The 2022-2023 academic year ended with prizes, publications, and career building events. The summer was a time to work on exciting new program developments and initiatives for the coming year. See below for details and a preview of major upcoming program events for the fall semester.
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The GW Point Source blog launch |
We are excited to announce the launch of the GW Point Source Blog. This new forum is a collaboration of GW Law faculty, staff, students, and affiliates with blog posts on environmental and energy law topics, recent developments, and GW Environmental and Energy Law program event news. GW faculty and staff have been hard at work on the blog for the past few months and have created content that we hope you will find relevant and informative. Topics addressed to date include state environmental rights amendments, green trademarks, legal personhood for rivers, the Biden administration’s 30 by 30 initiative, local developments on microgrids and EVs, and more. We will begin posting content every other week, so be sure to subscribe on the GW Point Source’s website for updates and stay tuned for upcoming posts!
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GW Law Welcomes Professor Rebecca Bratspies as a Visiting Professor for Fall 2023 |
The Environmental and Energy Law program is thrilled to announce that Professor Rebecca Bratspies of CUNY Law will join GW Law as a visiting professor in Fall 2023. In addition to teaching Property to first year students, Professor Bratspies will teach a new course, Urban Environmental Justice and Public Health.
We are delighted that our program and students will benefit from the expertise of a national leader in the environmental justice field. In June 2023, Professor Bratspies received a Clean Air Excellence Award from EPA for the positive impact that her Environmental Justice Chronicles comic book series has made in educating and inspiring future leaders in the environmental justice field and empowering communities that are disproportionately burdened by environmental harms. Professor Bratspies’ visit is well timed as our program continues to expand its social justice-related courses and initiatives in the environmental and energy law fields. Stay tuned for more details in our fall newsletter.
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GW Journal of Energy and Environmental Law, Issue 14:2 (Spring 2023) |
JEEL published volume 14 issue 2 in July 2023, which is the annual Shapiro Symposium issue. A new feature of this annual issue is an article prepared by the Annual Shapiro Distinguished Lecturer, which launched in November 2022. The First Annual Shapiro Distinguished Lecturer was globally renowned environmental and energy law scholar Dr. Damilola Olawuyi (Hamad Bin Khalifa University College of Law). The other two articles in the symposium issue, co-authored by Marcela Gutiérrez-Graudins (Azul) and Gregg P. Macey (Brooklyn Law School) and Jamie Pleune (University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law), respectively, address topics relating to the symposium theme evaluating the Biden administration's 30 by 30 (“America the Beautiful”) Initiative.
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Energy Connectors, the affinity alumni group for GW Law graduates in Energy Law, welcomed students and faculty to its alumni social hour on May 10 in Washington DC. A spirited BINGO ice-breaker competition created a frenzy of networking led by Michele Castaline ‘19, that assured there were no “wall flowers.” Priya Patel ‘22, walked away with the grand prize, a branded GW Law Environmental & Energy Law umbrella made of sustainable and recycled materials. Everyone else was richly rewarded with new acquaintances, a chance to connect with old friends, and a fun evening of food and drink. The next Energy Connectors social hour will be October 9, 2023 in Washington DC, on the eve of the Energy Bar Association’s Mid-Year Forum. Watch the GW Law events website for more detail!
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GW Hosts Summer Energy Law Speed-Networking Event |
In June, GW Law hosted a career-building speed networking event organized by the Energy Bar Association and the Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia. The well-attended event allowed students to speak in small groups with practitioners from government, industry, and private practice followed by a networking reception. Students summer associates and summer clerks from across the country, as well as GW Law students, took advantage of the chance to learn about energy law practice in DC. The practitioners who volunteered their time included GW Law alumni and adjuncts Andrew Satten, Brandon Flick, Jane Rueger, Regine Baus, and Ben Nussdorf. More photos and details are available on the EBA website.
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Student & Alumni Achievements |
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Several recent graduates and current students in the Environmental and Energy Law Program have had their papers accepted for publication.
