The FSU Center for Environmental, Energy, and Land Use Law offers a series of enrichment lectures and thematic events every year. Details for upcoming events are posted as they become available, and recent events are listed below.
Please contact Prof. James Parker-Flynn for more information.
Upcoming Events
Environmental Certificate Enrichment Event, FSU Law Alumni Career Panel
Wednesday, November 13, 2024, at 12:30 P.M. in Room 310
Hear from FSU alumni practicing environmental, energy, and land use law in government, NGO, industry, and private practice jobs.
Previous Events
FSU Law Environmental Law Distinguished Lecture | View recording
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 at 3:30-4:30 with a reception to follow in the Rotunda
Gerald Torres, Professor of Environmental Justice, Yale School of the Environment, and Professor of Law, Yale Law School, on Environmental Justice: Environmental Joy
Environmental Certificate Enrichment Lecture
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 | View recording
Amanda Shanor, Wolpow Family Faculty Scholar, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, on Climate Constitutionalism
Environmental Law Externship Luncheon
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
FSU Law Externship Office, featuring externship and volunteer opportunities in environmental, energy, and land use law
Introduction to Environmental Law Certificate Program
Friday, September 6, 2024
Introducing students to the Center for Environmental, Energy, and Land Use Law and the Environmental Law Certificate Program
Environmental Certificate Enrichment Event
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Biannual FSU law field trip to the Wakulla Springs State Park.
Environmental Certificate Enrichment Lecture
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 | View recording
Tim Bass, assistant chief counsel at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
Environmental Law Certificate Program Lunch & Learn Tasting Menu
Friday, February 21, 2024
Environmental law faculty hosted students for lunch and to learn more about the exciting classes to be offered in the fall 2024 semester.
FSU Environmental Law Distinguished Lecture Spring 2024
Wednesday, February 7, 2024 | View recording
Gregory S. Alexander, A. Robert Noll professor of law, emeritus at Cornell Law School.
Environmental Certificate Enrichment Lecture
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 | View recording
David Bookbinder, former chief climate counsel for the Sierra Club and former chief counsel for the Niskanen Center.
FSU Environmental Law Distinguished Lecture Fall 2023
Wednesday, November 9, 2023 | View recording
Michael Gerrard, Andrew Sabin professor of professional practice, director of Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia University.
Environmental Certificate Enrichment Lecture
Wednesday, November 1, 2023 | View recording
Matthew Dietz, executive council, Florida Bar Animal Law Section
Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law Careers Panel
Friday, October 20, 2023
Tentatively featuring Colonel John Kiel, Jeff Wood (partner at Baker Botts and formerly with DOJ’s Environment and Natural Resources Division), Travis Voyles (secretary of natural and historic resources for the Commonwealth of Virginia), and Liz Williamson (partner at Williams Mullen).
Environmental Certificate Enrichment Lecture
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 | View recording
Allison Wing, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science at Florida State University
Environmental Law Externship Luncheon
Friday, September 22, 2023
FSU Law Externship Office, featuring externship and volunteer opportunities in environmental, energy, and land use law
Introduction to Environmental Law Certificate Program
Friday, September 8, 2023
Introducing students to the Center for Environmental, Energy, and Land Use Law and the Environmental Law Certificate Program
Special Presentation
Legal and Ethical Ownership of Captive Wildlife and their Importance to Conservation
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 | View recording
Alex Pepper, 3L, FSU College of Law, president and founder of AHP Reptiles, Inc.
