Video and Audio Resources
CLEE Webcasts & Other Recordings
Impact of Key Environmental Law Decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court
June 30, 2009NOTE: MCLE Credit offered with this program
CDM Reforms in the Context of a Greater Protocol: Berkeley Law Students' Perspective from Copenhagen
Featuring Berkeley Law students Ian Fein, Heather Matsumoto, Jeslyn Miller and Tyler McNish
July 15, 2009
CLEE Speaker Series
- Environmental Law Careers Panel
With speakers Robert Falk of Morrison & Foerster, Robert Doty of Cox Castle & Nicholson, Letitia Moore of USEPA, Ken Alex of the California Attorney General’s Office, Anjali Jaiswal of NRDC, and Osa Wolff of Shute Mihaly & Weinberger.
September 16, 2009 - A Briefing from the Frontlines in the Battle to Pass Comprehensive Climate Change Legislation
Bill Tyndall, Senior Vice President of Duke Energy’s Strategy, Policy & Regulatory Group,
October 12, 2009 - Spring 2010 Environmental Law Curriculum Rollout
October 13, 2009 - The Lead Up to Copenhagen: Offsets and the Parallel Paths to Climate Change Regulation
Nico W. van Aelstyn, Principal, Beveridge and Diamond, P.C.
October 20, 2009
Spring 2009
- Unleashing the Clean Energy Economy
Michael Shellenberger vs. Peter Barnes - February 18, 2009 - Environmental Program Town Hall
February 19, 2009 - Climate Change & the View from the Attorney General's Office
Cliff Rechtschaffen - March 3, 2009 - Arctic Boundaries and Climate Change: The Changing Concept of Space and Place in the Arctic
Co-sponsored by the American Society of International Law, International Environmental Law Interest Group
David Caron and Harry Scheiber - March 17, 2009 - California Water: The Looming Crisis & Paths to a More Sustainable Future
Jeff Kightlinger vs. Barry Nelson - April 22, 2009
Fall 2008
- Energy Justice: Addressing Poverty and Climate Change Through Intermediate Technology
Lakshman Guruswamy - September 9, 2008 - Climate Policy for Transportation: Politics & Policy
Dan Sperling - September 15, 2008 - Environmental Law Careers Panel
- The European Court of Human Rights and the Right of Clean Environment: A Phantom or Reality?
Malgosia Fitzmaurice - October 7, 2008 - How to Grow Green-Collar Jobs
Kate Gordon - October 21, 2008
September 23, 2008
Environmental Law Courses Online
Law 271.71 - International Environmental Law - Cymie Payne (Spring 2009):
- Lecture 1 - The Scope of International Environmental Law
- Lecture 2 - Dispute Settlement, Compliance and International Institutions
- Lecture 3 - Bilateral Disputes
- Lecture 4 - Transboundary Watercourses and Groundwater
- Lecture 5 - Montreal Protocol
- Lecture 6 - Climate Change 1
- Lecture 7 - Human Rights and Environment - Guest: Neil Popovic
- Lecture 8 - Climate Change 2
- Lecture 9 - Biodiversity
- Lecture 10 - Role of National Courts and Laws
- Lecture 11 - Trade and Environment
- Lecture 12 - Hazardous Materials
- Lecture 13 - State Responsibility - War and Environment
- Lecture 14 - Making International Environmental Law Work - Compliance, Enforcement, Effectiveness
Law 272.3 - Climate Change: Law & Policy - Dan Farber & Cymie Payne (Fall 2008)
- Lecture 1 - The Science of Climate Change
Guest: William Collins, Senior Scientist and Department Head, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Professor in Residence, University of California, Berkeley - Lecture 2 - The Economics of Climate Change
Guest: Michael Hanemann, Chancellor's Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley - Lecture 3 - Financing Adaptation
Guest: Teresa Stanton, Reference Librarian for Foreign and Comparative Law, Berkeley Law Library - Lecture 5 - Insurance
Guest: Evan Mills, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Environmental Energy Technologies Division - Lecture 6 - The International Climate Regime
- Lecture 7 - Engaging the Developing World
- Lecture 8 - Climate Change and Biodiversity
Guests: Kassie Siegel, Staff Attorney, Center for Biological Diversity and Steven Beissinger, Professor of Conservation Biology, Chair of Ecosystem Sciences Division and Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, UC Berkeley - Lecture 9 - Climate and Trade Law: The Biofuels Problem
Guest: Mike O'Hare, Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley - Lecture 10 - Massachusetts v. EPA and its Aftermath
- Lecture 11 - Putting a Price on Carbon - Cap & Trade, Carbon Tax
- Lecture 12 - Current Federal Statutes and Litigation
Guest: Ken Alex, Office of the Attorney General
Law 272.1 - Water Resources Law - Antonio Rossmann (Fall 2008)
- Sept. 25: Western Water Law Evolution, Constitutional Issues
- Dec. 2: Colorado River and other interstate allocations
