 : 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 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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| | : 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 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 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 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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