Environmental Law and Policy Program
The Environmental Law and Policy Program sponsors a series of public lectures in environmental law. Visiting speakers are in residence at Boalt Hall for three to five days, and allocate significant office time during their stay to meet with students on an individual basis. Working in cooperation with the Environmental Law Society, a Berkeley Law student group, the Institute seeks to enrich the opportunities for students and others in the UC Berkeley community in the field of environmental law and policy.
For other Institute activities concerning environmental law, see our Law of the Sea Institute website.
ILR Lectures in Environmental Law
"Climate Change and the Energy Crisis: Lessons from History"Professor Paul Sabin, Yale University
February 9, 2009
"Nuclear and Military Activities in the Oceans"
Professor Jon M. Van Dyke, University of Hawaii
March 11, 2008
"Moving Toward Stringency in Emissions Trading: The Problem of Slack Caps"
Professor Lesley K. McAllister, University of San Diego
November 13, 2007
"Emerging Energy Technologies Policy in the Gulf of Mexico: Offshore Wind and Ultra-Deepwater Drilling"
Professor Richard J. McLaughlin, Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
February 8, 2007
"The Global Crisis in Ocean Fishery Resources"
Dr. Kathryn Mengerink, Environmental Law Institute
September 14, 2006
"Can the Common Law Protect the Global Commons?"
Professor Robert Percival, University of Maryland
March 22, 2006
"Conservation in Whole"
Professor Eric Freyfogle, University of Illinois
September 23, 2005
"Ocean Communities in Conflict: Heartbreaking Lessons from the Battle Over Marine Protected Areas in Hawaii"
Professor Denise E. Antolini, University of Hawaii
April 4, 2005
"The Making of Environmental Law"
Professor Richard J. Lazarus, Georgetown University
November 17, 2004
"The World Trade Organization's Anti-Discrimination Jurisprudence: Free Trade, National Sovereignty, and Environmental Health in the Balance"
Professor Sheila Foster, Fordham University
March 3, 2004
"New Challenges Facing the Ocean Environment"
Professor Jon Van Dyke, University of Hawaii
October 22, 2003
"The Political Economy of Sustainable Wildlife Management: The Vicuna of the High Andes"
Desmond McNeill, University of Oslo
April 30, 2003
Conference on “Oceans in the Nuclear Age: Legacies and Risks,” February 10-11, 2006
This LOSI conference examined the legacies and future implications of the nuclear age for the oceans. In addressing this subject, sessions dealt with topics of broad importance globally, both as to the necessity of policy reconsideration and regarding solutions, and as to their centrality in research on ocean law. But within these topical areas, many subjects of vital concern have not received the systematic attention they deserve in the scholarly literature to date. Among the topics were:
- Radioactive Wastes in the Oceans: Managing the Past and Considering the Future
- Nuclear Activities and Radioactive Waste in the Arctic
- The Legacy of Testing for the Oceans
- Ocean Transport of Radioactive Fuel and Waste
- Nuclear Weapons and Weapon Grade Material on the Oceans
For more information, please refer to our conference website.