Experts Guide

Associate Professor Karin Moore
Director of Defense and Death Penalty Clinics
karin.moore@famu.edu
Area of Expertise: Death penalty and evidence

Karin Moore was a criminal defense attorney for 22 years in Florida.  She has tried more than 100 jury trials including nine homicide trials, two of which were death penalty cases. Professor Moore founded the first death penalty clinic in Florida.  Professor Moore’s research interests focus on the collection and admissibility of DNA evidence.  She has presented on DNA issues at death penalty conferences and has written on the topic of DNA evidence.   Professor Moore has trained new prosecutors and public defenders in DNA evidence in a Florida Bar sponsored program.  She is a member of the Florida Bar’s Criminal Rules Committee.

Jeremy I. Levitt, J.D.
Associate Dean and Director of the Center for International Law and Justice
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue, Suite 324
Orlando, Florida 32801
(407) 254-3248
jeremy.levitt@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Human rights law; African politics; democratization; state dynamics; regional collective security

Dean Levitt is a public international lawyer and political scientist  He is the author or editor of four books and numerous law review articles. Prior to entering law teaching, he served as special assistant to the managing director for Global Human and Social Development at the World Bank Group. He was recently appointed as senior member of the International Technical Assistance Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the President of the Republic of Liberia, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa’s first democratically-elected female head of state.  He holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Cambridge-St. Johns College; a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and B.A., political science in Arizona State University.

Publications:
Books

* HURRICANE KATRINA: AMERICA’S UNNATURAL DISASTER, (eds.) (University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 2009).
* AFRICA: MAPPING NEW BOUNDARIES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW, (eds.) (Hart Publishers, Oxford, UK: 2008).
* THE EVOLUTION OF DEADLY CONFLICT IN LIBERIA: FROM ‘PATERNALTARIANISM’ TO STATE COLLAPSE (Carolina Academic Press: Durham, North Carolina 2005).
* AFRICA: SELECTED DOCUMENTS ON POLITICAL, CONFLICT AND SECURITY, HUMANITARIAN AND JUDICIAL ISSUES, (eds.) (Transnational     Publishers Ardsley, NY:  2003).

Articles 

* UN Peacekeeping: A Sheep in Wolves Clothing?, Review of UN PEACEKEEPING IN LEBANON, SOMALIA AND KOSOVO: OPERATIONAL AND LEGAL ISSUES IN PRACTICE by Ray Murphy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. International Peacekeeping Journal, Vol. 17 (Spring 2010). Peer Reviewed.
* “Peace and or Justice: The Dilemma of Power-sharing”, African Legal Aid Quarterly, (published lecture), Conference: Interface Between Peace and International Justice in Africa, July-December 2007.
* “Pro-Democratic Intervention in Africa”, Wisconsin Journal of International Law, Vol. 25 No. 1 (Summer 2006).
* “Illegal Peace?: Examining the Legality of Power-sharing with Warlords and Rebels in Africa”, Michigan Journal of International Law, Vol. 27 No.2 (Winter 2006).

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Dr. Christopher L. Daniels
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Center for Global Security and International Affairs
Florida A&M University
104A University Commons
Tallahassee, Florida 32307
(850) 599-3477

Area of expertise: Piracy, economic development, governance, conflict resolution and terrorism

Daniels received his Ph.D. in African Studies from Howard University where he completed a dissertation analyzing piracy and terrorism in Somalia.  In the fall of 2010, he taught a course on African governance and politics at Georgetown University.

Currently, Daniels is completing a book titled “Voices of the Egyptian Revolution.”

LeRoy Pernell, J.D. 
Dean
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue, Suite 324
Orlando, Florida 32801
(407) 254-3204
leroy.pernell@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Criminal law; juvenile law; torts law; products liability; constitutional law

LeRoy Pernell assumed the deanship of the Florida A&M University College of Law in January 2008. For 10 years, he served as law dean at Northern Illinois University (NIU). Under his leadership, the NIU law school was recognized nationally for its diversity efforts. He also oversaw the expansion of technology into the classroom, the establishment of the clinical educational program and the opening of the Zeke Giorgi Legal Clinic in Rockford, Illinois.

Pernell earned his bachelor’s degree in government from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1971, and received his Juris Doctor from The Ohio State University College of Law in 1974. He was of counsel with the firm Otto Beatty & Associates in Columbus Ohio.

In 1992, U.S. Congressman John Conyers (Michigan) appointed him as the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Criminal Justice Brain Trust’s subcommittee on Juvenile Justice. He also served as a member of the Ohio Governor’s Commission on African American Males and the Governor’s Council on Juvenile Justice. He has also testified before the Criminal Justice Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Dean Pernell has written law review articles in the areas of criminal procedure, juvenile justice, personal injury and sports law, and authored the Civil Procedure Forms Supplement for West Ohio Practice from 1978 to 1986. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and past-trustee of the Law School Admissions Council.

Publications:

• “Reflecting on the Dream of the Marathon Man: Black Dean Longevity and its Impact on Opportunity and Diversity”, 38 Toledo Law Review 571 (2007)
• “Deans of Color Speak Out: Unique Voice in a Unique Role”, 20 Boston College Third World Law Journal 43 (2000)
• “In Memoriam: Rodolphe Jean Alexander De Seife” (with Daniel Reynolds), 19 Northern Illinois University Law Review (1999)
• “A Commentary on Professor Goplerud’s Article, “NCAA Enforcement Process: A Call for Procedural Fairness””, 20 Capital University Law Review. 561 (1991)
• “Suffering The Children: 35 Years of Suspension, Expulsion and Beatings – The Price of Desegregation” 7 Harvard Blackletter Journal 119 (1990)
• “Drug Testing of Student Athletes: Some Contract and Tort Implications” 67 Denver University Law Review 279 (1990)
• “Reign of the Queen of Hearts: The Declining Significance of the Presumption of Innocence – A Brief Commentary” 37 Cleveland State Law Review 393 (lead article) (1990)
• “Random Drug Testing of Student Athletes by State Universities in the Wake of Von Raab and Skinner,” 1 Marquette Sports Law Journal 41 (1990)

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Jeremy I. Levitt, J.D. 
Associate Dean and Director of the Center for International Law and Justice
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue, Suite 324
Orlando, Florida 32801
(407) 254-3248
jeremy.levitt@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Human rights law; African politics; democratization; state dynamics; regional collective security

Dean Levitt is a public international lawyer and political scientist  He is the author or editor of four books and numerous law review articles. Prior to entering law teaching, he served as special assistant to the managing director for Global Human and Social Development at the World Bank Group. He was recently appointed as senior member of the International Technical Assistance Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the President of the Republic of Liberia, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa’s first democratically-elected female head of state.  He holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Cambridge-St. Johns College; a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and B.A., political science in Arizona State University.

Publications:
Books

• HURRICANE KATRINA: AMERICA’S UNNATURAL DISASTER, (eds.) (University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 2009).
• AFRICA: MAPPING NEW BOUNDARIES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW, (eds.) (Hart Publishers, Oxford, UK: 2008).
• THE EVOLUTION OF DEADLY CONFLICT IN LIBERIA: FROM ‘PATERNALTARIANISM’ TO STATE COLLAPSE (Carolina Academic Press: Durham, North Carolina 2005).
• AFRICA: SELECTED DOCUMENTS ON POLITICAL, CONFLICT AND SECURITY, HUMANITARIAN AND JUDICIAL ISSUES, (eds.) (Transnational     Publishers Ardsley, NY:  2003).

Articles

• UN Peacekeeping: A Sheep in Wolves Clothing?, Review of UN PEACEKEEPING IN LEBANON, SOMALIA AND KOSOVO: OPERATIONAL AND LEGAL ISSUES IN PRACTICE by Ray Murphy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. International Peacekeeping Journal, Vol. 17 (Spring 2010). Peer Reviewed.
• “Peace and or Justice: The Dilemma of Power-sharing”, African Legal Aid Quarterly, (published lecture), Conference: Interface Between Peace and International Justice in Africa, July-December 2007.
• “Pro-Democratic Intervention in Africa”, Wisconsin Journal of International Law, Vol. 25 No. 1 (Summer 2006).
• “Illegal Peace?: Examining the Legality of Power-sharing with Warlords and Rebels in Africa”, Michigan Journal of International Law, Vol. 27 No.2 (Winter 2006).

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Darryll K. Jones
Professor
Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and Professor of Law
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue
Orlando, Florida  32801
(407) 254-3202

Area of expertise: Federal income tax; partnership tax; tax exempt organizations

He is currently on leave of absence from Stetson University College of Law, where he is a tenured full professor teaching Federal Income Tax, Partnership Tax, and the Taxation of Exempt Organizations. He received his LLM (Tax) and JD degrees from the University of Florida. From 1993 to 2006 he taught at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law where he also served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2003 until 2006. Dean Jones is the author of The Theory and Practice of Partnership Taxation 2nd Edition, published by Thomson-West and is lead co-author of The Taxation of Charities and Other Exempt Organizations, 2nd Edition, also published by Thomson-West.   His scholarship on federal taxation has appeared in the Florida Tax Review, the Virginia Tax Review, Brigham Young University Law Review, the University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business and several other publications. Dean Jones has been consulted by members of Congress, including the Senate Finance Committee, the House Ways and Means Committee, staff to the Joint Committee on Taxation, and the Internal Revenue Service on issues relating to individual income tax, partnership tax, and the tax laws of exempt organizations.

Publications:

• The Taxation of Profit Interests and the Reverse Mancur Olson Phenomenon, 36 Capital University Law Review (2009).
• Third Party Profit-Taking In Tax Exemption Jurisprudence, 2007 Brigham Young University Law Review 977 (Fall 2007).
• Towards Equity and Efficiency In Partnership Allocations, 25 Virginia Tax Review 1047 (2006).
• Special Allocations and Preferential Distributions in Joint Ventures Involving Taxable and Tax Exempt Entities, 31 Ohio Northern Law Review 13 (2005).
• Semantics and Substance in Partnership Mergers, 104 Tax Notes 1523 (2004).
• The Neglected Role of International Altruistic Investment in the Chinese Transition Economy, 36 George Washington International Law Review 71 (2003).
• Some Hard Thinking and Harder Realities Regarding Joint Ventures, 36 Exempt Organizations Tax Review 177 (2002).
• “First Bite” And The Private Benefit Doctrine: A Comment on Temporary and Proposed Regulation 53.4958-4T(a)(3), 62 Pittsburgh L. Review 715 (2001).

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Eric Hull
Professor
Legal Writing Instructor
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue
Orlando, Florida 32801
(407) 254-4029
eric.hull@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Environmental and maritime law

Prior to joining FAMU, Professor Hull was an assistant professor in the department of criminal justice and legal studies at the University of Central Florida and an adjunct professor at Barry University School of Law, both in Orlando. He has published on environmental and maritime law topics, with emphasis on the impact of pollution on human health and the environment. His most recent articles have appeared in the Temple Law Review and the University of San Francisco Maritime Law Journal. Prior to entering academia, Professor Hull was an associate with Swartz Campbell, LLC, and served as judicial law clerk for the Honorable Earle W. Peterson, Jr. and for the Honorable C. Alan Lawson at Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeal. He also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Liberia, West Africa. Professor Hull has taught courses in environmental law, climate change law and policy, and legal methods. He holds a J.D. from Barry University, where he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Barry Law Review, an M.S. in Coastal Zone Management and an M.S. in Marine Biology from Nova Southeastern University in Dania, Florida, and a B.S. in Biology from Providence College in Rhode Island. Currently, he is pursuing an LL.M. degree in Environmental and Land Use Law at the University of Florida, Levin College of Law (anticipated completion Summer 2010).

Publications:

• Missing the Boat on Protecting Human Health and the Environment:  A Re-evaluation of the EPA’s Emissions Policy on Large Ocean-Going Vessels, 81 Temp. L. Rev. 4 (2009).
• Through the Looking Glass:  Judicial Interpretation of Vessel Status Leaves Injured Workers Adrift in Uncharted Territory, 16 U.S.F. Mar. L.J. 321 (Spring 2004).
• Soiling the Sea:  The Solution to Pollution is Still Dilution – A Re-evaluation of the Efficacy of 40 C.F.R.§ 122.3 and Annex IV of MARPOL, 3 Barry L. Rev. 61 (2002).

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Randall Abate
College of Law
randall.abate@famu.edu

Area of expertise: 
Teaches courses in environmental law, international and comparative law and constitutional law. He has published widely on environment law topics with a recent emphasis on climate change law and policy.

Dr. William E. Hudson, Jr.
Interim Vice President of Student Affairs
Office of Academic Affairs
Florida A&M University
104A University Commons
Tallahassee, Florida 32307
(850) 412-5790
william.hudsonjr@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Community transition; home and community based services; family and individual counseling; disability assessment and evaluation; services for students with disabilities

Hudson has extensive experience counseling students with academic, personal, and career issues.  He is a specialist in the recruitment and retention of minority students and provides consulting to small colleges and universities.  As an adjunct professor at FAMU, he educates students on rehabilitation, disability, vocational training and services, community transition, and empowerment.

Publications: 

• Hudson Jr., W. E. & Richardson, A.C. (2008).  Multifaceted approach to supporting disadvantaged students. Recruitment and Retention in Higher Education, 22 (10), 7 – 8.

LeRoy Pernell, J.D. 
Dean
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue, Suite 324
Orlando, Florida 32801
(407) 254-3204
leroy.pernell@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Criminal law; juvenile law; torts law; products liability; constitutional law

LeRoy Pernell assumed the deanship of the Florida A&M University College of Law in January 2008. For 10 years, he served as law dean at Northern Illinois University (NIU). Under his leadership, the NIU law school was recognized nationally for its diversity efforts. He also oversaw the expansion of technology into the classroom, the establishment of the clinical educational program and the opening of the Zeke Giorgi Legal Clinic in Rockford, Illinois.

Pernell earned his bachelor’s degree in government from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1971, and received his Juris Doctor from The Ohio State University College of Law in 1974. He was of counsel with the firm Otto Beatty & Associates in Columbus Ohio.

In 1992, U.S. Congressman John Conyers (Michigan) appointed him as the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Criminal Justice Brain Trust’s subcommittee on Juvenile Justice. He also served as a member of the Ohio Governor’s Commission on African American Males and the Governor’s Council on Juvenile Justice. He has also testified before the Criminal Justice Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Dean Pernell has written law review articles in the areas of criminal procedure, juvenile justice, personal injury and sports law, and authored the Civil Procedure Forms Supplement for West Ohio Practice from 1978 to 1986. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and past-trustee of the Law School Admissions Council.

Publications:

• “Reflecting on the Dream of the Marathon Man: Black Dean Longevity and its Impact on Opportunity and Diversity”, 38 Toledo Law Review 571 (2007)
• “Deans of Color Speak Out: Unique Voice in a Unique Role”, 20 Boston College Third World Law Journal 43 (2000)
• “In Memoriam: Rodolphe Jean Alexander De Seife” (with Daniel Reynolds), 19 Northern Illinois University Law Review (1999)
• “A Commentary on Professor Goplerud’s Article, “NCAA Enforcement Process: A Call for Procedural Fairness””, 20 Capital University Law Review. 561 (1991)
• “Suffering The Children: 35 Years of Suspension, Expulsion and Beatings – The Price of Desegregation” 7 Harvard Blackletter Journal 119 (1990)
• “Drug Testing of Student Athletes: Some Contract and Tort Implications” 67 Denver University Law Review 279 (1990)
• “Reign of the Queen of Hearts: The Declining Significance of the Presumption of Innocence – A Brief Commentary” 37 Cleveland State Law Review 393 (lead article) (1990)
• “Random Drug Testing of Student Athletes by State Universities in the Wake of Von Raab and Skinner,” 1 Marquette Sports Law Journal 41 (1990)

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Jeremy I. Levitt, J.D. 
Associate Dean and Director of the Center for International Law and Justice
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue, Suite 324
Orlando, Florida 32801
(407) 254-3248
jeremy.levitt@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Human rights law; African politics; democratization; state dynamics; regional collective security

Dean Levitt is a public international lawyer and political scientist  He is the author or editor of four books and numerous law review articles. Prior to entering law teaching, he served as special assistant to the managing director for Global Human and Social Development at the World Bank Group. He was recently appointed as senior member of the International Technical Assistance Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the President of the Republic of Liberia, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa’s first democratically-elected female head of state.  He holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Cambridge-St. Johns College; a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and B.A., political science in Arizona State University.

Publications:
Books

• HURRICANE KATRINA: AMERICA’S UNNATURAL DISASTER, (eds.) (University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 2009).
• AFRICA: MAPPING NEW BOUNDARIES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW, (eds.) (Hart Publishers, Oxford, UK: 2008).
• THE EVOLUTION OF DEADLY CONFLICT IN LIBERIA: FROM ‘PATERNALTARIANISM’ TO STATE COLLAPSE (Carolina Academic Press: Durham, North Carolina 2005).
• AFRICA: SELECTED DOCUMENTS ON POLITICAL, CONFLICT AND SECURITY, HUMANITARIAN AND JUDICIAL ISSUES, (eds.) (Transnational     Publishers Ardsley, NY:  2003).

