Past Programs

The Octopus in the Parking Garage: A Call for Climate Resilience with Robert Verchick

Feb. 15, 2024

Speaker

  • Robert Verchick, Gauthier-St. Martin Eminent Scholar and Chair in Environmental Law, Loyola University New Orleans; 2023-24 Francis B. Cashin Fellow, Harvard Radcliffe Institute

Depolarizing climate change in the United States

Oct. 4, 2023

Speaker

  • Matthew G. Burgess, Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies, University of Colorado

Pursuing Energy Justice: A Conversation with Shalanda Baker

Sept. 28, 2023

Speaker

  • Honorable Shalanda H. Baker, Director of the Office of Economic Impact and Diversity, U.S. Department of Energy and Secretarial Advisor on Equity

Climate Change and International Law at a Crossroad

Sept. 28-29, 2023

Speakers

  • Jim Chen, former VP and Counsel of Tesla and Rivian Motors
  • John Knox, former UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights and the Environment
  • Honorable Chile Eboe-Osuji, former President of the International Criminal Court

The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas

April 10, 2023

Speaker

  • M. Margaret McKeown, Judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Repairing our Legacy: Native Nations, Co-Management and the Future of Federal Public Lands

March 22, 2023

Speaker

  • Monte Mills, Charles I. Stone Professor of Law, Director of the Native American Law Center (NALC), University of Washington

Climate Change Goes to Court

Sept. 27, 2022

Speaker

  • Jonathan H. Adler, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, founding Director of the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law

Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency and the Future of Clean Water Act Jurisdiction

Sept. 21, 2022

Speakers

  • Royal C. Gardner, Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Institute for Biodiversity Law and Policy, Stetson University College of Law
  • Jonathan Wood, vice president of law and policy at the Property and Environment Research Center
  • Jonathan H. Adler, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, founding Director of the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law

The Clean Water Act at 50: An Interdisciplinary Symposium

April 8, 2022

Speakers

  • Jonathan H. Adler, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, founding Director of the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law
  • Robert W. Adler, Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Utah, S.J. Quinney
    College of Law, and the former Jefferson B. and Rita E. Fordham Dean
  • Annie Brett, Law Professor, University of Florida Levin College of Law
  • William W. Buzbee, Edward and Carole Walter Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
  • Elizabeth Cisar, Senior Adviser, Office of Water at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  • Robin Kundis Craig, Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law, USC Gould School of Law
  • Bonnie Keelerm, Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Science,
    Technology, and Environmental Policy, University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of
    Public Affairs
  • David Keiser, Professor in the Department of Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Nina A. Mendelson,  Joseph L. Sax Collegiate Professor of Law, Michigan Law
  • Sheila Olmstead, Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of
    Texas at Austin (UT)
  • Dave Owenk, Law Professor,  University of California, Hastings
  • J.B. Ruhl, David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School
  • Erin Ryan, Associate Dean for Environmental Programs and Elizabeth C. and Clyde W.
    Atkinson Professor of Law, Florida State University
  • James Salzman, Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law, UCLA School of Law and Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at UC Santa Barbara

Climate Change Returns to the Supreme Court: The Issues and Stakes in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency

Feb. 24, 2022

Speakers

  • Lisa Heinzerling, Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
  • James Coleman, Robert G. Storey Distinguished Faculty Fellow and Professor of Law, SMU Dedman School of Law

Climate Change, Financial Markets & Corporate Disclosure 

May 25, 2021

Speakers

  • Professor Madison Condon of the Boston University School of Law
  • Professor Kevin Haeberle of William & Mary School of Law

Adapting to Climate Change: Economic and Legal Perspectives 

April 28, 2021

Speakers

  • Matthew Kahn, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Economics and Business
  • Robin Craig, James I. Farr Presidential Endowed Professor of Law

Wildlife as Property Owners: A New Conception of Animal Rights 

March 1, 2021

Speakers

  • Karen Bradshaw, Professor of Law and the Mary Sigler Fellow, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
  • Holly Doremus, the James H. House and Hiram H. Hurd Professor of Environmental Regulation at the University of California, Berkeley 

The Rule of Five: Making Climate History at the Supreme Court

October 21, 2020

Speaker

  • Richard J. Lazarus, Howard and Katherine Aibel Professor of Law at Harvard University

Environmental Health and the Law

March 27, 2020

Speakers

  • Doug Farquhar, J.D., National Conference of State Legislatures Program Director for Environmental Health, Professor at University of Denver, Environmental Policy and Management
  • Adam Finkel, Sc. D., CIH, Clinical Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Bernard Goldstein, M.D., Professor Emeritus, Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
  • Professor Wendy E. Wagner, University of Texas at Austin School of Law  
  • Michelle Bell, Ph.D., M.S.E., Mary E. Pinchot Professor of Environmental Health, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University
  • Kathleen Hoke, J.D., Professor, Director of the Legal Resource Center for Public Health Policy, Francis King Carey School of Law, University of Maryland
  • Janet McCabe, Director of the Indiana University Environmental Resilience Institute, Professor of Practice at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
  • Emily Benfer, J.D., L.L.M., Visiting Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Columbia University, Law School
  • Elizabeth Ann Glass Geltman, J.D., L.L.M, Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management at City University of New York, Secretary of the Environment Section of the American Public Health Association
  • Montrece Ransom, J.D., M.P.H., Speaker, Public Health Law & Policy Expert, Team Lead, Public Health Law Training and Workforce Development at the Center for Disease Control
  • Steph Tai, J.D., Ph.D., Professor of Environmental, Health, and Administrative Law, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Law School
  • Katharine Van Tassel, J.D., M.P.H., Visiting Professor, The Law-Medicine Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
  • Professor Darcy A. Freedman, Case Western Reserve University
  • Jonathan H. Adler, Professor, Case Western Reserve University School of Law & Director, Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law
  • Sharona Hoffman, Professor, Case Western Reserve University School of Law & Co-Director, Law-Medicine Center

