Environmental & Energy Law Program |
This issue of the newsletter describes exciting program highlights including the launch of our new environmental justice clinic; recent and upcoming program events including a successful Diversity in Environmental Law Careers panel and a preview of our annual Shapiro Environmental Law Symposium; and several faculty and student successes and activities including a rare and remarkable interview that two GW Law students conducted with the world-famous Peruvian climate justice plaintiff, Saul Luciano Lliuya.
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Professor Christine Appah-Gyamfi Leads New “Access to Justice, Environmental Justice Clinic” |
The Environmental & Energy Law program is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Christine Appah-Gyamfi to lead the newly established “Access to Justice, Environmental Justice Clinic.” We recently caught up with Professor Appah-Gyamfi to learn more about her background in and passion for environmental justice and hear about the proposed goals, scope of work, and anticipated impacts of this exciting new clinic.
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Students Interview Peruvian Climate Justice Hero, Saul Luciano Lliuya |
Two Peruvian students at GW Law, Fiorella Valladares, LLM ’24, and Maria LeLourec, JD ’24, overcame many logistical obstacles to travel deep into the Andes in December to conduct an extensive, on-site interview with the legendary climate justice hero, Saul Luciano Lliuya. This rare and inspiring interview has been captured in an article that Maria drafted for the GW Point Source blog and in a news story in GW Today that discussed Fiorella’s and Maria’s efforts to profile this courageous Peruvian farmer who is the plaintiff in a globally recognized climate justice lawsuit against German energy company, RWE.
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Save the Dates: March 27-28, 2024 |
This year’s J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Environmental Law Symposium embraces a unique and interdisciplinary approach to the challenge of climate justice and environmental justice at the local, national, and global levels. Scheduled for March 27-28, the Environmental Justice Solutions Summit: Strategic Litigation, Resilience, and Hope, assembles a diverse and distinguished group of speakers to address a wide range of cutting-edge topics. The event kicks off on March 27 with a keynote address from Professor Robert Verchick, and will include a book signing of his critically acclaimed book, The Octopus in the Parking Garage. March 28 features four panels to address youth community organizing and climate justice, climate change displacement and migration, strategic litigation to promote human rights and environmental protection, and environmental justice and public health. The moderators and speakers on these panels include nationally and globally renowned law professors, lawyers from private practice and nongovernmental organizations, community leaders, educators, and youth climate activists. A detailed list of speakers, the event schedule, and registration is available here.
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Hungarian Climate Delegation Visit |
On November 9, 2023, the Environmental & Energy Law Program hosted a delegation of researchers from Hungary’s Climate Policy Institute and the Institute’s Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC). The Climate Policy Institute is a think tank that promotes research-based awareness and information dissemination related to environmental protection. “MCC offers a wide range of professional programs, study abroad, and scholarship opportunities to help students develop and broaden their worldview” as explained by MCC.
The delegation requested the meeting after reading Professor Donna Attanasio’s report, Promise, obstacles and hope for new nuclear’s role in decarbonisation, summarizing GW Law’s May 2019 conference, Investable Nuclear Energy. GW Law’s course offering in Atomic Energy as a complement to its other energy law courses is one of the distinctions of its program. After a lively discussion of potential areas for future collaboration, Professor Attanasio accompanied the visitors to the entrance to Corcoran Hall, where much to their delight, GW has placed a marker commemorating the famous Hungarian-born physicist and former GW Professor (1935-45), Edward Teller.
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Diversity in Environmental Law Careers Panel |
On January 18, 2024, the GW Environmental and Energy Law Program hosted a career panel focusing on diversity in the environmental law field. A robust audience of more than 60, including many GW Law students and alumni, heard from an impressive lineup of speakers moderated by Benjamin F. Wilson, Former Chairman of Beveridge & Diamond. Dalayna Tillman, Environment, Health, Safety, & Sustainability Counsel at American Airlines; Marvin C. Brown IV, Senior Attorney at Earthjustice; Deepti B. Gage, Associate at Beveridge & Diamond; and Kellie Ortega, Associate Director at EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance’s Office of Compliance each offered valuable reflections and advice on their experiences as diverse lawyers in all sectors of the environmental law field: private practice, in-house counsel, the government, and a nongovernmental organization. Following the event, Beveridge & Diamond sponsored a reception where students had the opportunity to speak with the distinguished panelists. More event photos can be found in our photo gallery.
