Event Archives
Past Symposia and Conferences
April 10-11, 2008, "California and the Future of Environmental Law and Policy"
February 22-23 - "Cap and Trade as a Tool for Climate Change Conference"
October 26-27, 2006 - Conference "Litigating Takings: And Other Constitutional Challenges to Land Use and Environmental Regulations."
Co-sponsored by Georgetown Environmental Law & Policy Institute and the Georgetown University Law Center.Participants included:
- Introductory Program on Takings Law and Related Legal Doctrines by Susan Cook, U.S. Department of Justice; John Echeverria, Georgetown Environmental Law & Policy Institute; Robert Meltz, Congressional Research Service
- Welcome and Introductions by Christopher Edley, Jr., Dean, Boalt Hall School of Law; J. Peter Byrne, Faculty Director, Georgetown Environmental Law & Policy Institute, Georgetown University Law Center; Richard Frank, Executive Director, California Center for Environmental Law & Policy, Boalt Hall School of Law
- David Barron, Harvard Law School; Nicole Garnett, Notre Dame Law School
- Richard Frank, California Center for Environmental Law & Policy; Eric Grant, Attorney at Law; Andrea Peterson, Boalt Hall School of Law
- Joseph Sax, Boalt Hall School of Law
- John Leshy, Hastings College of the Law; Jonathan Zasloff, UCLA School of Law
- Brian Gray, Hastings College of the Law; Cliff Lee, California Attorney General’s Office
- Daniel Farber, Boalt Hall School of Law; Richard Lazarus, Georgetown University School of Law
- Peter Byrne, Georgetown University Law Center; William Araiza, Loyola Law School
- Jack J. Coe Jr., Pepperdine University School of Law; Paul Kibel, Fitzgerald Abbott & Beardsley LLP
- Don Chen, Smart Growth America; Richard Whitman, Oregon Attorney General’s Office
- Timothy Sandefur, Pacific Legal Foundation; Andrew Schwartz, Shute Mihaly & Weinberger
- Sally Fairfax, College of Natural Resources, University of California at Berkeley; Nancy McLaughlin, SJ Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah; Jeff Pidot, Maine Attorney General’s Office
- Josh Eagle, University of South Carolina School of Law; Peter Menell, Boalt Hall School of Law
- Meg Caldwell, Chair, California Coastal Commission; Brian Weeks, New Jersey Attorney General’s Office
February 16-17, 2006 – Conference “California and the Future of Environmental Policy.”
Co-sponsored by the Goldman School of Social Policy (GSPP), U.C. Berkeley.
Participants included:
- Introductions by Daniel Farber, Boalt Hall School of Law and Blas Pérez Henríquez, GSPP
- Rick Frank, California Chief Deputy Attorney General Ann Carlson, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
- Dian Grueneich, California Public Utilities Commission
- Michael Hanemann, Chancellor’s Professor, Dept. of Agricultural & Resource Economics, U.C. Berkeley
- Barbara Riordan, California Air Resources Board
- Craig Oren, Professor of Law, Rutgers University
- Jody Freeman, Professor of Law, Harvard University
- Tam Doduc, Chair, State Water Resources Control Board
- Harry Scheiber, Stefan A. Riesenfeld Professor of Law and History; Director, Institute for Legal Research; Director, Sho Sato Program in Japanese and U.S. Law; Boalt Hall School of Law
- Joseph Sax, James H. House and Hiram H. Hurd Professor of Environmental Regulation, Emeritus, Boalt Hall School of Law
January 19, 2006 – Legal Charrette "Après le Déluge: Rebuilding a Sustainable City after Katrina."
Co-Sponsored by Boalt Hall’s Center for Social Justice.
Participants included:
- Raymond Seed, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, U.C. Berkeley
- Kimberly Thomas Rapp, Director, Law and Public Policy, Equal Justice Society
- Robert Bea, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, U.C. Berkeley
- Sheila Foster, Professor of Law, Fordham Law School
- Jonathan Simon, Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, Boalt Hall School of Law
- George Frampton, Jr., Partner, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP; former Assistant Secretary, US Department of the Interior
- Kalima Rose, Associate Director, PolicyLink
- Daniel Farber, Sho Sato Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law
November 16, 2005 – Panel "Preliminary Findings and Discussion of the New Orleans Levee Failures."
Panel convened by the newly-formed Center for Catastrophic Risk Management, organized under the auspices of the University of California Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS).
Participants included:
- Raymond Seed, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, U.C. Berkeley
- Robert Bea, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, U.C. Berkeley
- Professor Daniel Farber, Sho Sato Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law
- Distinguished Speaker Les Harder, Chief of Division of Flood Management
- Moderator: Cheryl Bly-Chester, P.E., Member, Steering Committee for CCRM
October 28, 2005 – Roundtable Discussion "Natural Resources Federalism: Balancing the Power to Regulate and Manage Natural Resources between State and Federal Governments."
Participants included:
- Governor David Freudenthal, State of Wyoming
- Professor Holly Doremus, Professor, U.C. Davis School of Law; CCELP Faculty Affiliate
- Professor Antonio Rossmann, Lecturer, Boalt Hall School of Law
- Moderator: Professor Daniel A. Farber, Sho Sato Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law
June 20, 2005 - Panel "The Supreme Court on Takings."
Participants included:
- Professor Joseph L. Sax, James H. House and Hiram H. Hurd Professor of Environmental Regulation, Emeritus, Boalt Hall School of Law
- Andrew W. Schwartz, Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger, San Francisco
- Eric Grant, Boalt ’90, Attorney at Law, Sacramento
- Moderator: Professor Daniel A. Farber, Sho Sato Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law