Treatise Committee

Leadership

Jaclyn Lopez, Esq.
Chair

Purpose
To oversee the publication, content, and quality of new and updated articles of the ELULS Treatise.

Duties/Responsibilities

1. Evaluate the overall content and organization of the Treatise annually, reviewing odd- numbered chapters on odd-numbered years, and even-numbered chapters on even- numbered years.
2. Issue a call to authors to ELULS members within a month following the closure of the Florida legislative session for new articles and article updates.
3. Oversee the selection and performance review of new and current Treatise authors.
4. Complete periodic review of the Section website to ensure content and Committee
   information is accurate and up to date.
5. Issue an announcement, i.e. via website, social media, or email, whenever an article is
   published.
6. Prepare status reports for ELULS Executive Council meetings and as needed.
7. Operate within budgetary parameters to ensure appropriate Section income and
   expenditures related to the Section’s Treatise.
8. Evaluate and identify new Committee goals or revisions to Committee goals every August (or within a month of the annual ELULS meeting)

Goals

1. Maintain the ELULS Treatise as the predominant and affordable general reference authority on environmental and land use law in Florida.
2. Develop and implement a written process for selecting and evaluating Treatise editors
   including, but no limited to, defining roles of editors, recruiting editors, and supervising editors.
3. Develop and implement a written process or selecting and evaluating Treatise authors
   including, but not limited to, defining roles of authors, recruiting authors, and establishing
   deadlines.
4. Develop and implement a written process for soliciting content updates to articles from authors.
5. Identify alternate means of promotion and distribution of the Treatise to promote the
   content and authorship, including exploring law firm and law school involvement.
6. Establish publication of the Treatise on legal research platforms such as Westlaw and
   LexisNexis and develop and implement a written process for updating Treatise content on such platforms.
7. Establish and enforce a schedule for publishing articles, including a timeframe for review.
8. Establish and disseminate article guidelines regarding content and format.