Environmental & Energy Law Program Fall 2023 Newsletter |
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This issue describes the GW Environmental and Energy Law Program’s busy and productive fall semester. It reviews our recent program events, including the 2023 Earth Law Symposium and the Second Annual J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Distinguished Lecture on Global Climate Change and Energy Law; summarizes our faculty’s impressive array of scholarly engagement; and spotlights some GW Law students who have excelled in the environmental and energy law fields. We are also excited to explore GW's new focus on sustainability and the changes it brings to GW Law's Environmental and Energy Law Program.
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Announcing: GW Alliance for a Sustainable Future |
President Granberg’s inaugural address on November 4 foretold “a revolutionary next step in how our students and faculty conduct and develop innovative research, advocacy, and coursework in sustainability.” That step, the founding of The GW Alliance for a Sustainable Future, was officially announced in GW Today on November 15.
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New Alliance Brings Energy Program Transition |
Donna Attanasio has been named the Managing Director of the newly formed GW Alliance for a Sustainable Future. She stepped down as Assistant Dean for Energy Law on November 1. The law school has initiated a search for her successor as Assistant Dean for Energy Law.
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The 2023 Earth Law Symposium and the Second Annual J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Distinguished Lecture on Global Climate Change and Energy Law |
The GW Law Environmental and Energy Law Program hosted the 2023 Earth Law Symposium and the Second Annual J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Distinguished Lecture on Global Climate Change and Energy Law. These events brought together renowned experts, stakeholders, and students and explored emerging environmental and energy law issues and solutions for the future.
The 2023 Earth Law Symposium discussed and analyzed how Earth Law mechanisms could be implemented into statutes, regulations, legal systems, and governance strategies to protect our fragile planet and its vulnerable communities. Earth Law encompasses rights to a healthy environment, rights of nature, Indigenous rights, and rights of future generations. It is foundational in its emphasis on interdependency among Earth’s systems and its recognition that humans also flourish when the Earth can flourish. To read more on the 2023 Earth Law Symposium, visit the GW Point Source: The 2023 Earth Law Symposium and the Road Ahead.
The Shapiro Distinguished Lecture brings globally recognized environmental experts to Washington D.C. to address cutting-edge issues on climate change and energy law. This year, GW Law had the privilege of hosting Dr. Patrícia Galvão Ferreira as the 2023 distinguished lecturer. Dr. Galvão Ferreira is an Associate Professor with the Marine & Environmental Law Institute at Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her presentation, “Unlocking CBDR: How National Courts Are Domesticating an Equity Principle of International Environmental Law and Why That Matters for Climate Justice,” addressed how the international equity principle of “common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities” translates into domestic legal protections in climate litigation. Her lecture was followed by commentary from Dr. Rachael Jonassen, Director of Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Management programs at the Environmental and Energy Management Institute, and Judge Gabriel Wedy, federal judge and law professor at the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS) and the Superior School of the Federal Magistrature (ESMAFE). For more information on the 2023 Shapiro Lecture, please see the GW Point Source’s recent blog post.
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The Energy Law Program and the Energy Connectors Alumni Affinity Group welcomed students and faculty to its alumni social hour on October 9 in Washington, DC. New and returning faces were welcomed by Assistant Dean for Energy Law Donna Attanasio and had a cozy evening of networking accompanied by food and drinks. Students, both JDs and LLMs, were introduced to the multi-faceted area of energy law at GW Law while networking with alumni in the field. Thank you to all who joined us and we look forward to welcoming members of the GW Law community at future Energy Connector events!
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GW Law LLM student awarded GW Climate & Health Institute Research Fellow Award |
Juliette Jackson, LLM '24, has received a Climate & Health Institute Research Fellow award, which was open to applicants from across GW. Juliette’s research explores the intersection of environmental law, Indigenous rights, and animal law. Specifically, her research addresses the current risks and harms impacting the Klamath tribes, what existing mechanisms, if any, are currently employed to remedy the contamination, and innovative legal methods or policy actions the tribes could take to address the contamination. Congratulations, Juliette!
