We invite you to learn more about our exciting environmental and natural resources law and policy program at Stanford Law School.  We look forward to continuing our collaboration with all of you who share our interest in the crucial energy and environmental legal issues we face in our clinic, teaching, and scholarship.

Best,

Buzz Thompson, Michael Wara, Meg Caldwell, and Deborah Sivas

October 2010

In Memoriam: Jamie Grodsky '92

We dedicate this newsletter to the memory of Jamie Grodsky '92.  At Stanford Law School, she served as an Articles Editor of the Stanford Law Review and received the Adolf and Olaus Murie Award in Environmental Law and the Hilmer Oehlmann Prize for Legal Writing.  She then clerked for Judge Proctor R. Hug, then Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

She went onto to lead a path-breaking career, including stints as a Counsel to the Committee on Natural Resources of the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 1995, Counsel to the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate from 1995 to 1997, and the Senior Advisor to the General Counsel of the United States Environmental Protection Agency from 1999 to 2001.  Next, Jamie carried that real world expertise into the classroom, first as a law school professor at the University of Minnesota, and then at the George Washington University. 

In the collection of students' memories, they cite her passion and enthusiasm for environmental law that was contagious.  She will be sorely missed.

Sivas Appointed Luke W. Cole Professor of Environmental Law

Deborah Sivas '87 was appointed the inaugural Luke W. Cole Professor of Environmental Law and Director of Stanford Environmental Law Clinic in a poignant ceremony. 

Blog Launch

Our faculty group -- Meg Caldwell, Deborah Sivas, Buzz Thompson, and Michael Wara -- launched a blog this year called Environmental and Energy Insights .  You can find regular postings on timely topics, such as climate change, energy, forests, groundwater, international trade, and oceans.  Recent posts include:  "Are offsets market based instruments? An information perspective" and "Climate change plays second fiddle: USTR opens investigation into Chinese clean energy subsidies" and "The possible climate impacts of rebalancing – economic policy is climate policy."
 

Faculty Leaders: Buzz Thompson

Our faculty provided congressional testimony and addressed conferences in recent months, on topics ranging from water myths, climate change and a national ocean policy.

Buzz Thompson JD/MBA ’76 (BA ’72)

--presented an interim report to the US Supreme Court as the Special Master in the water case: Montana v. Wyoming.

--announced the launch of three Freshwater Initiatives , in his role as director of the Woods Institute: (1) Global Freshwater Sustainability, (2) Program on Water, Health, and Development, and (3) Joint Program on Water in the West. These strategic collaborations will combine research and policy outreach to address major sustainability challenges to freshwater resources. The Law School is actively involved in the Joint Program on Water in the West, a collaboration between Stanford's Woods Institute and Stanford's Bill Lane Center for the American West, which will help create water systems in the western United States that are sustainable from economic, ecological, political, institutional, and equitable perspectives. Here is Buzz Thompson's address at the launch of Water in the West.

--co-authored a report on highlighting common water myths facing California, focusing on water supply, ecosystems, and legal and governance issues. An expanded version of the report was published in the West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law. Relatedly, he participated on a panel for the Public Policy Institute of California on "California Water: Moving Beyond Myth," in Sacramento, California on December 8, 2009.

--participated in the March 2010 National Dialogue, "What's Water Worth?"

--reflected on the history and accomplishments of Stanford's Woods Institute over the past five years with an emphasis on the current strategic initiatives being actively pursued by the Institute on October 21, 2010.

--gave a presentation on "Can Current Water Laws and Institutions Meet the 21st Century Challenges" at the National Academy's Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable in June 2010.

--gave a presentation on "Managing Land for Multiple Objectives" at 25 x 25's 6th National Forum in Washington, D.C. in June 2010.

--addressed the Utah Sustainability Symposium, March 12, 2010.

--gave the keynote address at the U.S. Department of the Interior's launch of its Water SMART program in Las Vegas, Nevada in February 2010.

