ELPP Lecture Series Archive

The Environmental Law and Policy Program Lecture Series features speakers from a wide range of backgrounds in government, academia, public interest groups, and private practice. The lecture series provides Michigan Law students the opportunity to learn from leaders of the environmental movement in the United States, builds relationships between the Law School and the environmental community, and contributes to debate about the environmental challenges facing our nation and the world. Students often meet privately with speakers during their visits to Michigan Law. Some lecturers are co-sponsored by other schools and programs at the University of Michigan. All lectures are open to the public; admission is free.

collapse : April
Trip Van Noppen
Program: ELPP Lecture Series
Date: 4/10/2012
Time: 4-5:30pm
Location: 250 Hutchins
Description: 
President
Earthjustice
San Francisco, CA
"Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Where Law and Politics Intersect"


collapse : March
Todd S. Aagaard
Program: ELPP Lecture Series
Date: 3/6/2012
Time: 12:10-1:10pm
Location: 1020 LS South Hall
Description: 
Associate Professor of Law
Villanova University School of Law
"A Functional Approach to Risks and Uncertainties under NEPA"
 


collapse : February
Barton H. "Buzz" Thompson, Jr.
Program: ELPP Lecture Series
Date: 2/6/2012
Time: 4-5pm
Location: 0225 LS South Hall
Description: 
Professor, Stanford Law School and the Perry L. McCarty Director and Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
"Water as a Public Commodity"
Video


collapse : November
Lisa Heinzerling
Program: ELPP Lecture Series
Date: 11/17/2011
Time: 12:10-1:10pm
Location: 250 Hutchins
Description: 
Professor of Law
Georgetown University Law Center
"Climate Change at EPA"


collapse : October
Rachel Jacobson
Program: ELPP Lecture Series
Date: 10/10/2011
Time: 12-1pm
Location: 116 Hutchins
Description: 
Acting Asst. Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks
U.S. Department of the Interior
"Natural Resource Damages and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill"
Video


collapse : April
Joseph L. Sax
Program: ELPP Lecture Series
Date: 4/11/2011
Time: 7:30-9pm
Location: 250 Hutchins
Description: 
James H. House and Hiram H. Hurd Professor of Environmental Regulation, Emeritus
University of California-Berkeley
"An Environmental Agenda: The Task Before Us"
Video


collapse : February
Douglas Kysar
Program: ELPP Lecture Series
Date: 2/9/2011
Time: 12-1:10pm
Location: 120 Hutchins
Description: 
Joseph M. Field '55 Professor of Law
Yale University
"Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental Law and the Search for Objectivity"
Video


collapse : January
Juliet B. Schor
Program: ELPP Lecture Series
Date: 1/20/2011
Time: 6-7:15pm
Location: 116 Hutchins
Description: 
Professor of Sociology
Boston College
"Plenitude: Policies for Transition to a Small-Scale, Time-Abundant, High-Satisfaction Sustainable Economy"
Video


collapse : November
Lana Pollack
Program: ELPP Lecture Series
Date: 11/8/2010
Time: 6:30-8pm
Location: 132 Hutchins
Description: 
U.S. Section Chair
International Joint Commission
"Sink or Swim: International Negotiations and the Fight to Save the Great Lakes"


collapse : October
Todd D. Stern
Program: ELPP Lecture Series
Date: 10/8/2010
Time: 12:30-1:30pm
Location: 120 Hutchins
Description: 
Special Envoy for Climate Change
U.S. Department of State
"A New Paradigm: Climate Change Negotiations in the Post-Copenhagen Era"


collapse : September
Victoria A. Arroyo
Program: ELPP Lecture Series
Date: 9/21/2010
Time: 5-6pm
Location: 220 Hutchins
Description: 
Executive Director
Georgetown State-Federal Climate Resource Center
Georgetown University Law Center
"Climate Change Policy and Politics in the U.S.: States in the Lead"


collapse : March
Larry J. Schweiger
Program: ELPP Lecture Series
Date: 3/23/2010
Time: 5-6pm
Location: Lawyers Club Lounge
Description: 
President and Chief Executive Officer
National Wildlife Federation
"Last Chance: Preserving Life on Earth"
Video


collapse : February
Robert W. Adler
Program: ELPP Lecture Series
Date: 2/24/2010
Time: 5-6pm
Location: 132 Hutchins
Description: 
James I. Farr Chair and Professor of Law
S. J. Quinney College of Law
University of Utah
"Climate Change and Drought: Balancing Risk and Compassion"
Video


