University of Florida Levin College of Law
• UF is hosting the 2006 National Association of Environmental Law Societies conference in conjunction with the Public Interest Environmental Conference March 9-11, 2006.
Stetson University College of Law
• Stetson Law Vice Dean Royal Gardner is stepping down as vice dean in order to lead two major environmental organizations. He has been appointed as chair of the U.S. National Ramsar Committee and is taking the director position of Stetson’s new Institute for Biodiversity Law and Policy. The Ramsar Committee is a group created by the signing of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, an intergovernmental treaty that calls for international cooperation regarding the conservation and good use of wetlands and their resources.
University of Alabama School of Law
• The administration expects construction to begin this month on an addition to the law school building. The law school launched a $13.5 million fund raising campaign two years ago and is now only $1 million away from being fully funded. To make up the rest, Alabama is selling commemorative bricks for $500-you can get a brick twice as big for $1,000. The bricks will be displayed in a new Legacy Plaza to the west of the law school.
University of Georgia School
of Law
• The National Research Council has tabbed a Bulldog to look into fisheries. The Council appointed Dorinda G. Dallmeyer, the associate director of the university’s Dean Rusk Center-International, Comparative and Graduate Legal Studies, to a nine-member national committee evaluating the impact of fisheries on coastal and ocean ecosystems. The committee will study the impact of overfishing on marine ecosystems.
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