Articles

• UN Peacekeeping: A Sheep in Wolves Clothing?, Review of UN PEACEKEEPING IN LEBANON, SOMALIA AND KOSOVO: OPERATIONAL AND LEGAL ISSUES IN PRACTICE by Ray Murphy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. International Peacekeeping Journal, Vol. 17 (Spring 2010). Peer Reviewed.
• “Peace and or Justice: The Dilemma of Power-sharing”, African Legal Aid Quarterly, (published lecture), Conference: Interface Between Peace and International Justice in Africa, July-December 2007.
• “Pro-Democratic Intervention in Africa”, Wisconsin Journal of International Law, Vol. 25 No. 1 (Summer 2006).
• “Illegal Peace?: Examining the Legality of Power-sharing with Warlords and Rebels in Africa”, Michigan Journal of International Law, Vol. 27 No.2 (Winter 2006).

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Darryll K. Jones
Professor
Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and Professor of Law
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue
Orlando, Florida  32801
(407) 254-3202

Area of expertise: Federal income tax; partnership tax; tax exempt organizations

He is currently on leave of absence from Stetson University College of Law, where he is a tenured full professor teaching Federal Income Tax, Partnership Tax, and the Taxation of Exempt Organizations. He received his LLM (Tax) and JD degrees from the University of Florida. From 1993 to 2006 he taught at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law where he also served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2003 until 2006. Dean Jones is the author of The Theory and Practice of Partnership Taxation 2nd Edition, published by Thomson-West and is lead co-author of The Taxation of Charities and Other Exempt Organizations, 2nd Edition, also published by Thomson-West.   His scholarship on federal taxation has appeared in the Florida Tax Review, the Virginia Tax Review, Brigham Young University Law Review, the University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business and several other publications. Dean Jones has been consulted by members of Congress, including the Senate Finance Committee, the House Ways and Means Committee, staff to the Joint Committee on Taxation, and the Internal Revenue Service on issues relating to individual income tax, partnership tax, and the tax laws of exempt organizations.

Publications:

• The Taxation of Profit Interests and the Reverse Mancur Olson Phenomenon, 36 Capital University Law Review (2009).
• Third Party Profit-Taking In Tax Exemption Jurisprudence, 2007 Brigham Young University Law Review 977 (Fall 2007).
• Towards Equity and Efficiency In Partnership Allocations, 25 Virginia Tax Review 1047 (2006).
• Special Allocations and Preferential Distributions in Joint Ventures Involving Taxable and Tax Exempt Entities, 31 Ohio Northern Law Review 13 (2005).
• Semantics and Substance in Partnership Mergers, 104 Tax Notes 1523 (2004).
• The Neglected Role of International Altruistic Investment in the Chinese Transition Economy, 36 George Washington International Law Review 71 (2003).
• Some Hard Thinking and Harder Realities Regarding Joint Ventures, 36 Exempt Organizations Tax Review 177 (2002).
• “First Bite” And The Private Benefit Doctrine: A Comment on Temporary and Proposed Regulation 53.4958-4T(a)(3), 62 Pittsburgh L. Review 715 (2001).

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Eric Hull
Professor
Legal Writing Instructor
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue
Orlando, Florida 32801
(407) 254-4029
eric.hull@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Environmental and maritime law

Prior to joining FAMU, Professor Hull was an assistant professor in the department of criminal justice and legal studies at the University of Central Florida and an adjunct professor at Barry University School of Law, both in Orlando. He has published on environmental and maritime law topics, with emphasis on the impact of pollution on human health and the environment. His most recent articles have appeared in the Temple Law Review and the University of San Francisco Maritime Law Journal. Prior to entering academia, Professor Hull was an associate with Swartz Campbell, LLC, and served as judicial law clerk for the Honorable Earle W. Peterson, Jr. and for the Honorable C. Alan Lawson at Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeal. He also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Liberia, West Africa. Professor Hull has taught courses in environmental law, climate change law and policy, and legal methods. He holds a J.D. from Barry University, where he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Barry Law Review, an M.S. in Coastal Zone Management and an M.S. in Marine Biology from Nova Southeastern University in Dania, Florida, and a B.S. in Biology from Providence College in Rhode Island. Currently, he is pursuing an LL.M. degree in Environmental and Land Use Law at the University of Florida, Levin College of Law (anticipated completion Summer 2010).

Publications:

• Missing the Boat on Protecting Human Health and the Environment:  A Re-evaluation of the EPA’s Emissions Policy on Large Ocean-Going Vessels, 81 Temp. L. Rev. 4 (2009).
• Through the Looking Glass:  Judicial Interpretation of Vessel Status Leaves Injured Workers Adrift in Uncharted Territory, 16 U.S.F. Mar. L.J. 321 (Spring 2004).
• Soiling the Sea:  The Solution to Pollution is Still Dilution – A Re-evaluation of the Efficacy of 40 C.F.R.§ 122.3 and Annex IV of MARPOL, 3 Barry L. Rev. 61 (2002).

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Randall Abate
College of Law
randall.abate@famu.edu

Area of expertise: 
Teaches courses in environmental law, international and comparative law and constitutional law. He has published widely on environment law topics with a recent emphasis on climate change law and policy.

Dr. William E. Hudson, Jr.
Interim Vice President of Student Affairs
Office of Academic Affairs
Florida A&M University
104A University Commons
Tallahassee, Florida 32307
(850) 412-5790
william.hudsonjr@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Community transition; home and community based services; family and individual counseling; disability assessment and evaluation; services for students with disabilities

Hudson has extensive experience counseling students with academic, personal, and career issues.  He is a specialist in the recruitment and retention of minority students and provides consulting to small colleges and universities.  As an adjunct professor at FAMU, he educates students on rehabilitation, disability, vocational training and services, community transition, and empowerment.

Publications: 

• Hudson Jr., W. E. & Richardson, A.C. (2008).  Multifaceted approach to supporting disadvantaged students. Recruitment and Retention in Higher Education, 22 (10), 7 – 8.

Dr. William E. Hudson, Jr.
Interim Vice President of Student Affairs
Office of Academic Affairs
Florida A&M University
104A University Commons
Tallahassee, Florida 32307
(850) 412-5790
william.hudsonjr@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Community transition; home and community based services; family and individual counseling; disability assessment and evaluation; services for students with disabilities

Hudson has extensive experience counseling students with academic, personal, and career issues.  He is a specialist in the recruitment and retention of minority students and provides consulting to small colleges and universities.  As an adjunct professor at FAMU, he educates students on rehabilitation, disability, vocational training and services, community transition, and empowerment.

Publications: 

• Hudson Jr., W. E. & Richardson, A.C. (2008).  Multifaceted approach to supporting disadvantaged students. Recruitment and Retention in Higher Education, 22 (10), 7 – 8.

LeRoy Pernell, J.D. 
Dean
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue, Suite 324
Orlando, Florida 32801
(407) 254-3204
leroy.pernell@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Criminal law; juvenile law; torts law; products liability; constitutional law

LeRoy Pernell assumed the deanship of the Florida A&M University College of Law in January 2008. For 10 years, he served as law dean at Northern Illinois University (NIU). Under his leadership, the NIU law school was recognized nationally for its diversity efforts. He also oversaw the expansion of technology into the classroom, the establishment of the clinical educational program and the opening of the Zeke Giorgi Legal Clinic in Rockford, Illinois.

Pernell earned his bachelor’s degree in government from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1971, and received his Juris Doctor from The Ohio State University College of Law in 1974. He was of counsel with the firm Otto Beatty & Associates in Columbus Ohio.

In 1992, U.S. Congressman John Conyers (Michigan) appointed him as the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Criminal Justice Brain Trust’s subcommittee on Juvenile Justice. He also served as a member of the Ohio Governor’s Commission on African American Males and the Governor’s Council on Juvenile Justice. He has also testified before the Criminal Justice Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Dean Pernell has written law review articles in the areas of criminal procedure, juvenile justice, personal injury and sports law, and authored the Civil Procedure Forms Supplement for West Ohio Practice from 1978 to 1986. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and past-trustee of the Law School Admissions Council.

Publications:

• “Reflecting on the Dream of the Marathon Man: Black Dean Longevity and its Impact on Opportunity and Diversity”, 38 Toledo Law Review 571 (2007)
• “Deans of Color Speak Out: Unique Voice in a Unique Role”, 20 Boston College Third World Law Journal 43 (2000)
• “In Memoriam: Rodolphe Jean Alexander De Seife” (with Daniel Reynolds), 19 Northern Illinois University Law Review (1999)
• “A Commentary on Professor Goplerud’s Article, “NCAA Enforcement Process: A Call for Procedural Fairness””, 20 Capital University Law Review. 561 (1991)
• “Suffering The Children: 35 Years of Suspension, Expulsion and Beatings – The Price of Desegregation” 7 Harvard Blackletter Journal 119 (1990)
• “Drug Testing of Student Athletes: Some Contract and Tort Implications” 67 Denver University Law Review 279 (1990)
• “Reign of the Queen of Hearts: The Declining Significance of the Presumption of Innocence – A Brief Commentary” 37 Cleveland State Law Review 393 (lead article) (1990)
• “Random Drug Testing of Student Athletes by State Universities in the Wake of Von Raab and Skinner,” 1 Marquette Sports Law Journal 41 (1990)

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Jeremy I. Levitt, J.D. 
Associate Dean and Director of the Center for International Law and Justice
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue, Suite 324
Orlando, Florida 32801
(407) 254-3248
jeremy.levitt@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Human rights law; African politics; democratization; state dynamics; regional collective security

Dean Levitt is a public international lawyer and political scientist  He is the author or editor of four books and numerous law review articles. Prior to entering law teaching, he served as special assistant to the managing director for Global Human and Social Development at the World Bank Group. He was recently appointed as senior member of the International Technical Assistance Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the President of the Republic of Liberia, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa’s first democratically-elected female head of state.  He holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Cambridge-St. Johns College; a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and B.A., political science in Arizona State University.

Publications:
Books

• HURRICANE KATRINA: AMERICA’S UNNATURAL DISASTER, (eds.) (University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 2009).
• AFRICA: MAPPING NEW BOUNDARIES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW, (eds.) (Hart Publishers, Oxford, UK: 2008).
• THE EVOLUTION OF DEADLY CONFLICT IN LIBERIA: FROM ‘PATERNALTARIANISM’ TO STATE COLLAPSE (Carolina Academic Press: Durham, North Carolina 2005).
• AFRICA: SELECTED DOCUMENTS ON POLITICAL, CONFLICT AND SECURITY, HUMANITARIAN AND JUDICIAL ISSUES, (eds.) (Transnational     Publishers Ardsley, NY:  2003).

Articles

• UN Peacekeeping: A Sheep in Wolves Clothing?, Review of UN PEACEKEEPING IN LEBANON, SOMALIA AND KOSOVO: OPERATIONAL AND LEGAL ISSUES IN PRACTICE by Ray Murphy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. International Peacekeeping Journal, Vol. 17 (Spring 2010). Peer Reviewed.
• “Peace and or Justice: The Dilemma of Power-sharing”, African Legal Aid Quarterly, (published lecture), Conference: Interface Between Peace and International Justice in Africa, July-December 2007.
• “Pro-Democratic Intervention in Africa”, Wisconsin Journal of International Law, Vol. 25 No. 1 (Summer 2006).
• “Illegal Peace?: Examining the Legality of Power-sharing with Warlords and Rebels in Africa”, Michigan Journal of International Law, Vol. 27 No.2 (Winter 2006).

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Darryll K. Jones
Professor
Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and Professor of Law
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue
Orlando, Florida  32801
(407) 254-3202

Area of expertise: Federal income tax; partnership tax; tax exempt organizations

He is currently on leave of absence from Stetson University College of Law, where he is a tenured full professor teaching Federal Income Tax, Partnership Tax, and the Taxation of Exempt Organizations. He received his LLM (Tax) and JD degrees from the University of Florida. From 1993 to 2006 he taught at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law where he also served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2003 until 2006. Dean Jones is the author of The Theory and Practice of Partnership Taxation 2nd Edition, published by Thomson-West and is lead co-author of The Taxation of Charities and Other Exempt Organizations, 2nd Edition, also published by Thomson-West.   His scholarship on federal taxation has appeared in the Florida Tax Review, the Virginia Tax Review, Brigham Young University Law Review, the University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business and several other publications. Dean Jones has been consulted by members of Congress, including the Senate Finance Committee, the House Ways and Means Committee, staff to the Joint Committee on Taxation, and the Internal Revenue Service on issues relating to individual income tax, partnership tax, and the tax laws of exempt organizations.

Publications:

• The Taxation of Profit Interests and the Reverse Mancur Olson Phenomenon, 36 Capital University Law Review (2009).
• Third Party Profit-Taking In Tax Exemption Jurisprudence, 2007 Brigham Young University Law Review 977 (Fall 2007).
• Towards Equity and Efficiency In Partnership Allocations, 25 Virginia Tax Review 1047 (2006).
• Special Allocations and Preferential Distributions in Joint Ventures Involving Taxable and Tax Exempt Entities, 31 Ohio Northern Law Review 13 (2005).
• Semantics and Substance in Partnership Mergers, 104 Tax Notes 1523 (2004).
• The Neglected Role of International Altruistic Investment in the Chinese Transition Economy, 36 George Washington International Law Review 71 (2003).
• Some Hard Thinking and Harder Realities Regarding Joint Ventures, 36 Exempt Organizations Tax Review 177 (2002).
• “First Bite” And The Private Benefit Doctrine: A Comment on Temporary and Proposed Regulation 53.4958-4T(a)(3), 62 Pittsburgh L. Review 715 (2001).

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Eric Hull
Professor
Legal Writing Instructor
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue
Orlando, Florida 32801
(407) 254-4029
eric.hull@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Environmental and maritime law

Prior to joining FAMU, Professor Hull was an assistant professor in the department of criminal justice and legal studies at the University of Central Florida and an adjunct professor at Barry University School of Law, both in Orlando. He has published on environmental and maritime law topics, with emphasis on the impact of pollution on human health and the environment. His most recent articles have appeared in the Temple Law Review and the University of San Francisco Maritime Law Journal. Prior to entering academia, Professor Hull was an associate with Swartz Campbell, LLC, and served as judicial law clerk for the Honorable Earle W. Peterson, Jr. and for the Honorable C. Alan Lawson at Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeal. He also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Liberia, West Africa. Professor Hull has taught courses in environmental law, climate change law and policy, and legal methods. He holds a J.D. from Barry University, where he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Barry Law Review, an M.S. in Coastal Zone Management and an M.S. in Marine Biology from Nova Southeastern University in Dania, Florida, and a B.S. in Biology from Providence College in Rhode Island. Currently, he is pursuing an LL.M. degree in Environmental and Land Use Law at the University of Florida, Levin College of Law (anticipated completion Summer 2010).

Publications:

• Missing the Boat on Protecting Human Health and the Environment:  A Re-evaluation of the EPA’s Emissions Policy on Large Ocean-Going Vessels, 81 Temp. L. Rev. 4 (2009).
• Through the Looking Glass:  Judicial Interpretation of Vessel Status Leaves Injured Workers Adrift in Uncharted Territory, 16 U.S.F. Mar. L.J. 321 (Spring 2004).
• Soiling the Sea:  The Solution to Pollution is Still Dilution – A Re-evaluation of the Efficacy of 40 C.F.R.§ 122.3 and Annex IV of MARPOL, 3 Barry L. Rev. 61 (2002).

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Randall Abate
College of Law
randall.abate@famu.edu

Area of expertise: 
Teaches courses in environmental law, international and comparative law and constitutional law. He has published widely on environment law topics with a recent emphasis on climate change law and policy.

Dr. William E. Hudson, Jr.
Interim Vice President of Student Affairs
Office of Academic Affairs
Florida A&M University
104A University Commons
Tallahassee, Florida 32307
(850) 412-5790
william.hudsonjr@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Community transition; home and community based services; family and individual counseling; disability assessment and evaluation; services for students with disabilities

Hudson has extensive experience counseling students with academic, personal, and career issues.  He is a specialist in the recruitment and retention of minority students and provides consulting to small colleges and universities.  As an adjunct professor at FAMU, he educates students on rehabilitation, disability, vocational training and services, community transition, and empowerment.

Publications: 

• Hudson Jr., W. E. & Richardson, A.C. (2008).  Multifaceted approach to supporting disadvantaged students. Recruitment and Retention in Higher Education, 22 (10), 7 – 8.

LeRoy Pernell, J.D. 
Dean
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue, Suite 324
Orlando, Florida 32801
(407) 254-3204
leroy.pernell@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Criminal law; juvenile law; torts law; products liability; constitutional law

LeRoy Pernell assumed the deanship of the Florida A&M University College of Law in January 2008. For 10 years, he served as law dean at Northern Illinois University (NIU). Under his leadership, the NIU law school was recognized nationally for its diversity efforts. He also oversaw the expansion of technology into the classroom, the establishment of the clinical educational program and the opening of the Zeke Giorgi Legal Clinic in Rockford, Illinois.

Pernell earned his bachelor’s degree in government from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1971, and received his Juris Doctor from The Ohio State University College of Law in 1974. He was of counsel with the firm Otto Beatty & Associates in Columbus Ohio.

