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Michigan Law's Environmental Law & Policy Program Lecture Series

The 2010-11 Environmental Law and Policy Program Lecture Series will begin with two presentations focusing on climate change issues, the first on September 21 by Vicki Arroyo from Georgetown University Law Center about state and local efforts to address climate change and the second an address on October 8 by Todd Stern, who is the chief negotiator for the U.S. in international climate change meetings.

During the winter term, Juliet Schor from Boston College and Doug Kysar from Yale will address the future of environmental protection and how we better reconcile environmental interests and economic priorities (the theme of last spring's ELPP conference). The lecture series will conclude with a special evening honoring former Michigan Law professor Joseph Sax, which will be co-sponsored by the School of Natural Resources and the Environment and other UM environmental programs. Below is a short bio for each speaker, and attached please find a flyer with the dates for their presentations.

Victoria A. Arroyo
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
220 Hutchins Hall, 5:00 PM
Climate Change Policy and Politics in the U.S.: States in the Lead

Vicki Arroyo is the Executive Director of the Georgetown Climate Center of Georgetown University Law Center where she is also a Visiting Professor. The Georgetown Climate Center works to advance sound state and federal policies related to climate change, energy, and transportation. She previously served at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, most recently as the Pew Center's Vice President, Domestic Policy and General Counsel. For over a decade, she directed the Center's policy analysis, also overseeing analysis of the science and environmental impacts of climate change, adaptation, economics, and domestic policy approaches. Ms. Arroyo also served as Managing Editor of the Center's book: Climate Change: Science, Strategies and Solutions.

Todd D. Stern
Friday, October 8, 2010
Room and Time: TBD

Todd Stern was named by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change on January 26, 2009. As the Administration's chief climate negotiator, Mr. Stern plays a central role in developing the United States' international policy on climate, representing the United States internationally at the Ministerial level in all bilateral and multilateral negotiations regarding climate change. He also participates in the development of domestic climate and clean energy policy.

Juliet B. Schor
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Room and Time: TBD

Juliet Schor is a professor of sociology at Boston College, a former member of the Harvard economics department, and a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient. She is also a cofounder of the Center for a New American Dream, an organization devoted to ecologically and socially sustainable lifestyles. Schor's research has focused on the economics of work, spending, environment, and the consumer culture. She is the author of PLENITUDE: The New Economics of True Wealth, Born to Buy, The Overworked American, and The Overspent American.

Douglas Kysar
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Room and Time: TBD

Douglas Kysar is the Joseph M. Field ?55 Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His teaching and research areas include torts, environmental law, and risk regulation. He has published articles on a wide array of environmental law and tort law topics, and is co-author of a leading casebook, The Torts Process, with James A. Henderson, Jr., Richard N. Pearson & John A. Siliciano. His recent book, Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental Law and the Search for Objectivity, seeks to reinvigorate environmental law and policy by offering novel theoretical insights on cost-benefit analysis, the precautionary principle, and sustainable development.

Joseph L. Sax
Monday, April 11, 2011
Room and Time: TBD

Joseph Sax is the James H. House and Hiram H. Hurd Professor of Environmental Regulation, Emeritus, at the University of California-Berkeley. Sax began teaching law at the University of Colorado in 1962. In 1966, he moved to the University of Michigan, where he became the Philip A. Hart Distinguished University Professor. He joined the Boalt faculty in 1986. From 1994 to 1996, Sax served in President Clinton's administration as the counselor to the secretary of the interior and deputy assistant secretary for policy at the U.S. Department of the Interior. Sax has served as a consultant or board member of 19 different environmental public service organizations and was awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree by the Illinois Institute of Technology. His major books include Mountains Without Handrails; Water Law--Planning and Policy; Water Law--Cases and Commentary; Defending the Environment; and, most recently, Playing Darts with a Rembrandt: Public and Private Rights in Cultural Treasures (1999).

http://www.law.umich.edu/centersandprograms/elpp/lectureseries/Pages/default.aspx



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