--participated in a panel on the Obama Administration's environmental policies at the ABA's annual Water Law Conference in San Diego in February 2010.

--gave a presentation on climate and water at the "Dividing the Waters" conference of judges working on water disputes in November 2009.

--published the 3rd edition of "Environmental Law and Policy: Concepts & Insights" (with Jim Salzman).

--published  "Comprehensive Planning, Dominant-Use Zones, and User Rights: A New Era in Ocean Governance," in volume 86 of the Bulletin of Marine Science. 

--published  "Sustainable Product Indexing: Navigating the Challenge of Ecolabeling," in volume 15 of Ecology & Society.

Faculty Leaders: Michael Wara

Michael Wara '06

--discussant at Climate Policy Instruments in the Real World, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development of the Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University, September 7, 2010.

--taught course on United States Climate Law at University of Sydney Law School, August, 2010.

--invited participant at Nature Conservancy Roundtable: Forest Carbon Sequestration Rights and the Global Carbon Market, Legal and Policy Considerations, July 21, 2010.

--participated as panel member on the Restore America's Estuaries Blue Ribbon Panel on Wetland Carbon Sequestration Potential.

--presented on regulatory design of carbon offset programs at Brookings Institute Climate Forum, Back to the Future, The Prospects for Climate and Energy in 2010, May 18, 2010.

--participated on a panel on emissions trading at USD Law School symposium on Next Generation Regulation - Instrument Choice in Climate Law, April 9, 2010.

--testified before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China on Transparency in Environmental Protection and Climate Change in China, April 1, 2010.

--spoke at Implementing Climate Policy: Looking forward to the hard part, ELI Seminar co-sponsored by Columbia Law School, Vanderbilt Law School, and the University of Virginia Law School, Washington, DC, Feb 5-6, 2010.

--presented "Climate Change: The Road from Copenhagen to Effective US and International Climate Policy" to World Affairs Council of Northern California, Peninsula Chapter, on Jan 20, 2010.

--testified before the California Senate Select Committee on Climate Change and AB 32 Implementation on the subject of carbon offsets, Jan 7, 2010.

--attended COP15 in Copenhagen, among 10 Stanford climate researchers, including Meg Caldwell. 

--testified before the House Committee on Agriculture concerning the costs and benefits of agricultural greenhouse gas offsets on December 3, 2009. 

Faculty Leaders: Meg Caldwell

Meg Caldwell '85

--delivered keynote address "Climate Change Policy for the Oceans: When Scientists and Lawyers Talk" for the symposium "Ocean Impacts of Climate Change: Science, People and Policy" organized by University of Oregon Knight Law Center Resident Scholar Richard Hildreth and cosponsored by PISCO, the Partnership for the Interdisciplinary Study of Oceans, September 10, 2010, Eugene, Oregon.

--testifed before the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling on September 3, 2010.

--presented the Center’s Pacific Synthesis Report findings and met with high level government officials from Solomon Islands, Tonga, Fiji, Federated States of Micronesia, and Vietnam to better understand their needs, existing country and regional commitments, opportunities for leveraging those commitments and chief barriers to progress in addressing marine and coastal ecosystem health, July 1-2, 2010, Suva, Fiji.

--moderated an interdisciplinary panel on the legacy of our fossil fuel dependency at at Capitol Hill Oceans Week. Washington, D.C. June 2010.

--presented at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, CA “California Impacts, Coastal Waters: Major Impacts and the Role of Policy & Management in Creating Data Demands,” May 25, 2010.

--testified before the U.S. Senate Committee of Environment and Public works on the "Economic and Environmental Impacts of the Recent Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico” on Tuesday, May 11, 2010.

--moderated author Bill Mckibbin's lecture at the World Affairs Council of Northern California. San Francisco, “Why the World Needs to Rise above the Climate Crisis” , April 21, 2010.

--presented on “Coastal Communities and the Blue Planet” at the California Colloquium on Water, Berkeley Water Center. Berkeley, California, April 13, 2010.

