 : April |  | | Program: | ELPP Lecture Series | | Date: | 4/9/2013 | | Time: | 4:00-5:00 p.m., reception immediately following | | Location: | Hutchins Hall room 250 (625 S. State Street) | | Description: |
View Mr. Rapson's talk here:
Rip Rapson is president and CEO of The Kresge Foundation, a $3.1 billion private foundation based in metropolitan Detroit and founded by S.S. Kresge in 1924. An attorney and expert in urban policy, Rapson assumed leadership on July 1, 2006, and quickly initiated a multi-year transition to expand and recalibrate Kresge’s grantmaking.
Seven strategically focused programs – in arts and culture, community development, education, environment, health, and human services – seek to influence the quality of life for future generations by creating access and opportunity in underserved communities; improving the health of low-income people; supporting artist expression; increasing college achievement; assisting in the revitalization of Detroit; and advancing methods for dealing with climate change.
To facilitate this work, Rapson has put into practice the use of multiple, flexible funding methods, including operating support, project support, and program-related investments. These new tools complement Kresge’s historic, and formerly exclusive, use of the facilities-capital challenge grant. In 2011, the Board of Trustees approved 346 awards totaling $170 million; $140 million was paid out to grantees over the course of the year.
Prior to joining Kresge, Rapson was president of the Minnesota-based McKnight Foundation, the private, $2 billion foundation governed by the descendents of William McKnight, one of the founders of 3M Corporation. Under his direction, the foundation was recognized as a national leader on a variety of public policy issues, including early childhood development, metropolitan growth, open space protection, and wind energy. Rapson launched the Itasca Project, a private-sector led effort to develop a new regional agenda for the Twin Cities, and he advanced McKnight’s work to support arts and cultural activities, enhance water quality and public enjoyment of the Mississippi River, and foster economic development in rural Minnesota.
Rapson served as a senior fellow at the University of Minnesota before joining the McKnight Foundation. There, he led a five-year, interdisciplinary project to help aging first-ring suburban communities address the challenges posed by declining tax revenues, changing economic and social demographics, and shifting political forces.
As the deputy mayor of Minneapolis under Mayor Don Fraser, Rapson served as primary architect of the pioneering Neighborhood Revitalization program, a twenty-year, $400 million effort to strengthen Minneapolis neighborhoods. He also directed a comprehensive redesign of the city’s budgeting process and developed the mayor’s initiatives to strengthen and support families and children.
Rapson came to the mayor’s office from the Minneapolis law firm of Leonard, Street and Deinard, where he was a partner in the litigation division. He received his law degree from Columbia University.
Before entering law school, Rapson worked as a legislative assistant in then-Congressman Don Fraser’s Washington, D.C. office and oversaw the development and passage of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Act of 1976, which brought full wilderness protection to the million-acre lake country of northern Minnesota.
Rapson is the author of two books: “Troubled Waters,” a chronicle of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Act legislation, and “Ralph Rapson: Sixty Years of Modern Design,” a biography of his father, the renowned architect Ralph Rapson. He sits on the boards of the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy, the Downtown Detroit Partnership, M1 Rail, the Local Initiatives Support Corporation of New York, and Living Cities.
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| | : March |  | | Program: | ELPP Careers in Environmental Law Series | | Date: | 3/27/2013 | | Time: | 11:55 AM-12:55 PM | | Location: | South Hall 1020 | | Description: |
View Mr. Herman's talk here:
http://web.law.umich.edu/flashmedia/public/Default.aspx?mediaid=3134
Steven Herman is a Principal in Beveridge & Diamond, P.C.'s Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Herman's practice focuses on the areas of environmental enforcement and compliance. He has counseled and represented major corporate clients trying to avoid adverse enforcement actions by federal and/or state government agencies, and clients who have become the subject of such actions. He also advises clients on strategies for engaging federal and state governmental agencies on environmental and other significant issues.
Mr. Herman served for eight years as the Assistant Administrator for Enforcement and Compliance assurance of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Mr. Herman, who was the chief national environmental enforcement official, supervised a Headquarters and regional civil and criminal staff of over 3,500, including criminal agents, investigators, inspectors, attorneys, engineers, scientists and other professionals. He was responsible for the development and implementation of numerous EPA enforcement and compliance policies including the widely used "Policy on Incentives for Self-Policing: Discovery, Disclosure, Correction and Prevention of Violations", the policy on Supplemental Environmental Projects, numerous Superfund administrative reforms, and the establishment of the first compliance assistance centers and numerous compliance assistance tools.
Mr. Herman represented the United States at meetings with Mexico and Canada pursuant to the NAFTA, at meetings of the G-8 environmental officials, and in numerous bi-lateral contexts. He was also the founder and first co-chair of the International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (INECE), an informal partnership of government officials, international organizations, and non-governmental organizations.
Before joining the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Mr. Herman was an Assistant Section Chief and senior trial attorney in the Environment and Natural Resources Division at the U.S. Department of Justice for fifteen years. He litigated numerous matters involving the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the federal Quiet Title Act, the Antiquities Act, the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) and other complex land use matters of national interest.
