The big news at FSU College of Law this spring is that we’ve enticed a leading environmental and land use scholar, Robin Kundis Craig, to join the faculty. Professor Craig is a prolific author, including an Environmental Law casebook with West Publishing. Professor Craig is currently a professor at the Univ. of Indiana School of Law in Indianapolis. Professor Craig’s addition to the faculty will bolster what already is considered to be one of the nation’s leading environmental and land use law programs.

     Our Environmental Moot Court team, Melinda Parks, Lee Sanderson, and Michael Makdisi, advanced to the Quarterfinals of this year’s National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition. Melinda Parks received the honor of being named best oralist in the first preliminary round.

     The College of Law has a full schedule of land use and environmental law activities scheduled for the spring, including the following:
 

1) A Distinguished Lecture by Professor Douglas Kysar of Cornell University, part of the College of Law’s Distinguished Lecture Series (March 21).

2) The Law School’s spring ‘06 Environmental Forum, entitled Integration of Land Use and Water Management in Florida (March 28).

3) The Law School’s academic Symposium on Ecosystem Services, which will feature leading scholars from throughout the United States, including Deb Donahue of the University of Wyoming, Don Elliott of Yale, Jim Salzman of Duke, and Dan Tarlock of Chicago Kent (April 7 and 8).
 

     We hope you’ll join us for one or more of our programs. For more information about our programs, please consult our web site at: www.law.fsu.edu, or please feel free to contact Professor David Markell, at dmarkell@law.fsu.edu. Our environmental brochure, available online, also contains considerable information about the environmental law program at FSU.