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The director of the Center for Excellence in Advocacy, Charles H. Rose III joined the Stetson in 2004 as an assistant professor after his retirement from active duty service in the United States Army. While on active duty he served as a linguist, intelligence analyst, intelligence officer, and judge advocate general. As a judge advocate professor, Rose's practice included international law, the law of war, federal torts, administrative law and criminal justice. He prosecuted and defended criminal cases for more than five years, and later served as a criminal law professor at the Judge Advocate General's School U.S. Army in Charlottesville, Va.

Professor Rose is a noted legal analyst, appearing on local and national news media, to include Court TV and the O'Reilly factor. He also provides legal commentary both nationally and internationally on issues as diverse as the legal impact of the war on terror, criminal justice in America and the skill, science and art of advocacy.

Professor Rose has recently published the well received Fundamental Trial Advocacy with West Thomson and is a co-author on the soon to be released Military Crimes and Defenses with Lexis Nexis. He is currently working on the companion text to Fundamental Trial Advocacy titled Fundamental Pretrial Advocacy: A Strategic Guide to Effective Litigation with his co-author Professor Jim Underwood from Baylor Law School. His recent law review articles have focused on evidentiary issues, specifically the impact and potential use of recidivism data in drafting effective evidentiary rules to deal with sexual predators. An excerpt from his advocacy book can be found at: Fundamental Trial Advocacy: Preface - Why Another Advocacy Book?

Professor Rose is a nationally recognized advocacy teacher who has taught advocacy for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA), the University of Notre Dame, and the United States Army. His NITA experiences include three years as an instructor in their highly regarded "Train the Trainer" program conducted at Harvard Law School. He also teaches in their public service programs and has served as a member of in-house training teams for Littler Mendelson, the New York Stock Exchange and State Farm Insurance. He also provides direct advocacy training opportunities privately to a variety of firms. Recent presentations include a deposition skills program for Holland and Knight and a trial advocacy program for Greenberg Traurig. The Greenberg Traurig litigation academy recently selected Professor Rose's advocacy book Fundamental Trial Advocacy for use in their in-house training program.

Professor Rose lectures nationwide on a variety of subjects, and is available for commentary to outside organizations on an individually requested basis. His primary areas of scholarly interest are focused on the effective development of advocacy persuasion techniques during pre-trial, trial and appellate presentations, the federal rules of evidence, and the intersection of criminal law and the law of war as it relates to the war on terror.