CENTER FOR GOVERNMENTAL RESPONSIBILITYFlorida’s senior legal and public policy research institute

hank you for your interest in the Center for Governmental Responsibility at the University of Florida Levin College of Law – now in our fourth decade of service

to Florida, the United States and the world.

The diversity of our projects, courses and activities reflects the interdisciplinary nature ofour work; our expanding focus responds to the changing needs of our constituencies, andour excellent faculty and staff (above) account for the quality, scope and success of ourresearch and assignments.

As a result of grants and contract-funded research, our faculty and students help shapepublic policy development and its implementation at local, state, federal and internationallevels. Our administration of externships and fellowships funded through The Florida Bar’sInterest on Trust Accounts (IOTA) Program provides students with opportunities for publicservice work.

Ongoing specialized activities – including the International Trade Law Program,Conservation Clinic, the Costa Rica Summer Program, Center for American Law Studies atWarsaw (Poland) University and the Rule of Law in the Americas Program (which offersthe annual Conference on Legal & Policy Issues in the Americas) – are directed by the CGRfaculty in addition to their teaching a wide array of law classes.

As Florida’s senior legal and public policy research institute, we will continue to providevital support and research in an ever-changing global environment, offering UFLawstudents unique opportunities for first-hand knowledge in a wide range of specialized fieldswhile at the same time maintaining our record of excellence in meeting the unique needs ofgovernmental, educational, foundation, non-profit and private entities.

Jon MillsDirector, Center for Governmental Responsibility

Levin College of Law Dean EmeritusProfessor of Law

� Beginnings…

The Center for GovernmentalResponsibility at the Universityof Florida College of Law began in 1972 as the result of a $66,000grant from the McIntoshFoundation of South Florida tostudy the cutting by PresidentRichard Nixon of housing and civilrights programs funding.

Success of that study andsubsequent suing of the federalgovernment, filing of an amicusbrief in the U.S. Supreme Court in a case involving theEnvironmental Protection Agencyplus other high-profile casesaround the country resulted inadditional funding by theMcIntosh group. CGR wasorganized permanently forresearch and public policy workunder founding director (whocontinues to head the Center’sleadership more than 30 yearslater) Jon Mills, UF law DeanEmeritus.

Topically, the Center has grown to cover a wide variety of majorprojects, policies and programs,with an annual budget in themillions of dollars. The Center’sstaff now includes 11 researchand teaching faculty, and foursupport personnel – and eachyear multiple members of the UFlaw faculty partner in various CGRactivities.

Constituencies for CGR haveexpanded from Florida courts andlawyers to the U.S. SupremeCourt and federal agencies and toprojects on four continents – withstudents taught by and involvedin research by CGR faculty.

More than 500 years’ worth of global research, educational and administrative experience are represented collectively bythe Center for Governmental Responsibility faculty and staff of (from left, standing) Thomas T. Ankersen, Barbara Noah, Jeff Wade, Ewa Gmurzynska, Richard Hamann, Jon L. Mills, Joan Flocks, Steve Powell, (seated) Laura Coates, JoAnn Klein,Barbara Sieger, Linda Baldwin, Lenny Kennedy and Timothy E. McLendon. (Backgrounds and titles for these professionals,and that of Clifford Jones absent from photo, are on page 5).

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As the state’s senior legal and public policy research institute, theCenter for Governmental Responsibility (CGR) of theUniversity of Florida Levin College of Law since 1972 has beenthe innovator for environmental law, democracy and governance,and social policy research.

The Center has grown from initial studies on governance issuesto an organization with experience in wide-ranging local, state,federal and international programs and projects. CGR lawyersand faculty have affected more public policy decisionsduring the past 30 years than any other Florida organizationof its nature and scope.

Procedurally, the Center is organized to accomplish its objectives– including research, proposals and implementation – throughthree methods:

1) Contracting directly with clients – such as local, stateand national governments; Florida courts, lawyers and theU.S. Supreme Court; governmental agencies (watermanagement districts, administrative agencies, planningcouncils); colleges and universities; foundations andprivate enterprise.

2) Working cooperatively with the Levin College of Law andits faculty and staff, with UF centers and departments, andwith colleges and universities throughout the state andworld.

3) Teaching students in such areas as land use and planning,ecosystem management, sustainable development, environ-mental justice, emerging democracies, state and federalconstitutional issues, European Community law, healthpolicy, international trade law, bioethics, election andcampaign finance law, historic preservation, conflict resolu-tion, and areas of the law including family, health, environ-ment, water and poverty. Students also are provided uniqueopportunities to conduct research with staff attorneys onissues of local, state, national and international importance.

Administratively, Center work is organized as follows:� ENVIRONMENTAL LAW DIVISION

Attorneys and staff are leading experts on and directresearch projects in such areas as environmentallysensitive ecosystems, protection of endangered species,land use and planning, coastal management, ground-water and wetlands protection, and water law.

� DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE DIVISIONIn Haiti, Brazil, Poland and Central America – as well asFlorida and the United States – the Center plays a vitalrole in assisting democratic reforms. Through its Centerfor American Law Studies at Warsaw University, CGRhas for more than 30 years helped local, regional andnational governmental officials in a joint U.S.-Polandexperiment begun in that country 16 years before the fallof Communism.

� SOCIAL POLICY DIVISIONThe Center’s initial work in social policy began in 1980,when The Florida Bar commissioned research on “LegalNeeds of the Poor and Under-represented Citizens ofFlorida.” During the last quarter century, thisDivision’s work has expanded to encompass publicpolicy research in the areas of health care and ethics –including juvenile justice, guardianship reform, seniorcitizen programs, divorce mediation and child supportenforcement. Three major initiatives include operationof the Bar’s Public Service Law Fellowships, ongoingsupport of and student externships for Three RiversLegal Services’ low-income clients, and health care lawexternships at UF’s Shands teaching hospital.

Working with Warsaw University law faculty, the Center forGovernmental Responsibility operates the Center for American LawStudies that annually trains hundreds of Polish law students andattorneys in various aspects of the U.S. legal system.

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O VER 30 YEARS OF GLOBAL INITIATIVES, ACCOMPLISHMENTS

One of the first major initiatives of what is now the Center for GovernmentalResponsibility was in the environmental field when CGR attorneys in 1972 successfully argued for release of more than $6 million in federal pollution controlfunds impounded by the President of the United States.

Over the last 30 years, CGR environmental efforts have grown to include direction ofprojects throughout Florida, Central America, Poland, Brazil and Africa. Division staffhave developed international reputations in water law, environmentally sensitiveecosystems and estuaries, land use and planning, coastal management, groundwaterand wetlands protection, endangered species, and regulation of pesticides.

Another major CGR initiative was formation of the University of FloridaConservation Clinic, part of the law school’s Environmental and Land Use LawCertificate Program (also formed in part through CGR efforts). The Clinic allows lawstudents working with students from relevant departments within UF graduate schoolsto team with governmental and private sector entities to research and advance area,

state, national and internationalconservation objectives.

Through CGR, law students in1994 established the annualPublic Interest EnvironmentalConference which has grown to anational event featuring leadingU.S. and international expertsdiscussing current environmentallaw issues and solutions.

Efforts of this Division haveresulted in major research andadoption of environmental

programs, policies and proceduresin countries throughout the world

while at the same time providing practical experience for hundreds of UFLaw studentswho have become some of today’s leading environmental attorneys, policy makers andadvocates.

