ethics Symposium, jointly sponsored by the ABA Criminal Justice Section, the Florida Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism, the Florida Bar Standing Committee on Professionalism, and the University of Miami School of Law Center for Ethics and Public Service in Miami, Florida, April 2003.
Presentation: Silencing the Appellant’s Voice at The International Academy of Law and Mental Health Conference in Amsterdam, Holland, July (2002).
Presentation: Songs of Validation, Voice and Voluntary Participation: Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Miranda and Juveniles at the Western Society of Criminology Conference in San Diego, California (2002).
Presentation: Women Who Dance on the Professional Track: Custody and the Red Shoes at the Annual Florida Bar Conference (Summer 2001).
Presentation on Lifetime television of Women Who Dance on the Professional Track: Custody and the Red Shoes (2001).
Presentation: Therapeutic Jurisprudence and The Courts at the European Law and Psychology Conference in Lisbon, Portugal (Summer 2001).
Presentation on Collaborative Divorce at the Therapeutic Jurisprudence Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio (2001).
Presentation on Appellate Therapeutic Jurisprudence at the International Alliance of Holistic Lawyers Conference, Chicago (2000).
Presentation on Appellate Strategies for the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence in Jacksonville, Florida (2000).
Moderator of Panel on Therapeutic Jurisprudence for the Psychology And Law Conference, New Orleans (2000).
Moderator of Panel on “Title VII and the First Amendment: A Collision Course?” for the National Association of Women’s Judge’s 21st Annual Conference, Miami, Florida (1999).
Presentation on Extraordinary Writs for the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence Miami, Florida (1999).
Presentation of Paper, Anti-therapeutic Sentencing at the First International Conference On Therapeutic Jurisprudence in Winchester, England (1998).
Presentation of Objective Correlatives in Bowers v. Hardwick at John Marshall Law School’s Interdisciplinary Conference on Sex, Law, Society, Chicago, Illinois (1996).
Member of panel at Annual Appellate Seminar at the Third District Court of Appeal, Miami Florida (April 1997).
Guest Lecturer on Effective Brief Writing at the 1994 Appellate Conclave for the Florida Public Defenders Association, Tampa, Florida.
Periodic Guest Lecturer For Legal Services of Greater Miami
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