The University of Florida Levin College of Law’s innovative Environmental and Land Use Law Program (ELULP) – guided by an Advisory Board of alumni representing a broad spectrum of environmental and land use practice – is taking steps in 2003 to continue to strengthen and expand the program.

     After a national search conducted by law school faculty, two additional professors have been added to the program: Professor Christine Klein of the Michigan State DCL College of Law (to start this fall), and Mary Jane Angelo, Senior Assistant General Counsel for the St. Johns River Water Management District (to start in 2004). The two new hires share experience and interest in water law, adding to the College’s tradition of strength in that area begun by former Dean Frank Maloney and carried forward by Richard Hamann at the College’s Center for Governmental Responsibility.

     Professor Klein’s experience to date emphasizes western water law. She specialized in water rights litigation in the Natural Resources Section of the Colorado Attorney General’s Office after clerking for Judge Richard Matsch of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. Klein received her J.D. from the University of Colorado, where she served as an editor of the law review, and an LL.M from Columbia University. She has published extensively on subjects including wetlands, western water law, federal dam policy, the Antiquities Act, and the Commerce Clause. She directs the Environmental Concentration at Michigan State, where she has taught since 1995.

     Mary Jane Angelo is a member of the Environmental and Land Use Law Section and known to many from her work with the SJRWMD Office of General Counsel over the past seven years. Prior to that time, she served in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of General Counsel in Washington, D.C. for five years. After receiving her M.S. in Entomology and her J.D. from the University of Florida, where she was on the law review, Angelo clerked for the Chief Judicial Hearing Officer at the EPA in Washington, D.C. Angelo has taught a course in Environmental Dispute Resolution at the Levin College of Law. She has published articles on water management, environmental enforcement and EPA regulation of biotechnology, among other topics.

     In addition, for longterm strategic planning, the program will also draw on its Advisory Board. Program Director Alyson Flournoy also recently formed an executive committee to help the program determine how best to tap the expertise of the broader Advisory Board. Larry Sellers is chairing the new committee which is helping to plan a meeting of the full Advisory Board in connection with the Section Annual Update this August. Alumni serving on the new executive committee are former EPA Administrator Carol Browner (The Albright Group LLC), Mary Jane Angelo (SJRWMD), Richard Brightman (Hopping Green & Sams), Brenna Durden (Lewis Longman & Walker), and David White (The Ocean Conservancy). For more information about the ELULP, visit our website at www.law.ufl.edu/elulp/.