E NVIRONMENTAL LAW DIVISION

LAND, SEA, AIR – TOPICS OF DIVISION RESEARCH

A sampling of recent Environmental LawDivision research / projects:• Sustainable Everglades Initiative• Role of the Florida Cabinet in Environmental

Policy• Potential for Protecting Apalachicola River and

Bay Resources• Creation of Integrated Solid Waste

Management Course (Poland)• Advancing Bioregional Policy in the Maya

Forest• The Future of Pollution Regulation &

Enforcement: U.S. Pollution Control Issuesand Responses

• Wildlife Law Project (Africa)• Mosquito Control Pesticides: Ecological

Impacts and Management Alternatives• Law and Policy for Water Resources

Management in Florida• Sustainable Development in Brazil:

Empowering Non-GovernmentalOrganizations

Thanks to CGR Law Research Associate Richard Hamann(left), students in the law school’s Environmental and Land Use Law Program and the Conservation Clinic are involved in hands-on experiences – such as this bat cave exploration.

Through CGR, the annual Public Interest EnvironmentalConference was begun in 1994 and has grown to anational event with global experts addressing vital issues.

Among organizations providing grants for CGR environmental research are theUnited States Information Agency, Conservation International, WildlifeConservation Society, U.S. Agency for International Development, The Florida Bar,U.S. Fish & Wildlife, McIntosh Foundation, Florida Center for EnvironmentalStudies, MacArthur Foundation, U.S. Department of the Interior, National ParksService, Nature Conservancy, Caribbean Conservation Corporation, U.S. ArmyCorps of Engineers and Florida SeaGrant.

Multiple Agencies Provide Grants

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Poland, Brazil, Haiti, Latin America, theUnited States and Florida – key locationswhere the Center for GovernmentalResponsibility’s Democracy & GovernanceDivision has advanced aspects of theAmerican legal system and the Rule of Law.

For more than 30 years, this CGR Divisionhas had as its keystone project the effort tohelp Poland become “a partner for Americaand a model for the world.” Working withthe Warsaw University Faculty of Law &Administration, CGR began a joint U.S.-Poland experiment 16 years before the fallof Communism. Today, the resulting Centerfor American Law Studies graduatesannually an average of 100 Polish attorneysas trained practitioners in the Americanlegal system.

CGR continues its significant role in issuesof Florida governance. In 2004-05, staffworked with the Florida Supreme Court’sCommittee on Privacy & Court Records toprovide recommendations on balancingthe state’s public record requirements andprivacy issues. CGR previously assisted thestate’s Constitution Revision Committeewith research in 1977-78 and 1997-98.

Growing in importance is the annual “Legaland Policy Issues in the Americas” conferenceinitiated by CGR in 2000 to bring together keyinternational and U.S. governmental, legal,educational and corporate officials to examineand debate pressing Latin American legal andpolicy issues. (The seminar is jointly sponsoredby UF Warrington College of Business’ Center forInternational Business Education and Research.)

An extension of the 2003 Conference was thecreation of the Rule of Law in the AmericasProgram to provide assistance on effectiveadministration of justice and judicial reformsthroughout the region. Included is the annualAmerican Law for Brazilian Judges,Prosecutors & Attorneys summer program.

CGR’s Haiti Conflict Resolution Program,sponsored by the U.S. Information Agencyand begun in 1996, trains select representa-tives in conflict resolution and mediation –including teaching youth about alternatives toviolence in settling disputes.

UFLaw students benefit from a for-creditexternship program at the Florida SupremeCourt started by CGR in 1997. Participantswork for a term in the office of a Court Justiceor with the central staff on appellate law issues.

D EMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE DIVISION

Panelists for CGR’s 2004 “Legal & Policy Issues in the Americas” conference and advocates of CGR’s proposedCenter for Judicial Reform and Rule of Law in the Americas included (from left) past ABA President Martha Barnett;Juan Vargas Viancos, executive director, Justice Studies Center of the Americas, Chile; former U.S. Attorney GeneralJanet Reno; CGR Director Jon Mills; and Paulo Roberto Pereira de Souza, State University of Maringa, Brazil.

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

LAW PROGRAM BUILDS

ON UFLAW STRENGTHS

Realizing thatsuccess in theinternational tradearena – in today’sglobal market – iscentral to thenation’s economichealth, CGR in 2000 established an International Trade LawProgram built on the UF College ofLaw’s strong slate of global activities.

Led by long-time federal tradenegotiator and chief counsel Steve Powell, the program servesas a national model for academicinteraction with business, legal and governmental communities.

