Environmental law center

On Oct. 16, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in City and County of San Francisco v. Environmental Protection Agency, a challenge to the EPA’s use of “generic” prohibitions in Clean Water Act permits. On Sept. 24, professor Jonathan Adler moderated a webinar previewing the arguments and…

On Sept. 19, the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law hosted Deputy Assistant Secretary Kati Kovacs from the U.S. Department of the Interior to discuss how federal agencies navigate the rulemaking process. Kovacs is currently serving as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals…

Recently published law review notes and comments articles by CWRU law students have examined a range of important environmental law issues, including several with particular importance to northeast Ohio and the Great Lakes. These articles include: The Cost of Clarity: Closing the Floodgates on…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…