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Environmental Forums and Other Events

Florida State Law sponsors a wide variety of programs on environmental and land use issues, that include the Environmental Forum Series — programs intended to educate the public and improve public policy by providing a forum for discussion of timely environmental issues — and the Distinguished Lecturer Series. These latter lectures exemplify the school's commitment to cutting edge scholarship by bringing leading scholars in environmental and land use issues to the law school to discuss their scholarship and interact with faculty and students.

Spring 2013 Environmental Forum: Effectively Governing Shale Gas Development (L-R) Emily Collins, Keith Hall and Bruce Kramer held on Friday, February 1, 2013.

 

Upcoming Events

  • To Be Announced.
 

Past Environmental Forums and other Programs

  • Spring 2013 Colloquium, April 10, 2013
    Presentations by Environmental LL.M. students of their research papers together with presentations by selected Environmental Certificate students.
  • Spring 2013 Certificate Lecture, March 18, 2013: "Property Rights, Resource Access & Long-Run Growth"
    Lecturer:  Cherie Metcalf, Queen's University School of Law
  • Spring 2013 Certificate Lecture, March 7, 2013
    Lecturer:  Mary Thomas ('05), Executive Office of Governor Rick Scott
  • Spring 2013 Certificate Lecture, February 18, 2013: "Law, Politics and Cost-Benefit Analysis"
    Lecturer:  Dan Cole, Indiana University School of Law
    Video with PowerPoint
  • Spring 2013 Certificate Lecture, February 7, 2013
    Lecturer: Kelly Samek, Florida Department of Environmental Protection
  • Spring 2013 Environmental Forum: "Effectively Governing Shale Gas Development"
    Panelists: Emily Collins, University of Pittsburgh School of Law; Keith Hall, Louisiana State University Paul M. Herbert Law Center; and Bruce Kramer, University of Colorado Law School
    Video with PowerPoint
  • Spring 2012 Environmental Forum: "Making One's Case with the Government: Practical Issues & Strategies"
    Panelists: Janet Bowman ('87), The Nature Conservancy - Florida Chapter; Christopher Byrd, Florida Department of Environmental Protection's Public Land Section; Charles Pattison, 1000 Friends of Florida; and Mary Thomas ('05), Executive Office of the Governor Rick Scott
    Video with PowerPoint
  • Spring 2012 Symposium: "Distinguished Lecture Series 25th Anniversary Symposium: The Future of Ocean and Coastal Law & Policy"
    Panelists: Josh Eagle, University of South Carolina School of Law; John D. Echeverria, Vermont Law School; Dr. Richard McLaughlin, Harte Research Institute; Alison Rieser, University of Hawii at Manoa; William H. Rodgers, Jr., University of Washington School of Law; and Michael Allan Wolf, University of Florida College of Law
    Video with PowerPoint
  • Fall 2011 Environmental Forum: "A New Era for Land Use Management in Florida: So What Happens Next?"
    Panelists: Robert C. Apgar ('77), Apgar & Speirs, Pl; Nancy G. Linnan ('74), Carlton Fields; Charles Pattison, 1000 Friends of Florida; and David A. Theriaque ('89), Theriaque & Spain
    Video with PowerPoint (currently working on link)
  • Spring 2011 Distinguished Lecture: "U.S. Climate Change Policy - What Next?"
    Lecturer: Jody Freeman, Harvard Law School
    Video without PowerPoint (currently working on link)
  • Spring 2011 Symposium: "Law & Sustainability Symposium: The Energy-Land Use Nexus"
    Panelists: Terrell K. Arline, County Attorney's Office; Sharon Buccino, Natural Resources Defense Council; William W. Buzbee, Emory University School of Law; John R. Nolan, Pace University Law School; Steven Ferry, Suffolk University Law School; Robert L. Glicksman, George Washington University Law School; Mike Halpin, Power Plant Siting Office; Angela R. Morrison, Hopping Green & Sams; Jim Rossi, Florida State University College of Law; and Patricia Salkin, Albany Law School;
    Video with PowerPoint
  • Fall 2010 Environmental Forum: "Energy Efficiency in Land Use Planning"
    Panelists: Janet Bowman ('87), The Nature Conservancy - Florida Chapter; Nancy G. Linnan ('74), Carlton Fields; Vivien Monaco, The Florida Bar; and Robert Pennock, Florida Department of Community Affairs
    Video without PowerPoint (currently working on link)
  • Fall 2010 Distinguished Lecture: "Should Climate Change be the Subject of State Public Nuisance Liability Lawsuits?"
    Lecturer: Kirsten Engel, University of Arizona
    Video with PowerPoint
  • Spring 2010 Environmental Forum: "Beach Restoration: Preserving Public & Private Interests in the Shoreline"
    Panelists: Tom Ingram, Florida Open Beaches Foundation, Inc.; Scott Makar, State of Florida & Florida State University College of Law; Gary Oldehoff, Lewis Stroud & Deutsch, P.L.; and D. Kent Safriet, Hopping Green & Sams
    Video without PowerPoint (currently working on link)
  • Spring 2010 Distinguished Lecture: "A Symphonic Approach to Water Management: The Quest for New Modesl of Watershed Governance"