Seminars for business leaders andattorneys, academic courses oninternational trade topics, researchon trade issues important to Floridabusinesses, and technicalassistance to developing countriesin implementing trade obligationsare among program accomplish-ments. Its core of internationaltrade law courses rival those ofleading top-tier U.S. law schools,and work is underway on a trainingmodule, “Doing Business in theU.S.,” for use with governmentofficials and exporter associationsfrom Brazil and other countries.

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Powell

In 1980, The Florida Bar asked the Centerfor Governmental Responsibility toresearch legal issues of the state’s poor andindigent, and the result was a ground-breaking report: “The Legal Needs of thePoor and Under-represented Citizens ofFlorida: An Overview” – and theformation of CGR’s Social Policy Division.

In the 25 years since, the Division staffand its expertise have expanded toencompass poverty issues, juvenile justiceand dependency, victim advocacy, healthcare for the indigent, elder law and abuse,gender and race bias, feminist jurispru-dence, medical ethics and law, immigrant

rights, child support enforcement, andenvironmental justice. Changes andadditions to Florida legislation, policiesand procedures have resulted throughDivision work with the Florida SupremeCourt, Florida Legislature and the FloridaBar Foundation.

A major CGR initiative was assistancewith formation and ongoing operation ofThree Rivers Legal Serivces, a non-profitcorporation providing free legal servicesto low-income clients in a 12-county area.Each year, through its operation of TheFlorida Bar Foundation’s Public ServiceFellowship Program (see sidebar), CGR

provides up to two Fellows ayear to help Three Rivers’ staff.

Starting in 2000, Divisionspecializations expanded toinclude health law and policy,with research focus includingracial disparities in delivery ofhealth care, prescription drugsissues and clinical researchethics and liability. Coursestaught by Division staff includeBioethics, Genetics and the Law,Health Care Finance andDelivery, Medical Technologyand the Law, EnvironmentalJustice, and Poverty Law.

S OCIAL POLICY DIVISION

The late Alfredo Bahena, farmworker activist, is among statewidecommunity leaders who worked with CGR research faculty onFlorida environmental justice concerns, including pesticides.

PUBLIC SERVICE FELLOWSHIPS

KEY TO ADVOCACY FOR POOR

Thanks to a cooperative effort begun inthe mid-1980s between the Florida Bar

Foundationand theCenter forGovernmentalResponsibility,thousands oflow-incomeand indigentcitizens havereceivedvaluable legalassistance.

More than$700,000 hasbeenprovided bythe

Foundation from Interest on TrustAccounts (IOTA) to finance theFellowship program and help pay forthe legal educations of selected third-year law students – who gain fieldexperience as advocates for the poor.

Non-profit and government agenciesserved by Fellows include FloridaInstitutional Legal Services, BatteredWomen’s Clemency Project, SouthernLegal Counsel, St. Johns River WaterManagement District, Department ofEnvironmental Protection, Three RiversLegal Services, the State’s Guardian adLitem program and public defenderoffices throughout Florida.

Also included as part of the students’nine-month commitment are projectsto promote awareness of povertyissues and public interest, and arequired course in poverty law.

Major Groups Funding Social Policy WorkAmong agencies providing grants for research and/or assistance requests to the Social PolicyDivision are Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, Bureau of CriminalJustice Assistance, Florida House Committee on Corrections/Probation/Parole, NationalCouncil on Family Relations, Florida State Commission on Child Support, Florida LungAssociation, Florida Council on Family Relations, Institute for Child Health Policy, FloridaLegislature Task Force on Guardianship Reform, State Justice Institute, Florida FirstFoundation, American Bar Association, Eighth Judicial Circuit of Florida, Robert WoodJohnson Foundation and Florida Supreme Court Racial and Ethnic Bias Study Commission.

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Public Service Law Fellows,including event chair JonGurney, organized StreetLaw Symposium on Florida’sDUI laws and the investiga-tion process as one of its2004 public interest projects.

Recognized credentials in instruction, research, public policy and service are among hallmarks of the Center forGovernmental Responsibility faculty – with members also serving Floridians through assistance to advocacygroups, membership on community boards, and counseling governmental staff and officeholders. Faculty haveappeared before the Florida Supreme Court, provided assistance to the Florida Legislature and excutive branchagencies, and to many of the state’s cities and counties.

Jon L. MillsDirector, Center for Governmental

ResponsibilityDean Emeritus, UF College of LawB.A., Stetson UniversityJ.D., University of Florida

Thomas T. AnkersenDirector, Conservation Clinic,

Costa Rica Law Program;Legal Skills Professor

B.A., M.A., University of South FloridaJ.D., University of Florida

Joan D. FlocksDirector, Social Policy DivisionB.S., M.A., J.D., University of Florida

Timothy E. McLendonStaff AttorneyA.B., Duke UniversityJ.D., University of Florida

Barbara NoahResearch Associate, Health Law & Policy B.A. Union CollegeJ.D., Harvard Law School

Steve PowellDirector, International Trade Law ProgramB.A., J.D., University of Florida

Jeff WadeDirector, Environmental DivisionB.A., University of AlabamaM.Ed., J.D., University of Florida

Clifford A. JonesVisiting LecturerB.S., Southern Illinois UniversityJ.D., University of OklahomaM.Phil., Ph.D., University of Cambridge

Richard HamannAssociate in Law ResearchB.A., J.D., University of Florida

Ewa GmurzynskaDirector, Center for American Law Studies

at Warsaw University; Staff AttorneyJ.D., M.B.A., Warsaw UniversityLL.M., University of Florida

Administrative Staff: Linda Baldwin, Senior Administrative AssistantLaura Coates, Office ManagerLenny Kennedy, Senior SecretaryBarbara Sieger, Secretary

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JoAnn KleinDevelopment DirectorB.S., M.S., University of Southern

Mississippi

F ACULTY

CENTER ASSISTS WELFARE REFORM

IN FLORIDA, UNITED STATES

Through its Social Policy Division, theCenter played a vital part in welfare reformin Florida and across the country. With aconsortium of faculty from other Floridauniversities, CGR staff researched impact ofthe proposed Work and Gain EconomicSelf-Sufficiency (W.A.G.E.S.) Act –designed to replace the open-ended federalwelfare entitlement program – that wasadopted in Florida in the mid-1990s. [In2000, the Florida Workplace Innovation Actreplaced W.A.G.E.S. with Welfare TransitionProgram (WTN)]. CGR received funds fromthe Kellogg Foundation / Children’s DefenseFund to create the “Florida AdvocacyProject: Making W.A.G.E.S. Work for thePoor,” resulting in publication ofAdvocates’ Manual and training /monitoring in Florida communities on thewelfare program transition.

CENTRAL AMERICA PROJECT EXAMPLE OF CGR INITIATIVES

One of the most dramatic examples of global success of the Center forGovernmental Responsibility and its Environmental Division is theMesoamerican Environmental Law Program and Conservation Law Initiative.Accomplishments include establishing a regional network of environmental laworganizations in Central America and Mexico, agreement to manage sharedsea turtle population between Costa Rica and Panama, legal framework forancient Maya temple complex spanning border of Belize and Guatemala, andprocedures to advance bioregional policy in Maya Forest shared by Belize /Mexico / Guatemala.

Funding and support have come from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthurFoundation, U.S. Agency for International Development, and U.S. Departmentof State’s Man and the Biosphere Program.

‘HISTORIC PRESERVATION: BOON TO FLORIDA’

Historic preservation helps bring anadditional $4.2 billion a year to the Floridaeconomy and more than 120,000 jobs a yearto Sunshine State workers, according toresearch by the Levin College of Law Centerfor Governmental Responsibility.

