SelectedWorks - Jason P. Nance

Selected Works of Jason P. Nance

Professor of Law

Education:
J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School Ph.D., The Ohio State University M.A., The Ohio State University B.A., Brigham Young University
Teaching and Scholarship:
Education Law, Empirical Legal Studies, Torts, Remedies, The Legal Profession
Professional Activities:
University of Florida: Joined College of Law faculty as Assistant Professor in 2011
Previous Academic Experience: Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Villanova University School of Law (Fall 2010); Visiting Assistant Professor of Applied Statistics, The Ohio State University (2002 – 2003)
Previous Professional Experience: Litigation Associate, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (2007 – 2011); Law Clerk to Judge Kent A. Jordan, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (Dec. 2006 – Sept. 2007); Law Clerk to Judge Kent A. Jordan, United States District Court for the District of Delaware (Sept. 2006 – Dec. 2006); Public School Teacher, Aldine Independent School District, Houston, Texas (1996 – 1999)

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About Jason P. Nance

Education:
J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School Ph.D., The Ohio State University M.A., The Ohio State University B.A., Brigham Young University
Teaching and Scholarship:
Education Law, Empirical Legal Studies, Torts, Remedies, The Legal Profession
Professional Activities:
University of Florida: Joined College of Law faculty as Assistant Professor in 2011
Previous Academic Experience: Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Villanova University School of Law (Fall 2010); Visiting Assistant Professor of Applied Statistics, The Ohio State University (2002 – 2003)
Previous Professional Experience: Litigation Associate, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (2007 – 2011); Law Clerk to Judge Kent A. Jordan, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (Dec. 2006 – Sept. 2007); Law Clerk to Judge Kent A. Jordan, United States District Court for the District of Delaware (Sept. 2006 – Dec. 2006); Public School Teacher, Aldine Independent School District, Houston, Texas (1996 – 1999)

Present	Associate Director, Center on Children and Families, University of Florida Levin College of Law
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Present	Associate Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law
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Law, Civil Rights and Discrimination, Education Law, and Legal Remedies

Mailing Address:
Box #117625 Gainesville, FL 32611
Email:
nance@law.ufl.edu
Phone:
352.273.0992
Fax:
352.392.3005

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Student Surveillance, Racial Inequalities, and Implicit Racial Bias (Jason P. Nance) UF Law Faculty Publications (2017)

In the wake of high-profile incidents of school violence, school officials have increased their reliance on a host of surveillance measures to maintain order and control in their schools. Paradoxically, such practices can foster hostile ...

Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Tools for Change (Jason P. Nance) UF Law Faculty Publications (2016)

The school-to-prison pipeline is one of our nation’s most formidable challenges. It refers to the trend of directly referring students to law enforcement for committing certain offenses at school or creating conditions under which students ...

Rethinking Law Enforcement Officers in Schools (Jason P. Nance) UF Law Faculty Publications (2016)

A recent event that occurred in a South Carolina classroom illustrates why there should be concern about assigning law enforcement officers to work in public schools. In October of 2015, a teacher called a law ...

Students, Police, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline (Jason P. Nance) UF Law Faculty Publications (2016)

Since the terrible shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, lawmakers and school officials continue to deliberate over new laws and policies to keep students safe, including putting more police officers in schools. ...

Articles (12)

Implicit Racial Bias and Students' Fourth Amendment Rights (Jason P. Nance) UF Law Faculty Publications (2019)

Tragic acts of school violence such as what occurred in Columbine, Newtown, and, more recently, in Parkland and Santa Fe, provoke intense feelings of anger, fear, sadness, and helplessness. Understandably, in response to these incidents ...

Student Surveillance, Racial Inequalities, and Implicit Racial Bias (Jason P. Nance) UF Law Faculty Publications (2017)

In the wake of high-profile incidents of school violence, school officials have increased their reliance on a host of surveillance measures to maintain order and control in their schools. Paradoxically, such practices can foster hostile ...

The American Bar Association Joint Task Force on Reversing the School-to-Prison Pipeline Preliminary Report (Sarah E. Redfield and Jason P. Nance) UF Law Faculty Publications (2016)

In 2014, the American Bar Association (ABA) Coalition on Racial and Ethnic Justice (COREJ) turned its attention to the continuing failures in the education system where certain groups of students — for example, students of ...

Over-Disciplining Students, Racial Bias, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline (Jason P. Nance) UF Law Faculty Publications (2016)

Over the last three decades, our nation has witnessed a dramatic change regarding how schools discipline children. Empirical evidence during this time period demonstrates that schools increasingly have relied on extreme forms of punishment such ...

An Empirical Analysis of Diversity in the Legal Profession (Jason P. Nance and Paul E. Madsen) UF Law Faculty Publications (2014)

The purpose of this Study is to empirically examine the diversity of the legal profession. The primary distinctive features of this empirical analysis are that it evaluates diversity in the legal profession by (a) carefully ...

School Surveillance and the Fourth Amendment (Jason P. Nance) UF Law Faculty Publications (2014)

In the aftermath of several highly-publicized incidents of school violence, public school officials have increasingly turned to intense surveillance methods to promote school safety. The current jurisprudence interpreting the Fourth Amendment generally permits school officials ...

School Security Considerations after Newtown (Jason P. Nance) UF Law Faculty Publications (2013)

On December 14, 2012, and in the weeks thereafter, our country mourned the deaths of twenty children and six educators who were brutally shot and killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Since ...

Random, Suspicionless Searches of Students' Belongings: A Legal, Empirical, and Normative Analysis (Jason P. Nance) UF Law Faculty Publications (2013)

This Article provides a legal, empirical, and normative analysis of an intrusive search practice used by schools officials to prevent school crime: random, suspicionless searches of students’ belongings. First, it argues that these searches are ...

Students, Security, and Race (Jason P. Nance) UF Law Faculty Publications (2013)

In the wake of the terrible shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, our nation has turned its attention to school security. For example, several states have passed or are considering passing legislation that will provide new funding ...

The Law Review Article Selection Process: Results from a National Study (Jason P. Nance) Albany Law Review (2008)

The student-edited law review has been a much criticized institution. Many commentators have expressed their belief that students are unqualified to determine which articles should be published in which journals, but these discussions have been ...

Protecting Students from Abuse: Public School District Liability for Student Sexual Abuse Under State Child Abuse Reporting Laws (Jason P. Nance and Philip T.K. Daniel) UF Law Faculty Publications (2007)

Virtually all courts recognize that a child abuse reporting statute creates a duty to children, the breach of which is the basis of a civil suit for damages. Normally, courts recognize a duty only to ...

The Role of the Administrator in Instructional Technology Policy (Philip T.K. Daniel and Jason P. Nance) UF Law Faculty Publications (2002)

In response to national and state reform movements, and in an attempt to strengthen preparation standards for teachers and students, accreditation boards have prepared performance indicators in the area of technology. Such standards call for ...