John Paul Stevens, the oldest and longest serving justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, will speak at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on Monday.
Stevens, 88, will be the second U.S. Supreme Court justice to visit UF this semester and the fourth to visit since 2005.
Chief Justice John Roberts judged a moot court case between UF law students in September.
The event starts at 10 a.m.
Tickets, which were available to the UF law school community first, are no longer being distributed.
Debra Amirin, Levin College of Law spokeswoman, said as of Wednesday, about 800 free tickets were distributed.
Stevens, who joined the court in 1975, will be joined by U.S. District Court Judge Jose A. Gonzalez Jr., UF law professors Sharon E. Rush and Michael Allan Wolf and Larry Dougherty, a third-year law student and editor-in-chief of the Florida Law Review.
The group will talk about current legal issues. Rush, Wolf and Dougherty will ask questions submitted by UF law students.
The event is the first of the Marshall Criser Distinguished Lecture Series, which was created thanks to a $600,000 donation in January 2007 from UF law school alumnus Lewis Schott, said Chris Brazda, UF Foundation spokesman.
The donation was matched by $420,000 in state funds through Florida's University Major Gifts Program.
Robert Jerry, dean of UF's law school, said Stevens and Gonzalez declined to be paid for their appearances.
They were compensated for travel costs, Jerry said.
He said he was pleased students would have a second opportunity this semester to see a U.S. Supreme Court justice at UF.
But UF doesn't intend to stop bringing the big names any time soon, he added.
"There are not many law schools, if any, that have had this frequency of Supreme Court visitors," Jerry said.
