News Release
UDM School of Law Announces Urban Farming Symposium - May 20. 2011
The University of Detroit Mercy School of Law is co-sponsoring an Urban Farming Symposium on Friday, May 20, 2011, from 8:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. along with the Real Property Law Section of State Bar of Michigan. Professor Jacqueline Hand, a tenured professor at the School teaching Property Law and Environmental Law, is co-chairing the event with Gregory J. Gamalski (UDM Law, 1983), a partner in the Business Practice Group of Giarmarco, Mullins & Horton, PC, in Troy, Michigan, and Paul Thursam, an associate at GMH. The Symposium will benefit from a generous in-kind contribution by the United Auto Workers which has donated use of the UAW-GM Riverfront Joint Training Center on Atwater Street along the Detroit Riverwalk for the Symposium.
Law School Dean Lloyd Semple remarked, “This is the third Symposium the School of Law has sponsored this year. This Symposium in particular shows the School of Law’s continuing commitment as a leader in legal education in the state and metropolitan Detroit area.” The Symposium is a discussion and examination of key urban issues, which must include urban agriculture and the re-purposing of Detroit.
The Symposium will be open to the public but focused on the legal community and planning organizations. Detroit is a laboratory where urban farming is fermenting, evolving, and growing. The Symposium is intended to establish a reasoned framework for discussions about the legal and policy issues that should be considered by local units of government and citizens grappling with this dynamic concept.
Professor Daniel Pitera of the University’s Detroit Collaborative Design Center in the School of Architecture will be one of the featured speakers, discussing his work on Recovery Park, a proposed urban farm in the City of Detroit.
For additional information or to register for the event, please see the link on the home page of the UDM Law web site at www.law.udmercy.edu. Space is limited and reservations are required ($50 general admission and $25 for students).
Contact: Denise P. Hickey, Assistant Dean of Alumni Relations
Phone: (313) 596-0202
E-mail: hickeydp@udmercy.edu
Release date: April 14, 2011
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The University of Detroit Mercy is Michigan's largest private Catholic University, offering approximately 100 majors and programs in 60 academic fields. Sponsored by the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) and the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, the University has three campuses located in downtown and northwest Detroit.
For the 12th consecutive year, UDM was ranked among the top tier of Midwestern master's universities in U.S.News & World Report's "Best Colleges," 2013 edition.