Law 270.7 - Renewable Energy & Alternative Fuels - Steve Weissman (Fall 2008)
- Lecture 1 - Introduction to Renewable Energy Options
- Lecture 2 - Federal Renewable Energy Programs
- Lecture 3 - State Programs and Regional
- Lecture 4 - State Programs & an Introduction to Local Government Programs
- Lecture 5 - Distributed Generation
- Lecture 6 - Transmission and Deregulation
- Lecture 7 - Technology-Specific Issues and Opportunities: Wind
- Lecture 8 - Technology-Specific Issues and Opportunities: Geothermal
- Lecture 9 - Technology-Specific Issues and Opportunities: Distributed Solar
- Lecture 10 - Technology-Specific Issues and Opportunities
- Lecture 11 - Biomass & Biofuels, and Landfill Gas
- Lecture 12 - Waves, Tides, & Ocean Thermal
- Lecture 13 - Small Hydro, Alternative Fossil Fuels, and Hydrogen
- Lecture 14 - Greenhouse Gases and Wrap-up
Law 270.6 - Energy Regulations and the Environment - Steve Weissman (Spring 2008)
- Lecture 1 - Introduction to Energy and Electricity
- Lecture 2 - Public Utilities & Rate Regulation: Intro to Finance
- Lecture 3 - Public Utilities & Rate Regulation: Cost of Service Regulation (Part 1)
- Lecture 4 - Public Utilities & Rate Regulation (part 2)
- Lecture 6 - Resource Alternatives: Tradition Fuels, Oil and Hydroelectric Power
- Lecture 8 - Resource Alternatives: Natural Gas
- Lecture 9 - Resource Alternatives: Renewable Energy - The Technologies
- Lecture 10 - Demand Side Management: Energy Efficiency
- Lecture 11 - Performance Based Ratemaking and Decoupling
- Lecture 12 - Deregulation and Markets: Wholesale Electricity Markets
- Lecture 14 - Climate Change and Carbon Markets
- Lecture 15 - Course Review
Law 271 - Environmental Law and Policy - Holly Doremus (Spring 2008)
- Lecture 1 - What is Environmental Law?
- Lecture 2 - The Role of Values
- Lecture 3 - Common Law Environmental Doctrines
- Lecture 4 - Common Law Versus Public Law
- Lecture 5 - Introduction to Standing
- Lecture 6 - Standing (continued)
- Lecture 7 - Judicial Review
- Lecture 8 - Introduction: NEPA and the Power of Information
- Lecture 9 - The Duty to Prepare an EIS
- Lecture 10 - Contents of the EIS - Evaluating NEPA: Other Information Based Strategies
- Lecture 11 - NEPA (continued)
- Lecture 12 - Risk Assessment and Management
- Lecture 13 - From Risk Assessment to Regulation
- Lecture 14 - Air Quality Criteria and Standards
- Lecture 15 - State Implementation Plans
- Lecture 16 - Make-up session: Grandfathering and New Source Review
- Lecture 17 - Automobile Emissions and Technology Forcing
- Lecture 18 - Tradeable Emission Permits
- Lecture 19 - Introduction and Overview: The NPDES Program
- Lecture 20 - The Scope of NPDES Regulation (continued)
- Lecture 21 - Effluent Standards for Point Sources
- Lecture 22 - Nonpoint Source Pollution - Water Quality Standards
- Lecture 23 - Introduction: Civil Enforcement
- Lecture 24 - Criminal Enforcement
- Lecture 25 - Citizen Suits
- Lecture 26 - Historical and Theoretical Background: Cooperative Federalism
- Lecture 27 - Sources and Limits of Federal Power
- Lecture 28 - Preemption
Conferences
California and the Future of Environmental Law and Policy:
Leading the Global Response to Environmental and Energy Challenges
April 10-11, 2008, 08:00AM
Booth Auditorium, Boalt Hall
California's natural resources, economy, demographics and political system have made it a unique laboratory for environmental policy over the past half century. As a result, California has often led both the nation and the world in recognizing environmental challenges, and in fashioning creative and effective solutions to them.
This conference brought together leading environmental policymakers, scholars and legal practitioners to address California's current and future role at the forefront of environmental law and policy development. In the process, speakers mapped for conference attendees California?s environmental policy agenda for the coming decades. That agenda, in turn, has broad ramifications, inasmuch as California's environmental dilemmas are a microcosm of those faced nationally and globally. The environmental solutions California devises to those problems will doubtless prove influential far beyond our borders.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
- California & The Future of Environmental Law & Policy - Welcome & Keynote
- The Potential and Limitations of Litigation in Furthering Climate Change Policy
- Lunch Keynote - Jared Huffman
- Ocean Resources: New Opportunities, New Threats
- The Green Chemistry Revolution: A New Paradigm for Reducing and Managing Hazardous Wastes
- Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency - From California to the World