Centers and Clinics
Centers
Center on Children and Families
This Center developed and administers the Certificate Program in Family Law in order to train a new generation of advocates for children and their families. The Center's other goals and activities include promoting quality scholarship on issues of importance to children and families through an annual conference and support of research fellows, developing interdisciplinary and child-centered methods for studying systems serving children, educating children and families about their rights and responsibilities in a free society, and building a state-of-the art library collection for the study of children's law and policy.Center for Governmental Responsibility
As the state's oldest legal and public policy research institute, the Center for Governmental Responsibility (CGR) has been a mainstay for environmental and social policy research at the College of Law since 1972. CGR lawyers have affected more public policy decisions during the past 20 years than any other organization of its nature and scope in Florida.Center for Information Research (CIR)
The Center for Information Research is an interdisciplinary research center affiliated with the Fredric G. Levin College of Law, the College of Engineering, and the Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida. The mission of CIR is to engage in research related to information policy and its intersection with information technology.Center for International Financial Crimes Studies
An academic research Center providing graduate instruction, research and policy analyses, academic symposia, grant supervision and consulting services on money laundering, forfeiture, corporate security, offshore finances, cybercrime, organized crime and international financial crimes.Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations
The CSRRR is committed to de-stigmatizing race in America. With the objective of fostering communities of dialogue, the Center embraces historically and empirically based thinking, talking, teaching, and writing on race. To this end, the Center creates and supports programs designed to enhance race-related curriculum development for faculty, staff and students in collegiate and professional schools. Of the five U.S. law schools with race centers, the CSRRR is uniquely focused on curriculum development.The Camp Center for Estate Planning
The Camp Center for Estate Planning is directed by Assistant Professor Lee-Ford Tritt. The center integrates teaching, training, research, scholarship and public service, and is dedicated to advancing estate planning, charitable giving, and elder law knowledge, professionalism, skills and policy by educating and training both students and lawyers. The center is also charged with the responsibility for administering the Certificate Program in Estates and Trusts Practice, of which Professor Tritt is the director, and for supervision of the Estates, Trusts and Elder Law Society, of which he is faculty advisor and within which students can participate in one or more of several outreach programs as community service to the elderly. Other student opportunities supervised by the center include judicial externships for academic credit, which have been established in probate divisions of several judicial circuits (including the 8th Circuit in Gainesville, which has externship opportunities year-round). The center works closely with the Graduate Tax Program and the UF Institute for Learning in Retirement, with which it has an affiliation agreement and under the sponsorship of which it regularly teaches courses in adult education directed to estate planning and elder law issues. The center also works closely with Oak Hammock at UF, where faculty regularly teach such classes to Oak Hammock residents.