Faculty

Faculty associated with the Environmental and Land Use Law Program include full-time faculty of the College of Law, affiliate faculty members, faculty drawn from the College’s Center of Governmental Responsibility, and adjunct faculty from the practicing bar. In addition, lawyers from private firms, corporations, government agencies and non-profit groups regularly share their expertise with students as guest lecturers and in informal settings.

Tenure-Track Faculty | Clinical Faculty | CGR Faculty | Adjunct Faculty

Tenure-track Faculty

	Mary Jane Angelo Program Director Professor of Law Professor Angelo joined the faculty in 2004 after many years of environmental law practice, including serving as an assistant judicial officer and then as a senior attorney for the US Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC, and serving as a senior attorney for the St. Johns River Water Management District in Florida. Professor Angelo’s substantial environmental law practice has included water law, wetlands law, endangered species law, pesticides law, biotechnology law, and hazardous and toxic substances law. Professor Angelo has been an adjunct Professor at the UF law school and has taught in the summer program at the Vermont Law School. She received her B.S. in biological sciences from Rutgers University, and both her M.S., in Entomology, and J.D. from the University of Florida where she was on the Law Review. Her teaching and scholarship interests include a wide variety of environmental law matters, environmental dispute resolution and professional responsibility.
	Alyson Craig Flournoy Professor & Alumni Research Scholar Flournoy is a widely respected scholar in the field of environmental law. Her scholarship focuses on decision-making processes under federal environmental and natural resources statutes, and environmental ethics. She has taught federal administrative law, environmental law, advanced environmental law and litigation, and property law. Flournoy is a member scholar of the Center for Progressive Reform, past chair of the Environmental Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools, and a past president of Florida Defenders of the Environment. Prior to joining the UF faculty in 1988, Professor Flournoy was an associate with Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., where her practice focused on environmental law. She received her A.B. from Princeton University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.
	Christine Klein LL.M Program Director Professor of Law Professor Klein specializes in natural resources law, water law, and property law. Prior to joining the Levin College of Law faculty in 2003, she directed the environmental law program at Michigan State University; served as a water rights litigator in the Colorado Office of the Attorney General; and clerked for Judge Richard Matsch, U.S. District Court (Colorado). Klein holds an LL.M. from Columbia Law School; a J.D. from the University of Colorado School of Law; and a B.A. degree from Middlebury College (Vermont). She is the author a natural resources law casebook (with Cheever and Birdsong, Aspen Publishers), and her articles have appeared in numerous journals, including the Alabama Law Review, Arizona Law Review, Boston College Law Review, Cardozo Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Harvard Environmental Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy, Virginia Environmental Law Review, and Washington & Lee Law Review. Klein has served a member of the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, Committee on Sustainable Water and Environmental Management in the California Bay-Delta. She is also a Member Scholar of the Center for Progressive Reform. She received an LL.M. degree from Columbia University; a J.D. degree from the University of Colorado; and a B.A. degree from Middlebury College (Vermont).
	Amy Stein Associate Professor Professor Stein focuses her scholarship on clean energy law, electric grid governance, distributed energy resources and reliability, environmental law, and federalism. Her recent publications urge regulatory reforms to better harness the reliability benefits of privately-owned reliability resources for the public grid, Distributed Reliability, 87 U. COLO. L. REV. (forthcoming 2016), address the implications of the regulatory uncertainty surrounding energy storage, Reconsidering Regulatory Uncertainty: Making a Case for Energy Storage, 41 FLA. ST. U. L. REV. 697 (2014); assess the federal government’s role in developing renewable energy, Renewable Energy Through Agency Action, 84 U. COLO. L. REV. 651 (2013); analyze the federalism implications of subnational control over siting of electricity generation, The Tipping Point of Federalism, 45 CONN. L. REV. 217 (2012); and highlight the deficiencies of climate change analysis in NEPA documents, Climate Change Under NEPA: Avoiding Cursory Consideration of Greenhouse Gases, 81 U. COLO. L. REV. 473 (2010), all of which can be accessed at http://ssrn.com/author=1216973.
	Michael Allan Wolf Ph. D., Richard E. Nelson Chair in Local Government Law. Wolf joined the faculty in Fall 2003 from the University of Richmond as the first occupant of the Richard E. Nelson Chair in Local Government Law. He has taught and written for more than 30 years in the areas of land-use planning, environmental law, property, local government, urban revitalization, and legal and constitutional history.
	Danaya C. Wright Ph. D., Professor of Law Wright has written numerous articles on the legal property issues of rail-trail conversions and is a consultant with the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy in Washington, D.C. Her interest in parks, recreation, and conservation has spurred most of her research, and she has become a nationally recognized expert on linear parks and greenways.

