Moving Ideas into Action in a Shifting Policy Landscape: A Symposium Marking Twenty Years of the Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment

Join Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment (CLEE) for a symposium marking the research center’s 20th anniversary.

Berkeley Law established the Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment (CLEE) in 2006 – a time when California was launching bold, world-leading policies to address climate and environmental issues. At the same time, the federal government was walking back from its commitments and trying to limit the State’s authority. Fast forward twenty years and the policy landscape looks similar, albeit much more dire – both in the urgency of the climate crisis and the scale of federal rollbacks and attacks on state action.

Over the past twenty years, CLEE has honed its focus and expertise in this shifting and dynamic policy landscape. A large portion of CLEE’s work has focused at the subnational level and has resulted in significant contributions from the local to global scale.

This half-day symposium, marking the 20th anniversary of CLEE, welcomes new and long-time friends and partners of CLEE to discuss the challenges, impacts, and significance of environmental law and policy scholarship and how to make a difference in a dynamic policy landscape.

Speakers include:

• Senator Henry Stern ‘09 (CA District 27)
• Professor Dan Farber, Founding Faculty Director of CLEE
• Rick Frank, Founding Executive Director of CLEE
• Rachel Morello-Frosch, Inaugural Associate Provost of Energy, Climate, and the Environment, UC Berkeley

The symposium will be held from 2:00–5:00 p.m., and followed by a reception with drinks and hors d’oeuvres.

We are grateful to our event sponsors, Brownstein, Nossaman, Orrick, Sheppard, The Tomblin Family Foundation, Willis Towers Watson, and Wilson Sonsini.

We encourage you to RSVP at your earliest convenience due to limited space.

Please email Maia Baltzley at maia.baltzley@berkeley.edu within 7 days of the symposium if you will need an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.), or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate.