Spring 2016 Environmental Distinguished Lecture

Commons, Cognition and Climate Change

Presented by the Florida State University College of Law and the Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law

rose_carol.jpgCarol M. Rose

Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor of Law and Organization & Professional Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School and Ashby Lohse Professor of Water & Natural Resource Law Emerita, James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona

Carol M. Rose is the Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor of Law and Organization Emerita at Yale Law School, and the Ashby Lohse Professor of Water and Natural Resource Law Emerita at James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on history and theory of property and on the relationships between property and environmental law. Her writings include four books, Saving the Neighborhood: Racially Restrictive Covenants, Law, and Social Norms (with R. R. W. Brooks, 2013); El Derecho de Propiedad en Clave Interdisciplinaria (2010) [The Right to Property in an Interdisciplinary Key]; Property and Persuasion (1994), and Perspectives on Property Law (4th ed. 2014, with R.C. Ellickson and H. E. Smith), as well as numerous articles on traditional and modern property regimes, environmental law, natural resource law and intellectual property. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies in other countries and has been translated into other languages, particularly Italian, Spanish and Chinese. She has degrees from Antioch College (B.A. Philosophy), the University of Chicago (M.A. Political Science, J.D. Law), and Cornell University (Ph.D. History), and an Honorary Degree from the Chicago Kent College of Law. She is on the Board of Editors of the Foundation Press and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.


Event Details

Wednesday, March 23, 2016
3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Roberts Hall, Room 310
425 W. Jefferson Street

Reception to follow in the Rotunda.

The Florida Bar CLE credits approved.
This lecture is sponsored in part by the Environmental & Land Use Law Section of The Florida Bar.

To register for the event please call 850.644.7781 or e-mail Lori Wingfield.