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legal research: staff attorney

The River Basin Center's Staff Attorney researches federal, state and local laws that affect land use and natural resource protection policies, drafts memoranda, writes model ordinances, and assists with the Environmental Law for Scientists course.

Emily Franzen, who received her JD from the School of Law in 2004, is the first River Basin Center Legal Fellow. Ms. Franzen studied environmental law, natural resources law, land use law, municipal corporations, and property law. In addition, she has worked as the Legislative Monitor for the Georgia Environmental Council, attending relevant committee meetings and floor sessions during the Georgia legislative session and writing a weekly newsletter for subscribing environmental groups. During law school, she spent one summer as a legal intern in the Commissioner's Office at the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. After her second year of law school, Ms. Franzen spent her summer as a law clerk in the Office of Environmental Justice at the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington D.C.

Memoranda and Model Ordinances:

Implementing the Precautionary Principle: A Tool for Georgia's Local Governments, December 2004, Emily Franzen and Laurie Fowler (PDF) This model policy was initiated at the request of ECO-Action. Background research for this model policy was provided by ECO-Action. Visit the ECO-Action website at
www.eco-act.org for more information on implementing a precautionary principle ordinance for your jurisdiction.

 

 

 

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Athens, GA 30602-1510 USA
Phone: (706) 583-0463
Fax: (706) 583-0612

C. Ronald Carroll, Co-Director for Science - rcarroll@uga.edu
Laurie Fowler, Co-Director for Policy - lfowler@uga.edu

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