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A Spring ’07 Update on the FSU
College of Law’s Environmental Program |
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David Markell,
Donna Christie, Robin Craig and J.B. Ruhl |
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We’re in the midst of another busy semester at FSU College of Law. This article
is a brief summary of some of the major environmental and land use events and
initiatives we’ll be hosting or participating in during the next few months.
We’re delighted to welcome one of the nation’s leading environmental law
scholars to the law school on March 28. Professor Daniel Farber, Sho Sato
Professor of Law and Director of the Environmental Law Program at UC Berkeley,
will give our spring Distinguished Environmental Lecture. The College of Law
hosts a Distinguished Environmental Scholar each semester. These lectures are
open to the public and we would be delighted to have ELULs members join us for
this program. Professor Farber will be the 24th lecturer in this series, which
has brought many of the nation’s leading scholars to the College of Law.
On April 4, our spring Environmental Forum, which we are co-sponsoring with
ELULs, will focus on “Affordable Housing in Florida: Is Regulation the Cause or
the Cure?” The Environmental Forum series was launched in 2003; and this
spring’s Forum will be the seventh in the series. Several experts on the timely
issue of affordable housing and trends in the Florida housing market will
participate in the program, including Wellington H. Meffert II, Florida Housing
Finance Corporation; Jaimie Ross, 1000 Friends of Florida; Shaw P. Stiller,
Florida Department of Community Affairs; Henry H. Fishkind, Fishkind &
Associates, Inc.; and David Powell, Hopping Green & Sams. The program will begin
at 3 p.m. and will be followed by a reception.
The College of Law’s Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law’s spring 2007
issue will feature articles from last year’s ground-breaking Symposium on
Ecosystem Services. Authors include Professors Debra Donahue, University of
Wyoming; A. Dan Tarlock, Chicago-Kent College of Law; Dale Goble, University of
Idaho; Tony Arnold, University of Louisville School of Law; Dennis Hirsch,
Capital University; David Hodas, Widener University; Robert Abrams, Florida A&M
University; James Salzman, Duke University; and Florida State University College
of Law Professors Robin Craig, David Markell and J.B. Ruhl.
In February, our Environmental Moot Court team (FSU students Mike Makdisi,
Spencer Bishins, and Erika Siu) made it to the quarterfinals of the 2007
Environmental Moot Court Competition at Pace Law School. One team member, Ms.
Erika Siu, was named best oral advocate for one of the rounds in the
competition.
The College of Law’s Environmental Law Society has an active spring planned.
Students are exploring a variety of strategies to make the FSU College of Law
campus “more green” (energy conservation measures, etc.). The ELS is also taking
a lead role in bringing together the significant number of students now engaged
in environmental and land use law activities through the Certificate Program,
the Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law, and the ELS itself. Students will
participate in the Public Interest Law Conference at the University of Florida
at the beginning of March, and in Florida Ocean Day at the Capitol in mid-April.
We hope you’ll join us for our spring activities. 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. Please also
review our environmental brochure, available online, which provides an in-depth
overview of the environmental law program at FSU.
