Faculty & Staff
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Mary
Jane Angelo Associate Professor of Law Gainesville, FL 32611 e-mail: angelo@law.ufl.edu 352.273.0944 / Fax: 352.392.3005 |
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Courses
- Environmental Law—
LAW 6471 (Credits: 3 or
4)
Introduction to modern environmental regulation and its foundations, covering common law, precursors to environmental law and a survey of major regulatory issues and techniques, focusing on the Clean Water Act, National Environmental Policy Act, and Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act, with examples drawn from other statutes such as the Clean Air Act. - Environmental Dispute
Resolution — LAW 6930 (Credits:
2)
Prerequisites, required: Environmental Law: Water, Wetlands and Wildlife (LAW 6472) or Environmental Law: Toxics, Hazardous Wastes and Governmental Action (LAW 6471). Recommended: Administrative Law (Federal or Florida); an Alternative Dispute Resolution Course. The course will teach a variety of both traditional and nontraditional dispute resolution techniques and skills that can be used to resolve environmental disputes. To illustrate the utility of various dispute resolution techniques, three primary types of environmental disputes will be used: 1.) a challenge to an environmental rule; 2.) a challenge to an environmental agency permitting decision; and 3.) an enforcement action for an environmental violation. The course will explore the advantages and disadvantages of dispute resolution practices including judicial litigation, administrative litigation, mediation, negotiation and legislatively-created dispute resolution techniques. Students will be required to prepare for and participate in two “hands-on” exercises: a mock administrative hearing on a permit challenge and a mock mediation involving an environmental violation, and will be required to prepare legal documents related to these exercises. - LAW 6750 - Professional
Responsibility & the Legal Profession (2 or 3 credits)
This course examines the role of the individual lawyer and the legal profession as an entity in contemporary society. Topics include the role of the lawyer as advocate, counselor and community leader; the ethical and moral obligations of lawyers to their clients, other lawyers and society as derived from general ethical and moral principles and as embodied in the Code of Professional Responsibility; problems encountered by the lawyer in representing particular categories of clients, including corporations, criminal defendants and indigents. Prerequisites: None.