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Kara Consalo

Recent Publication: Karen Consalo, Let the Sun Shine: Methods for Expansion of Small-Scale Solar Electricity to Reduce Fossil Fuel Dependence, Ease Financial Energy Burdens, and Enhance Community Resiliency, 24 NEV. L.J. 793 (2024).

Professor Mark Dorosin

RECENT PUBLICATION: Mark Dorosin, 11 BELMONT L. REV. 265 (2023).

Professor Robert Abrams

PUBLICATIONS: Brief of Amici Curiae Law Professors in Support of Defendants, Mississippi v. Tennessee, 135 S. Ct. 2916 (2021) (No. 143). Professor Abrams was a co-author of the amicus curiae brief. Robert Abrams, The AFC Water Wars Final...

Professor Patricia Broussard

PUCLICATIONS: Patricia A. Broussard, Cheryl T. Page & Angela Downes, Damn It! A Conversation on Being Black, Female, and Marginalized during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Is the World Listening? A Conversation between Black Female Law Professors...

Dean Deidre Keller

Recent Publications: Deidre Keller, What, to the Marginalized Person, is the American Dream, 17 Fla. A & M U. L. Rev. xi (2023). Deidre Keller & Melissa Kidder, Learning from the Best Reflections on Nancy Sabol as a Teacher, Scholar...

Professor Jeremy Levitt

PUBLICATIONS: Jeremy Levitt, Beloved Pan-Africansim: Martin Luther King's Stride Toward Africa, International Human Rights, and the Black International Tradition, in ETHIOPIAN YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 2019 163 (Z. Yihdego, M.G. Desta...

Professor LeRoy Pernell

Latest Publication: LeRoy Pernell, Why I Will Not Stop Teaching Law Students to Think Critically About Race: the Attack on Teaching about the Role of Race in Law, 25 Rutgers Race & L. Rev. 1 (2024)

Professor Maritza Reyes

PUBLICATIONS: Maritza I. Reyes, Professional Women Subjugated by Name-Calling and Character Attacks, 23 J. GENDER RACE & JUST. 397 (2020). Maritza I Reyes, RBG: The Power of Dissent and Telling Her Story, Feminist Law Professors Blog...

Professor Omar Saleem

PUBLICATIONS: LEROY PERNELL & OMAR SALEEM, CASES AND MATERIALS ON COMBATING RACISM IN CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (2021).

Florida A & M University Law Review

The Florida A & M University Law Review is a student-run organization at the Florida A & M University College of Law. Dedicated to quality and consistency, its main purpose is to publish a journal of legal scholarship for use by...

Virgil Darnell Hawkins Archive

In 1949, Virgil Hawkins applied to law school at the University of Florida. At that time, there were no state supported graduate schools in Florida for black students. His application was rejected on the basis of race.and he began a...

FAMU College of Law, Orlando, Florida

The re-established FAMU College of Law admitted its first class in 2002 in downtown Orlando, relocating to its current, state-of-the-art, building in 2006.

Original FAMU College of Law's Building

The original FAMU College of Law’s building, in Tallahassee, Florida, was dedicated in 1954. Having three classrooms, a library, student lounge, Moot Court Room, and faculty offices, it was close to the Federal District Court, the Florida...

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