Elizabeth C. and Clyde W. Atkinson Professor, and associate dean of Environmental Programs, College of Law
Ryan specializes in environmental governance and environmental, water, property and land use law. She is a prolific legal scholar who presents widely in the United States, Europe and Asia, and she appears regularly in news media. A former U.S. Forest Service ranger, she was a Fellow at the Harvard Negotiation Research Project, a Fulbright Scholar in China, and a Research Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich.
Contact Information
Email: ERyan@law.fsu.edu
Environment
“After 20 years of debate and 36 straight hours of intense final negotiations, 193 nations of the world produced a landmark U.N. agreement to protect natural resources in the two-thirds of the world’s oceans that lie outside of national jurisdiction. The High Seas Treaty creates a critical framework to fill legal holes left open by the UN Conventions on the Law of the Sea and on Biological Diversity — but now the member nations must figure out how to implement it.”