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GW Environmental and Energy Law faculty and staff have been working hard publishing articles and textbooks, participating in panels, and delivering presentations on various topics. A summary of select faculty publications and presentations appears below. The full list of scholarship can be found on our Faculty Publications Page.
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- Dean Randall Abate lectured in Canada and throughout the U.S. on multiple topics including rights of nature as a mechanism to enhance existing governance of shark finning; climate washing, corporate accountability and human rights; strategic climate litigation; parallels and synergies between animal law and environmental law; and climate change displacement and migration. Dean Abate also organized and moderated panels in the 2023 Earth Law Symposium and the Second Annual J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Distinguished Lecture on Global Climate Change and Energy Law
- Dean Donna Attanasio served as a panelist at the Harvard Law School Class of 1988 Symposium discussing “International Law: United States and the Changing World Order.” Dean Attanasio also moderated a panel at the American Bar Association-Section on Environmental, Energy & Natural Resources Fall Conference on “Achieving Net Zero: What is the Role of the Oil and Gas Sector?”
- Professor Rob Glicksman published and updated multiple textbooks including a new edition of NEPA Law and Litigation (Thomson/Reuters 2023-2024 ed.) (with D. Mandelker and others), an updated release to Public Natural Resources Law (Thomson/Reuters) (2d ed.), and summer updates to Administrative Law: Agency Action in Legal Context (Foundation Press 3d ed. 2020) (with R. Levy). This is in addition to various articles, presentations, and panels
- Professor Robin Juni presented at the New England Legal Writing Conference at Suffolk University Law School on Facilitating Student Reflection on Cross-Cultural Issues through an Environmental Negotiation Exercise. Professor Juni was also a virtual participant at the USAID/Global Legal Skills Conference Series at the National University "Odesa Law Academy" (in Ukraine) speaking on environmental regulation and climate change.
- Professor LeRoy Paddock co-authored two book chapters on “Model Toxics Supply Chain Contract Language” in Contracts for Responsible and Sustainable Supply Chains by S. Maslow and D. Snyder (eds) (ABA Press 2023) and on “SDG 12, Responsible Consumption and Production,” in Governing for Sustainability by Dernbach and Schang (ELI 2023)
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- Hannah Ellis’s, JD ‘24, paper, Preserving Pastoralist Lifestyles in Response to Climate Change-Induced Droughts in Kenya: Improving Land Tenure Through Environmental Policies and Civil Rights Laws, has been accepted for publication in Volume 24 of the American University Sustainable Development Law & Policy Brief (forthcoming spring 2024).
- Matthew Carey’s, LLM ‘23, paper, Forever Chemicals in Modern Dinosaurs: Using CERCLA to Force Polluters to Pay for PFAS Contamination of Florida Alligators, has been accepted for publication in Volume 42:1 of the UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy (forthcoming fall 2023).
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Diversity in Environmental Law Careers
January 18, 2024 | 4:30 - 6 pm ET
Tasher Great Room, GW Law
This panel of diverse lawyers from private practice, government, public interest, and in-house contexts will discuss with students their journeys and observations as diverse lawyers in environmental law. A reception will follow, sponsored by Beveridge & Diamond PC.
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The J.B and Maurice C. Shapiro Environmental Law Symposium
March 27, 2024 | 3:30 - 5:30 pm and March 28, 2024 | 8 am - 5 pm
GW Law
Theme: Environmental Justice Solutions Summit: Strategic Litigation, Resilience, and Hope
Panels:
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- Youth Community Organizing and Climate Justice
- Strategic Litigation to Promote Human Rights and Environmental Protection
- Climate Change Displacement and Migration
- Environmental Justice, Energy Equity, and Public Health
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Climate Change Fiction and Nonfiction Reading Recommendations - by Assistant Dean for Environmental Law Studies Randall Abate
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Fiction
The Ministry for the Future, by Kim Stanley Robinson
Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler
A Children's Bible, by Lydia Millet
Nonfiction
The Great Displacement, by Jake Bittle
Rising, by Elizabeth Rush
The Water Will Come, by Jeff Goodell
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