In 1992, U.S. Congressman John Conyers (Michigan) appointed him as the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Criminal Justice Brain Trust’s subcommittee on Juvenile Justice. He also served as a member of the Ohio Governor’s Commission on African American Males and the Governor’s Council on Juvenile Justice. He has also testified before the Criminal Justice Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Dean Pernell has written law review articles in the areas of criminal procedure, juvenile justice, personal injury and sports law, and authored the Civil Procedure Forms Supplement for West Ohio Practice from 1978 to 1986. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and past-trustee of the Law School Admissions Council.

Publications:

• “Reflecting on the Dream of the Marathon Man: Black Dean Longevity and its Impact on Opportunity and Diversity”, 38 Toledo Law Review 571 (2007)
• “Deans of Color Speak Out: Unique Voice in a Unique Role”, 20 Boston College Third World Law Journal 43 (2000)
• “In Memoriam: Rodolphe Jean Alexander De Seife” (with Daniel Reynolds), 19 Northern Illinois University Law Review (1999)
• “A Commentary on Professor Goplerud’s Article, “NCAA Enforcement Process: A Call for Procedural Fairness””, 20 Capital University Law Review. 561 (1991)
• “Suffering The Children: 35 Years of Suspension, Expulsion and Beatings – The Price of Desegregation” 7 Harvard Blackletter Journal 119 (1990)
• “Drug Testing of Student Athletes: Some Contract and Tort Implications” 67 Denver University Law Review 279 (1990)
• “Reign of the Queen of Hearts: The Declining Significance of the Presumption of Innocence – A Brief Commentary” 37 Cleveland State Law Review 393 (lead article) (1990)
• “Random Drug Testing of Student Athletes by State Universities in the Wake of Von Raab and Skinner,” 1 Marquette Sports Law Journal 41 (1990)

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Jeremy I. Levitt, J.D. 
Associate Dean and Director of the Center for International Law and Justice
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue, Suite 324
Orlando, Florida 32801
(407) 254-3248
jeremy.levitt@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Human rights law; African politics; democratization; state dynamics; regional collective security

Dean Levitt is a public international lawyer and political scientist  He is the author or editor of four books and numerous law review articles. Prior to entering law teaching, he served as special assistant to the managing director for Global Human and Social Development at the World Bank Group. He was recently appointed as senior member of the International Technical Assistance Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the President of the Republic of Liberia, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa’s first democratically-elected female head of state.  He holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Cambridge-St. Johns College; a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and B.A., political science in Arizona State University.

Publications:
Books

• HURRICANE KATRINA: AMERICA’S UNNATURAL DISASTER, (eds.) (University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 2009).
• AFRICA: MAPPING NEW BOUNDARIES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW, (eds.) (Hart Publishers, Oxford, UK: 2008).
• THE EVOLUTION OF DEADLY CONFLICT IN LIBERIA: FROM ‘PATERNALTARIANISM’ TO STATE COLLAPSE (Carolina Academic Press: Durham, North Carolina 2005).
• AFRICA: SELECTED DOCUMENTS ON POLITICAL, CONFLICT AND SECURITY, HUMANITARIAN AND JUDICIAL ISSUES, (eds.) (Transnational     Publishers Ardsley, NY:  2003).

Articles

• UN Peacekeeping: A Sheep in Wolves Clothing?, Review of UN PEACEKEEPING IN LEBANON, SOMALIA AND KOSOVO: OPERATIONAL AND LEGAL ISSUES IN PRACTICE by Ray Murphy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. International Peacekeeping Journal, Vol. 17 (Spring 2010). Peer Reviewed.
• “Peace and or Justice: The Dilemma of Power-sharing”, African Legal Aid Quarterly, (published lecture), Conference: Interface Between Peace and International Justice in Africa, July-December 2007.
• “Pro-Democratic Intervention in Africa”, Wisconsin Journal of International Law, Vol. 25 No. 1 (Summer 2006).
• “Illegal Peace?: Examining the Legality of Power-sharing with Warlords and Rebels in Africa”, Michigan Journal of International Law, Vol. 27 No.2 (Winter 2006).

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Darryll K. Jones
Professor
Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and Professor of Law
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue
Orlando, Florida  32801
(407) 254-3202

Area of expertise: Federal income tax; partnership tax; tax exempt organizations

He is currently on leave of absence from Stetson University College of Law, where he is a tenured full professor teaching Federal Income Tax, Partnership Tax, and the Taxation of Exempt Organizations. He received his LLM (Tax) and JD degrees from the University of Florida. From 1993 to 2006 he taught at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law where he also served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2003 until 2006. Dean Jones is the author of The Theory and Practice of Partnership Taxation 2nd Edition, published by Thomson-West and is lead co-author of The Taxation of Charities and Other Exempt Organizations, 2nd Edition, also published by Thomson-West.   His scholarship on federal taxation has appeared in the Florida Tax Review, the Virginia Tax Review, Brigham Young University Law Review, the University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business and several other publications. Dean Jones has been consulted by members of Congress, including the Senate Finance Committee, the House Ways and Means Committee, staff to the Joint Committee on Taxation, and the Internal Revenue Service on issues relating to individual income tax, partnership tax, and the tax laws of exempt organizations.

Publications:

• The Taxation of Profit Interests and the Reverse Mancur Olson Phenomenon, 36 Capital University Law Review (2009).
• Third Party Profit-Taking In Tax Exemption Jurisprudence, 2007 Brigham Young University Law Review 977 (Fall 2007).
• Towards Equity and Efficiency In Partnership Allocations, 25 Virginia Tax Review 1047 (2006).
• Special Allocations and Preferential Distributions in Joint Ventures Involving Taxable and Tax Exempt Entities, 31 Ohio Northern Law Review 13 (2005).
• Semantics and Substance in Partnership Mergers, 104 Tax Notes 1523 (2004).
• The Neglected Role of International Altruistic Investment in the Chinese Transition Economy, 36 George Washington International Law Review 71 (2003).
• Some Hard Thinking and Harder Realities Regarding Joint Ventures, 36 Exempt Organizations Tax Review 177 (2002).
• “First Bite” And The Private Benefit Doctrine: A Comment on Temporary and Proposed Regulation 53.4958-4T(a)(3), 62 Pittsburgh L. Review 715 (2001).

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Eric Hull
Professor
Legal Writing Instructor
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue
Orlando, Florida 32801
(407) 254-4029
eric.hull@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Environmental and maritime law

Prior to joining FAMU, Professor Hull was an assistant professor in the department of criminal justice and legal studies at the University of Central Florida and an adjunct professor at Barry University School of Law, both in Orlando. He has published on environmental and maritime law topics, with emphasis on the impact of pollution on human health and the environment. His most recent articles have appeared in the Temple Law Review and the University of San Francisco Maritime Law Journal. Prior to entering academia, Professor Hull was an associate with Swartz Campbell, LLC, and served as judicial law clerk for the Honorable Earle W. Peterson, Jr. and for the Honorable C. Alan Lawson at Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeal. He also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Liberia, West Africa. Professor Hull has taught courses in environmental law, climate change law and policy, and legal methods. He holds a J.D. from Barry University, where he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Barry Law Review, an M.S. in Coastal Zone Management and an M.S. in Marine Biology from Nova Southeastern University in Dania, Florida, and a B.S. in Biology from Providence College in Rhode Island. Currently, he is pursuing an LL.M. degree in Environmental and Land Use Law at the University of Florida, Levin College of Law (anticipated completion Summer 2010).

Publications:

• Missing the Boat on Protecting Human Health and the Environment:  A Re-evaluation of the EPA’s Emissions Policy on Large Ocean-Going Vessels, 81 Temp. L. Rev. 4 (2009).
• Through the Looking Glass:  Judicial Interpretation of Vessel Status Leaves Injured Workers Adrift in Uncharted Territory, 16 U.S.F. Mar. L.J. 321 (Spring 2004).
• Soiling the Sea:  The Solution to Pollution is Still Dilution – A Re-evaluation of the Efficacy of 40 C.F.R.§ 122.3 and Annex IV of MARPOL, 3 Barry L. Rev. 61 (2002).

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Randall Abate
College of Law
randall.abate@famu.edu

Area of expertise: 
Teaches courses in environmental law, international and comparative law and constitutional law. He has published widely on environment law topics with a recent emphasis on climate change law and policy.

Dr. Karam F. A. Soliman
Distinguished Professor and Assistant Dean for Research and Graduate Studies
College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Division of Basic Sciences
Florida A&M University
104 Dyson Pharmacy Building
1520 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Tallahassee, Florida 32307
(850) 599-3306
karam.soliman@famu.edu

Karam F.A. Soliman is a distinguished professor of basic pharmaceutical sciences in the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the assistant dean for Research and Graduate Studies for the College. In addition, to teaching, advising and training graduate students, Soliman serves as the program director for an NIH-supported multi-million-dollar grant to support Research Center in Minority Institution. He was voted as the College of Pharmacy Outstanding Teacher of the Year in 1979; and in 1994, he received the State of Florida Teaching Incentive Award.  In 1996, Soliman received the, The State Professorial Excellence Award.  He has trained 24 Ph.D. and 22 M.S. students in Pharmacology/ Toxicology. He is considered the top producer (rank first), in the Nation, of African-American PhDs in Pharmaceutical Sciences. Among 100 Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the country, Dr. Soliman ranked number one as the most published faculty member. In February of 1996, Dr. Soliman was named 3M Distinguished Professor in recognition of his dedication to Pharmacy students as a teacher and mentor, contributing to the profession and commitment to FAMU.  In 2000, Soliman received the highest award given by the University; he was named FAMUAN of the Century.

Publications:

• Mazzio, E and KFA Soliman. D-( )-Glucose rescue against 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium toxicity through anaerobic glycolysis in neuroblastoma cells. Brain Research, 962: 48-60 (2003).
• Mazzio, E, A. Becker and KFA Soliman. Inflammation and inducible nitric oxide synthase have no effect on monoamine oxidase activity in glioma cells. Biochem Pharmacol, 15:65:1719-1927 (2003).
• Mazzio EA and KFA Soliman. Cytoprotection of pyruvic acid and reduced beta-nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide against hydrogen peroxide toxicity in neuroblastoma cells. Neurochem Res., 28(5):733-741 (2003).
• Sircar R and KFA Soliman. Effects of postnatal PCP treatment on locomotor behavior and striatal D (2) receptor. Pharmacol Biochem Behav., 74(4):943-452(2003).
• Mazzio, E and KFA Soliman. The role of glycolysis and gluconeogenesis in the cytoprotection of neuroblastoma cells against 1-methyl 4-phenylpyridinium ion toxicity. Neurotoxicology, 24(1):137-147 (2003).
• Mazzio, E and KFA Soliman Pyruvic acid cytoprotection against 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium, 6-hydroxydopamine and hydrogen peroxide toxicities in vitro. Neurosci Lett. 6; 337(2):77-80 (2003).
• Mazzio, E; KJ. Yoon and KFA. Soliman. Acetyl- -carnitine cytoprotection against 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium toxicity in neuroblastoma cells. Biochemical Pharmacology, 66: 297-306 (2003).
• Mazzio, E and KFA Soliman. Glioma cell capacity in removing generated reactive oxygen species. Journal of Applied Toxicology, 24: 99-106 (2004).

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Dr. Donald Palm
Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs
Office of the Provost
Florida A&M University
1700 Lee Hall Drive
301 Foote-Hilyer
Tallahassee, Florida  32307
(850) 599-3276
donald.palm@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Stroke; cell biology; Parkinson’s disease; pharmacology

Palm is a professor of basic pharmaceutical sciences in the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the University’s assistant vice president for Academic Affairs. In addition, to teaching, advising and training graduate students, Dr. Palm serves as FAMU’s chair for Institutes and Centers. He recently served as the program director for the Minority Biomedical Research Support Program. He is a recipient of Florida A&M University’s Risen Star Award (2003) and the University’s Exceptional Contribution in Grantsmanship Award (2002). He was voted as Florida A&M University’s Advanced Teacher of the Year in 2001 and the University’s Teacher of the Year in 1999. He has trained 5 Ph.D. and 1 M.S. students in pharmacology/toxicology.

Publications:

• Emanuel FS. Adefovir Dipivoxil: A New Agent for Active Hepatitis B Virus Infection , Pharmacy and Therapeutics Drug Forecast. 2003:1-4.
• Emanuel FS. Hypertension: A Focus on the 7th Report of the Joint National Committee on the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7), American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education. 2004;68(3).
• Emanuel FS. Pharmacotherapeutic Interventions of Pharmacy Students, Pharmacy Practice. 2007;5(2):95-98.
• Emanuel FS. At Home Device for Glucose and Cholesterol Screening, U.S. Pharmacist. 2007:1-3.
• Emanuel FS. Goal Attainment in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes, Part 1, Federal Practitioner. 2008:13-18.
• Emanuel FS. Goal Attainment in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes, Part 2, Federal Practitioner. 2008:14-25.

LeRoy Pernell, J.D. 
Dean
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue, Suite 324
Orlando, Florida 32801
(407) 254-3204
leroy.pernell@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Criminal law; juvenile law; torts law; products liability; constitutional law

LeRoy Pernell assumed the deanship of the Florida A&M University College of Law in January 2008. For 10 years, he served as law dean at Northern Illinois University (NIU). Under his leadership, the NIU law school was recognized nationally for its diversity efforts. He also oversaw the expansion of technology into the classroom, the establishment of the clinical educational program and the opening of the Zeke Giorgi Legal Clinic in Rockford, Illinois.

Pernell earned his bachelor’s degree in government from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1971, and received his Juris Doctor from The Ohio State University College of Law in 1974. He was of counsel with the firm Otto Beatty & Associates in Columbus Ohio.

In 1992, U.S. Congressman John Conyers (Michigan) appointed him as the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Criminal Justice Brain Trust’s subcommittee on Juvenile Justice. He also served as a member of the Ohio Governor’s Commission on African American Males and the Governor’s Council on Juvenile Justice. He has also testified before the Criminal Justice Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Dean Pernell has written law review articles in the areas of criminal procedure, juvenile justice, personal injury and sports law, and authored the Civil Procedure Forms Supplement for West Ohio Practice from 1978 to 1986. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and past-trustee of the Law School Admissions Council.

Publications:

• “Reflecting on the Dream of the Marathon Man: Black Dean Longevity and its Impact on Opportunity and Diversity”, 38 Toledo Law Review 571 (2007)
• “Deans of Color Speak Out: Unique Voice in a Unique Role”, 20 Boston College Third World Law Journal 43 (2000)
• “In Memoriam: Rodolphe Jean Alexander De Seife” (with Daniel Reynolds), 19 Northern Illinois University Law Review (1999)
• “A Commentary on Professor Goplerud’s Article, “NCAA Enforcement Process: A Call for Procedural Fairness””, 20 Capital University Law Review. 561 (1991)
• “Suffering The Children: 35 Years of Suspension, Expulsion and Beatings – The Price of Desegregation” 7 Harvard Blackletter Journal 119 (1990)
• “Drug Testing of Student Athletes: Some Contract and Tort Implications” 67 Denver University Law Review 279 (1990)
• “Reign of the Queen of Hearts: The Declining Significance of the Presumption of Innocence – A Brief Commentary” 37 Cleveland State Law Review 393 (lead article) (1990)
• “Random Drug Testing of Student Athletes by State Universities in the Wake of Von Raab and Skinner,” 1 Marquette Sports Law Journal 41 (1990)

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Jeremy I. Levitt, J.D. 
Associate Dean and Director of the Center for International Law and Justice
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue, Suite 324
Orlando, Florida 32801
(407) 254-3248
jeremy.levitt@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Human rights law; African politics; democratization; state dynamics; regional collective security

Dean Levitt is a public international lawyer and political scientist  He is the author or editor of four books and numerous law review articles. Prior to entering law teaching, he served as special assistant to the managing director for Global Human and Social Development at the World Bank Group. He was recently appointed as senior member of the International Technical Assistance Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the President of the Republic of Liberia, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa’s first democratically-elected female head of state.  He holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Cambridge-St. Johns College; a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and B.A., political science in Arizona State University.

Publications:
Books

• HURRICANE KATRINA: AMERICA’S UNNATURAL DISASTER, (eds.) (University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 2009).
• AFRICA: MAPPING NEW BOUNDARIES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW, (eds.) (Hart Publishers, Oxford, UK: 2008).
• THE EVOLUTION OF DEADLY CONFLICT IN LIBERIA: FROM ‘PATERNALTARIANISM’ TO STATE COLLAPSE (Carolina Academic Press: Durham, North Carolina 2005).
• AFRICA: SELECTED DOCUMENTS ON POLITICAL, CONFLICT AND SECURITY, HUMANITARIAN AND JUDICIAL ISSUES, (eds.) (Transnational     Publishers Ardsley, NY:  2003).

Articles

• UN Peacekeeping: A Sheep in Wolves Clothing?, Review of UN PEACEKEEPING IN LEBANON, SOMALIA AND KOSOVO: OPERATIONAL AND LEGAL ISSUES IN PRACTICE by Ray Murphy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. International Peacekeeping Journal, Vol. 17 (Spring 2010). Peer Reviewed.
• “Peace and or Justice: The Dilemma of Power-sharing”, African Legal Aid Quarterly, (published lecture), Conference: Interface Between Peace and International Justice in Africa, July-December 2007.
• “Pro-Democratic Intervention in Africa”, Wisconsin Journal of International Law, Vol. 25 No. 1 (Summer 2006).
• “Illegal Peace?: Examining the Legality of Power-sharing with Warlords and Rebels in Africa”, Michigan Journal of International Law, Vol. 27 No.2 (Winter 2006).

