Workshop - Seminars

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ELI Report

Seminars

February marked the

f‌inal two seminars of

ELI’s 13-part series co-

sponsored with ALI-

ABA, Understanding the

New Climate and Energy

Legal Landscape, a week-

ly telephone and webcast

series that explained the

real world impact of the

fast moving developments

surrounding climate and

energy.

e Economics of Cli-

mate and Energy Policy,

held on February 17,

discussed the potential im-

pact to the U.S. economy

of various climate and

energy regimes. Litigating

Climate Change, held on

February 24, addressed

the implications of federal

climate legislation and

regulation for existing and

future common law claims

and cases as well as actions

under federal and state

statutes.

ELI’s Ocean Seminar

Series featured a confer-

ence on March 11, Arctic

Coastal and Marine

Spatial Planning and the

Role of the Arctic People,

co-sponsored by the

Alaska Eskimo Whaling

Commission. e meet-

ing was made possible by

support from the Naomi

and Nehemiah Cohen

Foundation and the Oak

Foundation.

e conference brought

together representatives

of Arctic communities

and federal agencies to

begin a national conver-

sation about U.S. arctic

coastal and marine spatial

planning. e discussion

centered on the rights, tra-

ditions, and experiences of

the Arctic people; existing

co-management practices;

competing management

imperatives; and how to

build from the existing

system toward an Arctic

marine spatial planning

framework.

On February 18-19,

George Washington Uni-

versity Law School hosted

the 2010 J.B. and Mau-

rice C. Shapiro Environ-

mental Law Conference:

Next Generation Energy

And e Law, which was

co-sponsored by George

Washington Univer-

sity Law School, ELI,

the George Washington

Environmental Law Asso-

ciation, and the Journal of

Energy and Environmental

Law.

ELI co-sponsored a

number of other events

in February and March,

many outside the beltway.

Sustainable Practices

in 2010: What Private

Companies are Doing

and Requiring and Why

was held on March 11

with Venable, LLP, in

Washington, D.C.

On March 19, ELI co-

sponsored Meet the New

U.S. EPA Regional Ad-

ministrator: Curt Spald-

ing with WilmerHale in

Boston.

ELI and the Environ-

mental Law Committee

of the New York City Bar

co-sponsored two events

in New York.

e f‌irst was the annual

New York Environmental

Law Year in Review on

February 17, a discussion

of the year’s most sig-

nif‌icant New York judicial,

regulatory, and adminis-

trative developments.

e second event was

Marcellus Shale: Shall

We Drill? held on March

10, a panel discussion of

proposals to drill for natu-

ral gas in the shale for-

mation spanning several

eastern states.

ELI held an Associ-

ates Seminar on March

25, NEPA and Climate

Change: CEQ’s Draft

Guidance. Tom Jensen,

Sonnenschein Nath &

Rosenthal LLP, was the

moderator, joined by Ted

Boling, White House

Council on Environ-

mental Quality, William

Malley of Perkins Coie

LLP, and Noah Matson,

Defenders of Wildlife.

March ended with

an event hosted by

Georgetown University

Law Center. Adapting

to Climate Change:

Problems and Solutions

was co-sponsored by the

Georgetown International

Environmental Law Re-

view, the Georgetown Cli-

mate Center, and ELI. e

symposium addressed the

role of laws and policies

for climate change adapta-

tion in the areas of natural

resources, human impacts,

and institutional and regu-

latory design.

Workshop

Skills Workshop in

Public Interest Envi-

ronmental Law, held on

March 26-27, was ELI’s

f‌irst program dedicated to

skills training for junior

attorneys and professionals

who work for public inter-

est organizations.

e group of 40 par-

ticipants displayed great

enthusiasm throughout the

session and gave the course

rave reviews. According

to one participant, “e

course was outstanding: I

feel fortunate to have been

part of this pilot project.

e subject material was

very rich and relevant.”

Another expressed great

admiration for the faculty:

“A breadth of experience

with nearly everyone at

the top of their game.

Despite how busy I’m

sure each and every one of

them is, they all seemed

excited to be presenting at

this workshop.”

e workshop was made

possible by a grant from

Rockefeller Philanthropy

Advisors, which was award-

ed to ELI in partnership

with the Natural Resources

Council of America.

Law professor Richard Lazarus, an experienced Supreme Court

scholar and litigator, at the public interest workshop.