Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Law

Mary Jane Angelo is a Professor of Law, Director of the Environmental and Land Use Law Program, and University of Florida Research Foundation Professor 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. Mary Jane 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. Her forthcoming book, The Law and Ecology of Pesticides and Pest Management, will be published by Ashgate Publishing in 2013.

Mary Jane serves 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. Mary Jane is also a member of the Vermont Law School summer faculty and has taught and lectured throughout the United States and other parts of the world, including Belize, Brazil, Costa Rica, Poland, and Uruguay. She is also a Member-Scholar with the Center for Progressive Reform in Washington, D.C.

Prior to joining academia, May Jane 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. Her substantial environmental law practice has included water law, wetlands law, endangered species law, pesticides law, biotechnology law, and hazardous and toxic substances law. Mary Jane received her B.S., with High Honors, in biological sciences from Rutgers University, and both her M.S., in Entomology, and J.D., with Honors, from the University of Florida.

Jason Czarnezki is, as of the 2013-2014 academic year, the Gilbert & Sarah Kerlin Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law at Pace Law School. Prior to joining the Pace Law faculty, he was Professor of Law in the Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law School and faculty director of the U.S.-China Partnership for Environmental Law. He also has held academic appointments at Marquette University Law School and the DePaul University College of Law. Jason also served as a guest researcher at Uppsala University in Sweden in 2011 and spent the 2009-2010 academic year as a J. William Fulbright Scholar at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, China. He has presented his work on environmentalism, natural resources law, food policy, and global climate policy at universities, public interest organizations, government institutions, and conferences throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Previously, he served as a law clerk to the Hon. D. Brock Hornby of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine and as a law clerk for the Bureau of Legal Services at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. His articles have been published in the law journals of Boston College, Boston University, Stanford University, the University of Chicago, the University of Colorado, the University of Maryland, and the University of Virginia, and he is the author of Everyday Environmentalism: Law, Nature and Individual Behavior (ELI 2011). Jason received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Chicago.

Bill Eubanks is a partner at one of the nation’s leading public interest environmental law firms, Meyer Glitzenstein & Crystal, where he litigates complex federal environmental cases on behalf of conservation organizations under the Endangered Species Act, National Environmental Policy Act, Clean Water Act, National Park Service Organic Act, and other statutes. Cases on which he has worked include challenging Deepwater Horizon oil spill response strategies harming sea turtles, garnering protections for endangered Indiana bats from an industrial wind energy project, obtaining agency records regarding federal financing of coal-fired power facilities, forcing a reconsideration of critical habitat for the California tiger salamander, reducing off-road vehicle use in Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve, and co-authoring several amicus briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court on standing and remedies in environmental cases involving climate change, genetically modified crops, and naval sonar use.

Among other topics, Bill has also written and lectured extensively about the environmental and public health impacts of agricultural policy and examined various proposals to create more sustainable and resilient food systems. Bill serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Vermont Law School and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Law at American University’s Washington College of Law, where he teaches courses on environmental law, food systems, and agricultural policy.

Bill received his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; his law degree, magna cum laude, from North Carolina Central University School of Law; and his LL.M. in Environmental Law, summa cum laude, from Vermont Law School.