Nova Southeastern University’s Shepard Broad Law Center to Host Symposium on Energy Law and Policy – Feb. 6 and 7

FT. LAUDERDALE-DAVIE, Fla. –January 28, 2014  –

Nova Southeastern University’s (NSU) Shepard Broad Law Center will host its annual national symposium entitled, Energy, Climate Disruption, and Sea Level Rise: New Directions in Law & Policy on Feb. 6 and 7. The two-day symposium will feature some of the nation’s most prominent academic experts in energy law and policy, highly regarded scientists with relevant expertise, and federal, state and local government officials with knowledge of the most recent pertinent changes in the law and policy.

NSU Law Center Professors Joel Mintz, J.D., Richard Grosso, J.D., and Brion Blackwelder, J.D., have collaborated to bring in experts whose topics will include climate disruption, sea level rise, and energy law and policy in the United States and how they affect our lives.

Energy, Climate Disruption, and Sea Level Rise: New Directions in Law & Policy

Date:               February 6 & 7, 2014

Location:        Sheraton Fort Lauderdale Airport Hotel in Dania, FL.

CLE Hours:      The Florida Bar has approved 13 CLE hours (general), including specific certification credit hours, for Florida attorneys. If you practice in the areas of environmental, land use, or state and local government law, or you represent clients in the real estate, energy, or insurance industry, you will want to attend this Symposium.

The Florida Bar approved 13 hours (general) CLE credits, including credits for Board Certified attorneys: 2 credits (City, County, and Local Government Law, International Law, and Real Estate) or 13 credits (State and Federal Government, and Administrative Practice).

Registration – To register and pay online, click here

For more information or questions, please contact Jennifer Jarema Escobar, Director of Communications at jj833@nova.edu.

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About the Shepard Broad Law Center: Nova Southeastern University’s Law Center offers a rigorous traditional academic program in three-year day and four-year evening versions. NSU Law prides itself on preparing graduates to make a smooth transition from the classroom to the courtroom or boardroom. Lawyering Skills and Values (LSV)-Every student completes a four-semester LSV sequence that combines traditional legal reasoning, writing, and research with an introduction to lawyer interviewing, counseling, negotiating, mediating, advocating, and other critical skills in a simulated law firm experience.

About Nova Southeastern University: Situated on 314 beautiful acres in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, Nova Southeastern University (NSU) is a dynamic fully accredited research institution dedicated to providing high-quality educational programs at all levels.  NSU is a not-for-profit independent institution with 27,000 students. NSU awards associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s, specialist, doctoral and first-professional degrees in a wide range of fields. NSU is classified as a research university with “high research activity” by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and it is one of only 37 universities nationwide to also be awarded Carnegie’s Community Engagement Classification. For more information, please visit www.nova.edu.  Celebrating 50 years of academic excellence!

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