Through the study of cases, agency guidance documents, scholarly writings, and current events, we will explore a range of technical issues, legal issues, and policy questions relating to air pollution control, the Clean Air Act of 1970 and its amendments, and the regulatory programs and activities conducted pursuant to its many provisions.

This course provides a comprehensive overview of state laws applicable to municipalities, counties, special districts, and other unique political subdivisions within the State of Florida. Based in part on the core content for the Florida Bar’s City, County & Local Government Certification Examination, this course provides the structure, authority, operation, financing, and liabilities of Florida local governmental entities.

This course provides an approach to Health Law and Access to Healthcare in different Constitutional and Legal systems. The focus is on basic notions for understanding health as a fundamental human right, and how different systems regulate this field. And if this fundamental human right would only be achieved through public service (and budgetary expenditures) or if it could be achieved by private investments (exclusively or in cooperation with budget expenditures).

This course will focus on drafting various motions and when these motions should be utilized. The primary emphasis will be on drafting motions during a hypothetical civil trial applying the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure. Each week we will cover a new motion that furthers the civil lawsuit through completion. This course will not cover post-trial motions. We may also have guest speakers who will provide practice tips for new lawyers.

Mediation is an introductory skills course with teaching about mediation and "hands on" interactive group and class activities, including participation in role-play simulations. 

In a Judicial Externship, students work off-campus in a court under the supervision of a judge. This is a course where you earn credit, learn legal skills, and learn to practice law by assisting in the adjudication of actual cases on site.

In a Civil Externship you will work off-campus in an agency, corporation or a law office under the supervision of a practicing lawyer for credit. This is a course where you earn credit, learn legal skills, and learn to practice law by assisting real clients on site.

This is the seminar portion of the Judicial Externship. It is designed to allow students to acquire the skills and methods of practice necessary for successful completion of a judicial externship. This course is designed for interactive discussions, including with guest speakers, as a supplement to the knowledge and skills students will acquire through their externship placement and the Externship Perspectives Course.

This is the seminar portion of the Civil Externship.  In this seminar students enrolled in an externship meet with other FSU College of Law externs to discuss the progress in their externships and to enhance their externship experience. The goal of the seminar is to:

- Understand how to learn from experience, observation, and reflection;

- Expand a student’s understanding of the professional and ethical obligations of lawyers, and begin to develop their own professional values, which extend beyond the codified rules of the profession;

The course will offer an introduction to constitutional and administrative law in the England. Week 1 will offer an overview of three main actors in English public law – the UK Parliament, the courts and the executive – as well as beginning to highlight some of the debates about the scope of their powers and the relationships between them. Weeks 2 and 3 will build on the first week by considering more specifically how the executive is held to account in English law.