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Lea Kuhlmann’s, LLM ’23, paper, Embracing the Flow: The Right to Menstrual Health as a Response to Climate Change Impacts in South Asia, has been accepted for publication in the Fall 2023 issue of the Seattle Journal of Technology, Environmental, and Innovation Law.
- Evan Tuck’s, LLM ’23, thesis, Avoiding the Brewing Battle Between the Military and Windfarms, has been accepted for publication in Volume 43 of the Stanford Environmental Law Journal.
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Aashini Choksi's, JD ’24, paper, Millions of Migrants: Implementing a Governance Framework for Climate Refugees in India, has been accepted for publication in Volume 30 of the UC Davis Journal of International Law and Policy.
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James Crisafulli’s, JD ’24, paper, Individually Minor But Collectively Significant: The Right to Cumulative Impact Analyses and Substantive Protections in Wilmington, California, has been accepted for publication in the Fall 2023 issue of the Chapman Law Review.
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Kelly Davis', JD ’23, paper, "To Sustain Them Forever": Ensuring the Sauk-Suiattle Tribe's Access to Salmon through Treaty, Federal Trust Doctrine, and Rights of Nature Protections, has been accepted for publication in the Spring 2024 issue of the Animal and Natural Resource Law Review (Michigan State).
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Kelly published another paper while she was a student, An Unlikely Climate Hero: Experimental Populations Outside Their Historical Range, was published in the June 2023 issue of the Environmental Law Institute’s Environmental Law Reporter News & Analysis.
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Eleanor Maloney’s, JD ’22, paper, co-authored with Nadine Nadow and Hayley-Bo Dorrian-Bak, Leveraging Earth Law Principles to Protect Ocean Rights: Safeguarding Intrinsic Value and Well-Being for Communities and the Environment, has been accepted for publication in the Environmental Law Institute’s Environmental Law Reporter New & Analysis.
- Steven McKevett's, LLM ’23, paper, Between Sky and Space: NEPA's Extraterritorial Application to the Stratosphere and Implications for SpaceX's Starlink Satellite Constellation, has been accepted for publication in Volume 36 of the Georgetown Environmental Law Review.
- Danielle Cossey's, JD '23, paper, Free People Over Free Markets: Addressing the Suppression of Environmental Dissent Through Trade Agreements in Mexico and the United States, has been accepted for publication in Volume 14:1 of the Wake Forest Journal of Law and Policy.
- Rachel Rilee's, JD '23, paper, Casting a Wider Net: Expanding Existing IUU Fishing Frameworks to Address Sea Slavery, has been accepted for publication in Volume 13:1 of the Sea Grant Law and Policy Journal.
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The GW Environmental and Energy Law Program is delighted to announce that Shana Herman, JD ‘23, received the 2023 Grodsky Prize. Each Spring, GW Law presents the Jamie Grodsky Prize for Environmental Law Scholarship for the best paper written by a JD, LLM, or SJD student in the field of environmental law. The prize commemorates the innovative research of Professor Jamie Grodsky, who passed away in 2010, and is profoundly missed. The prize is funded by a generous gift from Professor Jamie Grodsky's father, Dr. Gerold Grodsky, and memorial gifts from her friends on the faculty.
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,” addresses the historic exclusion of Indigenous Peoples from the process of managing their ancestral lands in ways that infringe on tribal sovereignty and treaty rights.
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The GW Environmental and Energy Law Program is delighted to announce that Kelly Davis, JD ‘23, received the 2023 Charles and Kathryn Miller Environmental Law Award. The award is presented to the member of the graduating class who has demonstrated excellence in the field of environmental law. The award is named in honor of former-Associate Dean for Environmental Law Studies Lee Paddock’s grandparents, who lived on a centennial farm on Lake Michigan, and is the place where he first developed his interest in the environment.