Commissioned by the Florida Department ofState and conducted by staffs of CGR and theCenter for Urban Policy Research at RutgersUniversity, the study is the first of its kind inFlorida to research the impact of historicalpreservation. The study “provides strikingevidence Florida’s investment in the preser-vation and protection of historic placesand according to the legacy of the culturesthat created it, are paying huge dividends,”said then-Secretary of State Jim Smith.

“Historic preservation produces a wonderful return for the public money invested andis one of the most efficient ways public funds can be invested,” according to studyauthors Timothy McLendon and JoAnn Klein of CGR.

For copies of the study:Florida Department of State’s Bureau of Historic Preservation (850.245.6333) orFlorida Trust for Historic Preservation (850.228.8128)

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During 2000, more than 123,000 jobs and$657 million in taxes were generated fromFlorida historic preservation activities, visits.

C ASE STUDIES

Among chapters, articles, reports, booklets andmanuals resulting from research of the faculty andstaff of the Center for Governmental Responsibility:

• Strengthening the Duty to Provide Public Education

• Sex, Lies and Genetic Testing: What are Your Rights to Privacy in Florida?

• Ecosystem Management and the Everglades: A Legal and Institutional Analysis

• Responding to Terrorism and Achieving Stability in theGlobal Financial System: Rational Policy or CrisisReaction?

• Florida Historic Preservation Law and Model HistoricPreservation Ordinanace

• Private Enforcement of Antitrust Law in the UnitedKingdom, European Community and United States

• Florida Election 2000: Insiders at the Intersection ofLaw, Politics and the Media

• Prosecutors and Attorneys: A Model for Brazil

• The Usmacinta River: Building a Framework for Mexico& Guatemala Cooperation

• ¡Viva Mexico! Mexican Independence Day Festivals inCentral Florida

• Lay Representation of Children in the Courts: Florida’s Guardian ad litem Program

• Resolving Property Claims in Post Socialist Cuba

• Diversity in Law Schools: Where Are We Headed in theTwenty-first Century

• Minimum Flows and Levels: Analysis of Florida Programs

• Global Competition Policy in the World Trading System

• Comparative Analysis of Pesticide Regulatory Programsin the United States and Brazil

• Collaborative Research with Farmworkers inEnvironmental Justice

• Framework Concession Agreement and SelectionProcess for the Safari Hunting Industry in Zambia

• Implementing a Community-Based Social MarketingProject to Improve Agricultural Worker Health

• Overcoming Legal Barriers to Florida Bay’s Restoration

• Legal Standards, Political Pressures: Redistricting inFlorida, 1970-2000 / Mapping Florida’s Landscape

• Legal Authority and the Judicial Role in Environmentaland Land Use Law

• Stakeholder Analysis of Farmworker Housing in Florida

CGR CONSERVATION CLINIC

MAJOR INTERNATIONAL SUCCESS

CGR’s Conservation Clinic maintains avaried portfolio of international conser-vation projects, principally in the LatinAmerica and Caribbean Region. Clientshave included the World ResourcesInstitute, Forest Management Trust,Brazilian agencies, coalition of entitiesfrom the Maya Forest region ofMexico/Guatemala/ Belize, and theWildlife Conservation Society.

The Clinic also works closely withenvironmental lawyers, law organiza-tions and networks such as the Centerfor International Environmental Law(CIEL), the Environmental Law Alliance

Worldwide (E-LAW) and the Associacion Interamericana para laDefensa del Ambiente (AIDA).

In Summer of 2001 the Clinic first offered the University of Florida/University of Costa Rica Joint Program in Environmental Law, andby the 2003 summer session attendees from nine countries participated.Fellowships enable attorneys, graduate students and scientists fromBrazil, Colombia and Mexico to work with law students from theUnited States and Costa Rica on projects addressing regional anddomestic conservation.

Core support for the international activities is from the John D. andCatherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

EXPANDED HEALTH EMPHASIS

RESULTS IN IMPRESSIVE WORK

In 1999-2000, Center officials expanded specializations to includehealth law and policy with impressive results in three key areas: lawschool courses, research and publications, and cooperative effortswith other UF entities.

