Recent achievements and updates concerning the Florida State University College of Law's Environmental and Land Use Law Program include the following: 

·       The College of Law’s Fall 2003 Environmental Forum, held on November 5 and co-sponsored with the ELULs, focused on the ACF River System and attracted an audience of more than 120 people;

·       The Environmental Alumni Group has created three opportunities for alumni/ae to become involved in activities at the law school: 1) a Mentoring Directory; 2) a Speaker’s Bureau; and 3) Articles Collaborations with current students.   Alumni/ae interested in getting involved in one or more of these activities should feel free to contact Prof. David Markell (dmarkell@law.fsu.edu).   Ideas for other initiatives are welcome.   Tom Pelham, Mary Smallwood, and Vivian Garfein are serving as co-chairs of the Alumni Group.

·       FSU has updated the web site for its Environmental and Land Use Law Program.   Here’s the link http://www.law.fsu.edu/academic_programs/environmental/.    Please visit and let us know what you think.

·       Our faculty has been busy and productive over the past few months.   Highlights include: Donna Christie gave a presentation to the Czech Environmental Law Society at Charles University in Prague on WTO jurisprudence and resolving conflicts between trade and environment; she also has an article on marine living resource management forthcoming in Environmental Law.   J.B. Ruhl presented papers on various topics dealing with the Endangered Species Act at Duke University, Lewis & Clark, University of Montana, University of Indiana, and meetings of the American Bar Association, and he published an article on regulation and compliance in the most recent issue of the Georgetown Law Journal.   David Markell gave a presentation on trade/environment issues during the America's Trade and Sustainable Development Forum (Miami Trade Ministerial, November 2003), moderated a panel as part of Adaptive Governance and Florida's Water Conflicts (DeVoe L. Moore Center Critical Issues Conference, November 2003), and co-authored or co-edited three books published over the past year: an environmental law casebook, Environmental Protection: Law and Policy, (Aspen Law & Business, 4^th ed. 2003); Greening NAFTA: The North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Stanford University Press 2003); Reinventing Environmental Enforcement & the State/Federal Relationship (Environmental Law Institute 2003)

·       We have a busy spring planned.   Prof. Lee Breckenridge, Northeastern University Law School, will give the Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law Lecture, and we are in the planning stages for the spring Environmental Forum.   More details to follow on the latter.