Environmental Certificate Enrichment Lecture
Into the Great Wide Open? The Promise and Potential Perils of Climate Geoengineering
Wednesday, March 22, 2023 | View recording
Will Burns, visiting professor, Environmental Policy and Culture Program at Northwestern University
Environmental Certificate Enrichment Lecture
An Introduction to Florida Hydrogeology
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 | View recording
Guy “Harley” Means, P.G., Florida state geologist
FSU Environmental Law Distinguished Lecture Spring 2023
Wednesday, March 1, 2023 | View recording
William Buzbee, Edward and Carole Walter professor of law, Georgetown Law
Environmental Certificate Enrichment Lecture
Environmental Harms of Aquaculture
Wednesday, February 8, 2023 | View recording
Kathy Hessler, assistant dean for animal legal education at George Washington University Law School and director of the Animal Legal Education Initiative
2023 Career Panel
Notes on What Comes Next: After Graduating from FSU Environmental Law Program
Wednesday, January 18, 2023 | View recording
Amelia Savage (’06), shareholder, Stearns Weaver Miller
Preston McLane (’09), program administrator, Florida Department of Environmental Protection – Division of Air Resource Management
Bonnie Malloy (’10), senior attorney, Earthjustice
Chelsea Cramer (’15) counsel, Alcoa Corporation
Environmental Certificate Enrichment Lecture
Tallahassee: Where Clean Energy and Resiliency Meet
Wednesday, November 2, 2022 | View recording
Abena Ojetayo, City of Tallahassee’s assistant manager on resilience and housing
Shi-Ling Hsu’s Capitalism and the Environment: A Book Forum
Wednesday, October 26, 2022 | View recording
Guest discussants include Carol Rose of Yale Law School and Michael Livermore of the University of Virginia
1 CLE credit is approved by The Florida Bar for this event, including City, County, and Local Government Law certification credit.
FSU Environmental Law Distinguished Lecture Fall 2022
From Consultation to Consent: Beyond Box Checking
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 | View recording
Elizabeth Kronk Warner, dean of S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
1 CLE credit is approved by The Florida Bar for this lecture, including State and Federal Government and Administrative Practice certification credit.
Carbon Pricing Panel 2022
The Political Case For (and Against) Carbon Taxation
Monday, March 7, 2022 | View recording
Catrina Rorke, vice president for policy at the Climate Leadership Council; Marc Hafstead, director, Carbon Pricing Initiative and director of climate finance and financial risk initiative; Danny Cullenward, policy director at CarbonPlan and research fellow at the American University's Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy; and Alice Kaswan, professor and associate dean at the University of San Francisco School of Law
CLE credit approved
Environmental Certificate Enrichment Lecture
Wednesday, February 23, 2022 | View recording
Youssef Nassef Ph.D., director of the Adaptation Division, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
FSU Environmental Law Distinguished Lecture Spring 2022
Environmental Law in a Polarized Era
Wednesday, February 2, 2022 | View recording
Michael Vandenbergh, David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair in Law and director of the Climate Change Research Network, Vanderbilt Law School
CLE credit approved
Environmental Certificate Enrichment Lecture
Florida Black Bear Management
Wednesday, January 19, 2022 | View recording
David Telesco, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
Environmental Certificate Enrichment Lecture
Planning for Sea Level Rise in Florida
Wednesday, November 10, 2021 | View recording
Tisha Holmes, assistant professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Florida State University
FSU Environmental Law Distinguished Lecture Fall 2021
The Role of Private and Public Lands in the U.S. Clean Energy Transition
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 | View recording
Alexandra Klass, distinguished McKnight University professor, University of Minnesota Law School
Environmental Certificate Enrichment Lecture
The History of Earth’s Climate
Wednesday, October 13, 2021 | View recording
Jeff Chanton, 2017-2018 Robert O. Lawton distinguished professor, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University
Environmental Certificate Enrichment Lecture
Wildlife Trade and Zoonotic Disease Risk
Wednesday, September 29, 2021 | View recording
Erica Lyman, clinical professor of law, Global Law Alliance of Animals and the Environment
Environmental Certificate Enrichment Lecture
How Conservatives are Positioned to Lead on Climate Change
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 | View recording
Bob Inglis, former congressman (R-SC), founder and executive director of RepublicEn
Spring 2021 Distinguished Lecture Program
Mapping the New Urban Commons: Law and Resource Stewardship in the City
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 | View recording
Sheila Foster, Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Urban Law and Policy, Georgetown Law
Environmental Certificate Enrichment Lecture
Climate Change and Variability in Florida: What We Know (And Don’t Know)
Wednesday, February 10, 2021 | View recording
David Zierden, state climatologist, Florida State University
Energy Law Panel 2021
Rooftop Solar Energy in Florida: Opportunities and Obstacles
Wednesday, January 27, 2021 | View recording
Panelists include Justin Hoysradt, president of the Florida Solar Energy Industries Association; Bentina Terry, senior vice president of the Georgia Power Company, Susan Glickman, Florida director of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, and James Fenton, Ph.D., director of the Florida Solar Energy Center. The panel will be moderated by FSU Law alumnus Robert Schef Wright ('92).