Research has included work on AIDS drugs in South Africa, legalissues pertaining to end-of-life decision making, and publication byCGR Research Associate Barbara Noah and UF Research FoundationProfessor Lars Noah of the casebook, Law, Medicine and MedicalTechnology: Cases and Materials.

Courses made available to UFLaw students include Bioethics & the Law,Health Care Finance & Delivery, Medical Technology & the Law, and aseminar in Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Genetics. Healthlaw externships are arranged with Shands Legal Services and the UFGeneral Counsel’s Office / College of Medicine.

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RESEARCH, PUBLICATIONSCOVER CRITICAL TOPICS, ISSUES

Cano Negro National WildlifeRefuge international wetlandspolicy issues and possibility ofharvesting crocodiles as source ofmeat and hide is CGR ConservationClinic project in Costa Rica.

William L. Allen ’91Director: Bioethics, Law and Medical

Professional ProgramUF College of Medicine Gainesville• Consultant, NIH Human Genome Initiative

(Task Force on Genetic Testing &Insurance)

Terrell K. Arline ’80Terrel K. Arline Attorney-at-LawTallahassee• Former Assistant General Counsel, Florida

Department of Community Affairs• Former Legal Director, 1000 Friends of

Florida

Carol M. Browner ’79The Albright Group, LLCWashington, D.C.• Chair National Audubon Society• Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency

Rocky M. Cabagnot ’01Equal Justice Works FellowThree Rivers Legal Services, Inc. Lake City• AmeriCorps Attorney, Three Rivers Legal

Services Inc.

Walter “Skip” Campbell Jr. ’73Krupnick Campbell Malone et al, PAFort Lauderdale • Florida State Senator (Broward County)• Founding Fellow & Member, Board of

Governors, Southern Trial Lawyers

Sandra F. Chance ’90Director of UF Brechner Center for Freedom of Information• Associate Professor,

Department of Journalism, UF

Anne C. Conway ’75Judge, U.S. District Court (Florida Middle District)Orlando • Federal Clerkship,

U.S. District Court (Florida)

Jacqueline R. Griffin ’75Judge, Fifth District Court of AppealDaytona Beach• Faculty for New Appellate Judges' School,

Florida Judicial College• Florida Legislature Study Committee

on Public Records• Committee on Privacy and

Court Records

Albert J. Hadeed ’74Albert J. Hadeed, PAFlagler Beach• General Counsel, National Scenic Byway• President, Florida Trust for Historic

Preservation

John Hankinson ’79Licensed Florida AttorneySt. Augustine• Former Director, Planning and

Acquisition, St. Johns River WaterManagement District

• Former Administrator, EnvironmentalProtection Agency (Region 4)

Janice Innis-Thompson ’90Chief Counsel-Compliance,International Paper Co./Stamford, CT • Former Assistant US Attorney for Florida

Middle District, and Western and Easterndistricts of New York

Nicole C. Kibert ’03Carlton Fields, PA Tampa • Former Peace Corps Volunteer,

Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia• John Marshall Bar Association,

UF Law 2003 Student of Year

Andrew J. Markus ’73Carlton FieldsMiami• Chair, American Bar Association

International Law & Practice Section• First American President, British-American

Chamber of Commerce, Miami

Keith W. Rizzardi ’94Trial Attorney, U.S. Department ofJustice/Washington, D.C. • Former Senior Attorney, South Florida

Water Management District• Member, Florida Bar Standing Committee

on Professionalism

Deborah A. Schroth ’87Senior Staff Attorney Florida Legal Services, Inc./Jacksonville• Former Chair, Florida Bar Public Interest

Law Section

Linda L. Shelley ’77Fowler White Boggs Banker, PATallahassee • Former Chief of Staff, Governor of Florida• Former Chief of Staff, Florida Department

of Insurance, Office of Treasurer andState Fire Marshall

• Former Secretary, Florida Department ofCommunity Affairs

Janet R. Studley ’76Holland & Knight, LLP Washington, D.C. • Chair, ABA Government Law Section• Former Chief Counsel, U.S. Senate