--addressed the World Affairs Council at its annual conference with a talk on “Leadership in the Face of Crises: Managing (Humans in) the Marine Environment” March 12, 2010, San Francisco, CA.

--released a factsheet on the Center for Ocean Solutions' Marine Spatial Planning Initiative in March 2010.

--presented on key legal and policy considerations for California coastal and marine resource managers from across the state, "Coastal Adaptation to Climate Change in California" Marconi Center, Marin County, CA, February 22-26, 2010.

--presented "Assessing Existing Data and Data Gaps to Begin Marine Spatial Planning in California," American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2010 Annual Meeting, San Diego, February 21, 2010.

--led parallel marine and coastal ecosystem-based management trainings for marine and coastal resource agency heads and their managers from several Pacific Island nations and territories, including American Samoa, the Cook Islands, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tahiti, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Yap. January 2010, Rarotonga, Cook Islands.

--featured in the Monterey Institute of International Studies' 2010 Conservation Leadership Practicum, Friday January 15, 2010.

--together with Biologist Terry Root co-taught an interdisciplinary course Coping with Climate Change: Life after Copenhagen and gave the opening talks on “Copenhagen: The Meeting and its Consequences” and “Climate Change and the Oceans” Thursday January 14, 2010.

--presented critical information on ocean acidification to COP 15 delegates, in coordination with numerous partners including the Scripps Institute of Oceanography; the Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts and Islands; and the iLCP (International League of Conservation Photographers) at the first ever UNFCCC “Oceans Day” December 14, 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark.

--contributed to California's Climate Adapation Report issued in December 2, 2009.

-- helped expand California's network of marine protected areas on the California Marine Life Protection Act Initiative Blue Ribbon Task Force.

--presented to California Legislators on the “Pacific Ocean Synthesis: California Threats, Impacts and Solutions/Legislative Challenges and Opportunities” for the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators, November 6, 2009, Half Moon Bay, California.

--presented “State of the Oceans and California’s Marine Life Protection Act” at the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation’s Train the Trainers workshop, October 31, 2009, San Simeon, California.

--presented on “Pacific Ocean Challenges” in collaboration with Taholo Kami (IUCN Oceania) for the East-West Center’s 2009 Jefferson Fellowship Programfor mid-career journalists around the world, Hopkins Marine Station, October 30, 2009.

--spoke on climate change adaptation policy, “California and the Netherlands: A New Alliance for Climate Change Adaptation, ” a one day symposium hosted by the Netherlands Office on Science and Technology, San Francisco, CA. September 21, 2009.

--published "The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and a Review of MMS NEPA Documents" and Appendix for the National Commission on BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, October 19, 2010 with Deborah Sivas and Kimiko Narita.

--published "Economic & Ecological Implications of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill" in Resource Management Journal, August 2010 (with Erin Prahler).

--published Pacific Ocean 2020 Challenge – Scientists call on leaders for change. In: Proceedings of the 11th Pacific Science Inter-Congress, 02-06 March 2009, Tahiti, French Polynesia (with S. Palumbi, J. Teisch, T. Hoffman, J. Lubchenco and O. Hoegh-Guldberg).

--published "The Role of 'Rules of Thumb' in Science-Based Environmental Policy: California’s Marine Life Protection Act as a Case Study" in Stanford Journal of Law, Science & Policy March 2010 (with Carr, Mark H., Emily Saarman).

--published "Guiding ecological principles for marine spatial planning" in Marine Policy, 2010 (with Foley, M.M., B.S. Halpern, F. Micheli, M.H. Armsby, M.R. Caldwell, E. Prahler, D. Sivas, C.M. Crain, N. Rohr, M.W. Beck, M.H. Carr, L.B. Crowder, J.E. Duffy, S.D. Hacker, K. McLeod, C.H. Peterson, H.M. Regan, P.A. Sandifer, R.S. Steneck).

