Environmental law center

On Aug. 13, the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) announced the appointment of Jonathan H. Adler as one of six new public members of the conference. “I am honored to receive this appointment and look forward to working with other members of the conference to enhance the administ...

The Coleman P. Burke Environmental Law Center hosted its first junior environmental law scholar conference on May 21, 2024. This marks an expansion of the Burke Center’s commitment to fostering new academic voices in environmental, natural resources and climate law, and leveraging the knowledge of B...

In 2023, in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, the Supreme Court narrowed the scope of “waters of the United States” covered by the federal Clean Water Act. On June 11-12, 2024, the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) and Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law co-sponsored, “Sackett v....

On Feb. 15, the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law hosted renowned climate law scholar Rob Verchick for a talk on his new book, The Octopus in the Parking Garage: A Call for Climate Resilience. Verchick is the Gauthier-St. Martin Eminent Scholar Chair in Environmental Law and faculty dir...

On Dec. 19, 2023, in an important climate change case, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit cited and quoted a law review article written by Jonathan H. Adler, the inaugural Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and Director of the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law. In Distr...

Every year, Case Western Reserve University School of Law hosts online and in-person events. This fall, we hosted a wide variety of lectures, panels and presentations covering a range of topics from climate change and energy justice to investment crowdfunding and crimes against humanity. These event...

Overcoming political polarization will be necessary to enact meaningful policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reduce the risk of climate change. This was the message the University of Colorado’s Professor Matthew Burgess presented in his lecture “Depolarizing Climate Change in the United S...

The Honorable Shalanda H. Baker, director of the Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the U.S. Department of Energy, joined the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law for a conversation on her work promoting and overseeing the federal government’s energy justice initiatives. Prior to ...

In September, the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law hosted a group of interdisciplinary scholars for a workshop on “Permitting the Future.” This workshop examined the legal and economic aspects of permitting and review requirements for new technologies, infrastructure and development, ho...

On Sept. 28-29, two dozen of the foremost experts in climate change and international law gathered at Woodland Hall at the Cleveland Botanical Garden to debate how to respond to the increasing threat of global climate change. The event was organized by Case Western Reserve University School of Law’s...