Policy Review - Seminars - Training

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ELI Report

Policy Review

Each year, Vanderbilt

Law students work with

an expert advisory com-

mittee and senior staf‌f

from ELI to identify the

year’s best academic ar-

ticles that present legal

and policy solutions to

pressing environmental

problems.

e result is a student-

edited volume, e En-

vironmental Law and

Policy Annual Review, a

special issue of the Envi-

ronmental Law Reporter

that includes condensed

versions of the selected

articles, along with com-

mentaries from leading

experts from the academy,

law f‌irms, business, gov-

ernment and non-gov-

ernmental organizations.

is year, the authors of

the articles and comments

presented their ideas and

views at conferences on

April 1 at Vanderbilt Law

in Nashville and April 16

on Capitol Hill.

Seminars

During spring and

early summer, the ELI As-

sociates Program hosted

a number of seminars

focusing on energy and

resource topics, emphasiz-

ing the Gulf oil spill:

• From Coal to Gas:

Whether, When, How on

April 22

• Energy Star Gets the

Spotlight on May 13

• e Oil Spill Li-

ability Framework on

May 24

• New EPA Coal Ash

Rules: Understanding the

Options on June 17

• Modernizing the

NEPA Process in the Con-

text of the Gulf Disaster

on June 20.

e ELI Summer

School seminar series,

introductory seminars on

environmental law and

policy targeted primarily

to students in the D.C.

area for the summer, was

held in June and July. As

always, Summer School

began with an introduc-

tion to careers in environ-

mental law and policy on

June 17, and continued

with sessions on Clean Air

(June 22), Clean Water

(June 24), Hazardous Sites

and Waste (June 30), Land

Use (July 14), Products

Regulation (July 21), and

a new session, Climate

Change: An Introduction,

on July 28.

ELI Associates hosted

a number of events, many

of them outside the D.C.

area. Farella Braun + Mar-

tel and David Lazerwitz

hosted NEPA Revival in

California: Strategies

and Lessons from the Re-

newable Energy Boom on

April 29 in San Francisco.

Jef‌f Gracer of Sive, Paget

& Riesel helped organize

Climate Change: What Is

To Be Done? on May 12

which was co-sponsored

and hosted by the New

York City Bar. e New

Maritime Paradigm: US

Environmental Regula-

tion of the Maritime In-

dustry was co-sponsored

and hosted by Barry

Hartman and K&L Gates,

and televised by Maritime

TV, on May 19. Lynn

Bergeson, Bergeson &

Campbell, moderated

and hosted Meet Leslye

Fraser, US EPA Associ-

ate General Counsel for

Pesticides & Toxic Sub-

stances on June 18.

ELI held a number of

other events with diverse

partners. Preceding the

National Wetlands Award

Ceremony on May 19,

Resilient Wetlands =

Prosperous Economies:

How Restoring and

Conserving Wetlands

Support Economic Pro-

ductivity brought together

f‌ive experts to discuss dif-

ferent approaches to valu-

ing wetlands and how they

contribute economically.

ELI partnered with the

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg

School of Public Health

to hold a day-long confer-

ence at the National Press

Club on June 21, e

Future of Chemical Tox-

icity Testing in the U.S.:

Creating a Roadmap to

Implement the National

Research Council’s Vision

and Strategy. ELI hosted

two additional seminars

in-house. Ocean Acidi-

f‌ication: Managing the

Marine Impacts of Cli-

mate Change on June 23,

co-sponsored by the DC

Bar, was part of ELI’s con-

tinuing Ocean Seminar

Series 2010 supported by

the Naomi and Nehemiah

Cohen Foundation. On

July 23, Law and the

Future of Brazilian For-

ests, co-sponsored by the

IUCN Commission on

Environmental Law and

the University of Texas

School of Law in Austin,

featured Justice Antonio

Benjamin, who spoke

about changes proposed

for Brazil’s Forest Code.

Training

Spring and summer oc-

casioned annual ELI train-

ings. e Western Boot

Camp was held on April

27-29 at the Paul Hastings

of‌f‌ice in San Francisco.

Next year’s Western Boot

Camp will be held on Jan-

uary 25-27, and Eastern

Boot Camp will be held at

K&L Gates in Washing-

ton, D.C., on November

10-12.

Participants at ELI’s Western Boot Camp held in San Francisco.