--published "Lessons for marine conservation planning: A comparison of three marine protected area planning processes" in Ocean & Coastal Management 53(2): 41-51, 2010 (with Osmond, Michasel, S. Airame, and Jon Day ).

Faculty Leaders: Deborah Sivas

Deborah Sivas '87

--presented on Lessons Legal and Policy Lessons from the Deepwater Horizon Spill at Stanford Chapter of Scientists and Engineers of America, Oct. 5, 2010.

--presented "BP and the Gulf Disaster: When Green is More than a Color," Women's Caucus of the California Democratic Party, July 16, 2010.

--presented, "ABC's: Practical Aspects of Prosecuting Citizens' Suits," California State Bar Program on Private Enforcement of Environmental Law - Prosecuting and Defending Citizens' Suits, June 25, 2010.

--moderated Panel on Environmental Impact of Food Production, at "Carrots and Sticks," A Symposium of Food Policy and Law, April 23, 2010.

--presented at University of California Berkeley School of Law Symposium Honoring Thelton E. Henderson's Thirtieth Anniversary on the Bench, April 16, 2010.

--published "The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and a Review of MMS NEPA Documents" and Appendix for the National Commission on BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, October 19, 2010 with Meg Caldwell and Kimiko Narita.

--published "Viewpoints: CEQA Is Worth a Goal-Line Stand," Sacramento Bee, July 30, 2010 with Mark A. Massara.

--authored, After Copenhagen – What’s Next, The Daily Journal (Jan. 6, 2010).

--published "Guiding ecological principles for marine spatial planning" in Marine Policy, 2010 (with Foley, M.M., B.S. Halpern, F. Micheli, M.H. Armsby, M.R. Caldwell, E. Prahler, D. Sivas, C.M. Crain, N. Rohr, M.W. Beck, M.H. Carr, L.B. Crowder, J.E. Duffy, S.D. Hacker, K. McLeod, C.H. Peterson, H.M. Regan, P.A. Sandifer, R.S. Steneck).

Courses, Including Two New Offerings

Although we are a small school (our total J.D. enrollment is 510, or about 170 per year), this academic year, we are offering 10 courses on energy and environmental law: environment & energy workshop; environmental law and policy; international environmental law; California coast: science, policy and law; regulated industries; conservation in the face of climate change; energy law; legislative simulation: cap & trade debate; and basic and advanced environmental law clinic.  Two of these courses are new: conservation in the face of climate change and legislative simulation: cap & trade debate .  In addition, we are offerering over 35 enrichment courses that are of particular relevance to environmental students.  See our Brief Guide for Academic Year 2010-2011.

Environmental Law Clinic

The Environmental Law Clinic provides an opportunity for students to work in the environmental advocacy arena on behalf of a wide variety of nonprofit organizations, from national groups like the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Ocean Conservancy to such regional and local grassroots groups as the Center for Biological Diversity,  Monterey Coastkeeper, and Voices of the Wetlands.  Under Luke W. Cole Professor of Environmental Law Deborah Sivas '87, students engage in natural resource litigation, administrative practice, and policy work involving federal public lands, marine and coastal resources, biodiversity, water quality, and global climate change. 

This year, the clinic students seized several opportunities to argue cases, present testimony, and write briefs.  Four students, James Williams '10, Justin Goodwin '11, and Molly Knobler '11, and Jacob Hale Russell '11 each argued cases before the ninth circuit, northern district court of California,  Montana district court, and superior court of Del Norte county respectively.   See below for a fuller description of three of these oral arguments. 

Wendra Liang '11 and Bruce Ho '11 traveled to Bonn, Germany over spring break to give oral presentations and participate in a meeting before the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism, the international body that administers the European "cap and trade" system for greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming.  Jacob Hale Russell '11 presented testimony to the State Water Resources Control Board in Sacramento on its proposal to more stringently regulate power plant cooling water systems in vulnerable coastal estuaries.  Kimi Narita '11, Allen Gleckner '11, and Michael Nunez '11 drafted a brief to the California Supreme Court on some of the very same issues.  Garrett Anderson '11 filed an amicus brief on behalf of the Union of Concerned Scientists and several individual academic scientists in the Supreme Court case of Monsanto v Geertson. 

