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Shepard Broad Law Center’s Environmental & Land Use Law Program has been GROWING!

NSU Environmental & Land Use Faculty Update:

During the Spring 2007 semester, Richard Grosso was promoted to a full professor at Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad Law Center in Fort Lauderdale. Currently, Professor Grosso directs the law school’s environmental and land use law clinical program. He also teaches the Florida Land Development Workshop, as well as being the Executive Director & General Counsel for the Everglades Law Center, Inc, a non-profit environmental and land use law firm, which supervises NSU’s law student interns as they work on some of the most high –profile, complex land use and environmental cases in Florida.

Professor Joel Mintz chaired a strategy session of the Corporate Accountability Scholars Group of the Center for Progressive Reform (CPR), a Washington, D.C.-based “green think tank.” He published an annual supplement to a lengthy chapter he wrote in a Thomson/West treatise on State and Local Debt Financing. In addition, he recently published a chapter on reform of the National Environmental Policy Act in a book titled CPR for the Environment: Breathing New Life Into the Nation’s Major Environmental Statutes (Center for Progressive Reform, 2007). Additionally, his law review article, Has Industry Captured The EPA?: Appraising Marver Bernstein’s Captive Agency Theory After Fifty Years, 17 Fordham Envt’l. L. Rev. 1 (Fall, 2005), has been selected by the Environmental and Land Use Law Review, as one of the twenty best articles published in the United States last year in the fields of Environmental Law and Land Use Law.

NSU Environmental & Land Use Law Clinic Update:

The Fall 2006 Environmental and Land Use Law clinic had four law students working in-house at Nova’s Environmental & Land Use Law clinic. Students had opportunities to work on current litigation in Miami-Dade County and Monroe County, as well as attend a Technical Advisory Committee meeting in Broward County regarding water quality issues in the community. In addition to interning students, three students externed at other placements including a private law firm, the South Florida Water Management District, and the Environmental Protection Agency, in Washing D.C. Currently, the law clinic is buzzing again with three more summer interns!

NSU Environmental Law Society Update:

NSU Law has a very active Environmental Law Society. In March, it hosted the first environmental & land use law alumni happy hour at the Flight Deck in the new Student Center on campus. The event was co-sponsored by the Everglades Law Center, Inc. It was a great networking opportunity for past and present students. We are looking forward to a Second Annual Environmental & Land Use Law Alumni Happy Hour next year!

In April, ELS staged an “Earth Day 2007 Bash” on the back lawn of the Law Center. Numerous environmental organizations and agencies attended the event to educate students and staff about current environmental issues in Florida. NSU law students provided live music and Whole Foods supplied natural foods for a sandwich buffet. It was a great event! Planning for Earth Day 2008 has already begun.

Upcoming Events: FALL 2007

• In the fall, the Environmental & Land Use Law clinic will have ten new students interning and externing across the state.

• ELS is sponsoring a snorkeling field trip to the Florida Keys and a camping weekend in Everglades National Park!

• Professor Joel Mintz will be editor-in-chief of a treatise on State and Local Taxation that will be published by Lexis Nexis. Also, a book suggesting pro-environmental modifications to U.S. environmental laws will be published later this year, in which he authored a chapter on possible reform of the National Environmental Policy Act.

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