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Darryll K. Jones
Professor
Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and Professor of Law
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue
Orlando, Florida  32801
(407) 254-3202

Area of expertise: Federal income tax; partnership tax; tax exempt organizations

He is currently on leave of absence from Stetson University College of Law, where he is a tenured full professor teaching Federal Income Tax, Partnership Tax, and the Taxation of Exempt Organizations. He received his LLM (Tax) and JD degrees from the University of Florida. From 1993 to 2006 he taught at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law where he also served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2003 until 2006. Dean Jones is the author of The Theory and Practice of Partnership Taxation 2nd Edition, published by Thomson-West and is lead co-author of The Taxation of Charities and Other Exempt Organizations, 2nd Edition, also published by Thomson-West.   His scholarship on federal taxation has appeared in the Florida Tax Review, the Virginia Tax Review, Brigham Young University Law Review, the University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business and several other publications. Dean Jones has been consulted by members of Congress, including the Senate Finance Committee, the House Ways and Means Committee, staff to the Joint Committee on Taxation, and the Internal Revenue Service on issues relating to individual income tax, partnership tax, and the tax laws of exempt organizations.

Publications:

• The Taxation of Profit Interests and the Reverse Mancur Olson Phenomenon, 36 Capital University Law Review (2009).
• Third Party Profit-Taking In Tax Exemption Jurisprudence, 2007 Brigham Young University Law Review 977 (Fall 2007).
• Towards Equity and Efficiency In Partnership Allocations, 25 Virginia Tax Review 1047 (2006).
• Special Allocations and Preferential Distributions in Joint Ventures Involving Taxable and Tax Exempt Entities, 31 Ohio Northern Law Review 13 (2005).
• Semantics and Substance in Partnership Mergers, 104 Tax Notes 1523 (2004).
• The Neglected Role of International Altruistic Investment in the Chinese Transition Economy, 36 George Washington International Law Review 71 (2003).
• Some Hard Thinking and Harder Realities Regarding Joint Ventures, 36 Exempt Organizations Tax Review 177 (2002).
• “First Bite” And The Private Benefit Doctrine: A Comment on Temporary and Proposed Regulation 53.4958-4T(a)(3), 62 Pittsburgh L. Review 715 (2001).

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Eric Hull
Professor
Legal Writing Instructor
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue
Orlando, Florida 32801
(407) 254-4029
eric.hull@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Environmental and maritime law

Prior to joining FAMU, Professor Hull was an assistant professor in the department of criminal justice and legal studies at the University of Central Florida and an adjunct professor at Barry University School of Law, both in Orlando. He has published on environmental and maritime law topics, with emphasis on the impact of pollution on human health and the environment. His most recent articles have appeared in the Temple Law Review and the University of San Francisco Maritime Law Journal. Prior to entering academia, Professor Hull was an associate with Swartz Campbell, LLC, and served as judicial law clerk for the Honorable Earle W. Peterson, Jr. and for the Honorable C. Alan Lawson at Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeal. He also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Liberia, West Africa. Professor Hull has taught courses in environmental law, climate change law and policy, and legal methods. He holds a J.D. from Barry University, where he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Barry Law Review, an M.S. in Coastal Zone Management and an M.S. in Marine Biology from Nova Southeastern University in Dania, Florida, and a B.S. in Biology from Providence College in Rhode Island. Currently, he is pursuing an LL.M. degree in Environmental and Land Use Law at the University of Florida, Levin College of Law (anticipated completion Summer 2010).

Publications:

• Missing the Boat on Protecting Human Health and the Environment:  A Re-evaluation of the EPA’s Emissions Policy on Large Ocean-Going Vessels, 81 Temp. L. Rev. 4 (2009).
• Through the Looking Glass:  Judicial Interpretation of Vessel Status Leaves Injured Workers Adrift in Uncharted Territory, 16 U.S.F. Mar. L.J. 321 (Spring 2004).
• Soiling the Sea:  The Solution to Pollution is Still Dilution – A Re-evaluation of the Efficacy of 40 C.F.R.§ 122.3 and Annex IV of MARPOL, 3 Barry L. Rev. 61 (2002).

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Randall Abate
College of Law
randall.abate@famu.edu

Area of expertise: 
Teaches courses in environmental law, international and comparative law and constitutional law. He has published widely on environment law topics with a recent emphasis on climate change law and policy.

LeRoy Pernell, J.D. 
Dean
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue, Suite 324
Orlando, Florida 32801
(407) 254-3204
leroy.pernell@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Criminal law; juvenile law; torts law; products liability; constitutional law

LeRoy Pernell assumed the deanship of the Florida A&M University College of Law in January 2008. For 10 years, he served as law dean at Northern Illinois University (NIU). Under his leadership, the NIU law school was recognized nationally for its diversity efforts. He also oversaw the expansion of technology into the classroom, the establishment of the clinical educational program and the opening of the Zeke Giorgi Legal Clinic in Rockford, Illinois.

Pernell earned his bachelor’s degree in government from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1971, and received his Juris Doctor from The Ohio State University College of Law in 1974. He was of counsel with the firm Otto Beatty & Associates in Columbus Ohio.

In 1992, U.S. Congressman John Conyers (Michigan) appointed him as the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Criminal Justice Brain Trust’s subcommittee on Juvenile Justice. He also served as a member of the Ohio Governor’s Commission on African American Males and the Governor’s Council on Juvenile Justice. He has also testified before the Criminal Justice Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Dean Pernell has written law review articles in the areas of criminal procedure, juvenile justice, personal injury and sports law, and authored the Civil Procedure Forms Supplement for West Ohio Practice from 1978 to 1986. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and past-trustee of the Law School Admissions Council.

Publications:

• “Reflecting on the Dream of the Marathon Man: Black Dean Longevity and its Impact on Opportunity and Diversity”, 38 Toledo Law Review 571 (2007)
• “Deans of Color Speak Out: Unique Voice in a Unique Role”, 20 Boston College Third World Law Journal 43 (2000)
• “In Memoriam: Rodolphe Jean Alexander De Seife” (with Daniel Reynolds), 19 Northern Illinois University Law Review (1999)
• “A Commentary on Professor Goplerud’s Article, “NCAA Enforcement Process: A Call for Procedural Fairness””, 20 Capital University Law Review. 561 (1991)
• “Suffering The Children: 35 Years of Suspension, Expulsion and Beatings – The Price of Desegregation” 7 Harvard Blackletter Journal 119 (1990)
• “Drug Testing of Student Athletes: Some Contract and Tort Implications” 67 Denver University Law Review 279 (1990)
• “Reign of the Queen of Hearts: The Declining Significance of the Presumption of Innocence – A Brief Commentary” 37 Cleveland State Law Review 393 (lead article) (1990)
• “Random Drug Testing of Student Athletes by State Universities in the Wake of Von Raab and Skinner,” 1 Marquette Sports Law Journal 41 (1990)

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Jeremy I. Levitt, J.D. 
Associate Dean and Director of the Center for International Law and Justice
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue, Suite 324
Orlando, Florida 32801
(407) 254-3248
jeremy.levitt@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Human rights law; African politics; democratization; state dynamics; regional collective security

Dean Levitt is a public international lawyer and political scientist  He is the author or editor of four books and numerous law review articles. Prior to entering law teaching, he served as special assistant to the managing director for Global Human and Social Development at the World Bank Group. He was recently appointed as senior member of the International Technical Assistance Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the President of the Republic of Liberia, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa’s first democratically-elected female head of state.  He holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Cambridge-St. Johns College; a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and B.A., political science in Arizona State University.

Publications:
Books

• HURRICANE KATRINA: AMERICA’S UNNATURAL DISASTER, (eds.) (University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 2009).
• AFRICA: MAPPING NEW BOUNDARIES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW, (eds.) (Hart Publishers, Oxford, UK: 2008).
• THE EVOLUTION OF DEADLY CONFLICT IN LIBERIA: FROM ‘PATERNALTARIANISM’ TO STATE COLLAPSE (Carolina Academic Press: Durham, North Carolina 2005).
• AFRICA: SELECTED DOCUMENTS ON POLITICAL, CONFLICT AND SECURITY, HUMANITARIAN AND JUDICIAL ISSUES, (eds.) (Transnational     Publishers Ardsley, NY:  2003).

Articles

• UN Peacekeeping: A Sheep in Wolves Clothing?, Review of UN PEACEKEEPING IN LEBANON, SOMALIA AND KOSOVO: OPERATIONAL AND LEGAL ISSUES IN PRACTICE by Ray Murphy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. International Peacekeeping Journal, Vol. 17 (Spring 2010). Peer Reviewed.
• “Peace and or Justice: The Dilemma of Power-sharing”, African Legal Aid Quarterly, (published lecture), Conference: Interface Between Peace and International Justice in Africa, July-December 2007.
• “Pro-Democratic Intervention in Africa”, Wisconsin Journal of International Law, Vol. 25 No. 1 (Summer 2006).
• “Illegal Peace?: Examining the Legality of Power-sharing with Warlords and Rebels in Africa”, Michigan Journal of International Law, Vol. 27 No.2 (Winter 2006).

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Darryll K. Jones
Professor
Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and Professor of Law
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue
Orlando, Florida  32801
(407) 254-3202

Area of expertise: Federal income tax; partnership tax; tax exempt organizations

He is currently on leave of absence from Stetson University College of Law, where he is a tenured full professor teaching Federal Income Tax, Partnership Tax, and the Taxation of Exempt Organizations. He received his LLM (Tax) and JD degrees from the University of Florida. From 1993 to 2006 he taught at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law where he also served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2003 until 2006. Dean Jones is the author of The Theory and Practice of Partnership Taxation 2nd Edition, published by Thomson-West and is lead co-author of The Taxation of Charities and Other Exempt Organizations, 2nd Edition, also published by Thomson-West.   His scholarship on federal taxation has appeared in the Florida Tax Review, the Virginia Tax Review, Brigham Young University Law Review, the University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business and several other publications. Dean Jones has been consulted by members of Congress, including the Senate Finance Committee, the House Ways and Means Committee, staff to the Joint Committee on Taxation, and the Internal Revenue Service on issues relating to individual income tax, partnership tax, and the tax laws of exempt organizations.

Publications:

• The Taxation of Profit Interests and the Reverse Mancur Olson Phenomenon, 36 Capital University Law Review (2009).
• Third Party Profit-Taking In Tax Exemption Jurisprudence, 2007 Brigham Young University Law Review 977 (Fall 2007).
• Towards Equity and Efficiency In Partnership Allocations, 25 Virginia Tax Review 1047 (2006).
• Special Allocations and Preferential Distributions in Joint Ventures Involving Taxable and Tax Exempt Entities, 31 Ohio Northern Law Review 13 (2005).
• Semantics and Substance in Partnership Mergers, 104 Tax Notes 1523 (2004).
• The Neglected Role of International Altruistic Investment in the Chinese Transition Economy, 36 George Washington International Law Review 71 (2003).
• Some Hard Thinking and Harder Realities Regarding Joint Ventures, 36 Exempt Organizations Tax Review 177 (2002).
• “First Bite” And The Private Benefit Doctrine: A Comment on Temporary and Proposed Regulation 53.4958-4T(a)(3), 62 Pittsburgh L. Review 715 (2001).

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Eric Hull
Professor
Legal Writing Instructor
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue
Orlando, Florida 32801
(407) 254-4029
eric.hull@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Environmental and maritime law

Prior to joining FAMU, Professor Hull was an assistant professor in the department of criminal justice and legal studies at the University of Central Florida and an adjunct professor at Barry University School of Law, both in Orlando. He has published on environmental and maritime law topics, with emphasis on the impact of pollution on human health and the environment. His most recent articles have appeared in the Temple Law Review and the University of San Francisco Maritime Law Journal. Prior to entering academia, Professor Hull was an associate with Swartz Campbell, LLC, and served as judicial law clerk for the Honorable Earle W. Peterson, Jr. and for the Honorable C. Alan Lawson at Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeal. He also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Liberia, West Africa. Professor Hull has taught courses in environmental law, climate change law and policy, and legal methods. He holds a J.D. from Barry University, where he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Barry Law Review, an M.S. in Coastal Zone Management and an M.S. in Marine Biology from Nova Southeastern University in Dania, Florida, and a B.S. in Biology from Providence College in Rhode Island. Currently, he is pursuing an LL.M. degree in Environmental and Land Use Law at the University of Florida, Levin College of Law (anticipated completion Summer 2010).

Publications:

• Missing the Boat on Protecting Human Health and the Environment:  A Re-evaluation of the EPA’s Emissions Policy on Large Ocean-Going Vessels, 81 Temp. L. Rev. 4 (2009).
• Through the Looking Glass:  Judicial Interpretation of Vessel Status Leaves Injured Workers Adrift in Uncharted Territory, 16 U.S.F. Mar. L.J. 321 (Spring 2004).
• Soiling the Sea:  The Solution to Pollution is Still Dilution – A Re-evaluation of the Efficacy of 40 C.F.R.§ 122.3 and Annex IV of MARPOL, 3 Barry L. Rev. 61 (2002).

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Randall Abate
College of Law
randall.abate@famu.edu

Area of expertise: 
Teaches courses in environmental law, international and comparative law and constitutional law. He has published widely on environment law topics with a recent emphasis on climate change law and policy.

LeRoy Pernell, J.D. 
Dean
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue, Suite 324
Orlando, Florida 32801
(407) 254-3204
leroy.pernell@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Criminal law; juvenile law; torts law; products liability; constitutional law

LeRoy Pernell assumed the deanship of the Florida A&M University College of Law in January 2008. For 10 years, he served as law dean at Northern Illinois University (NIU). Under his leadership, the NIU law school was recognized nationally for its diversity efforts. He also oversaw the expansion of technology into the classroom, the establishment of the clinical educational program and the opening of the Zeke Giorgi Legal Clinic in Rockford, Illinois.

Pernell earned his bachelor’s degree in government from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1971, and received his Juris Doctor from The Ohio State University College of Law in 1974. He was of counsel with the firm Otto Beatty & Associates in Columbus Ohio.

In 1992, U.S. Congressman John Conyers (Michigan) appointed him as the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Criminal Justice Brain Trust’s subcommittee on Juvenile Justice. He also served as a member of the Ohio Governor’s Commission on African American Males and the Governor’s Council on Juvenile Justice. He has also testified before the Criminal Justice Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Dean Pernell has written law review articles in the areas of criminal procedure, juvenile justice, personal injury and sports law, and authored the Civil Procedure Forms Supplement for West Ohio Practice from 1978 to 1986. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and past-trustee of the Law School Admissions Council.

Publications:

• “Reflecting on the Dream of the Marathon Man: Black Dean Longevity and its Impact on Opportunity and Diversity”, 38 Toledo Law Review 571 (2007)
• “Deans of Color Speak Out: Unique Voice in a Unique Role”, 20 Boston College Third World Law Journal 43 (2000)
• “In Memoriam: Rodolphe Jean Alexander De Seife” (with Daniel Reynolds), 19 Northern Illinois University Law Review (1999)
• “A Commentary on Professor Goplerud’s Article, “NCAA Enforcement Process: A Call for Procedural Fairness””, 20 Capital University Law Review. 561 (1991)
• “Suffering The Children: 35 Years of Suspension, Expulsion and Beatings – The Price of Desegregation” 7 Harvard Blackletter Journal 119 (1990)
• “Drug Testing of Student Athletes: Some Contract and Tort Implications” 67 Denver University Law Review 279 (1990)
• “Reign of the Queen of Hearts: The Declining Significance of the Presumption of Innocence – A Brief Commentary” 37 Cleveland State Law Review 393 (lead article) (1990)
• “Random Drug Testing of Student Athletes by State Universities in the Wake of Von Raab and Skinner,” 1 Marquette Sports Law Journal 41 (1990)

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Jeremy I. Levitt, J.D. 
Associate Dean and Director of the Center for International Law and Justice
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue, Suite 324
Orlando, Florida 32801
(407) 254-3248
jeremy.levitt@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Human rights law; African politics; democratization; state dynamics; regional collective security

Dean Levitt is a public international lawyer and political scientist  He is the author or editor of four books and numerous law review articles. Prior to entering law teaching, he served as special assistant to the managing director for Global Human and Social Development at the World Bank Group. He was recently appointed as senior member of the International Technical Assistance Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the President of the Republic of Liberia, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa’s first democratically-elected female head of state.  He holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Cambridge-St. Johns College; a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and B.A., political science in Arizona State University.

Publications:
Books

• HURRICANE KATRINA: AMERICA’S UNNATURAL DISASTER, (eds.) (University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 2009).
• AFRICA: MAPPING NEW BOUNDARIES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW, (eds.) (Hart Publishers, Oxford, UK: 2008).
• THE EVOLUTION OF DEADLY CONFLICT IN LIBERIA: FROM ‘PATERNALTARIANISM’ TO STATE COLLAPSE (Carolina Academic Press: Durham, North Carolina 2005).
• AFRICA: SELECTED DOCUMENTS ON POLITICAL, CONFLICT AND SECURITY, HUMANITARIAN AND JUDICIAL ISSUES, (eds.) (Transnational     Publishers Ardsley, NY:  2003).

