Convenings

• Center for State, Local and Regional Environmental Programs
• Endangered Environmental Laws Program
• Judicial Education Program
• Nanotechnology Program
• Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review

Engangered Environmental Laws

• “Climate Change and the Constitution: Global Warming Litigation Heats Up,” Panel Discussion Co-Sponsored by ELI and the National Association of Environmental Law Societies (Washington, DC — November 2007)
• “Risky Business? Massachusetts, Risk-Based Harm, and Standing in the D.C. Circuit,” Panel Discussion (with Amanda Leiter, Chet Thompson, David Weinberg, and Brian Wolfman) (Washington, DC — September 2007)
• “Massachusetts v. EPA: What are the Implications for the Future?” Panel Discussion Co-Sponsored by ELI and the ABA Section on Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources, Constitutional Law Committee (Washington, DC — May 2007). Listen to a recording of the seminar.
• “Access to Courts after Massachusetts v. EPA: Who Has Been Left Standing?” Panel Discussion Co-Sponsored by ELI and the ABA Section on Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources, Constitutional Law Committee (Washington, DC — May 2007). Listen to a recording of the seminar.
• “Access to Courts after Massachusetts v. EPA: Who Will Be Left Standing?” Panel Discussion Co-Sponsored by ELI and the ABA Section on Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources, Constitutional Law Committee (Washington, DC — December 2006). Listen to a recording of the seminar.
• “Supreme Court Preview,” Panel Discussion (with Professor Richard Lazarus, E. Donald Elliott, and Amanda Cohen Leiter) (Washington, DC — October 2006). Listen to a recording of the seminar.
• “After Rapanos and Carabell,” Seminar Co-Sponsored by ELI, the DC Bar, and the ABA Section on Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources, Constitutional Law Committee (Washington, DC — July 2006)
• Legal Briefing on Supreme Court Decision in Rapanos v. United States, presented by ELI President Leslie Carothers to House Legislative Staff (Washington, DC — June 2006)
• “Trends in Constitutional Environmental Law,” Panel Discussion at Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (with ELI Visiting Scholar Jim May) (Eugene, OR — March 2006)
• “The Jurisprudential Legacy of William Rehnquist on Environmental, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Takings Law,” Discussion with ELI Visiting Scholar Jim May (Washington, DC — March 2006)
• “Hot Topics: Clean Water Cases Before the U.S. Supreme Court: Constitutional Issues in Rapanos and Carabell,” ABA Annual Conference on Environmental Law (Keystone, CO — March 2006)
• “What Do Environmentalists Want from the Supreme Court?” Panel Discussion (Washington, DC — August 2005)
• Keynote Address by ELI President Leslie Carothers, Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (Eugene, OR — March 2005)
• “Judging NEPA: Judicial Decisionmaking in Environmental Impact Assessment Cases,” Panel Discussion at Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (Eugene, OR — March 2005)
• “How to Protect Environmental Protections?” Seminar Co-Sponsored by ELI, the American Constitution Society, and the Center for American Progress (Washington, DC — March 2005)
• “Environmental Law in the Courts,” Panel Discussion, University of Chicago Law School (Chicago, IL — January 2005)
• “Environmental Law Update 2004: The Practical Impacts of This Year’s Legal Struggles,” Panel Discussions (Washington, DC — March 2004)
  • Do Endangered Species Act Challenges Still Have Teeth?
  • What Roles Should Federal and State Governments Play in Fighting Air Pollution?
  • Who Should Pay for Food Safety?
• “‘New Federalism’ in a New Deal World: Ramifications for Civil Rights and Environmental Protection,” Panel Discussion Co-Sponsored by ELI, the Brennan Center for Justice, and the American Constitution Society (NYU Chapter) (New York, NY — October 2003)
• “Supreme Court Review and Preview,” Panel Discussion (with Professor Richard Lazarus) (Washington, DC — October 2003)
• “Arsenic and Old Case(s): Debating the Constitutional Scope of the Safe Drinking Water Act and Other National Environmental Laws: A Panel Discussion by Counsel in Nebraska v. EPA” (Washington, DC — June 2003)
• “The New Judicial Activism: Consequences for Environmental Protection and Beyond,” Seminar Co-Sponsored by ELI, the University of Chicago Law School Environmental Law Society, and the American Constitution Society (Chicago Chapter) (with Professor Cass Sunstein) (Chicago, IL — May 2003)

Nanotechnology Program

• Environmental Governance at the Leading Edge of Technology (Washington, DC—2011)
• Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation: Securing the Promise of Nanotechnologies, Webcast of the Report Launch event at the Woodrow Wilson Center (Washington, DC— 2009)
• Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation: Securing the Promise of Nanotechnologies, Presentations and Audio of the Report Launch event at Chatham House (London, UK— 2009)
• NanoGovernance 2008: Innovative Approaches to Nanotechnology Environmental Governance (Washington, DC—2008)
• “Where Does the Nano Go? End-of-Life Regulation of Nanotechnologies?” Webcast of the Report Launch event at the Woodrow Wilson Center (Washington, DC — 2007)
• Nanotechnology Governance: Environmental Management from a Global Perspective (Nashville, TN — 2006)
• Securing the Promise of Nanotechnology: Is U.S. Environmental Law Up To the Job? (Washington, DC — 2005)

Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review

• 2009 Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review Conference
• 2008 Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review Conference