Environmental Certificate Enrichment Lecture
Tuesday, November 03, 2020 | View recording
Mariana Fuentes, assistant professor, Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University
Fall 2020 Distinguished Lecture Program
Wednesday, October 21, 2020 | View recording
Lee Fennell, Max Pam Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
Environmental Certificate Enrichment Lecture
Thursday, October 8, 2020 | View recording
Richard Murphy, AT&T professor of law, Texas Tech University
Environmental Certificate Enrichment Lecture
Monday, September 28, 2020 | View recording
Ian MacDonald, professor of oceanography, Florida State University
Environmental Certificate Enrichment Lecture
Understanding Energy Justice and Just Transitions
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Lecturer: Hannah Wiseman, attorneys' title professor, Florida State University College of Law
Spring 2020 Environmental Distinguished Lecture
The Scapegoating of Environmental Regulation
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Lecturer: Cary Coglianese, Edward B. Shils professor and director, Program on Regulation, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Local Autonomy and Energy Law Symposium
Friday, February 21, 2020
Panelists: Richard Briffault, Joseph P. Chamberlain professor of legislation, Columbia Law School (keynote speaker); John Nolon, Professor of Law, Pace University Elisabeth Haub School of Law; Erin Scharff, associate professor of law, Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law; Rick Su, professor of law, University of North Carolina School of Law; Sarah Swan, assistant professor of law, FSU College of Law; Shelley Welton, assistant professor of law, University of South Carolina School of Law; Michael Wolf, Richard E. Nelson eminent scholar chair in local government law, University of Florida Levin College of Law
Environmental Certificate Enrichment Lecture
Sustainable Business and Environmental Law
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Lecturer: Inara Scott, assistant dean for teaching and learning excellence, associate professor, Oregon State University College of Business
Environmental Certificate Enrichment Panel
Reynolds v Florida Panel Discussion: Florida Climate Change Litigation
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Panelists: Andrea Rodgers, senior staff attorney, Our Children’s Trust
Environmental Certificate Enrichment Lecture
Offshore Aquaculture: Spatial Planning for a “Blue Revolution”
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Lecturer: Sarah Lester, FSU Department of Geography
Fall 2019 Environmental Distinguished Lecture
Complexity and the Energy Transition in the Age of Fracture
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Lecturer: David Spence, Baker Botts chair in law, The University of Texas at Austin School of Law; professor, McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin
Environmental Certificate Enrichment Lecture
Vague Laws, Absent Rules, and Ambiguous Language: Responding to a Mandate to Plan for Sea Level Rise in Florida
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Lecturer: William Butler, associate professor, master's program director, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Florida State University
Environmental Certificate Enrichment Lecture
Environmental Law: One Lawyer's Path
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Lecturer: Silvia Alderman, chair, Water Task Force, Akerman LLP
Environmental Certificate Enrichment Lecture
Navy SONAR and Marine Mammals
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Lecturer: Michael Gray, attorney, Appellate Division, Environment and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Environmental Certificate Enrichment Lecture
Negative Value Property
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Lecturer: Bruce Huber, professor of law, Robert & Marion Short scholar, University of Notre Dame Law School
Environmental Certificate Enrichment Lecture
The Reluctant Environmental Agency
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Lecturer: Tara Righetti, associate professor of law, University of Wyoming College of Law
Spring 2019 Environmental Distinguished Lecture
Institutional Pathologies in the Regulatory State: What Scott Pruitt Taught Us About Regulatory Policy
