The Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review Conference
Environmental Law Institute and Vanderbilt University Law School

April 11, 2008
9:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

2105 Rayburn House Office Building, Capitol Hill

AUDIO PROCEEDINGS (Click Session Titles to Listen)

Welcome

• Christopher A. Bowles, Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Law and Policy
  Annual Review
• Linda K. Breggin, Senior Attorney, Environmental Law Institute
• Scott E. Schang, Vice President, Publications and Associates, Environmental
  Law Institute
• Michael P. Vandenbergh, Professor, Vanderbilt University Law School

A Framework Convention for Nanotechnology?

• Kenneth W. Abbott, Professor of Law, Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished
  Research Scholar, Arizona State University (co-author with Gary E. Marchant
  and Douglas J. Sylvester, Professors of Law and Faculty Fellows at Arizona
  State University)
  
• Commenters:
  
  • Lynn L. Bergeson, Managing Director, Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.
    
  • Dr. Brent Blackwelder, President, Friends of the Earth
    
  • David W. Rejeski, Director, Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, the
    Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
    
  • Student moderator: T. Nikki Powell
    

Trading Species: A New Direction for Habitat Trading Program

• Jonathan R. Nash, Robert C. Cudd Professor of Law, Tulane University
  School of Law, Visiting Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
  
• Commenters:
  
• Virginia S. Albrecht, Partner, Hunton & Williams
  
• Michael J. Bean, Wildlife Program Chairman, Environmental Defense
  
• Student moderator: Bailey Spaulding

Brown Bag Lunch/Welcome by Leslie A. Carothers, President, Environmental
Law Institute

Of Montreal and Kyoto: A Tale of Two Protocols

• Cass R. Sunstein, Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of
  Jurisprudence, Law School and Department of Political Science, University of
  Chicago
  
• Commenters:
  
  • Jeffrey R. Holmstead, Head of Environmental Strategy Section, Bracewell &
    Giuliani; Former Assistant Administrator for Air, US Environmental
    Protection Agency
    
  • Daniel B. Magraw, President, Center for International Environmental Law;
    Former Director of the International Environmental Law Office, US
    Environmental Protection Agency
    
  • Peter R. Orszag, Director, Congressional Budget Office, and Terry Dinan,
    Senior Advisor for Climate Policy, Congressional Budget Office (co-authors)
    Student Moderator: Christopher A. Bowles
    

In Defense of Regulatory Peer Review

• John B. Ruhl, Matthews & Hawkins Professor of Property, Florida State
  University College of Law (via telephone) (co-author with James Salzman,
  Professor, Duke University Law School and Nicholas School of the
  Environment and Earth Sciences)
  
• Commenters:
  • Richard E. Melberth, Director, Regulatory Policy, OMB Watch (co-author
    with Gary D. Bass, Executive Director, OMB Watch)
  • Brian F. Mannix, Associate Administrator, Office of Policy, Economics and
    Innovation, US Environmental Protection Agency
    Student Moderator: Kevin Potere

Western Growth and Sustainable Water Use: If There are No Natural
Limits, Should We Worry About Water Supplies?

• A. Daniel Tarlock, Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the
  Program in Environmental and Energy Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law,
  Illinois Institute of Technology (co-author with Sarah Bates, Senior Fellow,
  Public Policy Research Institute at the University of Montana; Deputy
  Director for Policy and Outreach, Western Progress)
  
• Commenters:
  
  • Thomas J. Graff, Senior Counsel, Environmental Defense, and Jennifer Pitt,
    Senior Research Analyst, Environmental Defense (co-authors)
  • Roger Gorke, Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Water (for Benjamin H.
    Grumbles, Assistant Administrator for Water, US Environmental Protection
    Agency)
  • David J. Hayes, Global Chair of the Environment, Land & Resources
    Department, Latham & Watkins; Former Deputy Secretary, US Department of
    the Interior
    
  • Student Moderator: Russell N. Frake

Basic Compensation for Victims of Climate Change

• Daniel A. Farber, Sho Sato Professor of Law, University of California,
  Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)
  
• Commenters:
  • Kenneth R. Feinberg, Special Master of the Federal September 11th Victim
    Compensation Fund of 2001; Managing Partner & Founder, The Feinberg
    Group, LLP
  • William E. Dornbos, Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council (co-author
    with Peter Lehner, Executive Director, Natural Resources Defense Counsel)
  • Raymond B. Ludwiszewski, Partner, Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher LLP; Former
    General Counsel, US Environmental Protection Agency (co-author with
    Charles H. Haake, Of Counsel, Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher LLP)
    
  • Student Moderator: Andrew C. Proyect
    

Closing Remarks

• Michael P. Vandenbergh, Professor, Vanderbilt University Law School