As I noted in the last Chair’s Column, one of the goals of our Executive Council is to enhance the relationship between the Section and the state’s law schools and to increase participation by law students and faculty in Section activities. To accomplish this goal, a re-structuring of the Law School Liaison Committee is in order. One or two Executive Council members or other Section members will be appointed as liaisons to each law school. Each representative will contact the dean and environmental law faculty at each school. We will ask that each school appoint at least one environmental law faculty member and student to serve as the school’s liaison to the ELULS.

     By establishing this structure, we would like to accomplish a number of objectives:

---Establish roles for students and faculty in the development of the Treatise, Section Reporter and Bar Journal columns.

---Integrate faculty into seminars and workshops

---Encourage law students to join the Section as affiliate members and become involved in Section activities. We can use our website and Listserve as a means of enhancing communication between the law schools and the Section and also provide a forum for discussion of environmental issues and activities.

---Create on-campus lecture or “Brown-Bag” programs using Section members, government officials, and faculty as participants.

---Determine whether any changes need to be made to the Dean Maloney writing competition in order to boost participation.

---Explore the possibility of expanding the University of Florida’s Public Interest Conference or creating other environmental issue-based conferences at other law schools.

     Please let me know of any thoughts you have regarding our activities in association with the law schools or, even better, if you have any interest in participating.