Mr. Herman has been a frequent speaker at international conferences in the United States and overseas, bar groups, and trade associations, discussing numerous matters related to environmental enforcement and other environmental and natural resource issues.
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|  | | Program: | ELPP Lecture Series | | Date: | 3/11/2013 | | Time: | 11:55 AM-12:55 PM | | Location: | South Hall 1020 | | Description: |
Jody Freeman, the Archibald Cox Professor of Law, is a leading scholar of administrative and environmental law and the founding director of the Harvard Law School Environmental Law and Policy Program. Professor Freeman served in the White House as Counselor for Energy and Climate Change in 2009-10. In that role, she contributed to a variety of policy initiatives on greenhouse gas regulation, renewable energy, energy efficiency, transmission policy, oil and gas drilling, and comprehensive energy and climate legislation to put a market-based cap on carbon. Freeman led the White house effort on the Obama Administration's national auto policy -- the landmark agreement among the federal government, the auto industry and the states, to set the first federal greenhouse gas emission standards and the most ambitious fuel efficiency standards in U.S. history. After leaving the administration, Freeman served as an independent consultant to the President's bipartisan Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. She has been appointed to the Administrative Conference of the United States, the government think tank for improving the administrative and regulatory process. In 2011, she was elected to the American College of Environmental Lawyers. In 2012 Professor Freeman was elected as an outside director of ConocoPhillips.
Professor Freeman is a prominent scholar of administrative law and regulation, and a leading thinker on collaborative and contractual approaches to governance. Her article, “Agency Coordination in Shared Regulatory space,” the subject of her chair lecture, appears in the Harvard Law Review in 2012."The Obama Administration's National Auto Policy: Lessons from the Car Deal" was published in the Harvard Environmental Law Review in 2011. She is the co-author of leading casebooks in environmental law and administrative law, and is the co-author with Mike Gerrard of the forthcoming new edition of Global Climate Change and U.S. Law.
Freeman’s major writings in environmental law include Climate Change and US Interests, 109 Columbia L. Rev. 1531 (2009) (with Guzman), Timing and Form of Federal Regulation: The Case of Climate Change, 155 U. Penn. L. Rev. 1499 (2007) (with DeShazo), and Modular Environmental Regulation, 54 Duke L. Rev. 795 (2005) (with Farber). She has also produced two other significant books: Moving to Markets in Environmental Regulation, Lessons after Twenty Years of Experience (Oxford University Press 2006, edited with Charles Kolstad) and Government by Contract: Outsourcing and American Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2009, edited with Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow). In 2006, Freeman authored an amicus brief on behalf of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. MA v. EPA, the global warming case decided by the Supreme Court in 2007. To hear Professor Freeman's remarks on climate policy at the EPA 40th anniversary event hosted by HLS, click here: EPA @ 40. Her analysis of the case, MA v. EPA: From Politics to Expertise (with HLS Professor Adrian Vermeule) appears in the 2007 Supreme Court Review.
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| | : February | | | | Program: | ELPP Lecture Series | | Date: | 2/26/2013 | | Time: | 11:55 AM-12:50 PM | | Location: | South Hall 1225 | | Description: |
Professor Uhlmann will discuss the civil suit brought by DOJ and 5 coastal Gulf states against BP for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. As of 2/21/13, no settlement has been reached for the trial scheduled to begin 2/25/13.
Tamales will be served.
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|  | | Program: | ELPP Careers in Environmental Law Series | | Date: | 2/13/2013 | | Time: | 11:55 AM-12:55 PM | | Location: | South Hall 1020 | | Description: |
Geoff Garver is pursuing jointly a PhD in geography and an LLM at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. He is engaged in a cross-disciplinary study on new policy and regulatory strategies for maintaining the human enterprise within the Earth’s ecological limits.
His research objective is to propose “novel and adaptive forms of governance” (Rockström et al. 2009) based on scientifically and ethically derived ecological boundaries within which the human enterprise must operate to avoid irreversible systemic breakdown. This research will build on recent work to establish a comprehensive set of such boundaries at the global level, most prominently the proposal by Rockström and colleagues (2009) of “planetary boundaries” of “safe operating space” for humanity.
In 2010, President Obama appointed him to the Joint Public Advisory Committee of North America’s Commission for Environmental Cooperation. From 2000-2007, he was Director of Submissions on Enforcement Matters at the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, managing complaints of ineffective environmental enforcement by NAFTA countries. From 1989-1993 and 1995-2000, Mr. Garver was an attorney in the U.S. Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division. From 1993-1995, he was Senior Policy Counsel in the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance at the U.S. EPA. From 1987-1989, he clerked for Judge Conrad Cyr in the U.S. District Court in Maine. Mr. Garver received his B.S. (chemical engineering) from Cornell University (1982) and a J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School (1987).
Watch Mr. Garver's talk here.
