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Mary Jane Angelo

Emeritus Samuel T. Dell Professor
Emeritus Professor of Law

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Mary Jane Angelo is the Emeritus Samuel T. Dell Professor, Professor of Law, and Co-Director of the Environmental and Land Use Law Program at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. She is also Affiliate Faculty in both the University of Florida School of Natural Resources and Water Institute. Professor Angelo has published extensively on a variety of environmental law topics including pesticide law, endangered species law, water and wetlands law, sustainable agriculture, the regulation of genetically modified organisms, and the relationship between law and science. Her articles have been published in the Texas Law Review, the Wake Forest Law Review, the George Mason Law Review, the Harvard Environmental Law Review, Ecology Law Quarterly, and Environmental Law. In 2013, she published two books: FOOD, AGRICULTURE, AND ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (with William S. Eubanks and Jason Czarnezki, Environmental Law Institute 2013) and THE LAW AND ECOLOGY OF PESTICIDES AND PEST MANAGEMENT (Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013).

Professor Angelo has served on two National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council Committees: The Committee on Independent Scientific Review of Everglades Restoration Progress and the Committee on Ecological Risk Assessment under FIFRA and the ESA. She regularly presents her work at academic and professional conferences throughout the U.S. and in other parts of the world, including Brazil, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Belize and Poland. She is also a Member-Scholar with the Center for Progressive Reform in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining academia, Professor Angelo practiced as an environmental lawyer for many years. She served in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of the Administrator and Office of General Counsel in Washington, D.C., and as Senior Assistant General Counsel for the St. Johns River Water Management District in Florida.

Education

J.D., University of Florida College of Law (honors)
M.S., University of Florida
B.S., Rutgers University (high honors)

Teaching & Scholarship

Environmental Law, Water Law, Administrative Law, Biotechnology Law, Dispute Resolution, Pesticides Law, Law & Science, Legal Ethics, Agricultural Policy and the Environment, Wildlife Protection Law

Courses

  • Environmental Law

Publications

Books

  • The Law of Toxic Substances and Hazardous Wastes (Foundation Press Treatise 2020) (with John S. Applegate, Jan G. Laitos & Geffrey M. Gaba) [link]
  •  Research Handbook on Climate Change and Agricultural Law (Edward Elgar 2017) (with Anel Du Pleissis) [link]
  • The Law and Ecology of Pesticides and Pest Management (Ashgate 2013)
  • Food, Agriculture and Environmental Law (Environmental Law Institute 2013) (with Jason J. Czarnezki and William S. Eubanks II) [link]

Book Chapters

  • “Untangling the Climate-Food Web: Achieving Food Security and Agricultural Climate-Resilience,” in Research Handbook on Climate Change and Agricultural Law (Edward Elgar 2017) [link]
  • “Breaking Our Pesticide Addiction: A 12-Step Program for Ecologically-Based Pest Management,” in From Farm-to-Fork: Growing Sustainable Food Systems for the 21st Century (University of Akron 2016)
  • “An Overview of the Modern Farm Bill” (with Joanna Reilly-Brown), “The Environmental Impacts of Industrial Fertilizers and Toxic Pesticides” (with Seth Hennes), “The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act,” “Agriculture and the Clean Water Act” (with James F. Choate) and “Into the Future: Building a Sustainable and Resilient Agricultural System for a Changing Global Environment,” in Food, Agriculture, and the Environment: History, Law, and Sustainability (co-editor with Jason J. Czarnezki and William S. Eubanks II)(ELI Press 2013)
  • “Survey of Florida Water Law” in Waters and Water Rights (Robert E. Beck, ed.) (Matthew Bender & Co., Inc.) (2012 update)
  • “Water Quality Regulations and Policy Evolution” (with Kati Migliaccio) in Water Quality, Concepts, Sampling, and Analysis (Yuncong Li and Kati Migliaccio, eds.) (CRC Press, 2011)

Articles

  • The Insect Apocalypse: Legal Solutions for Protecting Life on Earth, 49 Ecology L.Q. (forthcoming 2022) (with Megan Lancaster)
  • Integrated Estuary Governance, 45 Wm. & Mary Envtl. L & Pol’y Rev. 455 (2021) (with J.W. Glass) [SSRN]
  • Discordant Environmental Laws: Using Statutory Flexibility and Multi-Objective Optimization to Reconcile Conflicting Laws, 38 Stan. Envtl. L. J. 165 (2019) [SSRN]
  • Food Security, Industrialized Agriculture and a Changing Global Climate: Perspectives on the U.S. and Cuba, 29 Fla. J. Int’l. L. 133 (2017) [SSRN]
  • Whole System Agricultural Certification: Building a Resilient System to Adapt to Climate Change, 85 U. Colo. L. Rev. 689 (2014) (with Joanna Reilly Brown) [SSRN]
  • Maintaining a Healthy Water Supply While Growing a Healthy Food Supply: Legal Tools for Cleaning Up Agricultural Water Pollution, 62 Kan. L. Rev. 1003 (2014) (with Jon Morris) [SSRN]
  • Small, Slow and Local: Essays on Building a More Sustainable and Local Food System,” 12 Vt. J. Envtl. L. 1 (2011)
  • Corn, Carbon and Conservation: Rethinking U.S. Agricultural Policy in a Changing Global Environment, 17 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 93 (2010) [SSRN]
  • Modernizing Water Law: The Example of Florida, 61 Fla. L. Rev. 403 (2009) (with Christine Klein and Richard Hamann) [SSRN]
  • Stumbling Toward Success: A Story of Adaptive Law and Ecological Resilience, 87 Neb. L. Rev. 950 (2009) [SSRN]
  • The Killing Fields: Reducing the Casualties in the Battle Between U.S. Species Protection Law and U.S. Pesticide Law, 32 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 95 (2008) [SSRN]
  • Harnessing the Power of Science in Environmental Law: Why We Should, Why We Don’t and How We Can, 86 Tex. L. Rev. 1527 (2008) [SSRN]
  • Regulating Evolution for Sale: An Evolutionary Biology Model for Regulating the Unnatural Selection of Genetically Modified Organisms, 42 Wake Forest L. Rev. 93 (2007) [SSRN]
  • Incorporating Emergy Synthesis into Environmental Law: An Integration of Ecology, Economics and Law, 37 Envtl. L. 963 (2007) (with Mark T. Brown) [SSRN]
  • Embracing Uncertainty, Complexity and Change to Protect Ecological Integrity: An Eco-Pragmatic Reinvention of a First Generation Environmental Law, 33 Ecology L. Q. 105 (2006) [SSRN]

