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Asia Biodiversity and Climate
Change Policy Forum, which
was held in conjunction with
the Southeast Asia Regional
Rounds of the Stetson
International Environmental
Moot Court Competition.
Prof. Gardner and Erin
Okuno, J.D. ’13 Visiting
Professor of Law and Assistant
Director of the Institute for
Biodiversity Law and Policy,
filed an amicus brief in the
U.S. District Court for the
District of Massachusetts
on behalf of nine scientific
societies in opposition to the
Trump administration’s efforts
to limit waters protected
by the Clean Water Act. In
December, Professor Gardner
received a Society of Wetland
Scientists 40th Anniversary
Award.
LANCE N. LONG,
Professor of Law, authored
the chapter Climate Change
Civil Disobedience and the
Necessity Defense in “Earth Law
Emerging Ecocentric Law—A
Guide for Practitioners”
(Anthony R. Zelle, Grant
Wilson, Rachelle Adam,
Herman F. Greene eds.,
2021) (Wolters Kluwer)
(Forthcoming).
REBECCA C. MORGAN,
J.D. ’80,
Boston Asset Management
Chair in Elder Law, Director
M.J. Health Compliance, and
Professor of Law, continued
to update her authored and
co-authored publications
(six in the past year) and
regularly contributed posts to
the elderlawprof blog. Prof.
Morgan taught Trusts and
Estates and Intro to Aging
& the Law synchronously,
in addition to teaching the
LL.M. Aging and the Law
course asynchronously,
during the fall. She wrote
There’s no such thing as bullet
proof, just bullet resistant:
Measures for Minimizing the
Potential for Guardian/Agent
Financial Exploitation, Voices
of Experience 1 (2020) (with
co-authors Randy Thomas and
Slade Dukes, J.D. ’04). She
also authored Rick Courtney,
CELA, CAP, Fellow NAELA’s
Renaissance Man: Family Man,
Friend, Attorney, and Leader,
NAELA News (online) (2020).
Prof. Morgan spoke on the
intersection of elder law and
family law for DePaul’s Schiller
DuCanto & Fleck Family Law
Center Virtual Symposium:
The Current State of Elder
Law, in October 2020. In
December, she participated
in a podcast for the American
Society on Aging, and in
January, she presented the
annual case law update for
the Missouri Chapter of the
NAELA. She serves as Board
Treasurer for the Center for
Medicare Advocacy, is on
the board of the American
Society on Aging, and serves
as a trustee for the NAELA
Foundation. She also
reviewed grant applications
for the Borchard Foundation
Center for Law & Aging.
Additionally, Prof. Morgan
continued to participate in a
card-writing project for J.D.
students to send “thinking
of you” cards to residents of
nursing homes and senior
centers. She also continued to
sew masks for the Sunshine
Senior Center in St. Pete.
Prof. Morgan was recently
asked to write an article on
Post-Appointment Legal
Issues in Guardianship for the
4th National Guardianship
Summit in May of 2021 and
asked to update a portfolio in
the Bloomberg publication
Planning for Disability.
ANNE E. MULLINS,
Professor of Law, rewrote
an opinion for Desert
Palace v. Costa, 539 U.S.
90 (2003), and it was
included in a collection
published by Cambridge
University Press. Prof.
Mullins’ essay The Power Skill
of Teamwork was published
in the inaugural volume of
PROCEEDINGS, a new
online legal writing journal.
Prof. Mullins is a member
of the Research Methods in
Legal Communication group
consisting of national and
international legal writing
scholars. The group studies
quantitative and qualitative
research methodology from
communications disciplines
and their application to
legal communication. Prof.
Mullins is the Immediate Past
President of the Association
of Legal Writing Directors
(ALWD) and is a leader
in the effort to release the
next edition of the ALWD
Guide. She also serves on
the Legal Writing Institute’s
Discipline Building Working
Group, which strategizes
ways to develop legal writing
as a scholarly discipline.
Additionally, Prof. Mullins
serves on the Association of
American Law Schools (AALS)
section on Legal Writing,
Reasoning, and Research
Nominations Committee.
LUZ ESTELLA NAGLE,
Professor of Law, continued
her service on the American
Bar Association Latin America
and Caribbean Law Initiative
(LACLI) Council, as a Trustee
of the International Bar
Association Human Rights
Institute Trust, as the IBA
Latin American Regional
Forum Liaison Officer of the
Access to Justice and Legal
Aid, and as a participant in
the IBA Section on Public and
Professional Interest Council
planning session. Prof. Nagle
also served as an adviser to
COPLA (Latin American and
Caribbean Criminal Court
against Transnational Organized
Crime) on the formation
of a Transnational Criminal
Court for Latin America and
the Caribbean, and as an El
Centro Fellow of the Small
Wars Foundation. She organized
and moderated a panel on
Sexual Assault against Female
Athletes for the International
Bar Association’s (IBA) Annual
Conference and participated on
a webinar panel that addressed
Bullying and Sexual Harassment
in the Legal Profession for the
IBA. Prof. Nagle also taught a
continuing education program
on identifying and assisting
human trafficking victims for
the Alachua County Medical
Association.
ERIN OKUNO, J.D. ’13
Visiting Professor of Law
and Assistant Director of the
Institute for Biodiversity Law
and Policy, helped organize
and virtually host the North
American Regional Rounds
of the 25th Annual Stetson
International Environmental
Moot Court Competition
(IEMCC). She also gave a
presentation on coral reefs
as part of the 2nd Southeast
Asia Biodiversity and Climate
Change Policy Forum, hosted
by the University of the
Philippines, and was a finalround
judge for the Southeast
Asia Regional Rounds of the
Stetson IEMCC. She and
Royal C. Gardner, Professor
of Law and Director of the
Institute for Biodiversity
Law and Policy, were two of
the co-authors of Towards a
Universal Declaration of the
Rights of Wetlands, which was
published online in marine
and freshwater fish. They also
filed an amicus curia brief on
behalf of scientific societies
in the U.S. District Court for
the District of Massachusetts
in litigation regarding which
waters should be protected
by the Clean Water Act. Prof.
Okuno also remotely attended
the 17th Scientific Committee
Meeting of the Inter-American
Convention for the Protection
and Conservation of Sea Turtles.