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| | : January | | | | Program: | ELPP Lecture Series | | Date: | 1/31/2013 | | Time: | | | Location: | | | Description: |
State Senator Rebekah Warren represents the 18th District, which is made up of the majority of Washtenaw County. She is currently serving her first term in the Michigan Senate, and acts as Minority Vice-Chair of both the Health Policy Committee and the Natural Resources, Environment and Great Lakes Committee. She is also a member of the Finance Committee, the Regulatory Reform Committee, and the Reforms, Restructuring, and Reinventing Committee.
Prior to her work as a Senator, Rebekah was privileged to serve the citizens of Ann Arbor as State Representative for the 53rd House District for four years. During her first term in the House, she received statewide acclaim for her ability to reach across the aisle and negotiate the bipartisan passage of landmark water protection legislation that effectively banned the diversion of Great Lakes water from outside the basin.
This term Rebekah’s legislative priorities include continuing to preserve our precious natural resources, expanding access to health care coverage, investing in education, strengthening our economy, and defending our civil rights and liberties.
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| | : November |  | | Program: | ELPP Careers in Environmental Law Series | | Date: | 11/13/2012 | | Time: | 12:15-1:15pm | | Location: | 218 Hutchins Hall | | Description: |
Environmental Appeals Judge
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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|  | | Program: | ELPP Lecture Series | | Date: | 11/1/2012 | | Time: | 4-5pm | | Location: | 1020 South Hall | | Description: | David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair in Law
Co-Director, Energy, Environment, and Land Use Program
Vanderbilt Law School
"The Political Economy of Climate Change Winners"
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| | : October | | | | Program: | ELPP Panel Discussions | | Date: | 10/29/2012 | | Time: | 6:30-8:00 PM | | Location: | Hutchins Hall 120 | | Description: |
Lana Pollack, U.S. Chair of the International Joint Commission;
Cameron Davis, Senior Advisor to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson; and
Andy Buchsbaum, Director of the Great Lakes Office of the National Wildlife Federation & Adjunct Professor at MLaw
will be discussing the topic "Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement 2012: Sheet Music for a Real Symphony or just Notes on Paper?"
on Monday, October 29, 2012, from 6:30-8 p.m. in Hutchins Hall 120.
This event is free and open to the public.
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|  | | Program: | ELPP Lecture Series | | Date: | 10/18/2012 | | Time: | 12:00 PM | | Location: | Hutchins Hall 116 | | Description: |
John Denniston, '83, is a venture capitalist with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. John co-runs the KPCB Green Growth Fund, which invests in and supports growth-stage greentech sustainability companies. John is actively involved in public policy issues, having testified before Congressional committees on numerous occasions. John serves on the board of advisors of the National Renewable Energy Labs.
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|  | | Program: | ELPP Careers in Environmental Law Series | | Date: | 10/11/2012 | | Time: | 12:15-1:15pm | | Location: | 218 Hutchins Hall | | Description: |
Margaret B. McLean, '92, is a Senior Vice President, Chief Legal and Compliance Officer, and Corporate Secretary for CH2M HILL Companies, Ltd., an American-based global full-service provider of consulting, design, construction, and operations services. CH2MHill is a leader of environmental service firms and was named one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere Institute for four consecutive years (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012). Ms. McLean oversees a team of 52 legal and risk management professionals who provide legal, insurance, and compliance support for the enterprise in 75+ countries.
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|  | | Program: | ELPP Lecture Series | | Date: | 10/3/2012 | | Time: | 4:30-5:30 pm | | Location: | 132 Hutchins Hall | | Description: |
Dean and Professor
New York University School of Law
"Regulatory Change and Optimal Transition Relief"
Complete video of Dean Revesz's lecture can be seen at:
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 Carol M. Browner, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1993–2001), 2007–08 ELPP Lecture Series
 Steven E. Chester, Director, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, 2007–08 ELPP Lecture Series  Lisa Heinzerling, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, ELPP inaugural Conference (Fall 2008)  Miriam Horn, Environmental Defense Fund, author, former senior editor at U.S. News and World Report, panelist, ELPP inaugural Conference (Fall 2008)  Jerome Ringo, President, The Apollo Alliance; Chair of the Board, National Wildlife Federation (2005–2007), 2008–09 ELPP Lecture Series
 Larry J. Schweiger, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Wildlife Federation, 2009–10 ELPP Lecture Series
 Todd D. Stern, Special Envoy for Climate Change, U.S. Department of State, 2010–11 ELPP Lecture Series
 Ronald J. Tenpas, Assistant Attorney General, United States Department of Justice (ENRD), 2008–09 ELPP Lecture Series
 The Honorable B. Lynn Winmill, Chief Judge, United States Court, District of Idaho, 2007–08 ELPP Lecture Series
 The Honorable Jennifer M. Granholm, Governor, State of Michigan (2002–2010), ELPP inaugural Conference (Fall 2008)  Gary S. Guzy, Deputy Director and General Counsel for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, ELPP Conference 2010  John C. Cruden, President, Environmental Law Institute, featured speaker, ELPP Conference 2012  Richard J. Lazarus, Howard and Katherine Aibel Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, featured speaker, ELPP Conference 2012  Bob Perciasepe, Deputy Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, keynote speaker, ELPP Conference 2012 |
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