Environmental Distinguished Lecture Series

Cary Coglianese at the 2020 Lecture

Each semester the Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law at the Center for Environmental, Energy, and Land Use Law brings the nation's foremost scholars in Land Use & Environmental Law to the campus of Florida State University and the pages of the Journal. A lecturer's presentation is given at Florida State Law each semester, with the paper itself appearing in the proceeding issue of the Journal.

2024-25: (Fall 2024) Gerald Torres, Yale Law School

(Spring 2025) John Leshy, University of California College of Law, San Francisco 

2023-24: (Spring 2024) Gregory S. Alexander, Cornell Law School

(Fall 2023) Michael Gerrard, Columbia University

2022-23: (Spring 2023) William Buzbee, Georgetown University Law Center

(Fall 2022) Elizabeth Kronk Warner, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law

2021-22: (Spring 2022) Michael Vanderbergh, Vanderbilt University Law School

(Fall 2021) Alexandra Klass, University of Minnesota Law School

2020-21: (Spring 2021) Sheila Foster, Georgetown University

(Fall 2020) Lee Fennell, University of Chicago Law School

2019-20: (Spring 2020) Cary Coglianese, University of Pennsylvania Law School 

(Fall 2019) David Spence, The University of Texas at Austin School of Law

2018-19: (Spring 2019) Richard Revesz, New York University School of Law

(Fall 2018) Nina Mendelson, University of Michigan Law School

2017-18: (Spring 2018) Tom Merrill, Columbia Law School

(Fall 2017) Vicki Been, New York University School of Law



2016-17: (Spring 2017) Nicole Stelle Garnett, University of Notre Dame Law School

(Fall 2016) Robert Percival, University of Maryland School of Law



2015-16: (Spring 2016) Carol M. Rose, Yale Law School & the University of Arizona College of Law

(Fall 2015) Jonathan Wiener, Duke University



2014-15: (Spring 2015) Katrina M. Wyman, New York University School of Law 

(Fall 2014) David E. Adelman, University of Texas at Austin School of Law

2013-14: Ann E. Carlson, UCLA School of Law

2012-13: Wendy E. Wagner, University of Texas at Austin

2011-12: Spring 2012, 25th Anniversary Symposium

Josh Eagle, University of South Carolina

Alison Rieser, University of Hawaii at Mānoa

William H. Rodgers, Jr., University of Washington

John D. Echeverria, Vermont Law School

Dr. Richard McLaughlin, Texas A&M University

Dr. Michael Allan Wolf, University of Florida College of Law

2010-2011: (Spring 2011) Jody Freeman, Harvard Law School

(Fall 2010) Kirsten Engel, University of Arizona

2009-10: (Spring 2010) G. Tracy Mehan III, The Cadmus Group

(Fall 2009) Tony Arnold, University of Louisville

2008-09: (Spring 2009) Hope Babcock, Georgetown University

(Fall 2008) John C. Nagle, University of Notre Dame

2007-08: (Spring 2008) Jutta Brunnee, University of Toronto

(Fall 2007) Julian Conrad Juergensmeyer, Georgia State University

2006-07: (Spring 2007) Daniel A. Farber, University of California at Berkley

(Fall 2006) Janet Neuman, Lewis & Clark Law School

2005-06: (Spring 2006) Douglas A. Kysar, Cornell Law School

(Fall 2005) James Salzman, Duke University

2004-05: (Spring 2005) Robert L. Fischman, Indiana University at Bloomington

(Fall 2004) Robin Kundis Craig, Indiana University at Indianapolis

2003-04: (Spring 2004) Lee Breckinridge, Northeastern University

(Fall 2003) A. Dan Tarlock, Chicago-Kent College of Law

2002-03: Holly Doremus, University of California — Davis

2001-02: Fred P. Bosselman, Chicago-Kent College of Law

2000-01: Barton H. (Buzz) Thompson, Jr., Stanford University

1999-00: Lakshman Guruswamy, University of Tulsa

1998-99: Oliver Houck, Tulane University

1997-98: Eric T. Freyfogle, University of Illinois

1996-97: Richard J. Lazarus, Georgetown University

1995-96: Vicki Been, Harvard University

1994-95: Steven G. Davison, University of Baltimore

1993-94: Michael C. Blumm, Lewis & Clark Law School

1991-92: Dan Mandelker, Washington University — St. Louis

1990-91: Edith Brown Weiss, Georgetown University

1989-90: Joseph L. Sax, University of California — Berkeley

1988-89: Charles Siemon, Esq., Siemon, Larson & Purdy

1987-88: William H. Rodgers, Jr., University of Washington

1986-87: James L. Huffman, Lewis & Clark Law School

The series is made possible by contributions to the Journal, particularly the continuing support of the Environmental & Land Use Law Section of The Florida Bar.