Articles

• UN Peacekeeping: A Sheep in Wolves Clothing?, Review of UN PEACEKEEPING IN LEBANON, SOMALIA AND KOSOVO: OPERATIONAL AND LEGAL ISSUES IN PRACTICE by Ray Murphy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. International Peacekeeping Journal, Vol. 17 (Spring 2010). Peer Reviewed.
• “Peace and or Justice: The Dilemma of Power-sharing”, African Legal Aid Quarterly, (published lecture), Conference: Interface Between Peace and International Justice in Africa, July-December 2007.
• “Pro-Democratic Intervention in Africa”, Wisconsin Journal of International Law, Vol. 25 No. 1 (Summer 2006).
• “Illegal Peace?: Examining the Legality of Power-sharing with Warlords and Rebels in Africa”, Michigan Journal of International Law, Vol. 27 No.2 (Winter 2006).

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Darryll K. Jones
Professor
Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and Professor of Law
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue
Orlando, Florida  32801
(407) 254-3202

Area of expertise: Federal income tax; partnership tax; tax exempt organizations

He is currently on leave of absence from Stetson University College of Law, where he is a tenured full professor teaching Federal Income Tax, Partnership Tax, and the Taxation of Exempt Organizations. He received his LLM (Tax) and JD degrees from the University of Florida. From 1993 to 2006 he taught at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law where he also served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2003 until 2006. Dean Jones is the author of The Theory and Practice of Partnership Taxation 2nd Edition, published by Thomson-West and is lead co-author of The Taxation of Charities and Other Exempt Organizations, 2nd Edition, also published by Thomson-West.   His scholarship on federal taxation has appeared in the Florida Tax Review, the Virginia Tax Review, Brigham Young University Law Review, the University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business and several other publications. Dean Jones has been consulted by members of Congress, including the Senate Finance Committee, the House Ways and Means Committee, staff to the Joint Committee on Taxation, and the Internal Revenue Service on issues relating to individual income tax, partnership tax, and the tax laws of exempt organizations.

Publications:

• The Taxation of Profit Interests and the Reverse Mancur Olson Phenomenon, 36 Capital University Law Review (2009).
• Third Party Profit-Taking In Tax Exemption Jurisprudence, 2007 Brigham Young University Law Review 977 (Fall 2007).
• Towards Equity and Efficiency In Partnership Allocations, 25 Virginia Tax Review 1047 (2006).
• Special Allocations and Preferential Distributions in Joint Ventures Involving Taxable and Tax Exempt Entities, 31 Ohio Northern Law Review 13 (2005).
• Semantics and Substance in Partnership Mergers, 104 Tax Notes 1523 (2004).
• The Neglected Role of International Altruistic Investment in the Chinese Transition Economy, 36 George Washington International Law Review 71 (2003).
• Some Hard Thinking and Harder Realities Regarding Joint Ventures, 36 Exempt Organizations Tax Review 177 (2002).
• “First Bite” And The Private Benefit Doctrine: A Comment on Temporary and Proposed Regulation 53.4958-4T(a)(3), 62 Pittsburgh L. Review 715 (2001).

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Eric Hull
Professor
Legal Writing Instructor
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue
Orlando, Florida 32801
(407) 254-4029
eric.hull@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Environmental and maritime law

Prior to joining FAMU, Professor Hull was an assistant professor in the department of criminal justice and legal studies at the University of Central Florida and an adjunct professor at Barry University School of Law, both in Orlando. He has published on environmental and maritime law topics, with emphasis on the impact of pollution on human health and the environment. His most recent articles have appeared in the Temple Law Review and the University of San Francisco Maritime Law Journal. Prior to entering academia, Professor Hull was an associate with Swartz Campbell, LLC, and served as judicial law clerk for the Honorable Earle W. Peterson, Jr. and for the Honorable C. Alan Lawson at Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeal. He also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Liberia, West Africa. Professor Hull has taught courses in environmental law, climate change law and policy, and legal methods. He holds a J.D. from Barry University, where he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Barry Law Review, an M.S. in Coastal Zone Management and an M.S. in Marine Biology from Nova Southeastern University in Dania, Florida, and a B.S. in Biology from Providence College in Rhode Island. Currently, he is pursuing an LL.M. degree in Environmental and Land Use Law at the University of Florida, Levin College of Law (anticipated completion Summer 2010).

Publications:

• Missing the Boat on Protecting Human Health and the Environment:  A Re-evaluation of the EPA’s Emissions Policy on Large Ocean-Going Vessels, 81 Temp. L. Rev. 4 (2009).
• Through the Looking Glass:  Judicial Interpretation of Vessel Status Leaves Injured Workers Adrift in Uncharted Territory, 16 U.S.F. Mar. L.J. 321 (Spring 2004).
• Soiling the Sea:  The Solution to Pollution is Still Dilution – A Re-evaluation of the Efficacy of 40 C.F.R.§ 122.3 and Annex IV of MARPOL, 3 Barry L. Rev. 61 (2002).

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Randall Abate
College of Law
randall.abate@famu.edu

Area of expertise: 
Teaches courses in environmental law, international and comparative law and constitutional law. He has published widely on environment law topics with a recent emphasis on climate change law and policy.

Dr. Shawnta Friday-Stroud
Dean of the School and Business Industry
Florida A&M University
School of Business and Industry
Sybil C. Mobley Complex
500 Gamble Street
Tallahassee, FL  32307
(850) 599 – 3565
shawnta.fridaystroud@famu.edu

Area of Expertise: Strategic management; organizational behavior; management diversity issues

Friday-Stroud has consulting experience in the areas of strategic planning, leadership training, diversity course development and training, employee attitudinal assessments, workload analysis, strategic market assessment, team building, computer training, conflict resolution and management, and employee-management relations liaison to name a few.
Friday-Stroud is a former McKnight Doctoral Fellow and a former McKnight Junior Faculty Development Fellow.

Publications:

• Hill, A., & Friday-Stroud, S. (2009). Information Fatigue: The Case of Activity-based Information (ABI) in Decision-making. Journal of Technology Research, 1, 1-9.
• Campbell, A.M., Harper, V.J., & Friday-Stroud, S.S. (2008). Business Students’ Listening Skills: Do They Sense More, Process More, or Respond More? International Journal of Education Research, 3, 2, 112-119.
• Friday-Stroud, S., & Sutterfield, J.S. (2007). Infusing Six Sigma and Strategic Management Methodologies to Enhance Decision-Making. The TQM Magazine, 19, 6, 561-571.
• Sutterfield, J.S., Friday-Stroud, S.S., Shivers-Blackwell, S.L. (2007) How not to manage a project: Six lessons learned from the DOD LAMP-H Project. Journal of Behavioral and Applied Management, 8, 3, 218-238.
• Sutterfield, J.S., Friday-Stroud, S.S., Shivers-Blackwell, S.L. (2006). A case study of project and stakeholder management failures: Lessons Learned. Project Management Journal, 37, 5, 26-35.

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Dr. Roscoe Hightower, Jr.
Professor of Marketing
School of Business and Industry
Florida A&M University
500 Gamble Street
Tallahassee, FL  32307
(850) 599-8335
roscoe.hightower@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Marketing; services marketing; sports marketing; value; transportation; physical environment also known as the “Servicescape”

Dr. Hightower received his doctor of philosophy in marketing from Florida State University and a MBA and bachelor of science degree from FAMU.

Publications: 

• Hightower, Jr., Roscoe (2010),“Commentary on Conceptualizing the Servicescape Construct in ‘A Study of the Service Encounter in Eight Countries’,” the Marketing Management Journal, 20(1), 76-86.
• Hightower, Jr., Roscoe and Mohammad Shariat, “Servicescape’s Hierarchical Factor Structure Model,” Global Review of Business and Economic Research Journal, 5(2), 375-398.
• Shariat, Mohammad and Roscoe Hightower, Jr. (2007), “Conceptualizing Business Intelligence Architecture,” Marketing Management Journal, 17(2), 40-46.
• Hightower, Jr., Roscoe; Richard Brand; Brian Bourdeau (2006), “Managing the Servicescape for the Funeral Home Industry,” Forum Empresarial Journal, 11 (1), 42-58.
• Cronin, J.J. and Roscoe Hightower, Jr. (2004), “An Evaluation of the Role of Marketing In Public Transportation Organizations,” The Journal of Public Transportation, 7(2),17-36.
• Hightower, Jr., Roscoe (2003), “Framework for Managing the Servicescape: A Sustainable Competitive Advantage,” Marketing Management Journal, 13(2), Fall 84-95.
• Hightower, Jr., Roscoe; Michael Brady and Tom Baker (2002), “Investigating the Role of the Physical Environment in Hedonic Service Consumption: An Exploratory Study of Sporting Events,” Journal of Business Research, 55(9), 697-707.
• Cronin, J.J.; Roscoe Hightower, Jr. and Michael Brady (2000), “Niche Marketing Strategies: An Investigation of the Role of Special Purpose Transportation Efforts in Attracting and Retaining Transit Users,” Journal of Public Transportation, 3 (3), 63-86.
• Keillor, Bruce; G. Tomas Hult and Roscoe Hightower, Jr. (2000), “Valued Product Attributes In A Developing Market: A Comparison Between French And Malaysian Consumers,” Journal of World Business, 35 (2), 206-220.
• Cronin, J.J. and Roscoe Hightower, Jr. (2000), “A Dynamic Competitive Environment and Shifting Management Paradigms: Implications for the Marketing of Public Transit Agencies,” Journal of Public Transportation, 3 (1), 67-94.
• Cronin, J.J.; Michael Brady; Richard Brand; Roscoe Hightower and Don Shemwell (1997), “The Role of Service Value in Consumer Decision Making: A Cross-Sectional Test of the Effect on Purchase Intentions and of Alternative Models,” Journal of Services Marketing, 11(6), 375-391.
• Chapter 9 “Leveraging Sports Brands with the Servicescape,” in Leveraging Brands in Sport Business, eds. Mark Pritchard & Jeff Stinson, Northwest Center for Sport Business,
  Routledge, forthcoming 2013.
• “Investigating the Green Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Servicescape Scale in Brazil” Construction Innovation: Information, Process, Management Journal.
• Exploring the Green Servicescape’s Influence on Consumer Purchase Intentions Journal für Facility Management, 4th Issue, pg 39-60, March 20, 2012.

Dr. Shawnta Friday-Stroud
Dean of the School and Business Industry
Florida A&M University
School of Business and Industry
Sybil C. Mobley Complex
500 Gamble Street
Tallahassee, FL  32307
(850) 599 – 3565
shawnta.fridaystroud@famu.edu

Area of Expertise: Strategic management; organizational behavior; management diversity issues

Friday-Stroud has consulting experience in the areas of strategic planning, leadership training, diversity course development and training, employee attitudinal assessments, workload analysis, strategic market assessment, team building, computer training, conflict resolution and management, and employee-management relations liaison to name a few.
Friday-Stroud is a former McKnight Doctoral Fellow and a former McKnight Junior Faculty Development Fellow.

Publications:

• Hill, A., & Friday-Stroud, S. (2009). Information Fatigue: The Case of Activity-based Information (ABI) in Decision-making. Journal of Technology Research, 1, 1-9.
• Campbell, A.M., Harper, V.J., & Friday-Stroud, S.S. (2008). Business Students’ Listening Skills: Do They Sense More, Process More, or Respond More? International Journal of Education Research, 3, 2, 112-119.
• Friday-Stroud, S., & Sutterfield, J.S. (2007). Infusing Six Sigma and Strategic Management Methodologies to Enhance Decision-Making. The TQM Magazine, 19, 6, 561-571.
• Sutterfield, J.S., Friday-Stroud, S.S., Shivers-Blackwell, S.L. (2007) How not to manage a project: Six lessons learned from the DOD LAMP-H Project. Journal of Behavioral and Applied Management, 8, 3, 218-238.
• Sutterfield, J.S., Friday-Stroud, S.S., Shivers-Blackwell, S.L. (2006). A case study of project and stakeholder management failures: Lessons Learned. Project Management Journal, 37, 5, 26-35.

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Dr. Roscoe Hightower, Jr.
Professor of Marketing
School of Business and Industry
Florida A&M University
500 Gamble Street
Tallahassee, FL  32307
(850) 599-8335
roscoe.hightower@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Marketing; services marketing; sports marketing; value; transportation; physical environment also known as the “Servicescape”

Dr. Hightower received his doctor of philosophy in marketing from Florida State University and a MBA and bachelor of science degree from FAMU.

Publications: 

• Hightower, Jr., Roscoe (2010),“Commentary on Conceptualizing the Servicescape Construct in ‘A Study of the Service Encounter in Eight Countries’,” the Marketing Management Journal, 20(1), 76-86.
• Hightower, Jr., Roscoe and Mohammad Shariat, “Servicescape’s Hierarchical Factor Structure Model,” Global Review of Business and Economic Research Journal, 5(2), 375-398.
• Shariat, Mohammad and Roscoe Hightower, Jr. (2007), “Conceptualizing Business Intelligence Architecture,” Marketing Management Journal, 17(2), 40-46.
• Hightower, Jr., Roscoe; Richard Brand; Brian Bourdeau (2006), “Managing the Servicescape for the Funeral Home Industry,” Forum Empresarial Journal, 11 (1), 42-58.
• Cronin, J.J. and Roscoe Hightower, Jr. (2004), “An Evaluation of the Role of Marketing In Public Transportation Organizations,” The Journal of Public Transportation, 7(2),17-36.
• Hightower, Jr., Roscoe (2003), “Framework for Managing the Servicescape: A Sustainable Competitive Advantage,” Marketing Management Journal, 13(2), Fall 84-95.
• Hightower, Jr., Roscoe; Michael Brady and Tom Baker (2002), “Investigating the Role of the Physical Environment in Hedonic Service Consumption: An Exploratory Study of Sporting Events,” Journal of Business Research, 55(9), 697-707.
• Cronin, J.J.; Roscoe Hightower, Jr. and Michael Brady (2000), “Niche Marketing Strategies: An Investigation of the Role of Special Purpose Transportation Efforts in Attracting and Retaining Transit Users,” Journal of Public Transportation, 3 (3), 63-86.
• Keillor, Bruce; G. Tomas Hult and Roscoe Hightower, Jr. (2000), “Valued Product Attributes In A Developing Market: A Comparison Between French And Malaysian Consumers,” Journal of World Business, 35 (2), 206-220.
• Cronin, J.J. and Roscoe Hightower, Jr. (2000), “A Dynamic Competitive Environment and Shifting Management Paradigms: Implications for the Marketing of Public Transit Agencies,” Journal of Public Transportation, 3 (1), 67-94.
• Cronin, J.J.; Michael Brady; Richard Brand; Roscoe Hightower and Don Shemwell (1997), “The Role of Service Value in Consumer Decision Making: A Cross-Sectional Test of the Effect on Purchase Intentions and of Alternative Models,” Journal of Services Marketing, 11(6), 375-391.
• Chapter 9 “Leveraging Sports Brands with the Servicescape,” in Leveraging Brands in Sport Business, eds. Mark Pritchard & Jeff Stinson, Northwest Center for Sport Business,
  Routledge, forthcoming 2013.
• “Investigating the Green Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Servicescape Scale in Brazil” Construction Innovation: Information, Process, Management Journal.
• Exploring the Green Servicescape’s Influence on Consumer Purchase Intentions Journal für Facility Management, 4th Issue, pg 39-60, March 20, 2012.

Florida A&M University has more than 15 faculty members contributing to The Oil Spill Academic Task Force.  This Task Force is comprised of scientists and scholars from institutions in the State University System of Florida as well as from four of Florida’s private universities working in collaboration with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
Randall Abate
College of Law
randall.abate@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Teaches courses in environmental law, international and comparative law and constitutional law. He has published widely on environment law topics with a recent emphasis on climate change law and policy.

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Michael Abazinge
Environmental Sciences Institute
michael.abazinge@famu.edu

Area of expertise: He has developed a microencapsulation technology for delivery of biosurfactants to enhance the biodegradation of hydrocarbons.  This technology could be modified to deliver critical nutrients that are needed to enhance microbial degradation of oil. This research would be useful in the final stages of the clean up of the oil.

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Ashvini Chauhan
Environmental Sciences Institute
ashvini.chauhan@famu.edu

Area of expertise: He has several projects underway in his laboratory at FAMU that span the realm of coastal and terrestrial systems with the broader objective of developing indicators to gauge ecosystem health, including climate change and even predict rehabilitation of environmentally degraded ecosystems.  His studies span from the watershed scale, to the water column within estuaries and finally to communities such as oyster microbiome — these niches can serve as indicators of impending environmental threats.

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Jennifer Cherrier
Environmental Sciences Institute
jennifer.cherrier@famu.edu

Area of expertise: She has an expertise in research to better understand how C and N cycling in marine systems impacts estimates of global C flux. Research combines lab and field studies to trace C and N flow through coastal and oceanic systems by coupling nutrient concentration measurements with measurements of stable isotope and natural radiocarbon abundances. Basic biogeochemical analyses (i.e. water quality), tracing in situ oil degradation, bacterial community dynamics, Co-PI National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminitartion/FAMU Environmental Cooperative Science Center.