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Lecturer: Richard Revesz, Lawrence King professor of law, dean emeritus, director, Institute for Policy Integrity, New York University School of Law
Panel Discussion: Energy Resilience
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Panelists: Sara Rollet Gosman, assistant professor of law, University of Arkansas School of Law; Kevin B. Jones, director, Institute for Energy and the Environment, professor of energy technology and policy, Vermont Law School; Romany Webb, climate law fellow, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School; James Van Nostrand, director, Center for Energy and Sustainable Development, professor of law, West Virginia University College of Law
Moderator: Robert Scheffel “Schef” Wright, Shareholder, Gardner, Bist, Bowden, Bush, Dee, LaVia & Wright
Environmental Certificate Enrichment Lecture
The National Flood Insurance Program at Fifty: How the Fifth Amendment Taking Doctrine Skews Federal Flood Policy
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Lecturer: Christine Klein, Chesterfield Smith professor, University of Florida Research Foundation professor, University of Florida Levin College of Law
Fall 2018 Environmental Distinguished Lecture
Tribes, Cities, and Children: Emerging Voices in Environmental Litigation
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Lecturer: Nina Mendelson, Joseph L. Sax collegiate professor of law, University of Michigan Law School
Panel Discussion: Hog Farming, Past, Present & Future
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Panelists: Andy Curliss, CEO, North Carolina Pork Council; Kelsey Eberly, staff attorney, Animal Legal Defense Fund; Laurie Ristino, director, Center for Agriculture and Food Systems, associate professor of law, Vermont Law School; Kelly Zering, professor and extension specialist, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, North Carolina State University
Environmental Certificate Enrichment Lecture
Monday, September 17, 2018
Lecturer: Noah Valenstein, secretary, Florida Department of Environmental Protection
Environmental Certificate Enrichment Lecture
The Not-So-Secret Science Behind Air Pollution Regulation
Thursday, September 13, 2018
Lecturer: Christopher Holmes, assistant professor, Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University
Environmental Certificate & Environmental LL.M. Enrichment Lecture
Sea Turtle Conservation in a Changing World
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Lecturer: Mariana Fuentes, assistant professor, Florida State University Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science
Environmental Certificate & Environmental LL.M. Enrichment Lecture
The Tracking Debate: The Risks, Benefits, and Uncertainties of the Shale Revolution
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Lecturer: Daniel Raimi, research specialist: Energy, Technology, Policy and Economics; lecturer in public policy, University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Spring 2018 Environmental Distinguished Lecture
The Supreme Court's Regulatory Takings Doctrine: Common-Law Constitutionalism Runs Aground
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Lecturer: Thomas Merrill, Charles Evans Hughes professor of law, Columbia Law School
Environmental Certificate & Environmental LL.M. Enrichment Lecture
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Suing the President to Protect the Bears Ears National Monument
Lecturer: Justin Pidot, associate professor with tenure, University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Fall 2017 Symposium: "Energy Policy and Markets in a Shifting Federal-State Landscape"
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Participants: Lincoln Davies, Hugh B. Brown presidential endowed chair in law, University of Utah College of Law; Dr. Shanti Gamper-Rabindran, assistant professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh; Emily Hammond, professor of law, The George Washington University Law School; Kate Konschnik, director of Harvard Law School’s Environmental Policy Initiative of the Environmental Law Program and lecturer on law; Felix Mormann, associate professor, Texas A&M University School of Law and faculty fellow, Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, Stanford University; Jim Rossi, professor and director, Program in Law and Government, Vanderbilt Law School; Kristen van de Biezenbos, assistant professor, University of Calgary Faculty of Law.