Chessie Thacher '11 and Alejandra Bras '11 led a lengthy meeting with the Superintendent of the Gulf of the Farallons National Marine Sanctuary over the management of great white sharks in sanctuary waters -- in the agency's spectacular offices on the beach at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge.  Sarah Edwards '11 led our negotiation efforts with the EPA and co-plaintiffs to regulate ballast water discharge.  Priya Naik '11 and Garrett Anderson '11 researched public trust doctrine issues of logging plans in local forests.  Chris Warshaw '11 and Greg Wannier '10 analyzed implications of a proposed greenhouse gas offsets regime. 

Amanda Morse '11 and Collin Wedel '11 authored a Ninth Circuit brief in a long-standing clinic case, the Eagle Mountain landfill case, which involved the Bureau of Land Management's transfer of roughly 3,500 acres of federal public land adjacent to the wilderness areas of Joshua Tree National Park in the Mojave Desert to a private mining company for the purpose of developing a mega-landfill.  Most recently, the Ninth Circuit denied the mining company's petition for rehearing.  Adam Thomas '11 and Albert Yang '11 drafted briefs in the case concerning the 10,000-year old Indian sacred site before the ninth circuit (described in more depth below).  Amelia Sargent '11 and Justin Goodwin '11 worked on the briefs in a district court case on shrimp importation (also described in more depth below). 

The Environmental Law Clinic is directed by the Luke W. Cole Professor of Environmental Law Deborah Sivas '87, with assistance from Clinical Teaching Fellow Robb Kapla BA '99, MS '00, and Lecturer Alicia Thesing '00.  Lynda Johnston provides wonderful legal assistance.  For more detailed information about Stanford's Clinical program as a whole, please go to Stanford's Mills Legal Clinic blog.

Clinic Student Argued Before the Ninth Circuit

James Williams '10 argued a "comeback case" before the Ninth Circuit of Appeal on behalf of the Pit River Tribe and others.  The clinic had previously won a major victory for the clients when the Ninth Circuit ruled that federal agencies had to undertake full environmental review and government-to-government consultation before they could lease resources beneath a 10,000-year old Indian sacred site for industrial-scale energy development.  When disputes arose over how to interpret and implement the court's ruling, the clinic was back in court briefing the issue.  Over the last few academic terms, clinic students Jared Thompson '10, Andrew Yaphe '10, Josh Sheptow '10, Adam Thomas '11, and Albert Yang '11 drafted our briefs to the district and appellate courts.  Given the nature of the dispute, the Ninth Circuit placed the matter on calendar for expedited oral argument in a specially set session.  The entire class assisted with preparation for the hearing, with significant assistance from two students who also sat at the counsel table with the student arguing the case.  In the court's large, ceremonial courtroom in San Francisco, an overflow crowd of Native Americans, many of whom traveled several hours to attend, watched the student smoothly field the judges' questions and put the clients' best arguments forward.  The consensus of those in attendance was that the student's performance outshone the presentations of government and industry counsel, who between them had more than sixty years of courtroom experience.

Clinic Students Argued in the District Court

Two clinic students argued cases before the district court. 