Kelly had two articles that she prepared as a student accepted for publication (see above), was a semifinalist with her teammate in the North American Regional Rounds of the International Environmental Moot Court Competition, and interned with the EPA’s Office of Criminal Enforcement and NOAA’s Office of Enforcement.
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Publications and presentations of Environmental and Energy Law Faculty, Deans, and Affiliates
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| Randall Abate, Assistant Dean for Environmental Law Studies
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Litigation to Protect the Marine Environment: Parallels and Synergies with Climate Litigation, 47 Wm. & Mary Env't L. & Pol'y Rev. 595 (2023) (with Nadine Nadow & Hayley-Bo Dorrian-Bak)
- "Fool Me Once, Shame on You": Promoting Corporate Accountability for the Human Rights Impacts of Climate Washing, 18 Intercultural Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 1 (2023)
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Lecture, “Standing in Climate Litigation: Overcoming a Daunting Barrier to Climate Justice,” University of Washington Ocean Nexus Center (Seattle, WA, June 6, 2023)
- Lecture, “Climate Change and the Protection of Future Generations: Can the Courts Save the Indigenous and Traditional Populations? “(Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 31, 2023)
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Lecture, “Climate Washing, Corporate Accountability, and Human Rights,” Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 30, 2023)
- Lecture, “Standing in Global Climate Litigation: Learning from Best Practices,” EMERJ Climate Justice Forum (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 29, 2023)
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Lecture, “Youth and Indigenous Climate Litigation in the U.S. and Canada,” Federal University of Para (Belem, Brazil, May 25, 2023)
- Lecture, “Climate Refugees: Rising Seas, Melting Ice, and Inadequate Legal Protections,” Federal University of Bahia (Salvador, Brazil, May 23, 2023)
- Lecture, “Climate Washing, Accountability, and Human Rights,” Universidad de Los Andes (Bogota, Colombia, May 10, 2023)
- Lecture, “Climate Change, Future Generations, and Climate Refugees,” Universidad de La Sabana (Chia, Colombia, May 10, 2023)
- Lecture, “Climate Washing, Accountability, and Human Rights,” Universidad Externado de Colombia (Bogota, Colombia, May 9, 2023)
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Lecture, “Climate Refugees: Rising Seas, Melting Ice, and Inadequate Legal Protections,” Universidad del Rosario (Bogota, Colombia, May 8, 2023)
- Panelist, “Strategic Climate Change Litigation: Can the Courts Save the Kids and the Planet?” Contemporary Conversations in Climate Change Conference, Chapman University School of Law (Orange, CA, Apr. 22, 2023)
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Panelist, “Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change,” Climate Change and Global Equity Symposium, Georgetown Environmental Law Society (online, Apr. 14, 2023)
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| Donna Attanasio, Assistant Dean for Energy Law
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Convocation Address, "Energy and Sustainability: New Challenges and Opportunities," Universidad del Desarrollo, Masters of Environmental Law program (Chile, Apr. 28, 2023).
