Centers and Programs

Program for Estate Planning

The Program for Estate Planning integrates teaching, training, research, scholarship and public service with the goals of advancing estates and trusts knowledge, law, policy, professionalism, and skills.

The Program administers the Estate Planning Program, which is designed to cultivate and train the next generation of estate planning lawyers. Visit the Estate Planning Program page for more information.

Program on Children and Families

The Program’s 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.

Institute for Dispute Resolution

The Institute for Dispute Resolution promotes innovation in teaching methodologies, scholarship, and service in dispute resolution domestically and internationally. The Institute also supports to the Law School’s student led ADR organizations.

The Institute for Dispute Resolution was the first of its kind in Florida, thanks to a generous grant from Upchurch Watson White & Max Mediation Group in 1999. Under the Direction of Professor Joan Stearns Johnsen and with the advice and support of alumni and students, the Institute continues to serve our students, alumni, and the community with original and state of the art content and training.