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Stetson Law Dean and new Alliance featured in The Gabber

Partnership Connects Law Students to Non-Profits

By Jeff Donnelly
The Gabber
Nov. 6, 2019

dean michele alexandre
Dean Michèle Alexandre

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“We have a tradition of training students for service, and our key feature is the fact that we train students as advocates,” says Michèle Alexandre, dean of Stetson University College of Law. Six months into her new role at Stetson, Alexandre has helped spearhead a major new initiative, officially announced October 16 and dubbed the Alliance for Advocacy and Philanthropy.

This article was originally published on the The Gabber website on Nov. 6, 2019, with the headline, “Partnership Connects Law Students to Non-Profits.”

Professor Royal Gardner talks value of world’s wetlands in AP article

By Matthew Brown and James Brooks
AP
Nov. 5, 2019

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Professor Royal Gardner
Professor Royal Gardner

Climate change also threatens to worsen the problem. Warmer temperatures and changing rainfall patterns can trigger drought, leading to more pumping of water reserves that otherwise would feed surface wetlands, scientists say.

Wetlands in northern China, the central U.S., northern Africa, India and the Middle East already have been depleted by the pumping of underground aquifers for agriculture.

“We now know the value of wetlands, and we know with increasing precision how many wetlands we’re losing. The next step is for the governments to act,” says Royal Gardner, director of the Institute for Biodiversity Law and Policy at Stetson University in Florida.

The complete article was originally published on the Associated Press website on Nov. 5, 2019, with the headline, “Bringing the world’s buried wetlands back from the dead.”

Luz E. Nagle examines how trans-border criminal organizations exploit gaps in global marijuana cultivation laws

Professor of Law Luz Nagle.
Professor of Law Luz Nagle

Law Professor Luz E. Nagle’s article, Trans-border Labor Trafficking and Forced Servitude in Marijuana Growing Operations, was published in the International Enforcement Law Reporter in November.

From the Abstract

Human trafficking and labor servitude are occurring globally in the rapidly expanding marijuana cultivation “industry” in which the murky status between legal and illegal product entering the consumer supply chain allows transborder criminal organizations to capitalize on gaps in law enforcement and immigration laws. 

Over the last several years, grow operations concealed in non-descript settings—suburban houses and warehouses in industrial areas—have been found throughout Great Britain, Ireland, and Western Europe.  With those discoveries, authorities have found numerous instances of undocumented immigrants, including children, toiling over the valuable crops while subjected to potentially fatal health risks from constant exposure to chemicals in poorly-ventilated rooms, malnutrition, constant illness, and the looming threat of fires and electrocution.

Law Professor Royal Gardner quoted by The Associated Press on wetlands reclamation

Bringing the world’s buried wetlands back from the dead

By Matthew Brown and James Brooks
The Associated Press
Nov. 5, 2019

Excerpt

Professor Royal Gardner
Professor Royal Gardner

Wetlands in northern China, the central U.S., northern Africa, India and the Middle East already have been depleted by the pumping of underground aquifers for agriculture.

“We now know the value of wetlands, and we know with increasing precision how many wetlands we’re losing. The next step is for the governments to act,” says Royal Gardner, director of the Institute for Biodiversity Law and Policy at Stetson University in Florida.

This article was originally released by The Associated Press to various news organizations and appeared on The AP’s website on Nov. 5, 2019, with the headline, “Bringing the world’s buried wetlands back from the dead.”

Law Professor Peter Lake quoted by Education Dive on Title IX litigation

5 college Title IX lawsuits to watch

By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf
Education Dive
Oct. 29, 2019

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Peter Lake
Professor Peter Lake

[Betsy] DeVos’ replacement for the Obama administration’s guidelines is set to drop soon. Though the Ed Department has provided colleges and universities with interim directives for handling sexual violence, many of the Obama-era procedures remain in place on campuses. And hundreds of lawsuits have been filed since 2011 challenging the fairness of institutions’ processes. 

This is a trend that will likely continue, said Peter Lake, director of the Center for Excellence in Higher Education Law and Policy at Stetson University. He told Education Dive that “there has been a litigation explosion” on Title IX, the federal law banning sex discrimination, with more novel arguments and theories of liability being attempted. 

A Supreme Court battle on many of these issues is looming, Lake said. And it seems unlikely that the lawsuits will cease any time soon.

This article was originally published on the Education Dive website on Oct. 29, 2019, with the headline, “5 college Title IX lawsuits to watch.”