    Lecturer: G. Tracy Mehan, III, The Cadmus Group
    Video without PowerPoint (currently working on link)
  • Spring 2009 Career Panel
    Panelists: Winston K. Borkowski ('94), Hopping Green & Sams; Maribel Nicholson-Choice, Greenberg Traurig; Rebecca O'Hara ('94), Florida League of Cities; and Nora R. Schaffner, Florida Department of Environmental Protection
  • Fall 2008 Distinguished Lecture: "The Effectiveness of Biodiversity Law in the United STates and Southeast Asia"
    Lecturer:  John C. Nagle, University of Notre Dame School of Law
    Video with PowerPoint
  • Spring 2008 Career Panel: "Non-Traditional v. Traditional Job Opportunities"
    Panelists: Tim Center, Sustainable Florida-Collins Center; Cari Roth ('83), Bryant Miller Olive; Steven M. Seibert, The Century Commission for a Sustainable Florida; and William B. Willingham, Florida Electric Cooperatives Association
  • Spring 2008 Distinguished Lecture: "All Together Now? Europe, the United States and the Global Climate Regime"
    Lecturer: Jutta Brunnee, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
    Video without PowerPoint (currently working on link)
  • Fall 2007 Career Panel: "Innovative Financing of Public Infrastructure"
    Panelists: Julian Juergensmeyer, Georgia State University College of Law; Jim Nichols, University of Florida College of Law; and Mark Mustian, Tallahassee City Commission / Nabors, Giglin & Nickerson
    Video without PowerPoint
  • Spring 2006 Symposium: "The Law & Policy of Ecosystem Services"
    Panelists: Donna Christie, Florida State University College of Law; Bill Buzzett ('86), Strategic Planning for The St. Joe Company; Bradley Pickel, Beach Management, Beaches of South Walton Tourist Development Council; and J. B. Ruhl, Florida State University College of Law
  • Fall 2005 Environmental Forum: "Eminent Domain in Florida after Kelo v. City of New London - Property Rights v. Community Development"
    Panelists: Wade Hopping, Hopping Green & Sams; Michael Parker, City of Tallahassee; Debra W. Schiro ('86), Assistant City Attorney; Mark Seidenfeld, Florida State University College of Law; J. B. Ruhl, Florida State University College of Law
  • Spring 2005 Environmental Forum: "After the Storms: Florida's Response to the 2004 Hurricanes"
    Panelists: Linda Brown, Division of Emergency Management; Doug Buck, Governmental Affairs / Florida Home Builders Association; Gene Chalecki, Florida Bureau of Beaches and Coastal Systems, Florida Department of Environmental Protection; Kent Spuhler, Florida Legal Services; Paden E. Woodruff, III, Florida Bureau of Beaches and Coastal Systems, Florida Department of Environmental Protection
  • Spring 2005 Symposium: "Default Rules in Private & Public Law: A Symposium"
    Panelists: Robert B. Ahdieh, Emory University School of Law; Jody Kraus, University of Virginia School of Law; Eric Maskin, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University; Alan Schwartz, Yale University; Robert Scott, University of Virginia School of Law; Amitai Aviram, Curtis Bridgeman, Mary Crossley, Adam Hirsch, Jonathan Klick, Jim Rossi, J. B. Ruhl and Mark Seidenfeld all from the Florida State University College of Law; Florida State University College of Law
  • Fall 2004 Environmental Forum: "Florida's Springs: Legal & Policy Issues"
    Panelists: Janet Bowman ('87), 1000 Friends of Florida; Angela Chelette, Bureau of Ground Water Regulation, Northwest Florida Water Management District; Charles Gauthier, Bureau of Local Planning, Florida Department of Community Affairs; Nancy G. Linnan ('74), Carlton Fields; and Jim Stevenson, former Department of Environmental Protection and The Florida Springs Task Force
  • Spring 2004 Environmental Forum: "The Future of the Florida Panhandle"
    Panelists: Pat Blackshear, Okaloosa County Growth Management Department; Janet Bowman ('87), 1000 Friends of Florida; Billy Buzzett ('86), Strategic Planning for The St. Joe Company; and Shaw P. Stiller ('91), State of Florida, Department of Community Affairs
  • Fall 2003 Environmental Forum: "The Future of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River System: Legal, Policy & Scientific Issues"
    Panelists: Jon Blanchard, The Nature Conservancy - Northeast Florida Program; Lee Edmiston, Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve, National Oceanographic Atmospheric Administration / Department of Environmental Protection; Helen Light, U.S. Geological Survey; and J. B. Ruhl, Florida State University College of Law

  • Spring 2003 Environmental Forum: "The Evolving Legal Status of the Florida Manatee-Options and Issues for Federal & State Protection"
    Panelists: Pete Benjamin, Regulatory Affairs, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service; Kipp Frohlich, State of Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission; Patrick Rose, Government Relations, Save the Manatee Club; and John Sprague, Governmental Affairs, Marine Industries Association of Florida