Justin Goodwin '11 presented argument before the district court in Oakland on a motion for judgment on the pleadings in a case where the clinic's client is challenging the U.S. State Department's failure to conduct appropriate environmental review before certifying the importation of shrimp harvested by foriegn fishing fleets.  Of particular relevance to this case, shrimp nets frequently ensnare and drown imperiled sea turtles that inhabit the same waters. For this reason, domestic shrimp fishing vessels must use a simple, inexpensive "turtle excluder device” essentially a trap door that allows turtles to escape the net without significantly affecting shrimp catch levels—whenever the vessels are operating in waters, like the Gulf of Mexico, where sea turtles also are present. To address the same problem outside the U.S., Congress has prohibited the importation of foreign shrimp into the lucrative domestic consumer market unless the foreign nation harvesting the shrimp demonstrates that it has a comparable regulatory program for protecting sea turtles. The State Department, however, annually certifies more than a dozen foreign nations for importation without conducting the environmental review required by federal law. The clinic's client sued over this practice, and the State Department raised a number of procedural defenses in a motion for judgment on the pleadings. The student assigned to this case drafted the clinic's opposition brief and managed to squeeze the court argument in between two final exams. The judge opened the hearing by announcing her strong inclination to grant the motion, and the student presented a forceful argument why she should not do so. As a result, the court did not rule against our client at the hearing, but instead took the matter under submission and after consideration, the court ruled against our client.  Several other clinic students helped in the argument preparation.  Amelia Sargent ' 11helped in the early briefing stage of this case.  The clinic is now appealing the district court's ruling to the ninth circuit.

Molly Knobler '11 presented oral argument to the district court in Montana in the clinic's effort on behalf of a client to reverse the federal government's decision to "delist" the Northern Rocky Mountain population of the gray wolf under the Endangered Species Act.  After being hunted to extinction in the Northern Rockies, gray wolves were reintroduced into Idaho, Montana and Wyoming several years ago, as federal wildlife officials attempted to restore the ecological balance of the region.  The reintroduced 9 wolves have increased to the point that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decided this year to remove federal endangered species protections for part of the population, thereby paving the way for states to resume the annual hunting of wolves.  The clinic's client, concerned about the still precarious size of the Greater Yellowstone Area subpopulation, challenged the delisting decision as inconsistent with the statute and unsupported by the record.  The issue is a highly charged one on all sides. Protestors advocating for elimination of wolves amassed outside the courthouse before the hearing, as lawyers, clients and reporters inside spilled out of the overflowing courtroom.  The judge heard nearly three hours of argument from the conservation groups, the federal government, and the states, and ruled in our client's favor.  Once again, several clinic students participated in the hearing preparation.  Molly sacrificed the first few weeks of summer break to finish up this project.  Jacob Hale Russell '11 helped in briefing the arguments.

Interdisciplinary Ties

Our program has a strong a focus on interdisciplinary teaching and scholarship. In this regard, we have ties to other world-class Stanford University research centers and programs, including: Woods Institute for the Environment; Center for Ocean Solutions ; Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; Program on Energy & Sustainable Development; Program on Food Security and the Environment; Precourt Institute for Energy; Global Climate & Energy Project; Precourt Energy Efficiency Center ; and TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy.

Joint Degrees

The Law School provides 20 Joint Degree programs, four of which are of particular interest to environmental students: Business (MBA, 4 years); Emmet Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER) (MS, 3 years, PhD); International Policy Studies (MA, 4 years); and Public Policy (MPP, 4 years).  We currently have 38 students seeking a joint degree.

Student Journals & Organizations

The Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program works closely with students in related student journals and organizations, including the Stanford Environmental Law Journal ; the Stanford Journal of Law, Science and Policy; the Stanford Journal of Animal Law & Policy; the Stanford Environmental Law Society; the Energy Society of Stanford Law School; and the Stanford Law School Student Animal Legal Defense Fund.

Recent Events

Alumni Weekend Panel, October 22, 2010 "Mixing Oil and Water: Policy Implications of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill" Featuring: Margaret “Meg” Caldwell, JD ’85, Director, Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program; Executive Director, Center for Ocean Solutions, Woods Institute for the Environment
David J. Hayes, JD ’78, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior
Dan Reicher, JD ’83, Director, Climate Change & Energy, Google.org
Deborah A. Sivas, JD ’87, Luke W. Cole Professor of Environmental Law and Director, Environmental Law Clinic
Barton H. “Buzz” Thompson, Jr., ’73, JD/MBA ’76, MODERATOR Paradise Professor of Natural Resources Law and McCarty Director of the Woods Institute for the Environment