David Sandalow
Program: ELPP Lecture Series
Date: 2/1/2010
Time: 4-5:15pm
Location: 116 Hutchins
Description: 
Assistant Secretary for Policy & International Affairs
U.S. Department of Energy
"Global Warming and Global Governance"


collapse : December
Howard A. Learner
Program: ELPP Lecture Series
Date: 12/3/2009
Time: 4-5:15pm
Location: 116 Hutchins
Description: 
President and Executive Director
Environmental Law & Policy Center, Chicago, IL
Adjunct Professor
University of Michigan Law School
"Growing the Green Economy to Solve Our Global Warming Problems ... and More"
Video


collapse : November
John C. Cruden
Program: ELPP Lecture Series
Date: 11/9/2009
Time: 4:30-5:45pm
Location: 120 Hutchins
Description: 
Acting Assistant Attorney General
Environment and Natural Resources Division
U.S. Department of Justice
"The Department of Justice's ENR Division: A Century of Litigation (and Some Current Events)"
Video


collapse : April
Jerome Ringo
Program: ELPP Lecture Series
Date: 4/13/2009
Time: 4-5pm
Location: 250 Hutchins
Description: 
President
The Apollo Alliance, San Francisco, CA
Fmr. Chair of the Board, National Wildlife Federation (2005-07)
"The Color of Green: The Next Inconvenient Truth"
Video


collapse : March
Richard J. Lazarus
Program: ELPP Lecture Series
Date: 3/5/2009
Time: 12:20-1:20pm
Location: 250 Hutchins
Description: 
Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Supreme Court Inst.
Georgetown University Law Center
"Environmental Litigation Before the U.S. Supreme Court: A Case Study of the Roberts Court"
Video


collapse : November
Thomas L. Sansonetti
Program: ELPP Lecture Series
Date: 11/13/2008
Time: 4-5pm
Location: 116 Hutchins
Description: 
Partner
Holland & Hart, Cheyenne, WY
Assistant Attorney General, ENR Division, U.S. Department of Justice (2001-05)
"A Westerner's Perspective on the Environmental Agenda for the Next Administration"


collapse : October
Ronald J. Tenpas
Program: ELPP Lecture Series
Date: 10/6/2008
Time: 12:20-1:20pm
Location: 150 Hutchins
Description: 
Assistant Attorney General, ENR Division
U.S. Department of Justice
"Emerging Trends in Environmental Litigation: National Security and Greenhouse Gas Emissions"
Video


collapse : April
James Gus Speth
Program: ELPP Lecture Series
Date: 4/14/2008
Time: 4-5pm
Location: 250 Hutchins
Description: 
Dean and Professor of Environmental Policy
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Yale University
"The Coming Transformation: America, Capitalism and the Environmental Future" 


collapse : February
The Honorable B. Lynn Winmill
Program: ELPP Lecture Series
Date: 2/14/2008
Time: 4-5pm
Location: 120 Hutchins
Description: 
Chief Judge
U.S. District Court
District of Idaho
"A View from the Bench: Judicial Perspective on Environmental Litigation"


collapse : December
Steven E. Chester
Program: ELPP Lecture Series
Date: 12/5/2007
Time: 4-5pm
Location: 132 Hutchins
Description: 
Director
Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
"The State of the Michigan Environment: From the Great Lakes to Climate Change"


collapse : October
Jeffrey P. Minear
Program: ELPP Lecture Series
Date: 10/10/2007
Time: 4-5pm
Location: 116 Hutchins
Description: 
Administrative Assistant to Chief Justice John G. Roberts
Supreme Court of the United States


collapse : September
Carol M. Browner
Program: ELPP Lecture Series
Date: 9/11/2007
Time: 4-5pm
Location: 100 Hutchins
Description: 
Fmr. Cabinet Member and Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1993-2001)

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