“With Florida joining 30 states that have legalized marijuana for medicinal use and mounting efforts to sanction its recreational use, we’re pleased to help develop skilled legal counsel that is needed to understand and help shape state and federal regulations in this fast-growing market,” explains LeRoy Pernell, FAMU Law interim dean and professor of law.
The Fall 2018 semester is gearing up to equip students with a 14-week Marijuana Law and Policy Seminar taught by Professor Jennifer Smith. Her course will take an in-depth look at competing approaches to regulating marijuana, rationales behind these approaches, legal authority viewpoints, and understanding marijuana law as a civil rights issue.
Adjunct Professor and 2013 FAMU Law graduate Tamieka Range taught Cannabis Law and Social Justice during the Summer 2018 semester, marking the first occasion such a course was taught at a Florida law school.
Other cutting-edge courses taught at FAMU Law by Professor Smith have included: Electronic Discovery, where students were introduced to preservation, search, metadata, and forms of production, touching upon the issues that confront the use of digital data in litigation. She also taught new approaches in Health Care Law, an exploration of a topics in the health care field, such as: treatment, relationship, liability, professional licensure, right to die, reproductive rights, health care insurance, and regulation of health care facilities and transactions.