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UF Law Partners with UF One Health Center of Excellence and Luiss School of Law to Offer New Course

Organized in collaboration with University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law and One Health Center of Excellence in Research and Training at the University of Florida

Program overview

The Luiss School of Law and the University of Florida’s Fredric G. Levin College of Law and the UF One Health Center of Excellence have joined forces to co-organize the first global executive course that applies the One Health vision to trade of food and agricultural products. In this course, we condense the elements that define the complex interconnections between food production and trade in a world of evolving regulations, and in the face of current agricultural crises that affect national and local economies.

During the course, students and professionals from diverse career backgrounds are exposed to  information on international organizations governing and affecting trade policies of agricultural products.

In addition, students will participate in interactive sessions to learn about crises situations linked to animal and plant diseases, food contaminants, and invasive species. Particular attention is also devoted to international legal issues associated with food traceability, blockchain, and the use of big data to improve our management skills.

The executive course of classes and group work has been developed under the leadership of Professor Ilaria Capua, Director of the University of Florida One Health Center of Excellence.

The Luiss School of Law and the University of Florida

This unique executive course brings together the scientific and professional knowledge of three international leading institutions:

  • Luiss School of Law
  • University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law
  • University of Florida One Health Center of Excellence

The Luiss School of Law (LSL) represents innovation in the field of legal studies in Italy. The School welcomes students who wish to acquire or further develop outstanding legal training or to deepen legal research with an international focus. Over the years, LSL has become a global point of reference in the study and training associated to the global legal intricacies of Food Law. In particular, LSL runs the highly acclaimed LLM in Food Law, a unique postgraduate program that looks at the many facets of the complex prism of different and frequently interlinked activities concerning food, such as agricultural and industrial production, distribution and international trade, quality and safety controls, consumer information and health safeguards, scientific research and technological developments, environmental protection and bio-productions.

University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law is a leading law school in the United States committed to academic excellence, the breadth of its faculty scholarship, robust experiential learning opportunities, its diverse and highly credentialed student body and its global and engaged alumni base. The College is now expanding its educational opportunities and focus on Health Law.

The One Health Center of Excellence in Research and Training at UF is a joint effort between UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences and UF Health, with the mission of co-advancing the health of humans, animals, plants and the environment with innovative approaches. These include exploiting big data, applying critical thinking and developing strong interdisciplinary synergies.

Faculty

This course brings together the academic scientific knowledge of a set of global experts and academics coming from the two institutions, as well as representatives of national and international public health institutions and international organizations.

Course faculty includes:

  • Ilaria Capua, University of Florida
  • Ciro Cattuto, Institute for Scientific Interchange, Turin
  • Giancarlo Ferrari, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana
  • Andrea Gavinelli, European Commission
  • Maria Lodovica Gullino, University of Turin
  • Giuseppe Ippolito, INMI Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases, Rome
  • Nik Kriz, EFSA European Food Safety Authority
  • Romano Marabelli, OIE – World Organization for Animal Health
  • Daniela Paolotti, Institute for Scientific Interchange, Turin
  • Giuseppe Stancanelli, EFSA European Food Safety Authority
  • Spiro Stefanou, University of Florida

Students will be assisted by Olga Munoz, University of Florida and Costanza Manes.

Academic program

The intensive one-week program covers the following topics:

  • An overview of regulatory bodies on food law
  • Big data and One Health
  • Digital epidemiology
  • Trade-related foodborne Infections
  • Future food traceability systems
  • Animal diseases, plant health and trade
  • Mycotoxins in food
  • Chemical residues on agricultural products
  • Trade from post-war settings

Each topic will be led by a leading academic expert and/or professional. Issues will be examined using a system design approach to foster meaningful interactions and debates among participants. Finally, participants will work in a group assignment on a specific topic that will be the basis for follow-up discussions and analyses.

Throughout the week, participants will be assisted by in-class academic tutors from both the Luiss School of Law and the University of Florida’s One Health Center of Excellence.

Duration of program: November 25-29. Full-time participation is required.

Language: English

Certificate of completion: upon completion of the course, participants will receive a joint executive certificate from:

  • Luiss School of Law
  • University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law
  • University of Florida One Health Center of Excellence

Students are also awarded 4 ECTS. Participants from the University of Florida will receive 2 UF CALS (CALS 6930) credits or UF Law credit (LAW 6930).

Application and fees

Interested participants are welcome to apply at: http://jsa.luiss.it/LGCScuole/?CDS=ONE (per la versione web deve essere un hyperlink) and uploading their CV, an electronic copy of their passport or national ID card, and a copy of their academic transcripts or diploma.

Fees are set at:

  • €3,200 (with accommodation)
  • €2,500 (without accommodation)

The following discounts apply:

  • 15% discount for alumni from both undergraduate and graduate courses at Luiss Guido Carli and the

University of Florida, as well as officials from FAO, IFAD and WFP.

  • 30% discount for participants who are citizens and residents in a Least Developed Countries as defined by the United Nations Committee for Development Policy.

Fees include:

  • 6-nights in a Luiss accommodation or nearby hotel (for those requesting accommodation)
  • lunches and coffee breaks served in the Luiss cafeteria
  • two networking dinners in Rome
  • full course material
  • full access to Luiss Wi-Fi and online library resources

Those who complete their application and enrollment by September 30, 2019 will be offered a 10% discount which is cumulative to discounts awarded to alumni of Luiss Guido Carli and the University of Florida, officials from FAO, IFAD and WFP, and representatives of countries indicated by United Nations Least Developed Countries.

Published: September 23rd, 2019

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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.