April 16, 2010
2105 Rayburn House Office Building, Capitol Hill
Washington, DC
Welcome
- Leslie Carothers, President, Environmental Law Institute
- Michael P. Vandenbergh, Tarkington Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University
- Patricia A. Moye, Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review
- Linda K. Breggin, Senior Attorney, Environmental Law Institute
Super Wicked Problems and Climate Change: Restraining the Present to Liberate the Future
- Richard J. Lazarus, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
- Commenters
- Mary D. Nichols, Chairman, California EPA Air Resources Board
- Keith Cole, Director of Legislative and Regulatory Affairs, General Motors
- Jeanette Soares, Senior Staff Attorney, Government Accountability Office
- Student Moderator: Lindsey N. Winthrop
Ratifying Kyoto at the Local Level: Sovereigntism, Federalism, and Translocal Organizations of Government Actors (TOGAS)
- Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School
- Joshua Civin, Assistant Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
- Joseph Frueh, Law Clerk, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- Commenters:
- Bradley M. Campbell, Counselor at Law, Bradley M. Campbell LLC
- S. William Becker (co-commenter), Executive Director, National Association of Clean Air Agencies (NACAA)
- Amy Royden-Bloom (co-commenter), Senior Staff Associate, NACAA
- Roger R. Martella, Jr., Partner, Sidley Austin LLP
- Student Moderator: Stephen Smith
U.S. Nuclear Waste Law and Policy: Fixing a Bankrupt System
- Richard B. Stewart, Professor, New York University School of Law
- Commenters:
- Vice Admiral John J. Grossenbacher (Ret.), Director, Idaho National Laboratory
- Geoffrey H. Fettus (co-commenter), Senior Project Attorney, Nuclear Program, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
- Dr. Thomas B. Cochran (co-commenter), Senior Scientist, Nuclear Program, NRDC
- David R. Hill, Partner, Sidley Austin LLP
- Student Moderator: Alec Denton
Rethinking the ESA to Reflect Human Dominion over Nature
- Katrina Miriam Wyman, Professor, New York University School of Law
- Commenters:
- Wm. Robert Irvin, Senior Vice President for Conservation Programs, Defenders of Wildlife
- Steven P. Quarles, Partner, Crowell & Moring LLP
- Richard Johnson, Deputy Assistant General Counsel, Government Accountability Office
Nashville Conference
April, 1, 2010
11:15 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Flynn Auditorium, Vanderbilt University Law School
Welcome
- Dean Chris Guthrie, Dean, Vanderbilt University Law School
Introductory Remarks
- Mayor Karl Dean, Mayor of Nashville
The Quiet Revolution Revived: Sustainable Design, Land Use Regulation, and the States
- Sara C. Bronin, Associate Professor of Law, University of Connecticut
- Commenters:
- Lavea Brachman, Non-Resident Fellow, Brookings Institution & Co-Director, Greater Ohio
- Bert Mathews, President, The Mathews Company