Conservation Clinic
Project Spotlight
2010 UF Conservation Clinic: Project Spotlight
MARINE AND COASTAL POLICY STUDENT PAPER SERIES
Environmental law demands a keen understanding of and appreciation for the natural environment, one that cannot be fully developed in the classroom. Recognizing this, the Environmental and Land Use Law Program at the University of Florida Levin College Of Law has been increasing its offering of “field courses” where students can confront the biophysical realities that shape the law, and the issues that arise as a result of human interaction with those realities.
During the 2010 Spring Break 15 J.D. students joined 2 members of the UF Law faculty and 4 LLM teaching assistants for a week long marine and coastal policy field course at the Marineland, Florida Coastal Policy Center. Guest speakers from the marine and coastal professional community added locally relevant content to the rich context provided by daily field trips to the surrounding beaches, marshes, estuaries and working waterfronts.
Students in the field course were given the opportunity to elect an additional credit hour in exchange for drafting a concise “policy relevant” paper based around the issues that they were exposed to during the one week field course. These papers are provided below. While the papers were reviewed by faculty, and in some cases by external reviewers, the work remains those of the student authors. The papers are not intended to serve as legal advice or as a substitute for consulting a knowledgeable practitioner.
Support for this research was provided through a program development grant from Florida Sea Grant.
Resources
- Reducing the Density and Intensity of Florida's Future Coastal Development as a Sea-level Rise Adaption Measure: Will Down-Zoning “Take” or Otherwise “Inordinately Burden” Private Property? - Lana Wilson, J.D. [PDF]
- Take me to the Water: Florida’s Shrinking Public Access to the Waterfront and Steps to Preserve it. - R. Kevin Sharbaugh, J.D. [PDF]
- Wielding the Stick: Enforceability of Basin Management Action Plans in Florida - Brandon Hueber, J.D. [PDF]