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Our friends at Harvard Law School asked us to spread the word about their search for a senior attorney to serve as policy director for their environmental law program. The Policy Director will lead the policy component of the HLS Environmental Law and Policy Program and work closely with environmental law faculty, who will determine …
CONTINUE READINGGive to the Environmental Law Program of Your Choice, But Give!
Environmental law programs are worthy of your support because of their unique blend of teaching, research, and public service. They educate future environmental leaders, generate new solutions to environmental problems, and engage with policy makers, courts, and the public. To begin with, environmental law programs train the lawyers who will represent governments, businesses, and public …
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CONTINUE READINGJon Van Dyke (1943-2011)
Professor Jon Van Dyke of the University of Hawaii’s Richardson Law School died unexpectedly earlier this week. His work extended across many fields, but most relevantly to this blog, he worked extensively on oceans issues and international environmental law. He edited five books on these subjects: Consensus and Confrontation: The United States and the …
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CONTINUE READINGIn Memory: UC Berkeley Chancellor and Professor Ira Michael Heyman
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Ira Michael Heyman, Chancellor of UC Berkeley from 1980 to 1990 and Professor Emeritus at Berkeley Law, where he had been a faculty member since 1959. He passed away on Saturday at the age of 81. A tremendously wise, kind, and generous soul, Professor …
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CONTINUE READINGGOP Postmodernism Continues Apace
It’s bad enough that Republicans have declared war on science, and war on facts: now they are declaring war on math. Newt Gingrich says that the Congressional Budget Office should be abolished, mainly it will tell him things that he doesn’t like. As Brian Beutler of TPM notes, any attempt to repeal health care reform …
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CONTINUE READING2012 California Water Law Symposium: register now
Registration is now open for the 2012 California Water Law Symposium, to be held Saturday, January 21, 2012. The Symposium is a remarkable event, launched in 2005 by a consortium of law students from Bay Area schools. This eighth edition is made possible by the cooperative efforts of students from Berkeley Law (this year’s host), …
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CONTINUE READINGUC Berkeley / UCLA Law Conference on Local Government Climate Change Policies
The UC Berkeley and UCLA Schools of Law are holding a free public conference at UC Berkeley on Friday, December 2nd to discuss local government climate change policies. Conference speakers include some of the state’s top policy, business, and environmental leaders, who will report on promising ways that cities and counties can address climate change …
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CONTINUE READINGCatching up with ELQ
While I was taking a hiatus from blogging, ELQ published not just one but two issues. Check out Volume 38, Issue 1, featuring: Michelle Bryan Mudd, A “Constant and Difficult Task”: Making Local Land Use Decisions in a State with a Constitutional Right to a Healthful Environment? Alexandra B. Klass, Property Rights on the New …
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CONTINUE READINGLisa Jackson at Berkeley Law
Yesterday, Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment hosted a public presentation by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson. She delivered brief prepared remarks, then took a lot of questions. She didn’t announce any new policy initiatives, but she did make it clear that she (and the President) are not going to cave to pressure …
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CONTINUE READINGNew Voices in Environmental Law
This blog features some work by some junior scholars and some established ones. One thing that we’ve tried to do, from time to time, is to direct attention to new electronic sources on environmental law. In that spirit, here some blogs and twitter feeds featuring junior scholars that we think are worth a look: Matt …
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