2024 Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review (ELPAR) Conference
Sponsored by the Environmental Law Institute and Vanderbilt University Law School
Please join us on April 5, 2024, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. ET (in-person and via Zoom) for the 2024 Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review (ELPAR) Conference in Washington, D.C. The in-person component will take place at the Environmental Law Institute’s offices. Each year, Vanderbilt Law School and the Environmental Law Institute identify innovative environmental law and policy proposals in the academic literature. Leading professors, policymakers, and practitioners were invited to discuss the proposals selected this year.
Topics
- Behavioral science and climate change
- Siting of renewable energy projects
- Role of negotiation in environmental law
We will be discussing the following articles:
- Felix Mormann, Climate Choice Architecture, 64 B.C. L. REV. 1;
- Speakers
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Felix Mormann (author), Professor of Law, Texas A&M University School of Law
Lisa Dilling, Associate Chief Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund
Anjali Narang, Visiting Graduate Researcher, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economic and Management, College of Business, Cornell University
Tabitha Scott, Executive Sustainability Officer, Gilbane
Dr. Reuven Sussman, Director, Behavior & Human Dimensions Program, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
- Christiana Ochoa, Kacey Cook, and Hanna Weil, Deals in the Heartland: Renewable Energy Projects, Local Resistance, and How Law Can Help, 107 MINN. L. REV. 1055; and
- Speakers
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Christiana Ochoa (co-author), Dean and Herman B. Wells Class of 1950 Endowed Professor, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Kacey Cook (co-author), Constance and Terry Marbach Conservation Attorney, Conservation Law Center
Hanna Weil (co-author), 2024 JD Candidate, University of Minnesota Law School
Hilary Clark, Senior Director, Siting & Permitting, Social Licensing, American Clean Power
Eric Lantz, Director, Wind Energy Technologies Office, U.S. Department of Energy
Josh Mandelbaum, Senior Attorney, Environmental Law & Policy Center
Christopher McLean, Assistant Administrator, Electric Program, Rural Utilities Service, Rural Development, U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Dave Owen, The Negotiable Implementation of Environmental Law, 75 STAN. L. REV. 137.
- Speakers
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Dave Owen (author), Associate Dean for Research and Harry Sunderland ’61 Professor of Law, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
Ben Grumbles, Executive Director, Environmental Council of the States
Vickie Patton, General Counsel, Environmental Defense Fund
View the Full Conference Agenda.
For questions about the conference, please contact Tori Rickman at rickman@eli.org.
For more information about ELPAR, please visit: www.eli.org/environmental-law-and-policy-annual-review