 


A View from the Environment and Natural Resources Division: Constitutional Environmentalism, Mature Environmentalism

March 16, 2020

Speaker

Jeffrey Bossert Clark, United States Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division 

 


It's Getting Hot in Here: Climate Change Cases Heat Up in Federal Court

November 8, 2019

Speaker

Jonathan H. Adler, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law Director, Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law


The Environmental Protection Agency Turns 50

October 18, 2019

Welcome and Introduction

Speakers:

  • Michael P. Scharf, Dean, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
  • Jonathan H. Adler, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law & Director, Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law

 

Fifty Years of Influence: Successes, Failures, and Key Lessons from the EPA

Speakers:

  • Ann Carlson, Shirley Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law; Faculty Co-Director, Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment; UCLA School of Law
  • Professor E. Donald Elliott, Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor of Law; Yale Law School
  • Mr. Joseph Goffman, Executive Director, Environmental & Energy Law Program; Harvard Law School
  • Moderator: Dr. Peter Shulman, Case Western Reserve University

 

 

Keynote Speaker, Address and Conversation

Speakers:

  • The Honorable Andrew Wheeler, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
  • Moderator: Jonathan H. Adler, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law & Director, Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law

Perspectives on the EPA’s Decision Making and Regulatory Performance

Speakers:

  • Dr. Joseph Aldy, Professor of the Practice of Public Policy; Faculty Chair, Regulatory Policy Program, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government; Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research; Senior Adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies; The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
  • Dr. Cary Coglianese, Edward B. Shils Professor of Law; Professor of Political Science; Director, Penn Program on Regulation; University of Pennsylvania Law School
  • Professor Emily Hammond, Jeffrey and Martha Kohn Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; Glen Earl Weston Research Professor of Law; The George Washington University Law School
  • Dr. Daniel Walters, Assistant Professor of Law; Penn State Law
  • Moderator: Professor Catherine LaCroix, Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Under Pressure: The EPA’s Response to Lofty Expectations and Political Demands

Speakers:

  • Professor Michael Livermore, Edward F. Howrey Professor of Law; University of Virginia School of Law
  • Professor Brian Mannix, Research Professor, Georger Washington Regulatory Studies Center
  • Professor Wendy Wagner, Richard Dale Endowed Chair in Law; University of Texas School of Law

Moderator: Mr. Jay Pendergrass, Environmental Law Institute

The EPA’s Influence on Domestic and International Environmental Policy

Speakers:

  • Dr. Jonathan Gilligan, Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences; Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Associate Director for Research, Vanderbilt Climate Change Research Network; Member, Vanderbilt Initiative on Smart-City Operations Research; Vanderbilt University
  • Professor Robert Percival, Robert F. Stanton Professor of Law; Director, Environmental Law Program; University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
  • Professor Michael Vandenbergh, David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair of Law; Director, Climate Change Research Network; Co-Director, Energy, Environment and Land Use Program; Vanderbilt University Law School
  • Professor Katrina Wyman, Sarah Herring Sorin Professor of Law; Director, Environmental and Energy Law LLM Program; New York University School of Law
  • Moderator: Professor Charles Korsmo, Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Is the Trump Administration Deconstructing the Administrative State?

March 28, 2019

Speaker:

  • Susan Dudley, George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center

 

 

U.S. Energy Policy 2017: Making Carbon Great Again?

Oct. 2, 2017

Speakers:

  • Dr. Walter Culver, founding member of the Great Lakes Energy Institute
  • Justin Gundlach, Climate Law Fellow, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia University Law School
  • Alexander Schoch, General Counsel, Texas Railroad Commission
  • Moderator Jonathan H. Adler

 

Shale Gas, Climate Change and Ohio's Economic Opportunity

March 11, 2014

Speakers:

  • Bob Inglis, Executive Director, Energy and Enterprise Initiative, Former U.S. Representative, South Carolina
  • Craig Butler, Assistant Policy Director for Energy, Agriculture and the Environment; Office of Governor John Kasich
  • Jonathan H. Adler, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, Director of the Center for Business Law & Regulation, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
  • Juscelino F. Colares, Professor of Law, Associate Director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
  • Iryna Lendel, Ph.D., Assistant Director, Center for Economic Development, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs

Regulation by LItigation Roundtable

December 9, 2009

 

 

Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research

October 29, 2008

Speakers: 

  • Professor Wendy Wagner, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
  • Professor Thomas O. McGarity, R. and Teresa Lozano Long Endowed Chair in Administrative Law, University of Texas School of Law
  • E. Donald Elliott, Partner, Chair, Worldwide Environmental, Health and Safety Department, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
  • Professor Christopher Schroeder, Charles S. Murphy Professor Law and Public Policy Studies, Duke University School of Law
  • Moderator: Professor Jonathan H. Adler

An Environmental Break Through? The Challenge of Climate Change, the Death of Environmentalism, and the Politics of Possibility

February 13, 2008

Speakers: 

  • Ted Nordhaus, Chairman, The Breakthrough Institute
  • Michael Shellenberger, President, The Breakthrough Institute

Commentary: 

  • Professor Jonathan H. Adler, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law; Director, Center for Business Law and Regulation, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
  • Professor Ted Steinberg, Adeline Barry Davee Distinguished Professor of History and Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
  • Moderator: Catherine LaCroix