• Published “Tarasoff as a Duty to Treat: Insights from Criminal Law” in a symposium in the Cincinnati Law Review. The article was listed on SSRN’s Top 10 download list for “Disability Law.”

• Spoke at a March 2 conference on “Life and Death Decisions: Prosecutorial Discretion and Capital Punishment” at St. Louis University Law School.

• Spoke at the Munsterberg Conference March 3 at John Jay College of Criminal Justice on “Twelve Objections to Ecological Jurisprudence.”

The clinic will conduct empirical research into coastal construction permitting in selected “cells” along developed or developing coastlines with high turtle nesting density coupled with research into the legal and policy planning problematic created when the ambulatory public-private shoreline boundary interface encroaches on the built environment.

As part of the project, the clinic will design an educational module based on scenarios posed by this problematic for execution by the UF IFAS Florida Natural Resources Leadership Institute. The grant includes funding to include a sea turtle policy specialist in the Institute’s 2007 participant cohort who will execute a practicum around the issues addressed by the research.

The Conservation Clinic is an initiative of the Environmental and Land Use Law Program at the Levin College of Law. Housed at the law school’s Center for Governmental Responsibility, the clinic represents an effort to focus interdisciplinary applied education on the compelling conservation challenges of our times.

Beginning in Fall 2003, the Conservation Clinic began working with the Caribbean Conservation Corporation (CCC), Florida’s largest and most active sea turtle advocacy organization, on a variety of matters addressing Florida’s coastline. Clinic students collaborated with the CCC to develop draft legislation and an accompanying legal analysis that would require homeowners or their real estate agents to notify purchasers of beachfront property when they are buying property designated as “critically eroding,” and that beachfront property is subject to special environmental restrictions to protect sea turtles and other endangered and threatened species.

During his time as CEO, the firm has experienced its most significant growth, from 325 lawyers in eight offices in 1997 to approximately 1,600 attorneys and government professionals in 33 locations in the United States, Europe and Asia. Prior to becoming CEO, Alvarez practiced securities, corporate and international law for more than 25 years. He has represented numerous public companies and serves on the board of directors of several publicly-traded corporations and charitable organizations. The event is co-sponsored by the Business Law Association and the Center for Career Services. A reception sponsored by Greenberg Traurig will be held immediately following the event.