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Clayton Clark, II
Civil and Environmental Engineering
clayton.clarkii@famu.edu

Area of expertise: His research into economically beneficial methods of safely reducing waste volume from contaminated sites; hazardous volume reduction by chemical and physical treatment processes.  Treatment of wastes focusing on degradation of recalcitrant wastes to less hazardous forms; sonichemical degradation; dechlorination by iron and other metallic substrates. May be able to offer techniques of remediation pertaining to oil and petroleum products, especially as it deals with water quality and resources engineering.  He also may offer help in site monitoring, delineation of pollution plume, and techniques for capturing that plume.

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Richard Gragg III
Environmental Sciences Institute
richard.gragg@famu.edu

Area of expertise: His research and professional interests include: the impact environmental contaminants on human health and aquatic ecosystems; environmental health disparities; environmental equity and justice; community based participatory research; and public health policy. Gragg has numerous refereed publications, professional presentations, and reports. Based on his expertise in toxicology, he I can offer assistance to the oil spill crisis, cleanup and/or recovery through understanding the toxicological effects of crude oil and its photoproducts on aquatic species. Based on his expertise in environmental justice, policy, and risk management, he can offer assistance through understanding the socioeconomic and human health impacts of crude oils and its byproducts on coastal communities, minorities, and low-income populations.

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Cynthia Harris
Institute of Public Health
cynthia.harris2@famu.edu

Area of expertise: She is a board certified toxicologist. She currently serves on the U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board Human Health Effects Subcommittee. Previously, she was a branch chief with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry and conducted human health assessments related to environmental contamination at Superfund and non-Superfund (RCRA) sites. Harris can offer expertise in evaluating the potential human health effects from exposure to contaminants in the oil.

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Wenrui  Huang
Civil and Environmental Engineering
wenrui.huang@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Research experience includes coastal hydrodynamic and pollutant transport modeling, water quality modeling, integrated hydrodynamic and ecological modeling, and remote sensing of coastal water quality. Research interest for oil spill study will focus on modeling and monitoring of oil spill movement in the Florida coastal waters by integrated coastal hydrodynamic model and oil spill model. In addition, remote sensing images can be used to monitor oil spill movement and validate model predictions of oil spills.

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Charles Jagoe
Environmental Science Institute
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration
Environmental Coop Science Institute
charles.jagoe@famu.edu

Area of expertise: His research studies the effects of pollutants on fish and wildlife; aquatic ecology; bioaccumulation; environmental chemistry of pollutants; ecological statistics; ecological risk assessment. Potential contribution to oil spill response would be an assessment of pollutant effects on fish and wildlife; ecological risk analysis; assessment of efficacy of mitigation or cleanup efforts to ecological receptors.

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Elijah Johnson
Environmental Sciences Institute
elijah.johnson@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Most of his work has been in the area of theoretical chemistry.  He has experience in atmospheric dispersion and the characterization of contaminants in sediments and biological systems. Johnson could assist with monitoring the dissipation of petroleum from coastal regions.

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Primus Mtenga
FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
mtenga@eng.fsu.edu

Area of expertise: He is a structural/materials engineer specialized in structural condition assessment retrofit design and forensic engineering.

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Marcia Owens
Environmental Sciences Institute
mowen04@aol.com

Area of expertise: She has 22 years of experience as an environmental attorney with EPA Region 4 and City of Atlanta. Research includes contributors and inhibitors of environmental literacy in various sectors.

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Sunil Pancholy
Center for Water and Air Quality
s.pancholy@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Soil and water sampling and analysis; Water quality; Crop production and nutrient movements in soil and water systems. Pancholy will be able to provide assistance in analyzing effects of oil spill on coastal agriculture and inland fresh water stream quality.

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Michael Thomas
Agribusiness
michael.thomas@famu.edu

Area of expertise: With over 30 years of experience in the areas of statistical and economic analysis, his areas of expertise include developing economic models to estimate public losses/gains due to public policy. Most recently, he worked with Frank Lupi of Michigan State University to develop a state-wide economic model to evaluate the economic importance of public boating and provide a dynamic method to compare the relative efficiency of alternative access sites. Thomas worked as an investigator to develop the econometric model necessary for a multi-million dollar lawsuit brought by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in 1994 to recover economic losses due to the 1993 oil spill in Tampa Bay, Fla. At some point, state and federal officials will make claims for public losses, this model, and another currently being developed for fishing, could provide these officials the estimate of oil related damage necessary for the legal actions.

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He Zhong
College of Engineering Sciences, Technology and Agriculture
he.zhong@famu.edu

Area of expertise: He can could assist with detecting and monitoring PAHs in marine organisms (fish, shrimp etc.). Zhong can determine the toxicological and ecotoxicological impact of the oil residue.

Dr. Karam F. A. Soliman
Distinguished Professor and Assistant Dean for Research and Graduate Studies
College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Division of Basic Sciences
Florida A&M University
104 Dyson Pharmacy Building
1520 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Tallahassee, Florida 32307
(850) 599-3306
karam.soliman@famu.edu

Karam F.A. Soliman is a distinguished professor of basic pharmaceutical sciences in the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the assistant dean for Research and Graduate Studies for the College. In addition, to teaching, advising and training graduate students, Soliman serves as the program director for an NIH-supported multi-million-dollar grant to support Research Center in Minority Institution. He was voted as the College of Pharmacy Outstanding Teacher of the Year in 1979; and in 1994, he received the State of Florida Teaching Incentive Award.  In 1996, Soliman received the, The State Professorial Excellence Award.  He has trained 24 Ph.D. and 22 M.S. students in Pharmacology/ Toxicology. He is considered the top producer (rank first), in the Nation, of African-American PhDs in Pharmaceutical Sciences. Among 100 Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the country, Dr. Soliman ranked number one as the most published faculty member. In February of 1996, Dr. Soliman was named 3M Distinguished Professor in recognition of his dedication to Pharmacy students as a teacher and mentor, contributing to the profession and commitment to FAMU.  In 2000, Soliman received the highest award given by the University; he was named FAMUAN of the Century.

Publications:

• Mazzio, E and KFA Soliman. D-( )-Glucose rescue against 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium toxicity through anaerobic glycolysis in neuroblastoma cells. Brain Research, 962: 48-60 (2003).
• Mazzio, E, A. Becker and KFA Soliman. Inflammation and inducible nitric oxide synthase have no effect on monoamine oxidase activity in glioma cells. Biochem Pharmacol, 15:65:1719-1927 (2003).
• Mazzio EA and KFA Soliman. Cytoprotection of pyruvic acid and reduced beta-nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide against hydrogen peroxide toxicity in neuroblastoma cells. Neurochem Res., 28(5):733-741 (2003).
• Sircar R and KFA Soliman. Effects of postnatal PCP treatment on locomotor behavior and striatal D (2) receptor. Pharmacol Biochem Behav., 74(4):943-452(2003).
• Mazzio, E and KFA Soliman. The role of glycolysis and gluconeogenesis in the cytoprotection of neuroblastoma cells against 1-methyl 4-phenylpyridinium ion toxicity. Neurotoxicology, 24(1):137-147 (2003).
• Mazzio, E and KFA Soliman Pyruvic acid cytoprotection against 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium, 6-hydroxydopamine and hydrogen peroxide toxicities in vitro. Neurosci Lett. 6; 337(2):77-80 (2003).
• Mazzio, E; KJ. Yoon and KFA. Soliman. Acetyl- -carnitine cytoprotection against 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium toxicity in neuroblastoma cells. Biochemical Pharmacology, 66: 297-306 (2003).
• Mazzio, E and KFA Soliman. Glioma cell capacity in removing generated reactive oxygen species. Journal of Applied Toxicology, 24: 99-106 (2004).

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Dr. Donald Palm
Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs
Office of the Provost
Florida A&M University
1700 Lee Hall Drive
301 Foote-Hilyer
Tallahassee, Florida  32307
(850) 599-3276
donald.palm@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Stroke; cell biology; Parkinson’s disease; pharmacology

Palm is a professor of basic pharmaceutical sciences in the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the University’s assistant vice president for Academic Affairs. In addition, to teaching, advising and training graduate students, Dr. Palm serves as FAMU’s chair for Institutes and Centers. He recently served as the program director for the Minority Biomedical Research Support Program. He is a recipient of Florida A&M University’s Risen Star Award (2003) and the University’s Exceptional Contribution in Grantsmanship Award (2002). He was voted as Florida A&M University’s Advanced Teacher of the Year in 2001 and the University’s Teacher of the Year in 1999. He has trained 5 Ph.D. and 1 M.S. students in pharmacology/toxicology.

Publications:

• Emanuel FS. Adefovir Dipivoxil: A New Agent for Active Hepatitis B Virus Infection , Pharmacy and Therapeutics Drug Forecast. 2003:1-4.
• Emanuel FS. Hypertension: A Focus on the 7th Report of the Joint National Committee on the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7), American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education. 2004;68(3).
• Emanuel FS. Pharmacotherapeutic Interventions of Pharmacy Students, Pharmacy Practice. 2007;5(2):95-98.
• Emanuel FS. At Home Device for Glucose and Cholesterol Screening, U.S. Pharmacist. 2007:1-3.
• Emanuel FS. Goal Attainment in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes, Part 1, Federal Practitioner. 2008:13-18.
• Emanuel FS. Goal Attainment in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes, Part 2, Federal Practitioner. 2008:14-25.

Dr. Karam F. A. Soliman
Distinguished Professor and Assistant Dean for Research and Graduate Studies
College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Division of Basic Sciences
Florida A&M University
104 Dyson Pharmacy Building
1520 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Tallahassee, Florida 32307
(850) 599-3306
karam.soliman@famu.edu

Karam F.A. Soliman is a distinguished professor of basic pharmaceutical sciences in the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the assistant dean for Research and Graduate Studies for the College. In addition, to teaching, advising and training graduate students, Soliman serves as the program director for an NIH-supported multi-million-dollar grant to support Research Center in Minority Institution. He was voted as the College of Pharmacy Outstanding Teacher of the Year in 1979; and in 1994, he received the State of Florida Teaching Incentive Award.  In 1996, Soliman received the, The State Professorial Excellence Award.  He has trained 24 Ph.D. and 22 M.S. students in Pharmacology/ Toxicology. He is considered the top producer (rank first), in the Nation, of African-American PhDs in Pharmaceutical Sciences. Among 100 Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the country, Dr. Soliman ranked number one as the most published faculty member. In February of 1996, Dr. Soliman was named 3M Distinguished Professor in recognition of his dedication to Pharmacy students as a teacher and mentor, contributing to the profession and commitment to FAMU.  In 2000, Soliman received the highest award given by the University; he was named FAMUAN of the Century.

Publications:

• Mazzio, E and KFA Soliman. D-( )-Glucose rescue against 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium toxicity through anaerobic glycolysis in neuroblastoma cells. Brain Research, 962: 48-60 (2003).
• Mazzio, E, A. Becker and KFA Soliman. Inflammation and inducible nitric oxide synthase have no effect on monoamine oxidase activity in glioma cells. Biochem Pharmacol, 15:65:1719-1927 (2003).
• Mazzio EA and KFA Soliman. Cytoprotection of pyruvic acid and reduced beta-nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide against hydrogen peroxide toxicity in neuroblastoma cells. Neurochem Res., 28(5):733-741 (2003).
• Sircar R and KFA Soliman. Effects of postnatal PCP treatment on locomotor behavior and striatal D (2) receptor. Pharmacol Biochem Behav., 74(4):943-452(2003).
• Mazzio, E and KFA Soliman. The role of glycolysis and gluconeogenesis in the cytoprotection of neuroblastoma cells against 1-methyl 4-phenylpyridinium ion toxicity. Neurotoxicology, 24(1):137-147 (2003).
• Mazzio, E and KFA Soliman Pyruvic acid cytoprotection against 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium, 6-hydroxydopamine and hydrogen peroxide toxicities in vitro. Neurosci Lett. 6; 337(2):77-80 (2003).
• Mazzio, E; KJ. Yoon and KFA. Soliman. Acetyl- -carnitine cytoprotection against 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium toxicity in neuroblastoma cells. Biochemical Pharmacology, 66: 297-306 (2003).
• Mazzio, E and KFA Soliman. Glioma cell capacity in removing generated reactive oxygen species. Journal of Applied Toxicology, 24: 99-106 (2004).

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Dr. Donald Palm
Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs
Office of the Provost
Florida A&M University
1700 Lee Hall Drive
301 Foote-Hilyer
Tallahassee, Florida  32307
(850) 599-3276
donald.palm@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Stroke; cell biology; Parkinson’s disease; pharmacology

Palm is a professor of basic pharmaceutical sciences in the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the University’s assistant vice president for Academic Affairs. In addition, to teaching, advising and training graduate students, Dr. Palm serves as FAMU’s chair for Institutes and Centers. He recently served as the program director for the Minority Biomedical Research Support Program. He is a recipient of Florida A&M University’s Risen Star Award (2003) and the University’s Exceptional Contribution in Grantsmanship Award (2002). He was voted as Florida A&M University’s Advanced Teacher of the Year in 2001 and the University’s Teacher of the Year in 1999. He has trained 5 Ph.D. and 1 M.S. students in pharmacology/toxicology.

Publications:

• Emanuel FS. Adefovir Dipivoxil: A New Agent for Active Hepatitis B Virus Infection , Pharmacy and Therapeutics Drug Forecast. 2003:1-4.
• Emanuel FS. Hypertension: A Focus on the 7th Report of the Joint National Committee on the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7), American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education. 2004;68(3).
• Emanuel FS. Pharmacotherapeutic Interventions of Pharmacy Students, Pharmacy Practice. 2007;5(2):95-98.
• Emanuel FS. At Home Device for Glucose and Cholesterol Screening, U.S. Pharmacist. 2007:1-3.
• Emanuel FS. Goal Attainment in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes, Part 1, Federal Practitioner. 2008:13-18.
• Emanuel FS. Goal Attainment in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes, Part 2, Federal Practitioner. 2008:14-25.

LeRoy Pernell, J.D. 
Dean
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue, Suite 324
Orlando, Florida 32801
(407) 254-3204
leroy.pernell@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Criminal law; juvenile law; torts law; products liability; constitutional law

LeRoy Pernell assumed the deanship of the Florida A&M University College of Law in January 2008. For 10 years, he served as law dean at Northern Illinois University (NIU). Under his leadership, the NIU law school was recognized nationally for its diversity efforts. He also oversaw the expansion of technology into the classroom, the establishment of the clinical educational program and the opening of the Zeke Giorgi Legal Clinic in Rockford, Illinois.

Pernell earned his bachelor’s degree in government from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1971, and received his Juris Doctor from The Ohio State University College of Law in 1974. He was of counsel with the firm Otto Beatty & Associates in Columbus Ohio.

In 1992, U.S. Congressman John Conyers (Michigan) appointed him as the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Criminal Justice Brain Trust’s subcommittee on Juvenile Justice. He also served as a member of the Ohio Governor’s Commission on African American Males and the Governor’s Council on Juvenile Justice. He has also testified before the Criminal Justice Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Dean Pernell has written law review articles in the areas of criminal procedure, juvenile justice, personal injury and sports law, and authored the Civil Procedure Forms Supplement for West Ohio Practice from 1978 to 1986. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and past-trustee of the Law School Admissions Council.

Publications:

• “Reflecting on the Dream of the Marathon Man: Black Dean Longevity and its Impact on Opportunity and Diversity”, 38 Toledo Law Review 571 (2007)
• “Deans of Color Speak Out: Unique Voice in a Unique Role”, 20 Boston College Third World Law Journal 43 (2000)
• “In Memoriam: Rodolphe Jean Alexander De Seife” (with Daniel Reynolds), 19 Northern Illinois University Law Review (1999)
• “A Commentary on Professor Goplerud’s Article, “NCAA Enforcement Process: A Call for Procedural Fairness””, 20 Capital University Law Review. 561 (1991)
• “Suffering The Children: 35 Years of Suspension, Expulsion and Beatings – The Price of Desegregation” 7 Harvard Blackletter Journal 119 (1990)
• “Drug Testing of Student Athletes: Some Contract and Tort Implications” 67 Denver University Law Review 279 (1990)
• “Reign of the Queen of Hearts: The Declining Significance of the Presumption of Innocence – A Brief Commentary” 37 Cleveland State Law Review 393 (lead article) (1990)
• “Random Drug Testing of Student Athletes by State Universities in the Wake of Von Raab and Skinner,” 1 Marquette Sports Law Journal 41 (1990)

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Jeremy I. Levitt, J.D. 
Associate Dean and Director of the Center for International Law and Justice
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue, Suite 324
Orlando, Florida 32801
(407) 254-3248
jeremy.levitt@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Human rights law; African politics; democratization; state dynamics; regional collective security

Dean Levitt is a public international lawyer and political scientist  He is the author or editor of four books and numerous law review articles. Prior to entering law teaching, he served as special assistant to the managing director for Global Human and Social Development at the World Bank Group. He was recently appointed as senior member of the International Technical Assistance Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the President of the Republic of Liberia, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa’s first democratically-elected female head of state.  He holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Cambridge-St. Johns College; a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and B.A., political science in Arizona State University.

Publications:
Books

• HURRICANE KATRINA: AMERICA’S UNNATURAL DISASTER, (eds.) (University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 2009).
• AFRICA: MAPPING NEW BOUNDARIES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW, (eds.) (Hart Publishers, Oxford, UK: 2008).
• THE EVOLUTION OF DEADLY CONFLICT IN LIBERIA: FROM ‘PATERNALTARIANISM’ TO STATE COLLAPSE (Carolina Academic Press: Durham, North Carolina 2005).
• AFRICA: SELECTED DOCUMENTS ON POLITICAL, CONFLICT AND SECURITY, HUMANITARIAN AND JUDICIAL ISSUES, (eds.) (Transnational     Publishers Ardsley, NY:  2003).

Articles

• UN Peacekeeping: A Sheep in Wolves Clothing?, Review of UN PEACEKEEPING IN LEBANON, SOMALIA AND KOSOVO: OPERATIONAL AND LEGAL ISSUES IN PRACTICE by Ray Murphy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. International Peacekeeping Journal, Vol. 17 (Spring 2010). Peer Reviewed.
• “Peace and or Justice: The Dilemma of Power-sharing”, African Legal Aid Quarterly, (published lecture), Conference: Interface Between Peace and International Justice in Africa, July-December 2007.
• “Pro-Democratic Intervention in Africa”, Wisconsin Journal of International Law, Vol. 25 No. 1 (Summer 2006).
• “Illegal Peace?: Examining the Legality of Power-sharing with Warlords and Rebels in Africa”, Michigan Journal of International Law, Vol. 27 No.2 (Winter 2006).

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Darryll K. Jones
Professor
Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and Professor of Law
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue
Orlando, Florida  32801
(407) 254-3202

Area of expertise: Federal income tax; partnership tax; tax exempt organizations

He is currently on leave of absence from Stetson University College of Law, where he is a tenured full professor teaching Federal Income Tax, Partnership Tax, and the Taxation of Exempt Organizations. He received his LLM (Tax) and JD degrees from the University of Florida. From 1993 to 2006 he taught at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law where he also served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2003 until 2006. Dean Jones is the author of The Theory and Practice of Partnership Taxation 2nd Edition, published by Thomson-West and is lead co-author of The Taxation of Charities and Other Exempt Organizations, 2nd Edition, also published by Thomson-West.   His scholarship on federal taxation has appeared in the Florida Tax Review, the Virginia Tax Review, Brigham Young University Law Review, the University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business and several other publications. Dean Jones has been consulted by members of Congress, including the Senate Finance Committee, the House Ways and Means Committee, staff to the Joint Committee on Taxation, and the Internal Revenue Service on issues relating to individual income tax, partnership tax, and the tax laws of exempt organizations.

Publications:

• The Taxation of Profit Interests and the Reverse Mancur Olson Phenomenon, 36 Capital University Law Review (2009).
• Third Party Profit-Taking In Tax Exemption Jurisprudence, 2007 Brigham Young University Law Review 977 (Fall 2007).
• Towards Equity and Efficiency In Partnership Allocations, 25 Virginia Tax Review 1047 (2006).
• Special Allocations and Preferential Distributions in Joint Ventures Involving Taxable and Tax Exempt Entities, 31 Ohio Northern Law Review 13 (2005).
• Semantics and Substance in Partnership Mergers, 104 Tax Notes 1523 (2004).
• The Neglected Role of International Altruistic Investment in the Chinese Transition Economy, 36 George Washington International Law Review 71 (2003).
• Some Hard Thinking and Harder Realities Regarding Joint Ventures, 36 Exempt Organizations Tax Review 177 (2002).
• “First Bite” And The Private Benefit Doctrine: A Comment on Temporary and Proposed Regulation 53.4958-4T(a)(3), 62 Pittsburgh L. Review 715 (2001).

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Eric Hull
Professor
Legal Writing Instructor
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue
Orlando, Florida 32801
(407) 254-4029
eric.hull@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Environmental and maritime law

Prior to joining FAMU, Professor Hull was an assistant professor in the department of criminal justice and legal studies at the University of Central Florida and an adjunct professor at Barry University School of Law, both in Orlando. He has published on environmental and maritime law topics, with emphasis on the impact of pollution on human health and the environment. His most recent articles have appeared in the Temple Law Review and the University of San Francisco Maritime Law Journal. Prior to entering academia, Professor Hull was an associate with Swartz Campbell, LLC, and served as judicial law clerk for the Honorable Earle W. Peterson, Jr. and for the Honorable C. Alan Lawson at Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeal. He also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Liberia, West Africa. Professor Hull has taught courses in environmental law, climate change law and policy, and legal methods. He holds a J.D. from Barry University, where he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Barry Law Review, an M.S. in Coastal Zone Management and an M.S. in Marine Biology from Nova Southeastern University in Dania, Florida, and a B.S. in Biology from Providence College in Rhode Island. Currently, he is pursuing an LL.M. degree in Environmental and Land Use Law at the University of Florida, Levin College of Law (anticipated completion Summer 2010).

Publications:

• Missing the Boat on Protecting Human Health and the Environment:  A Re-evaluation of the EPA’s Emissions Policy on Large Ocean-Going Vessels, 81 Temp. L. Rev. 4 (2009).
• Through the Looking Glass:  Judicial Interpretation of Vessel Status Leaves Injured Workers Adrift in Uncharted Territory, 16 U.S.F. Mar. L.J. 321 (Spring 2004).
• Soiling the Sea:  The Solution to Pollution is Still Dilution – A Re-evaluation of the Efficacy of 40 C.F.R.§ 122.3 and Annex IV of MARPOL, 3 Barry L. Rev. 61 (2002).

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Randall Abate
College of Law
randall.abate@famu.edu

Area of expertise: 
Teaches courses in environmental law, international and comparative law and constitutional law. He has published widely on environment law topics with a recent emphasis on climate change law and policy.

Dr. Christopher L. Daniels
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Center for Global Security and International Affairs
Florida A&M University
104A University Commons
Tallahassee, Florida 32307
(850) 599-3477

Area of expertise: Piracy, economic development, governance, conflict resolution and terrorism

Daniels received his Ph.D. in African Studies from Howard University where he completed a dissertation analyzing piracy and terrorism in Somalia.  In the fall of 2010, he taught a course on African governance and politics at Georgetown University.

Currently, Daniels is completing a book titled “Voices of the Egyptian Revolution.”

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Dr. Karam F. A. Soliman
Distinguished Professor and Assistant Dean for Research and Graduate Studies
College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Division of Basic Sciences
Florida A&M University
104 Dyson Pharmacy Building
1520 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Tallahassee, Florida 32307
(850) 599-3306
karam.soliman@famu.edu

Karam F.A. Soliman is a distinguished professor of basic pharmaceutical sciences in the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the assistant dean for Research and Graduate Studies for the College. In addition, to teaching, advising and training graduate students, Soliman serves as the program director for an NIH-supported multi-million-dollar grant to support Research Center in Minority Institution. He was voted as the College of Pharmacy Outstanding Teacher of the Year in 1979; and in 1994, he received the State of Florida Teaching Incentive Award.  In 1996, Soliman received the, The State Professorial Excellence Award.  He has trained 24 Ph.D. and 22 M.S. students in Pharmacology/ Toxicology. He is considered the top producer (rank first), in the Nation, of African-American PhDs in Pharmaceutical Sciences. Among 100 Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the country, Dr. Soliman ranked number one as the most published faculty member. In February of 1996, Dr. Soliman was named 3M Distinguished Professor in recognition of his dedication to Pharmacy students as a teacher and mentor, contributing to the profession and commitment to FAMU.  In 2000, Soliman received the highest award given by the University; he was named FAMUAN of the Century.

Publications:

• Mazzio, E and KFA Soliman. D-( )-Glucose rescue against 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium toxicity through anaerobic glycolysis in neuroblastoma cells. Brain Research, 962: 48-60 (2003).
• Mazzio, E, A. Becker and KFA Soliman. Inflammation and inducible nitric oxide synthase have no effect on monoamine oxidase activity in glioma cells. Biochem Pharmacol, 15:65:1719-1927 (2003).
• Mazzio EA and KFA Soliman. Cytoprotection of pyruvic acid and reduced beta-nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide against hydrogen peroxide toxicity in neuroblastoma cells. Neurochem Res., 28(5):733-741 (2003).
• Sircar R and KFA Soliman. Effects of postnatal PCP treatment on locomotor behavior and striatal D (2) receptor. Pharmacol Biochem Behav., 74(4):943-452(2003).
• Mazzio, E and KFA Soliman. The role of glycolysis and gluconeogenesis in the cytoprotection of neuroblastoma cells against 1-methyl 4-phenylpyridinium ion toxicity. Neurotoxicology, 24(1):137-147 (2003).
• Mazzio, E and KFA Soliman Pyruvic acid cytoprotection against 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium, 6-hydroxydopamine and hydrogen peroxide toxicities in vitro. Neurosci Lett. 6; 337(2):77-80 (2003).
• Mazzio, E; KJ. Yoon and KFA. Soliman. Acetyl- -carnitine cytoprotection against 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium toxicity in neuroblastoma cells. Biochemical Pharmacology, 66: 297-306 (2003).
• Mazzio, E and KFA Soliman. Glioma cell capacity in removing generated reactive oxygen species. Journal of Applied Toxicology, 24: 99-106 (2004).

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Dr. Donald Palm
Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs
Office of the Provost
Florida A&M University
1700 Lee Hall Drive
301 Foote-Hilyer
Tallahassee, Florida  32307
(850) 599-3276
donald.palm@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Stroke; cell biology; Parkinson’s disease; pharmacology

Palm is a professor of basic pharmaceutical sciences in the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the University’s assistant vice president for Academic Affairs. In addition, to teaching, advising and training graduate students, Dr. Palm serves as FAMU’s chair for Institutes and Centers. He recently served as the program director for the Minority Biomedical Research Support Program. He is a recipient of Florida A&M University’s Risen Star Award (2003) and the University’s Exceptional Contribution in Grantsmanship Award (2002). He was voted as Florida A&M University’s Advanced Teacher of the Year in 2001 and the University’s Teacher of the Year in 1999. He has trained 5 Ph.D. and 1 M.S. students in pharmacology/toxicology.

Publications:

• Emanuel FS. Adefovir Dipivoxil: A New Agent for Active Hepatitis B Virus Infection , Pharmacy and Therapeutics Drug Forecast. 2003:1-4.
• Emanuel FS. Hypertension: A Focus on the 7th Report of the Joint National Committee on the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7), American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education. 2004;68(3).
• Emanuel FS. Pharmacotherapeutic Interventions of Pharmacy Students, Pharmacy Practice. 2007;5(2):95-98.
• Emanuel FS. At Home Device for Glucose and Cholesterol Screening, U.S. Pharmacist. 2007:1-3.
• Emanuel FS. Goal Attainment in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes, Part 1, Federal Practitioner. 2008:13-18.
• Emanuel FS. Goal Attainment in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes, Part 2, Federal Practitioner. 2008:14-25.

Dr. Karam F. A. Soliman
Distinguished Professor and Assistant Dean for Research and Graduate Studies
College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Division of Basic Sciences
Florida A&M University
104 Dyson Pharmacy Building
1520 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Tallahassee, Florida 32307
(850) 599-3306
karam.soliman@famu.edu

Karam F.A. Soliman is a distinguished professor of basic pharmaceutical sciences in the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the assistant dean for Research and Graduate Studies for the College. In addition, to teaching, advising and training graduate students, Soliman serves as the program director for an NIH-supported multi-million-dollar grant to support Research Center in Minority Institution. He was voted as the College of Pharmacy Outstanding Teacher of the Year in 1979; and in 1994, he received the State of Florida Teaching Incentive Award.  In 1996, Soliman received the, The State Professorial Excellence Award.  He has trained 24 Ph.D. and 22 M.S. students in Pharmacology/ Toxicology. He is considered the top producer (rank first), in the Nation, of African-American PhDs in Pharmaceutical Sciences. Among 100 Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the country, Dr. Soliman ranked number one as the most published faculty member. In February of 1996, Dr. Soliman was named 3M Distinguished Professor in recognition of his dedication to Pharmacy students as a teacher and mentor, contributing to the profession and commitment to FAMU.  In 2000, Soliman received the highest award given by the University; he was named FAMUAN of the Century.

Publications:

• Mazzio, E and KFA Soliman. D-( )-Glucose rescue against 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium toxicity through anaerobic glycolysis in neuroblastoma cells. Brain Research, 962: 48-60 (2003).
• Mazzio, E, A. Becker and KFA Soliman. Inflammation and inducible nitric oxide synthase have no effect on monoamine oxidase activity in glioma cells. Biochem Pharmacol, 15:65:1719-1927 (2003).
• Mazzio EA and KFA Soliman. Cytoprotection of pyruvic acid and reduced beta-nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide against hydrogen peroxide toxicity in neuroblastoma cells. Neurochem Res., 28(5):733-741 (2003).
• Sircar R and KFA Soliman. Effects of postnatal PCP treatment on locomotor behavior and striatal D (2) receptor. Pharmacol Biochem Behav., 74(4):943-452(2003).
• Mazzio, E and KFA Soliman. The role of glycolysis and gluconeogenesis in the cytoprotection of neuroblastoma cells against 1-methyl 4-phenylpyridinium ion toxicity. Neurotoxicology, 24(1):137-147 (2003).
• Mazzio, E and KFA Soliman Pyruvic acid cytoprotection against 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium, 6-hydroxydopamine and hydrogen peroxide toxicities in vitro. Neurosci Lett. 6; 337(2):77-80 (2003).
• Mazzio, E; KJ. Yoon and KFA. Soliman. Acetyl- -carnitine cytoprotection against 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium toxicity in neuroblastoma cells. Biochemical Pharmacology, 66: 297-306 (2003).
• Mazzio, E and KFA Soliman. Glioma cell capacity in removing generated reactive oxygen species. Journal of Applied Toxicology, 24: 99-106 (2004).

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Dr. Donald Palm
Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs
Office of the Provost
Florida A&M University
1700 Lee Hall Drive
301 Foote-Hilyer
Tallahassee, Florida  32307
(850) 599-3276
donald.palm@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Stroke; cell biology; Parkinson’s disease; pharmacology

Palm is a professor of basic pharmaceutical sciences in the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the University’s assistant vice president for Academic Affairs. In addition, to teaching, advising and training graduate students, Dr. Palm serves as FAMU’s chair for Institutes and Centers. He recently served as the program director for the Minority Biomedical Research Support Program. He is a recipient of Florida A&M University’s Risen Star Award (2003) and the University’s Exceptional Contribution in Grantsmanship Award (2002). He was voted as Florida A&M University’s Advanced Teacher of the Year in 2001 and the University’s Teacher of the Year in 1999. He has trained 5 Ph.D. and 1 M.S. students in pharmacology/toxicology.

Publications:

• Emanuel FS. Adefovir Dipivoxil: A New Agent for Active Hepatitis B Virus Infection , Pharmacy and Therapeutics Drug Forecast. 2003:1-4.
• Emanuel FS. Hypertension: A Focus on the 7th Report of the Joint National Committee on the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7), American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education. 2004;68(3).
• Emanuel FS. Pharmacotherapeutic Interventions of Pharmacy Students, Pharmacy Practice. 2007;5(2):95-98.
• Emanuel FS. At Home Device for Glucose and Cholesterol Screening, U.S. Pharmacist. 2007:1-3.
• Emanuel FS. Goal Attainment in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes, Part 1, Federal Practitioner. 2008:13-18.
• Emanuel FS. Goal Attainment in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes, Part 2, Federal Practitioner. 2008:14-25.

Dr. Karam F. A. Soliman
Distinguished Professor and Assistant Dean for Research and Graduate Studies
College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Division of Basic Sciences
Florida A&M University
104 Dyson Pharmacy Building
1520 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Tallahassee, Florida 32307
(850) 599-3306
karam.soliman@famu.edu

Karam F.A. Soliman is a distinguished professor of basic pharmaceutical sciences in the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the assistant dean for Research and Graduate Studies for the College. In addition, to teaching, advising and training graduate students, Soliman serves as the program director for an NIH-supported multi-million-dollar grant to support Research Center in Minority Institution. He was voted as the College of Pharmacy Outstanding Teacher of the Year in 1979; and in 1994, he received the State of Florida Teaching Incentive Award.  In 1996, Soliman received the, The State Professorial Excellence Award.  He has trained 24 Ph.D. and 22 M.S. students in Pharmacology/ Toxicology. He is considered the top producer (rank first), in the Nation, of African-American PhDs in Pharmaceutical Sciences. Among 100 Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the country, Dr. Soliman ranked number one as the most published faculty member. In February of 1996, Dr. Soliman was named 3M Distinguished Professor in recognition of his dedication to Pharmacy students as a teacher and mentor, contributing to the profession and commitment to FAMU.  In 2000, Soliman received the highest award given by the University; he was named FAMUAN of the Century.

Publications:

• Mazzio, E and KFA Soliman. D-( )-Glucose rescue against 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium toxicity through anaerobic glycolysis in neuroblastoma cells. Brain Research, 962: 48-60 (2003).
• Mazzio, E, A. Becker and KFA Soliman. Inflammation and inducible nitric oxide synthase have no effect on monoamine oxidase activity in glioma cells. Biochem Pharmacol, 15:65:1719-1927 (2003).
• Mazzio EA and KFA Soliman. Cytoprotection of pyruvic acid and reduced beta-nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide against hydrogen peroxide toxicity in neuroblastoma cells. Neurochem Res., 28(5):733-741 (2003).
• Sircar R and KFA Soliman. Effects of postnatal PCP treatment on locomotor behavior and striatal D (2) receptor. Pharmacol Biochem Behav., 74(4):943-452(2003).
• Mazzio, E and KFA Soliman. The role of glycolysis and gluconeogenesis in the cytoprotection of neuroblastoma cells against 1-methyl 4-phenylpyridinium ion toxicity. Neurotoxicology, 24(1):137-147 (2003).
• Mazzio, E and KFA Soliman Pyruvic acid cytoprotection against 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium, 6-hydroxydopamine and hydrogen peroxide toxicities in vitro. Neurosci Lett. 6; 337(2):77-80 (2003).
• Mazzio, E; KJ. Yoon and KFA. Soliman. Acetyl- -carnitine cytoprotection against 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium toxicity in neuroblastoma cells. Biochemical Pharmacology, 66: 297-306 (2003).
• Mazzio, E and KFA Soliman. Glioma cell capacity in removing generated reactive oxygen species. Journal of Applied Toxicology, 24: 99-106 (2004).

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Dr. Donald Palm
Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs
Office of the Provost
Florida A&M University
1700 Lee Hall Drive
301 Foote-Hilyer
Tallahassee, Florida  32307
(850) 599-3276
donald.palm@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Stroke; cell biology; Parkinson’s disease; pharmacology

Palm is a professor of basic pharmaceutical sciences in the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the University’s assistant vice president for Academic Affairs. In addition, to teaching, advising and training graduate students, Dr. Palm serves as FAMU’s chair for Institutes and Centers. He recently served as the program director for the Minority Biomedical Research Support Program. He is a recipient of Florida A&M University’s Risen Star Award (2003) and the University’s Exceptional Contribution in Grantsmanship Award (2002). He was voted as Florida A&M University’s Advanced Teacher of the Year in 2001 and the University’s Teacher of the Year in 1999. He has trained 5 Ph.D. and 1 M.S. students in pharmacology/toxicology.

Publications:

• Emanuel FS. Adefovir Dipivoxil: A New Agent for Active Hepatitis B Virus Infection , Pharmacy and Therapeutics Drug Forecast. 2003:1-4.
• Emanuel FS. Hypertension: A Focus on the 7th Report of the Joint National Committee on the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7), American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education. 2004;68(3).
• Emanuel FS. Pharmacotherapeutic Interventions of Pharmacy Students, Pharmacy Practice. 2007;5(2):95-98.
• Emanuel FS. At Home Device for Glucose and Cholesterol Screening, U.S. Pharmacist. 2007:1-3.
• Emanuel FS. Goal Attainment in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes, Part 1, Federal Practitioner. 2008:13-18.
• Emanuel FS. Goal Attainment in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes, Part 2, Federal Practitioner. 2008:14-25.

Dr. William E. Hudson, Jr.
Interim Vice President of Student Affairs
Office of Academic Affairs
Florida A&M University
104A University Commons
Tallahassee, Florida 32307
(850) 412-5790
william.hudsonjr@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Community transition; home and community based services; family and individual counseling; disability assessment and evaluation; services for students with disabilities

Hudson has extensive experience counseling students with academic, personal, and career issues.  He is a specialist in the recruitment and retention of minority students and provides consulting to small colleges and universities.  As an adjunct professor at FAMU, he educates students on rehabilitation, disability, vocational training and services, community transition, and empowerment.

Publications: 

• Hudson Jr., W. E. & Richardson, A.C. (2008).  Multifaceted approach to supporting disadvantaged students. Recruitment and Retention in Higher Education, 22 (10), 7 – 8.

LeRoy Pernell, J.D. 
Dean
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue, Suite 324
Orlando, Florida 32801
(407) 254-3204
leroy.pernell@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Criminal law; juvenile law; torts law; products liability; constitutional law

LeRoy Pernell assumed the deanship of the Florida A&M University College of Law in January 2008. For 10 years, he served as law dean at Northern Illinois University (NIU). Under his leadership, the NIU law school was recognized nationally for its diversity efforts. He also oversaw the expansion of technology into the classroom, the establishment of the clinical educational program and the opening of the Zeke Giorgi Legal Clinic in Rockford, Illinois.

Pernell earned his bachelor’s degree in government from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1971, and received his Juris Doctor from The Ohio State University College of Law in 1974. He was of counsel with the firm Otto Beatty & Associates in Columbus Ohio.

In 1992, U.S. Congressman John Conyers (Michigan) appointed him as the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Criminal Justice Brain Trust’s subcommittee on Juvenile Justice. He also served as a member of the Ohio Governor’s Commission on African American Males and the Governor’s Council on Juvenile Justice. He has also testified before the Criminal Justice Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Dean Pernell has written law review articles in the areas of criminal procedure, juvenile justice, personal injury and sports law, and authored the Civil Procedure Forms Supplement for West Ohio Practice from 1978 to 1986. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and past-trustee of the Law School Admissions Council.

Publications:

• “Reflecting on the Dream of the Marathon Man: Black Dean Longevity and its Impact on Opportunity and Diversity”, 38 Toledo Law Review 571 (2007)
• “Deans of Color Speak Out: Unique Voice in a Unique Role”, 20 Boston College Third World Law Journal 43 (2000)
• “In Memoriam: Rodolphe Jean Alexander De Seife” (with Daniel Reynolds), 19 Northern Illinois University Law Review (1999)
• “A Commentary on Professor Goplerud’s Article, “NCAA Enforcement Process: A Call for Procedural Fairness””, 20 Capital University Law Review. 561 (1991)
• “Suffering The Children: 35 Years of Suspension, Expulsion and Beatings – The Price of Desegregation” 7 Harvard Blackletter Journal 119 (1990)
• “Drug Testing of Student Athletes: Some Contract and Tort Implications” 67 Denver University Law Review 279 (1990)
• “Reign of the Queen of Hearts: The Declining Significance of the Presumption of Innocence – A Brief Commentary” 37 Cleveland State Law Review 393 (lead article) (1990)
• “Random Drug Testing of Student Athletes by State Universities in the Wake of Von Raab and Skinner,” 1 Marquette Sports Law Journal 41 (1990)

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Jeremy I. Levitt, J.D. 
Associate Dean and Director of the Center for International Law and Justice
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue, Suite 324
Orlando, Florida 32801
(407) 254-3248
jeremy.levitt@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Human rights law; African politics; democratization; state dynamics; regional collective security

Dean Levitt is a public international lawyer and political scientist  He is the author or editor of four books and numerous law review articles. Prior to entering law teaching, he served as special assistant to the managing director for Global Human and Social Development at the World Bank Group. He was recently appointed as senior member of the International Technical Assistance Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the President of the Republic of Liberia, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa’s first democratically-elected female head of state.  He holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Cambridge-St. Johns College; a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and B.A., political science in Arizona State University.

Publications:
Books

• HURRICANE KATRINA: AMERICA’S UNNATURAL DISASTER, (eds.) (University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln: 2009).
• AFRICA: MAPPING NEW BOUNDARIES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW, (eds.) (Hart Publishers, Oxford, UK: 2008).
• THE EVOLUTION OF DEADLY CONFLICT IN LIBERIA: FROM ‘PATERNALTARIANISM’ TO STATE COLLAPSE (Carolina Academic Press: Durham, North Carolina 2005).
• AFRICA: SELECTED DOCUMENTS ON POLITICAL, CONFLICT AND SECURITY, HUMANITARIAN AND JUDICIAL ISSUES, (eds.) (Transnational     Publishers Ardsley, NY:  2003).

Articles

• UN Peacekeeping: A Sheep in Wolves Clothing?, Review of UN PEACEKEEPING IN LEBANON, SOMALIA AND KOSOVO: OPERATIONAL AND LEGAL ISSUES IN PRACTICE by Ray Murphy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. International Peacekeeping Journal, Vol. 17 (Spring 2010). Peer Reviewed.
• “Peace and or Justice: The Dilemma of Power-sharing”, African Legal Aid Quarterly, (published lecture), Conference: Interface Between Peace and International Justice in Africa, July-December 2007.
• “Pro-Democratic Intervention in Africa”, Wisconsin Journal of International Law, Vol. 25 No. 1 (Summer 2006).
• “Illegal Peace?: Examining the Legality of Power-sharing with Warlords and Rebels in Africa”, Michigan Journal of International Law, Vol. 27 No.2 (Winter 2006).

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Darryll K. Jones
Professor
Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and Professor of Law
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue
Orlando, Florida  32801
(407) 254-3202

Area of expertise: Federal income tax; partnership tax; tax exempt organizations

He is currently on leave of absence from Stetson University College of Law, where he is a tenured full professor teaching Federal Income Tax, Partnership Tax, and the Taxation of Exempt Organizations. He received his LLM (Tax) and JD degrees from the University of Florida. From 1993 to 2006 he taught at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law where he also served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2003 until 2006. Dean Jones is the author of The Theory and Practice of Partnership Taxation 2nd Edition, published by Thomson-West and is lead co-author of The Taxation of Charities and Other Exempt Organizations, 2nd Edition, also published by Thomson-West.   His scholarship on federal taxation has appeared in the Florida Tax Review, the Virginia Tax Review, Brigham Young University Law Review, the University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business and several other publications. Dean Jones has been consulted by members of Congress, including the Senate Finance Committee, the House Ways and Means Committee, staff to the Joint Committee on Taxation, and the Internal Revenue Service on issues relating to individual income tax, partnership tax, and the tax laws of exempt organizations.

Publications:

• The Taxation of Profit Interests and the Reverse Mancur Olson Phenomenon, 36 Capital University Law Review (2009).
• Third Party Profit-Taking In Tax Exemption Jurisprudence, 2007 Brigham Young University Law Review 977 (Fall 2007).
• Towards Equity and Efficiency In Partnership Allocations, 25 Virginia Tax Review 1047 (2006).
• Special Allocations and Preferential Distributions in Joint Ventures Involving Taxable and Tax Exempt Entities, 31 Ohio Northern Law Review 13 (2005).
• Semantics and Substance in Partnership Mergers, 104 Tax Notes 1523 (2004).
• The Neglected Role of International Altruistic Investment in the Chinese Transition Economy, 36 George Washington International Law Review 71 (2003).
• Some Hard Thinking and Harder Realities Regarding Joint Ventures, 36 Exempt Organizations Tax Review 177 (2002).
• “First Bite” And The Private Benefit Doctrine: A Comment on Temporary and Proposed Regulation 53.4958-4T(a)(3), 62 Pittsburgh L. Review 715 (2001).

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Eric Hull
Professor
Legal Writing Instructor
Florida A&M University
College of Law
201 Beggs Avenue
Orlando, Florida 32801
(407) 254-4029
eric.hull@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Environmental and maritime law

Prior to joining FAMU, Professor Hull was an assistant professor in the department of criminal justice and legal studies at the University of Central Florida and an adjunct professor at Barry University School of Law, both in Orlando. He has published on environmental and maritime law topics, with emphasis on the impact of pollution on human health and the environment. His most recent articles have appeared in the Temple Law Review and the University of San Francisco Maritime Law Journal. Prior to entering academia, Professor Hull was an associate with Swartz Campbell, LLC, and served as judicial law clerk for the Honorable Earle W. Peterson, Jr. and for the Honorable C. Alan Lawson at Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeal. He also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Liberia, West Africa. Professor Hull has taught courses in environmental law, climate change law and policy, and legal methods. He holds a J.D. from Barry University, where he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Barry Law Review, an M.S. in Coastal Zone Management and an M.S. in Marine Biology from Nova Southeastern University in Dania, Florida, and a B.S. in Biology from Providence College in Rhode Island. Currently, he is pursuing an LL.M. degree in Environmental and Land Use Law at the University of Florida, Levin College of Law (anticipated completion Summer 2010).

Publications:

• Missing the Boat on Protecting Human Health and the Environment:  A Re-evaluation of the EPA’s Emissions Policy on Large Ocean-Going Vessels, 81 Temp. L. Rev. 4 (2009).
• Through the Looking Glass:  Judicial Interpretation of Vessel Status Leaves Injured Workers Adrift in Uncharted Territory, 16 U.S.F. Mar. L.J. 321 (Spring 2004).
• Soiling the Sea:  The Solution to Pollution is Still Dilution – A Re-evaluation of the Efficacy of 40 C.F.R.§ 122.3 and Annex IV of MARPOL, 3 Barry L. Rev. 61 (2002).

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Randall Abate
College of Law
randall.abate@famu.edu

Area of expertise: 
Teaches courses in environmental law, international and comparative law and constitutional law. He has published widely on environment law topics with a recent emphasis on climate change law and policy.

Dr. Karam F. A. Soliman
Distinguished Professor and Assistant Dean for Research and Graduate Studies
College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Division of Basic Sciences
Florida A&M University
104 Dyson Pharmacy Building
1520 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Tallahassee, Florida 32307
(850) 599-3306
karam.soliman@famu.edu

Karam F.A. Soliman is a distinguished professor of basic pharmaceutical sciences in the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the assistant dean for Research and Graduate Studies for the College. In addition, to teaching, advising and training graduate students, Soliman serves as the program director for an NIH-supported multi-million-dollar grant to support Research Center in Minority Institution. He was voted as the College of Pharmacy Outstanding Teacher of the Year in 1979; and in 1994, he received the State of Florida Teaching Incentive Award.  In 1996, Soliman received the, The State Professorial Excellence Award.  He has trained 24 Ph.D. and 22 M.S. students in Pharmacology/ Toxicology. He is considered the top producer (rank first), in the Nation, of African-American PhDs in Pharmaceutical Sciences. Among 100 Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the country, Dr. Soliman ranked number one as the most published faculty member. In February of 1996, Dr. Soliman was named 3M Distinguished Professor in recognition of his dedication to Pharmacy students as a teacher and mentor, contributing to the profession and commitment to FAMU.  In 2000, Soliman received the highest award given by the University; he was named FAMUAN of the Century.

Publications:

• Mazzio, E and KFA Soliman. D-( )-Glucose rescue against 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium toxicity through anaerobic glycolysis in neuroblastoma cells. Brain Research, 962: 48-60 (2003).
• Mazzio, E, A. Becker and KFA Soliman. Inflammation and inducible nitric oxide synthase have no effect on monoamine oxidase activity in glioma cells. Biochem Pharmacol, 15:65:1719-1927 (2003).
• Mazzio EA and KFA Soliman. Cytoprotection of pyruvic acid and reduced beta-nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide against hydrogen peroxide toxicity in neuroblastoma cells. Neurochem Res., 28(5):733-741 (2003).
• Sircar R and KFA Soliman. Effects of postnatal PCP treatment on locomotor behavior and striatal D (2) receptor. Pharmacol Biochem Behav., 74(4):943-452(2003).
• Mazzio, E and KFA Soliman. The role of glycolysis and gluconeogenesis in the cytoprotection of neuroblastoma cells against 1-methyl 4-phenylpyridinium ion toxicity. Neurotoxicology, 24(1):137-147 (2003).
• Mazzio, E and KFA Soliman Pyruvic acid cytoprotection against 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium, 6-hydroxydopamine and hydrogen peroxide toxicities in vitro. Neurosci Lett. 6; 337(2):77-80 (2003).
• Mazzio, E; KJ. Yoon and KFA. Soliman. Acetyl- -carnitine cytoprotection against 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium toxicity in neuroblastoma cells. Biochemical Pharmacology, 66: 297-306 (2003).
• Mazzio, E and KFA Soliman. Glioma cell capacity in removing generated reactive oxygen species. Journal of Applied Toxicology, 24: 99-106 (2004).

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Dr. Donald Palm
Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs
Office of the Provost
Florida A&M University
1700 Lee Hall Drive
301 Foote-Hilyer
Tallahassee, Florida  32307
(850) 599-3276
donald.palm@famu.edu

Area of expertise: Stroke; cell biology; Parkinson’s disease; pharmacology

Palm is a professor of basic pharmaceutical sciences in the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the University’s assistant vice president for Academic Affairs. In addition, to teaching, advising and training graduate students, Dr. Palm serves as FAMU’s chair for Institutes and Centers. He recently served as the program director for the Minority Biomedical Research Support Program. He is a recipient of Florida A&M University’s Risen Star Award (2003) and the University’s Exceptional Contribution in Grantsmanship Award (2002). He was voted as Florida A&M University’s Advanced Teacher of the Year in 2001 and the University’s Teacher of the Year in 1999. He has trained 5 Ph.D. and 1 M.S. students in pharmacology/toxicology.

Publications:

• Emanuel FS. Adefovir Dipivoxil: A New Agent for Active Hepatitis B Virus Infection , Pharmacy and Therapeutics Drug Forecast. 2003:1-4.
• Emanuel FS. Hypertension: A Focus on the 7th Report of the Joint National Committee on the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7), American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education. 2004;68(3).
• Emanuel FS. Pharmacotherapeutic Interventions of Pharmacy Students, Pharmacy Practice. 2007;5(2):95-98.
• Emanuel FS. At Home Device for Glucose and Cholesterol Screening, U.S. Pharmacist. 2007:1-3.
• Emanuel FS. Goal Attainment in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes, Part 1, Federal Practitioner. 2008:13-18.
• Emanuel FS. Goal Attainment in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes, Part 2, Federal Practitioner. 2008:14-25.