GLIN==> Rachel Jacobson at Michigan Law on October 10 at Noon, Hutchins 116

Michigan Law's Environmental Law & Policy Program Lecture Series Speaker on October 10

The Environmental Law & Policy Program at the University of Michigan Law School will present Rachel Jacobson, Acting Asst. Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, U.S. Department of the Interior, on Monday, Oct. 10 at noon in Hutchins 116.  She will discuss Natural Resource Damages and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.

Rachel Jacobson oversees policy, planning, and regulatory actions for the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, including the 150 million acre Wildlife Refuge system and over 400 units of the Park Service.  She is also responsible for historic and cultural preservation and management of protected species.

Prior to being named as Acting Assistant Secretary, Ms. Jacobson served as Interior's Principal Deputy Solicitor where she was in a leadership role working with the Solicitor to oversee all legal matters within the authority of the Department of the Interior and manage an office of over 400 professionals.  Notably, Ms. Jacobson was the lead negotiator for the recent $1 billion "early restoration" settlement with British Petroleum arising out of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico.



For more information:
https://www.law.umich.edu/centersandprograms/elpp/lectureseries/Documents/Lecture%20Series%2011-12/Jacobson%20poster%2020111010.pdf
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