ERIN RYAN
Atkinson Professor and Associate Dean for Environmental Programs
Florida State University College of Law

Professor Ryan is a respected scholar of environmental law, property, negotiation, federalism, and collaborative governance.  She presents widely in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, and has served as a fellow at the Harvard Negotiation Research Project, a Fulbright scholar in China, and a research fellow at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich.  After graduating from Harvard Law School, she clerked on the Ninth Circuit before practicing land use law in San Francisco.  Before law school, she was a U.S Forest Service ranger east of Yosemite National Park.

LAUREN SCHOLZ
McConnaughhay and Rissman Professor
Florida State University College of Law

Professor Scholz joined the College of Law in 2017. Before coming to FSU, she was a fellow at the Project on the Foundations of Private Law and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, both at Harvard Law School. She was also a fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project. Before entering academia, Scholz was a law clerk for the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts and the Center for Democracy and Technology. Her research interests include contracts, torts, commercial law, information privacy and intellectual property.

JOANNA BELL
Associate Professor, Jeffrey Hackney Fellow and Tutor in Law
St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford

Joanna Bell teaches Administrative Law, Constitutional Law and Tort for the college, as well as Environmental Law for the Faculty. Previously, she spent a number of years as a college associate lecturer at St. John’s College, University of Cambridge and as an affiliated lecturer at the Cambridge Law Faculty. In earlier years, she was a student at the University of Oxford and graduated with a B.A. in law from Keble College, sharing the Wronker Prize for best overall performance in FHS examinations. She then read for the BCL (obtaining a distinction) and the DPhil in administrative law.

JEFFREY HACKNEY
Emeritus Fellow and Lecturer
Wadham College, University of Oxford

Jeffrey Hackney holds M.A. and B.C.L. degrees from Oxford where he was a Vinerian Scholar. He is a member of Middle Temple and a senior Oxford faculty member, having served as fellow and tutor in law at St. Edmund Hall from 1964 to 1976, and as fellow and tutor in law at Wadham College until his retirement in 2009. He is now an emeritus fellow of both colleges and continues to teach in the Faculty. Hackney's special interests are legal history, Roman law, land law and equity.