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Clinical Faculty

Thomas T. Ankersen Director, Conservation Clinic and Costa Rica Program Legal Skills Professor Since joining CGR in 1993, Ankersen has rapidly expanded the College’s International Environmental Law Program. He is extensively involved in grant-funded projects in Central and South America as well as Africa and India. His work has included developing a legal framework for the ground-breaking international collaboration among governmental and non-governmental organizations in Central America and Mexico. He directs the Conservation Clinic as well as the Summer Environmental Study Abroad Program in San José, Costa Rica.

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Center for Governmental Responsibility (CGR) Faculty

	Joan D. Flocks Director, Social Policy Division, Center for Governmental Responsibility Associate in Law Flocks joined the College of Law in 2003 after working as an assistant professor in the UF College of Medicine on environmental health issues among low-income populations. Before that she practiced poverty law in various Florida legal services offices. She has an M.A. in Latin American Studies from UF and her teaching and scholarship areas include environmental and social justice, community-based participatory research, and poverty law.
	Tim McLendon Staff Attorney Research interests include historic preservation, Florida constitutional law, Everglades restoration policies, local land use law, and sustainable development. Authored a handbook on Florida historic preservation law.
	Jon L. Mills Professor of Law & Director UF Center for Governmental Responsibility. Mills served in the Florida Legislature from 1978 to 1988, and was house speaker during the 1987-88 term. He was principal sponsor of Florida’s Growth Management Act, the Water Quality Assurance Act and the Wetlands Protection Act. He also served as Dean and Interim Dean for the Levin College of Law from 1999-2003. In his role as Director of CGR, Mills has been directly involved in the Center’s Brazil, Central American and eastern Europe initiatives. He teaches Florida Constitutional Law, and seminars in Legislation & Statutory interpretation. Privacy Law and the Rule of Law in the Americas.

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Adjunct Faculty

Courses and seminars taught by adjunct faculty enable students to learn from leading practitioners with years of experience in various facets of environmental and land use law practice. Recent adjunct faculty include:

	Thomas Hawkins Adjunct Professor Thomas Hawkins is Gainesville City Commissioner. He is Chair of the City Commission’s Community Development Committee and is a member of the Audit, Finance & Legislative Committee and the Regional Utilities Committee. Hawkins is also a member of the Gainesville Community Redevelopment Agency, the North Central Florida Regional Planning Council, the Clearinghouse Committee of the North Central Florida Regional Planning Council, the Gainesville/Alachua County Metropolitan Transportation Planning Organization, the Library Governing Board and the Florida Department of Transportation Bicycle and Pedestrian Partnership Council. Commissioner Hawkins holds a bachelor of arts in economics from the University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, a juris doctorate from the Emory University School of Law, and a Master of Science in Real Estate from the Warrington College of Business.
	Michael T. Olexa, Ph.D. Affiliate Professor Professor of Agricultural Law and Director, UF/IFAS Center for Agricultural and Natural Resource Law. Olexa has served as a policy advisor in the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture, and he chaired both The Florida Bar’s Agricultural Law Committee and the General Practice, Solo, and Small Firm Section of the Florida Bar. He has worked extensively with agriculturalists nationwide on agricultural and environmental issues and teaches Agricultural Law & Policy.
	Cathy M. Sellers Partner, Broad and Cassel, Attorneys at Law, Tallahassee, FL. Sellers specializes in administrative, environmental, land use and governmental law and teaches Florida Administrative Law at the law school. Her practice includes handling regulatory matters before state and federal agencies and lobbying before the Florida Legislature. She serves on the Executive Council of the Environmental and Land Use Law Section of The Florida Bar.

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