Fall 2017 Environmental Distinguished Lecture: "The City NIMBY & the Suburban NIMBY"
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Lecturer: Vicki Been, Boxer Family professor of law, New York University School of Law
Fall 2017 Environmental Forum: "The Psychology of Climate Change: Why Do People Believe What They Believe?"
Friday, September 29, 2017
Panelists: Janet Swim, professor of Psychology, Penn State University; Jerry Taylor, president, Niskanen Center; Irina Feygina, director of behavioral science and assessment, Climate Central; John Cook, research assistant professor, George Mason University; Janet Bowman, senior policy advisor, Florida Chapter of The Nature Conservancy
Environmental, Energy and Land Use Law Spring 2017 Student Colloquium
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Student Participants: Jessica Farrell, James Brent Marshall, Michael Melli, Justin Peters and Sharon Wyskiel
Municipal Utilities and Cooperatives: Transitioning to a Lower-Carbon Future Conference
Friday, March 24, 2017
Municipally-owned utilities and electric cooperatives provide electricity to millions of U.S. customers. The conference explored the challenges and opportunities faced by these entities as they transition to lower-carbon energy sources in response to changing market forces.
Download event white paper PDF here.
Environmental Certificate & Environmental LL.M. Enrichment Lecture
Optimizing Energy Policy for Long-Term Economic Welfare
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Lecturer: Robert Scheffel "Schef" Wright, shareholder of Gardner, Bist, Bowden, Bush, Dee, LaVia, & Wright, P.A.
Spring 2017 Environmental Distinguished Lecture: "Planning for Density — Promises, Perils and Paradoxes"
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Lecturer: Nicole Stelle Garnett, John P. Murphy Foundation professor of law, University of Notre Dame Law School
Spring 2017 Environmental Forum: "Springs Protection in Florida"
Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Panelists: Andrew Bartlett, deputy secretary, Florida Department of Environmental Protection; Janet Bowman, director of legislative policy and strategies, The Nature Conservatory Florida Chapter; David Childs, partner, Hopping Green & Sams; and Rebecca O’Hara, senior legislative advocate, Florida League of Cities
Environmental Certificate & Environmental LL.M. Enrichment Lecture
Controlling the Environmental Costs of Obesity
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Lecturer: Roberta Mann, Mr. & Mrs. L.L. Stewart professor of business law, University of Oregon School of Law
Fall 2016 Environmental Distinguished Lecture
The Greening of the Global Judiciary
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Lecturer: Robert Percival, Robert F. Stanton professor of law, University of Maryland School of Law
Environmental Certificate & Environmental LL.M. Enrichment Lecture
Developing Energy Markets to Preserve Natural Resources: The Case of Southern Forests
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Lecturer: Blake Hudson, Burlington resources professor of environmental law and Edward J. Womac, Jr. professor of energy law, Paul M. Herbert Law Center, Louisiana State University
Environmental Law Without Courts Conference
Friday, September 16, 2016
Conference participants: Eric Biber, Robin Kundis Craig, Robert Glicksman, Emily Hammond, Shi-Ling Hsu, Sharon Jacobs, Sarah Light, Arden Rowell, Mark Seidenfeld, and Christopher Walker
Environmental, Energy and Land Use Law Spring 2016 Colloquium
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Presentations by Environmental LL.M. students of their research papers together with presentations by selected Environmental Certificate students. More Information...
Spring 2016 Environmental Distinguished Lecture: "Commons, Cognition and Climate Change"
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Lecturer: Carol Rose, Yale Law School and the University of Arizona College of Law
Environmental Certificate & LL.M. Enrichment Lecture
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Lecturers: Kelly Samek, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
Environmental Certificate & LL.M. Enrichment Lecture
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at 12:30 pm
Lecturer: Courtney Schoen, Think About Personal Pollution (TAPP)
Environmental Law Goes Retro
Thursday, November 19, 2015
Lecturer: Jonathan Wiener, Duke University