Shawn Shepard

Professor Shepard graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in English and cum laude with a J.D. from Florida State University.  She served as the Executive Editor of the Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law and as a member of the Florida State University Law Review.  Following law school, Professor Shepard clerked for the Honorable Barry J. Stone of the Fourth District Court of Appeal in Florida. She spent eight years in private practice focusing on business law and commercial and real estate transactions.

Professor Shepard is the author of Exacting Public Beach Access: The Viability of Permit Conditions and Florida’s State Beach Access Laws after Dolan v. City of Tigard, which appeared in the Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law, and Abrogating the Doctrine of Necessaries in Florida: The Future of Spousal Liability for Necessary Expenses after Connor v. Southwest Florida Regional Medical Center, Inc., which appeared in the Florida State University Law Review.