BP Oil Spill: Environmental Justice Implications, Monday, October 18

Thinking Globally: International Climate Change Action -- current strategies for achieving international agreements to reduce carbon emissions, including the California-China project, REDD, and US State Dept strategies abroad, Stanford Law School, October 16, 4-5:30pm

Energy and Sustainable Development Conference
September 7, 2010

Green Triage: Climate Mitigation v. Preservation in the Face of Climate Change
May 20, 2010

Environmentalists in the Big Law World
May 6, 2010

Is Greening Patent Laws a Good Solution to the Climate Change Problem?
May 6, 2010

Using the Law in Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign
April 27, 2010

SLPR Food Policy Symposium
April 23, 2010

Earth Day Celebration
April 22, 2010

The Lawyer's Role in Renewable Energy Transactions - Learning about Wind Energy Project Finance from the Industry Leaders
April 20, 2010

Winston & Strawn's Clean Energy Practice
April 8, 2010

Copenhagen Debrief
January 12, 2010

Solazyme: Producing Biofuels from Algae
October 27, 2009

Donald Humphreys, Senior Vice President and Treasurer, ExxonMobil: The Role of Corporate Citizenship in Meeting World Energy Demand
October 16, 2009

Three Degrees: Imagining a Warmer World
October 15, 2009

Upcoming Events

 Energy Seminar, Wednesdays, 4:15-5:15, Building 420, Room 40

Place Matters: Overview of Marine Spatial Planning
Presentation by Meg Caldwell and Larry Crowder
November 16, 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:30pm
La Feliz Room, Seymour Discovery Center
Long Marine Lab
Santa Cruz CA 95060
Event Type: Seminar
Open to all grad students, postdocs, and faculty

Interdisciplinary Problem Solving: Apply Your Skills to Improve Stormwater Runoff Management in Monterey Bay
Friday, December 3rd (all day) Saturday, December 4th (all day), and Sunday, December 5 (until noon)

Environment & Energy Workshop

Seminars meet Mondays, 4:15-6:15pm, in Room 230, Stanford Law School

September 20
“Marine Spatial Planning”
Meg Caldwell
Director, Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program; Stanford Law School
Executive Director, Center for Ocean Solutions, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford
Deborah Sivas
Luke W. Cole Professor of Environmental Law and Director, Environmental Law Clinic
Stanford Law School

September 27
“National BP Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling”
Meg Caldwell
Director, Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program; Stanford Law School
Executive Director, Center for Ocean Solutions, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford

October 11
“Notional Generosity: Explaining Charitable Donors’ High Willingness to Part with Conservation Easements”
Josh Eagle
Associate Professor of Law, University of South Carolina Law School

October 18
“Climate Change, Property Rights, and Renewable Energy”
Alexandra Klass
Professor of Law; Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, University of Minnesota Law School

Buzz Thompson (commentator)
Robert E. Paradise Professor in Natural Resources Law, Stanford Law School
Perry L. McCarty Director,
Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford

 October 25
“Hernando De Soto’s Work and Its Environmental Implications”
Carol Rose
Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor Emeritus of Law and Organization and Professorial Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School

David Kennedy (commentator)
Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Emeritus, Stanford

November 1
“Adaptive Management and Information”
Holly Doremus
Professor of Law, UC Berkeley Law School

Rebecca Shaw (commentator)
The Nature Conservancy

November 8
“Liability and Regulatory Issues Related To Carbon Sequestration”
David Adelman
Associate Professor of Law, University of Arizona Law School

November 15
“Time-Varying Electricity Pricing, the Equity Issues It Raises, the Potential Efficiency Gains, Environmental Effects and Political Barriers”
Severin Borenstein
E.T. Grether Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

November 29
“Place-Based Marine Management in a Climate Change Era”
Robin Craig
Professor and Associate Dean for Environmental Programs, Florida State University Law School

Meg Caldwell & Deborah Sivas (commentators)
Stanford Law School