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| Robert Glicksman, J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law
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Sackett v. EPA: The Court Delivers Another Massive Blow to Federal Environmental Law, Geo. Wash. L. Rev. On the Docket (May 27, 2023)
- A Critical 21st Century Role for Public Land Management: Conserving 30% of the Nation’s Lands and Waters Beyond 2030, 54 Ariz. St. L.J. 1313 (2022) (with Sandra Zellmer)
- Public Natural Resources Law (2d edition) (Release # 48)
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Presenter and moderator, “Scaling Up the Smart Grid,” at Broadband Breakfast’s “Made in America Summit,” (Washington, D.C. June 27, 2023)
- Presenter, “The Opportunities and Challenges of Empirical Research in U.S. Environmental Law,” Conference on Empirical Legal Research: A State of Knowledge Across Europe, Université Toulouse Capitole (Toulouse, France, June 10, 2023)
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Presenter, “Environmental Law in the Supreme Court: A Survey of Recent and Forthcoming Decisions,” Wednesday Morning Group (Bethesda, MD, May 3, 2023)
- Participant, “Workshop on Adjudication in the Administrative State” Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University (Fairfax, VA, Apr. 14, 2023)
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Closing Remarks, “How to Achieve 30 by 30” The 2023 J.B. & Maurice C. Shapiro Environmental Law Symposium, Conserving Our Nation’s Biodiversity: Progress, Obstacles and Solutions for America’s 30 x 30 Initiatives (Washington, D.C., Apr. 7, 2023)
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- Quoted in Justices Don’t Provide All the Answers to Major Questions, Law360 (July 3, 2023)
- Quoted in Quote-Unquote: PFAS, PFAS, PFAS, Inside EPA (June 7, 2023)
- Quoted extensively in Sam Hess, High Court’s Sackett Ruling ‘Bodes Ill’ for EPA’s Bedrock Legal Authorities, InsideEPA.com (June 1, 2023)
- Quoted in What the COTUS Water Ruling Means for Chevron Doctrine, Greenwire (May 30, 2023)
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| Emily Hammond, Glen Earl Weston Research Professor
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Energy, Economics, and the Environment: Cases and Materials (Found. Press, 6th ed. (forthcoming 2023)) (with Joel Eisen, Joshua Macey, Jim Rossie, David Spence, and Hannah Wiseman)
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Panelist, “Power to the People: Advancing Energy Equity in North Carolina and Beyond,” Center for Progressive Reform (online, Mar. 30, 2023)
- Panelist, Mayah’s Lot: Building the Next Generation of Environmental Leaders (Washington, DC, Mar. 27, 2023)
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Media & Congressional Appearances
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Congressional Testimony as a minority witness to the “Community Reclamation Partnerships Act” (June 14, 2023)
- Quoted in How the Supreme Court Could Destroy Environmental Justice Efforts, The New Republic (July 7, 2023)
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Quoted in Judiciary Used as ‘Bargaining Chip’ in Debt Limit Pipeline Deal, Bloomberg Law (May 31, 2023)
- Quoted in Trump Rolled Back Decades Of Clean Water Protections. The Supreme Court Just Went Even Further, Huffington Post (May 26, 2023)
- Quoted in Chevron’s End Unlikely as Justices Weigh Agency Power, Bloomberg Law (May 3, 2023)
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| Steve Charnovitz, Associate Professor of Law
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Interviewed for “Ecolonomy is the Missing Policy to Face the Climate Challenge” Le Droit (Public Economique) Du Monde D’Apres (2023)
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| Robin Juni, Associate Professor, Fundamentals of Lawyering
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Presenter, Negotiating Diversity: Facilitating Student Reflection on DEI Issues through an Environmental Negotiation Exercise; Institute for Law Teaching and Learning Conference; University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law (June 2023)
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| LeRoy Paddock, Distinguished Professorial Lecturer in Environmental Law
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“Responsible Consumption and Production,” in Dernbach and Schang, Governing for Sustainability (ELI 2023)
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Presenter, Net Zero Buildings, Arizona State University Law School Annual Sustainability Law Conference (Arizona, May 2023)
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Jarryd Page’s, JD ‘20, Summer Reading Recommendations
Environmental Reads:
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- Tony Hiss, Rescuing The Planet (2022)
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Jeffrey Peterson, A New Coast (2019)
- Rachel Slade, Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro (2018)
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For Summer Adventure and Exploration Reads:
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- Mark Synnott, The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest (2020)
- David Roberts, Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration (2014)
- Jennifer Hull, Shook: An Earthquake, A Legendary Mountain Guide, and Everest's Deadliest Day (2020)
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You may have heard of the 1973 case, United States v. SCRAP, involving a challenge to the Interstate Commerce Commission’s failure to prepare an environmental impact statement when it approved a rate increase for freight railroads nationwide, but did you know it all began with five law students from GW? Read more about their story here.
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