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PLEASE CONTACT LINDSAY WALTER AT LINZNWALTER@BERKELEY.EDU
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Ecology Law Quarterly & CLEE present a symposium on
The Data Ecosystem:
Bringing Environmental Law Into the Digital Age
April 1, 2016, 9am-4pm
UC Berkeley School of Law
ELQ and CLEE invite you to join other practitioners and scholars for a one-day symposium exploring issues that rest at the intersection of technology, environmental regulation, and environmental law. Recent years have seen monumental advances in the technology we use to govern, manage, and monitor the world around us. This symposium will focus on the vast opportunities and possible tensions this creates, from opportunities to transform stakeholder engagement to challenges in the courtroom.
We hope that the day of discussion will serve as a forum for advancing discussions between those steeped in these areas of research, sparking ideas for those beginning to explore what big data is, and broadly for learning from one another about how best to harness technology to improve environmental governance. Following the symposium, ELQ will produce a dedicated symposium journal featuring several of the day’s speakers to memorialize some of the conversations started.
FEATURED SPEAKERS & AUTHORS INCLUDE:
Ken Alex, Director, Governor’s Office of Planning & Research
Ronán Long, Professor, National University of Ireland, Galway
Robert Glicksman, Professor, George Washington University
David Markell, Professor, Florida State University
Elizabeth Baca, Governor’s Office of Planning & Research
Ryan Kelly, Assistant Professor, University of Washington
Phil Levin, Acting Director, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA
Kate Wing, K|W Consulting
Dave Owen, Professor, UC Hastings College of Law
TENTATIVE PROGRAM:
8:30-9:00AM | Registration
9:00-10:15AM | Panel I: Syncing Ecology and Technology: An Introduction to Big Data
10:15-10:30AM | Coffee Break
10:30-11:45AM | Panel II: Origins and Uses of Technology: Innovating for a Better Environment
11:45AM-1:00PM | Lunch & Keynote Presentation: Can Data Change Land Use?
1:00-2:15PM | Panel III: Swimming Through Uncertainty: Accessing & Forecasting New Information
2:15-2:30PM | Coffee Break
2:30-3:45PM | Panel IV: Data and the Public: A Natural Evolution?
3:45-4:00PM | Closing Remarks
4:00-6:00PM | Reception
For more information, please contact:
Lindsay Walter, Symposium Editor, ELQ
Jordan Diamond, Executive Director, CLEE
SPONSORS:
Many thanks to our co-sponsors
Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP
Sheppard, Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
About ELQ: Ecology Law Quarterly (ELQ) is a preeminent environmental law journal at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. The journal published its first issue in the winter of 1971, despite then-Dean Edward Halbach’s doubts as to whether environmental law was a relevant enough field of law to support a viable law journal! ELQ continues to be one of the most-cited, student-edited environmental law journals in the nation.
About CLEE: The Center for Law, Energy & the Environment (CLEE) is a policy research center that seeks to channel the expertise and creativity of the Berkeley Law community into pragmatic law and policy solutions to critical environmental and energy issues. CLEE works with businesses, communities, government, industry, and nongovernmental organizations on interdisciplinary approaches that are efficient, equitable, and effective. Current initiatives include reducing greenhouse gas emissions, advancing the transition to renewable energy, and ensuring clean water for California’s future.