Margaret Stewart

Environmental Law, Earth Law, Human Rights, Public Interest

Courses Taught:
Environmental Law, Earth Jurisprudence Survey, Environmental Justice, Seminar, Environmental Law, Justice, and Jurisprudence, Florida Bar Essay; Environmental and Earth Law Clinic; Advanced Environmental and Earth Law Clinic 

Margaret is the Director of the Environmental and Earth Law Clinic at Barry Law. She also serves as the Faculty Advisor at the Center for Earth Jurisprudence (CEJ). She advises on CEJ's programs and operations and has created educational forums throughout the United States and abroad. She also serves as the key Advisor to Barry University law students through the Earth Law & Policy Fellowship.

Margaret formerly served on the Executive Committee and chaired the Legal Committee of the Florida Springs Council. She is on the Executive Committee of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN), a network of organizations and individuals committed to the universal adoption and implementation of legal systems that recognize, respect and enforce “Rights of Nature” and to make the idea of Rights of Nature an idea whose time has come. She currently facilitates the GARN Legal Hub, a global connection of legal experts in the areas of Earth law and environmental justice. At Barry University, she serves on the Laudato Si’ Committee, the Adrian Dominican Institute Roundtable (ADIR), and as an Inclusive Teaching and Learning Consultant through the Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) office.

Margaret is a contributing author to the first ever Earth Law textbook, Earth Law: Emerging Ecocentric Law: A Guide for Practitioners and has written on the intersection of Earth law and environmental justice.

She earned her undergraduate degree in Political Science from Randolph-Macon Woman's College, her Masters in Non-Profit & Human Resources Management from Penn State University, her Juris Doctor from Barry University School of Law, and her LL.M. from Western New England School of Law. While in law school, Margaret earned her Environmental Law Honors Certificate and worked two semesters in the Environmental and Earth Law Clinic. She now lectures on Earth Jurisprudence and Earth Law at Barry and around the world.

Recent Publications:
Diaz, Leticia M. and Stewart, Margaret R., “Forever Chemicals”: Forever Altering the Legal Landscape (2020). BELMONT LAW REVIEW, VOL. 7, ISSUE 2, pp. 308-342.

Earth Law: Emerging Ecocentric Law - A Practitioner's Guide, Anthony R. Zelle, Grant Wilson, Rachelle Adam, Herman F. Greene, Wolters Kluwer Law & Business (2020).