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The Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review Conference

Cosponsored by the Vanderbilt University Law School

WHEN:

April 11, 2008, 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM

WHERE:

Rayburn House Office Building
Room 2105
Washington, DC

Click here for directions.

RSVP:

Agenda

9:30-9:45: 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

9:45-10:45: A Framework Convention for Nanotechnology?

Co-authors:

  • 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, Center for the Study of Law, Science, and Technology, Arizona State University

Commenters:

  • Lynn L. Bergeson, Managing Director, Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.
  • Brent Blackwelder, President, Friends of the Earth
  • Dave Rejeski, Director, Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars

Student moderator: T. Nikki Powell

11:00-11:50: Trading Species: A New Direction for Habitat Trading Programs

Author:

  • 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

12:00-1:20 Brownbag Lunch / Welcome by Leslie A. Carothers, President, Environmental Law Institute

Of Montreal and Kyoto: A Tale of Two Protocols

Author:

  • 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, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  • Daniel B. Magraw, President, Center for International Environmental Law; Former Director of the International Environmental Law Office, U.S. 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

1:30-2:20: In Defense of Regulatory Peer Review

Co-author:

  • J.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 Environmental and Earth Sciences

Commenters:

  • Rick Melberth, Director, Regulatory Policy, OMB Watch (co-author with Gary D. Bass, Executive Director, OMB Watch)
  • Brian Mannix, Associate Administrator, Office of Policy, Economics and Innovation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

2:30-3:-30: Western Growth and Sustainable Water Use: If There are No Natural Limits, Should We Worry About Water Supplies?

Co-Author:

  • 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, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
  • David J. Hayes, Global Chair of the Environment, Land & Resources Department, Latham & Watkins; Former Deputy Secretary, U.S. Dept. of Interior

Student Moderator: Russell N. Fraker

3:45-4:45: Basic Compensation for Victims of Climate Change

Author:

  • 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, NRDC (co-author with Peter Lehner, Executive Director, NRDC)
  • Ray Ludwiszewski, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP; Former General Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (co-author with Charles H. Haake, Of Counsel, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP)

Student Moderator: Andrew C. Proyect

4:45-5:00 Closing Remarks

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

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Litigating Climate Change

February 11, 2010
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February 17, 2010
The Economics of Climate and Energy Policy

February 17, 2010
New York Environmental Law: Year in Review

February 18-20, 2010
National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition

February 18-19, 2010
Next Generation Energy and the Law

February 26, 2010
Environmental Protection in the Balance

March 4-5, 2010
ALI-ABA Global Warming: Climate Change and the Law

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