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The Environmental & 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 co-authored an article on climate refugee governance in the U.S. and India that will be published in the spring 2024 issue of the Harvard Human Rights Journal. He also delivered presentations on climate justice litigation at a symposium at Steptoe & Johnson in November and for an online lecture series in February, co-sponsored by National University Law School in Odisha and SOAS University of London. He also was interviewed in January on youth climate activism and youth-led strategic climate litigation for an episode of “The Hopeful Environmentalist” podcast.
- Professor Rob Glicksman co-authored an article on EPA’s strategic use of emergency powers to address PFAS air pollution that will be published in the Harvard Environmental Law Review. He also published summer updates to Environmental Protection: Law and Policy (Aspen Pub.).
- Professor Emily Hammond co-authored a new book, Energy, Economics, and the Environment: Cases and Materials (Foundation Press, 6th ed. 2024) and authored an article, Agency Expertise After Loper Bright, Geo. Mason L. Rev. (forthcoming 2024). They also provided congressional testimony on the hearing: Burdensome Regulations: Examining the Effects of Department of Energy Regulations on America’s Job Creators, 188th Cong. (Nov. 8, 2023) and moderated a discussion on Anti-Democratic Threats to the Administrative States at the Center for Progressive Reform Annual Meeting. They will serve as a panelist at the Ohio State Law Journal symposium, “What Next? The Rise, Fall, and Future of American Environmental Law.” Prof. Hammond also became a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States and a board member of the progressive think-tank, Center for Progressive Reform.
- Professor LeRoy Paddock published a chapter, “The role of demand-response mechanisms in promoting energy efficiency,” in M. Roggenkamp, K. de Graff, and R. Fleming, Energy Law, Climate Change and the Environment. Prof. Paddock presented at a workshop, “Energy Justice in the Energy Transition” at Southern Methodist University Law School. He also moderated a webinar for the Environmental Law Institute, “A Primer on Compliance and Enforcement Issues for Plastics Pollution.” The webinar discussed enforcement issues related to plastics pollution and was attended by 375 individuals. He moderated the webinar in his role as Managing Director of the International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement.
- Dean Steven Schooner co-authored an article, Food Procurement: An Essential Ingredient to Mitigating Climate Change and Enhancing Public Health.
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Student & Alumni Spotlights |
- Shana Herman’s paper, “Conservation Co-Governance as a Cure: Investigating Aotearoa New Zealand’s Conservation Co-Governance Model as a Blueprint for Restoring Navajo Sovereignty in Managing Canyon de Chelly,” has been accepted for publication in Volume 35:2 of the Villanova Environmental Law Journal (forthcoming Spring 2024). A JD ‘23 graduate of GW Law, Shana received the 2023 Jamie Grodsky Prize for Environmental Law Scholarship for this outstanding paper. She is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Hausfeld.
- Rachel Conrad's paper, "They 'Eyeballed' the River and Built the Dam: Lessons from the Hidrotambo Dam Flood Disaster to Guide Improvements in Environmental Impact Assessment Law in Ecuador," has been accepted for publication in Volume 36:2 of the Pace International Law Review (forthcoming Spring 2024).
- Aashini Choksi’s paper, “Erosion by the Ocean: A Polycentric Policy Approach to Combating Coastal Deterioration in India and Bangladesh,” has been accepted for publication in Volume 12:2 of the Chicago-Kent Journal of Environmental and Energy Law (forthcoming Spring 2024). This is Aashini’s second paper that has been accepted for publication in her time as a student at GW Law!
- Shahrzad Majdameli, LLM ‘13, has started a new position as an Attorney Advisor at the U.S. Export-Import Bank’s Office of the Inspector General. Ms. Majdameli was most recently a Visiting Attorney at the Environmental Law Institute. We are very excited to see what she accomplishes in her new role.
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- Youth Community Organizing and Climate Justice
- Climate Displacement and Migration
- Strategic Litigation to Promote Human Rights and Environmental Protection
- Environmental Justice and Public Health
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Eco-Fiction Reading Recommendations
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- Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
- Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
- Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller
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