Subcommittee on Federal SpendingPractices and Open Government, Governmental Affairs Committee,chaired by then-Sen. Lawton Chiles

John C. Tucker ’88Graduate Program Coordinator,

Biological and Environmental Sciences Department

University of Tennessee - Chattanooga Chattanooga, TN• Environmental Stewardship Award• Tennessee Department of Environment

and Conservation• Chattanooga Air Toxics Task Force

B OARD OF ADVISORS

NOTE: Years are graduation from University of Florida Levin College of Law

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CENTER FOR GOVERNMENTAL RESPONSIBILTY

I NTERNATIONAL CROSSROADS

For more information:

www.law.ufl.edu/centers/cgr

Jon Mills, DirectorCenter for Governmental

Responsibility

Levin College of LawP.O. Box 117629Gainesville, FL 32611352.392.2237

UFLaw and its Global Environment

The Levin College of Law is one of the nation’s most comprehensive and highlyregarded public law schools. Founded in 1909, it is accredited by the American BarAssociation and a major academic and geographic center for international legalprograms. It has a distinguished national reputation and a tradition of excellence that hasproduced legal, corporate, academic and governmental leaders for the state, nation andglobal community.

Given its history and record of accomplishment, UFLaw is recognized as one of thecountry’s top global legal institutions – and the Center for GovernmentalResponsibility is a key element in that reputation.

Consider the law school’s affiliations with 60 foreign countries (some for over a quartercentury), innovative and specialized programs in concert with nine international univer-sities, noted visiting world scholars and faculty, international emphasis throughout thecurriculum, American Bar Association-approved study abroad programs, initiatives inInternational Trade Law, a pioneering Visiting Foreign Scholar Research Program, ahistory of emphasis on legal and policy issues in the Americas….and one of the mostdiversified faculty and student bodies of any top-tier U.S. law school.

Most law schools make significant positive impacts on their area, state and the nation. A few, including the Levin College of Law and its Center for Governmental Responsbility,are also able to demonstrate success abroad – in such countries as France, Poland, theNetherlands, South Africa, Australia, Holland, Germany, Costa Rica, Brazil andthroughout the Americas.

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Covers:Research projects and assignments from Florida’slegislature and governors aswell as governmental officialsand agencies in Costa Rica and Haiti (front cover photos)are part of the ongoing work ofthe Center for GovernmentalResponsibility. The Center forAmerican Law Studies in Polandin concert with the WarsawUniversity Faculty of Law andAdministration, externships withFlorida’s Supreme Court, andstudies on behalf of Floridafarm workers (back cover) alsoare representative of theCenter’s legal and public policyresearch over three decades.

Port-Au-Prince, Haiti

Brazil Guatemala South Africa

University of Florida Levin College of LawCenter for Governmental ResponsibilityP.O. Box 117629Gainesville, FL 32611-7629www.law.ufl.edu/cgr

� Conduct faculty and staff research, using UFLaw students asan integral part of the process, for major national andinternational governmental and private sector agencies tohelp find solutions to relevant and current problems in: • Environmental Law • Democracy & Governance • Social and Health Law and Policy • International Trade Law

� Coordinate externships for students with Florida SupremeCourt and Shands HealthCare systems (health law);administer Florida Bar’s Public Service Law FellowshipProgram for third-year law students with environmentalagencies and for multiple area, regional and state agenciesproviding legal services to the poor.

� Manage the University of Florida Conservation Clinic toenable UFLaw students and others from within UF’s graduateschools to work with government, non-government andprivate sector clients to advance local, state, national andinternational conservation objectives. Continue to operatethe Clinic’s innovative UF/University of Costa Rica JointProgram in Environmental Law each summer.

� Teach multiple courses to more than 300 College of Lawstudents each term in the fields of democracy andgovernance, environment and social policy.

� Direct the UF Levin College of Law’s Center for AmericanLaw Studies, a joint certificate program with the Warsaw(Poland) University Faculty of Law and Administration.

A NNUAL CGR ACTION PLAN: