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As one of the 50 states in the United States of America, Florida hosts
10 law schools that have national reputation. Check
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and counties in the state of Florida. By clicking on links to each
city, you can find high schools, colleges, and universities within
Florida.
Joint degrees awarded: J.D./M.A. Human Resource Development
Student activities: Various student organizations are available to
students such as Hispanic Law Student Association, Black Law Student
Association, ADR, Student Trial Team and many more. Students also
have the opportunity to grade on to Law Review or Moot Court.
Students who do not grade on have an opportunity to write on to law
review or moot onto Moot Court during their second year.
Address: 6441 East Colonial Drive, Orlando, FL 32807
Joint degrees awarded: N/A
Student activities: The FAMU Law Review is published annually. The
College of Law sponsors ten (10) practice skills competitions, five
(5) moot court competitions, two (2) mock trial competitions, and
the ABA Client Counseling, Negotiation and Arbitration Competitions.
There are nine (9) recognized student organizations in addition to
the Student Bar Associations.
Address: 201 Beggs Ave, Orlando, FL 32801
Joint degrees awarded: N/A
Student activities: FCSL students publish the Florida Coastal Law
Review twice a year. The school also fields teams in numerous moot
court and mock trial competitions. The student body is represented
by a Student Bar Legislature elected by the students. There are also
a host of other student organizations, including but not limited to
BLSA, HALSA, PAD, and ATLA.
Address: 8787 Baypine Road, Jacksonville, FL 32256
Joint degrees awarded: J.D./Master of Business Administration;
J.D./Master of Social Work; J.D./M.A. Latin Am.Caribbean Studies;
J.D./M.A. International Business; J.D./Master Public Administration;
J.D./Master Science in Psychology; J.D./M.S. Criminal Justice;
J.D./M.S. Environmental Studies
Student activities: The FIU College of Law sponsors a
student-edited law journal publishing articles of interest to
lawyers, judges, and academics. Membership on the Law Review is
primarily based on a writing competition open to full-time and
part-time students. Students may try-out for one of numerous
regional or national moot court competitions sponsored by the
College of Law.
Address: 11200 S.W. 8th Street, RDB 2015, Miami, FL 33199
Joint degrees awarded: J.D./M.B.A.; J.D./M.S. International
Affairs; J.D./M.P.A.; J.D./M.S. Economics; J.D./M.URP.; J.D./M.S.W.;
J.D./M.S. Library & Information Science
Student activities: Florida State Law students can earn academic
credit for participating in the school's three student-edited
journals and nationally recognized trial and appellate advocacy
teams. Students can also join a wide variety of social and
professional student organizations like the Women's Law Symposium,
the Dispute Resolution Society, BLSA, SALSA, and OUTLaw.
Address: 425 W. Jefferson Street, Tallahassee, FL 32306
Joint degrees awarded: J.D./M.B.A.; J.D./M.S. Computers; J.D./M.S.
Psychology; J.D./M.S. Dispute Resolution; J.D./M.URP.
Student activities: Students participate in three law reviews:
Nova Law Review, ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law,
and International Citator. Students enter interscholastic
competitions through Moot Court Board and ATLA. There is a wide
array of subject area and affinity organizations in addition to the
Student Bar Association.
Address: 3305 College Ave, Davie, FL 33314
Joint degrees awarded: J.D./M.B.A. Accounting; J.D./M.B.A.
International Business; J.D./M.B.A. Sports Administration; J.D./M.S.
Marriage and Family Counseling; J.D./M.S. Sports Administration
Student activities: STU Law Review; Moot Court; Internatl Moot
Court; Mock Trial Competition. Student Bar Assn, ABA/LSD, ATLA,
APALSA, BLSA, Business Law Society, Federalist Society; FL Assn of
Women Lawyers; Government Law Society; Hispanic American Law
Society; Internatl Law Society; Peter T. Fay Inns of Court; Plead
the Fifth student newspaper; Catholic Law Society; Natl Jewish Law
Students Assn; Tax Law Society.
Address: 1000 Lasalle Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55403
Joint degrees awarded: J.D./M.B.A.; J.D./M.P.H; J.D./M.D.
Student activities: Trial team, moot court, and ADR boards;
Stetson Law Review, Journal of International Aging Law and Policy,
and Journal of International Wildlife and Policy. More national and
regional ABA Law Student Division officers in past five years than
other schools. Over 40 student organizations. Leadership Development
Program.
Address: 1401 61st St. S., Gulfport, FL 33707
Joint degrees awarded: J.D./M.S. Accounting; J.D./M.B.A.;
J.D./M.S. or Ph.D. Political Science; J.D./M.D.; J.D./M.S. or Ph.D.
Sociology; J.D./M.A. or Ph.D. Mass Communication; J.D./M.A. or Ph.D.
History; J.D./Ph.D. Education Leadership; J.D./M.S. Urban Planning;
J.D./Ph.D. Psychology; J.D./M.A. Real Estate; J.D./M.B.A. Finance;
J.D./M.S. Sports Management; J.D./M.S. Forest Conservation;
J.D./M.A. Women's Studies; J.D./M.A. or Ph.D. Anthropology;
J.D./M.S. Environmental Engineering; J.D./M.A. Latin American
Studies; J.D./M.A. or Ph.D. Medical Science; J.D./M.A. Public
Administration; J.D./D.V.M.; J.D./M.S. Family, Youth & Comm.
Services; J.D./M.S. Electrical & Computer Engineer; J.D./M.S. Public
Health; J.D./M.A. International Relations; J.D./M.S. or Ph.D.
Building Construction; J.D./M.S. Exercise and Sport Sciences;
J.D./M.A. or Ph.D. History; J.D./M.S. Natural Resources
Student activities: The college has four student journals: The
Florida Law Review, Florida Journal of International Law, Journal of
Law and Public Policy, and Journal of Law and Technology. It
sponsors numerous moot court (both international and domestic) and
trial advocacy teams. There also are many extracurricular student
organizations.
Address: 309 Village Drive, Gainesville, FL 32611
Joint degrees awarded: J.D./M.B.A.; J.D./M.A.; J.D./LLM-TAX
Student activities: Student activities: include governance
organizations like SBA and Honor Council; over 40 student
organizations based on specific legal issues, common affinity or
heritage; award winning mock trial and negotiations competitions
including international; 5 law reviews; student newspaper; many
conferences and symposia organized by students; community events.
For more information visit www.law.miami.edu
Address: 1311 Miller Drive, Coral Gables, FL
33146 Before you can study in any of the above 10
law programs in Florida, you will need to take the Law School
Admissions Test. The exam dates throughout the year are
also provided on the site.
Florida Overview
Florida, a state of the Southeastern
United States, 151,670 km2; 19.1
million including 16% black and 22.5% Hispanics (Spanish)
(2011). The capital is Tallahassee (181,400 residents;
2010). Enlisted in the Union in 1845 as the 27th
State. Nickname The Sunshine State.
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Population
Florida belongs in the 1900s. to among the fastest growing states
in the United States. Growth set in after the multimillionaires
Henry Flagler and Henry Plant in the 1880s expanded the previously
almost human coastal areas of the South with railroads and
hotels. In the wake of major road construction and giant land
acquisitions, later known as the Florida Land Boom,
the influx became even greater in the years following World War I,
while the last major immigration wave set in the 1950s.
With few exceptions, there have been most migrants from the US
northeast coast in all the years, while immigrants and refugees from
Latin America and other parts of the world have only become
important since the 1960s; this is especially true of Cubans who, in
large numbers, applied to the Miami area after the Cuban Revolution
in 1959. Among the white immigrants, there has long been a
persuasion of retirees, as evidenced by the fact that the proportion
of older people is greater than in any other state; 18% of the
population is 65 years or older. Most retirees belong to the
affluent middle class and live in more or less isolated retirement
towns near attractive resorts; others live in so-called mobile
homes, whose numbers have been rising rapidly and now make up
as much as 10% of Florida's housing stock. Average income measured
as GDP per share. inb. is among the highest in the United
States; yet 13% of the population has income below the official
poverty line. Among the poor, there is an overwhelming number of
Spanish-speaking immigrants as well as descendants of the many
blacks of slavery, who in the mid-1800s. amounted to approx. half
the population. To this must be added a poor minority of
approx. 1500 Seminole Indians living in reserves in the southern
swamp areas.
Apart from a significant rural population in the border areas of
neighboring Georgia and Alabama, the population is concentrated in
large urban areas along the coasts and around Orlando on Highway 4
between Tampa and Daytona Beach. The largest agglomerations (metropolitan
areas) are Miami-Fort Lauderdale in the SE (3.2 million inc.)
And Tampa-St. Petersburg in the west (2.1 million inlbs).
Industries
With over 40 million visitors a year, tourism industry one
of Florida's most important sources of income. The cause must be
sought in the climate and the sought after beaches, but also due to
effective marketing combined with good air and highway connections
as well as the construction of a large number of amusement centers,
hotels, marinas, etc. The main attractions include Disneyworld
and Epcot at Orlando, Kennedy Space Center at Cape
Canaveral and Everglades National Park in the south. Another key
factor in Florida's economy is the aerospace industry,
which, after federal billion investments in the 1960s, centered
around the Space Coast at Cape Canaveral and later
spread to the entire coast between Daytona Beach and Fort
Lauderdale. In part, a significant high-tech industry (especially
around Tampa - St. Petersburg) has emerged, while the rest of the
processing sector utilizes almost exclusively local raw materials
and agricultural products. Examples include the paper industry
near Jacksonville in the NE, based on pine from the northern
woodlands, the fertilizer industry around large phosphate deposits
in central and western Florida (75% of US phosphate production comes
from this), and the citrus industry, which includes the cultivation,
processing and sale of oranges, lemons, grapefruit, etc. The citrus
production that most commonly in the form of frozen concentrates,
are among the world's largest, but in addition, Florida also has a
large production of sugar cane, vegetables, beef, corn, soybeans and
peanuts.
The majority of agriculture, and in particular the citrus
industry, is dominated by large agribusiness companies
that, in addition to employing many low-wage harvest workers, are
characterized by a high degree of mechanization. Another
characteristic is the high harvest yields, which are due to the
extensive use of irrigation and a record consumption of fertilizers,
averaging 3.5 t per day. ha.
Other significant industries are linked to the service sector,
including: law, insurance and banking. Add to this a sizable
earnings from the illicit drug trafficking in the Miami area.
Climate and nature
Most of Florida has a uniform climate with hot summers (July
27-28 ° C), warm winters (January 13-19 ° C) and high rainfall,
especially in summer (annual average 1000-1600 mm). Due. differences
in winter temperature have a gradual transition from subtropical
climate in the north to tropical climate in the south, but even in
the southernmost regions, apart from the islands of Florida Keys,
frosts and snowfall can sometimes occur, which at times cost dearly
in destroyed crops. Other, and in many cases far more serious,
devastation is due to tropical whirlwinds (hurricanes) that
hit coastal areas 3-5 times a year from June to November.
The subsurface consists mainly of porous, water-containing
limestone layers, which in some places reach the surface and several
places form artesian springs. The landscape appears as a
large, low-lying plain with a small hillside terrain in the central
interior and highest parts of approx. 100 m in the northern
border. Forests cover approx. 50% of the area, of which the majority
in the north, while savannah and wetlands (lakes, swamps
and mangroves) previously covered almost the entire peninsula south
of Orlando. Since the late 1800s. is about 1/3 of
natural areas, however, lost to roads, cities and agriculture etc.
Worst, it has gone beyond the Everglades south of the
1800-km- 2 large lake, Lake Okeechobee, where former
swamp areas have been drained and redone. vegetable cultivation,
while other areas are heavily polluted and are in danger of drying
out, as a large part of the northern water supply is now being
directed to cities and agriculture. In an attempt to save the unique
nature, the Everglades National Park was created in 1947, and new
environmental laws later succeeded in curbing further canal and
highway construction.
History
Although Florida is the place in the United States where European
presence first emerged, it is the "Spanish" mark of recent date and
mediated through Latin America. The coast was explored by Spanish
explorers in the first half of the 1500s, and in 1565 Saint
Augustine, the oldest preserved city in the United States, was
constructed. Read more about Florida's history.
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