Other Publications

  • Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades: The Seventh Biennial Review, 2018, Committee on Independent Scientific Review of Everglades Restoration Progress, The National Academies Press Washington, D.C. (with Committee, 2018).
  • Options to Reduce High Volume Freshwater Flows to the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee Estuaries and Move More Water from Lake Okeechobee to the Southern Everglades, An Independent Technical Review by the University of Florida Water Institute (with Wendy D. Graham, Thomas K. Frazer, Peter C. Frederick, Karl E. Havens, and K. Ramesh Reddy) (2015) [SSRN]
  • Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades: the Fourth Biennial Review (with Committee on Independent Scientific Review of Everglades Restoration Progress), National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences (2012)
  • Reclaiming Global Environmental Leadership: Why the United States Should Ratify Ten Pending Environmental Treaties” (with Rebecca Bratspies, David Hunter, John H. Knox, Noah Sachs, and Sandra Zellmer) Center for Progressive Reform White Paper No. 1201 (2012) [SSRN]

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The Florida Constitutional Law Endowment in memory of Justice Ben F. Overton was created by Judge Karen Miller in 2013. This fund supports lectures and presentations by Justices of the Florida Supreme Court at the Fredric G. Levin College of Law.

HISTORY

Justice Overton, who earned his B.S. in 1951 and his Juris Doctor in 1952 from the University of Florida, was the first merit appointment to the Florida Supreme Court. Throughout his career he was active in legal education and served as an Adjunct Professor at the Levin College of Law through December 2012, the month of his death. Although he resided at Oak Hammock at the University of Florida, a continuing care retirement community developed in cooperation with UF, he also considered the Florida Supreme Court “home.” Among the high points of his later years was hosting Justices of the Florida Supreme Court in Gainesville and taking his class to Tallahassee to hear oral arguments at the Florida Supreme Court.
Judge Miller, who earned her B.S. cum laude from New York University in 1974 and her Juris Doctor from New York Law School in 1977, served as Chief Administrative Law Judge of the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, New York City’s business regulatory agency, before she retired to Oak Hammock at the University of Florida. Having accompanied Justice Overton on his excursions to Tallahassee and joined him in welcoming guests to Oak Hammock at the University of Florida, she created the endowment in memory of Justice Overton to ensure that the Levin College of Law continues to have the funding necessary to continue and enhance the interaction between its students and the Florida Supreme Court.

 

Judge Miller remembered the event that motivated the endowment.

 

Prior to a dinner at the home of Dean Robert Jerry and Lisa Jerry shortly after Justice Overton’s death, Justice Barbara Pariente and I were discussing a suitable memorial. Justice Pariente, who had been Justice Overton’s colleague on the Florida Supreme Court and who understood the importance to him of the interaction between his students and the Court, suggested the outline of what has become the Overton lectures. Dean Jerry, who has since retired, as has Dean Emeritus Jon Mills, who assumed responsibility for implementing the Overton lectures, were very supportive from the beginning. Since Dean Mills’ retirement, Professor Timothy McClendon, who assisted both Justice Overton and Dean Mills teaching Florida Constitutional Law and who co-authored the recent Florida Constitutional Law casebook, has continued the Overton lectures with the support of Interim Dean Merritt McAlister and CGR director, Professor Danaya Wright.

Justice Overton was a devoted jurist, educator, and ethical leader of the Florida legal profession. The Overton Lecture Series brings Florida Supreme Court Justices to the University of Florida, Levin College of Law, and serves to introduce students to the inner workings of the Court. CGR and the students of the College of Law extend our deepest gratitude to Judge Karen Miller for making the Overton Lectures possible in perpetuity.

You can watch an interview for the Florida Historical Society by Mary Adkins, professor emeritus of the UF Levin College of Law, with Justice Overton here.

Justice Overton was also interviewed for the Samuel Proctor Oral History Project and a transcript of his interview is available at the Smathers Library, and here.
Justice Overton sat on the Constitution Revision Commission of 1977-78 that proposed a right to privacy in the Florida Constitution. Although it failed as part of the Constitution Revision Commission recommendations, it passed in 1980 when proposed by the legislature. The bill was co-sponsored by our very own Jon Mills. The privacy provision prevailed by greater than 60%. Justice Overton then wrote a concurrence in a critical reproductive rights case in 1989 affirming that the privacy provision of the Florida Constitution included the right to obtain an abortion. That decision was overruled in Planned Parenthood of SW and Central Florida v. Florida. You can read about the role of Justice Overton, Jon Mills – director emeritus of CGR, and the history of the 1989 case here.