2007-2009 Environmental Law and Policy
Annual Review Conference

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

2105 Rayburn House Office Building, Capitol Hill
Washington, DC

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