Virtual Guest Speakers

2020:

Professor Victor Flatt, University of Houston Law Center, Attorney Ethics Rules and Climate Change
Professor Joshua Galperin, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Private Environmental Governance
Professor Erin Okuno, Stetson Law School, Frankenstein’s Mammoth: Anticipating the Global Legal Framework for De-Extinction

2019:

Professor Michael Lewyn, Touro Law School, Why Sprawl is Not Caused by the Free Market
Dean Jerry L. Anderson, Drake Law School, The Right to Roam
Professor Melanie Murcott, University of Pretoria, Information Access in South Africa
Dean Jennifer K. Rushlow, Vermont Law School, Kain v. DEP - Climate Litigation in State Court
Professors Michael Vandenbergh and Jonathan Gilligan, Vanderbilt University Law School, Beyond Politics
Professor Ben Boer, University of Sydney, The Need for an International Soils Regime

2018:

Professor Stephen M. Johnson, Mercer Law School, Indeconstructible: The Triumph of the Environmental "Administrative State"
Professor Katrina Fischer Kuh, Pace University Law School, Against the Will of the People for the Good of Humankind: The Counter-Majoritarian Difficulty and the Role of Courts in an Environmental Democracy
Professor Zygmunt Plater, Boston College Law School, Takings
Professor Marianne Engelman-Lado, Yale Law School, Environmental Justice and Civil Rights

2017:

Professor James May, Widener University Delaware Law School, Subnational Environmental Constitutionalism
Dean Lee Paddock, George Washington University Law School, Private Environmental Governance
Professor Nadia Ahmad, Barry University Law School, Blood Biofuels
Dr. Wil Burns, Co-Executive Director, Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment, American University, The Paris Agreement and Climate Geoengineering

2016:

Professor Myanna Dellinger, University of South Dakota School of Law, Rethinking Contractual Impraticability in an Era of Anthropogenic Climate Change
Professor Debra Donahue, Wyoming Law School, Livestock Production, Climate Change and Human Health
Professor Stephanie Showalter Otts, University of Mississippi School of Law, Marine Aquaculture: Public Controversy, Regulatory Complexity, and Legal Challenges
Professor Jonathan Wiener, Duke Law School, Environmental Law Goes Retro: Learning Foresight from Hindsight
Professor Joshua Galperin, Environmental Protection Clinical Director and Lecturer, Yale Law School, Defining and Closing the Hydraulic Fracturing Governance Gap

2015:

Professor Itzchak Ehud Kornfeld, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Constitutions, Courts, Economic and Social Rights, the Right to Potable Water and a Clean Environment
Professor Edward P. Richards, LSU Law Center, Using Natural Cycles to Make Better Decisions about Adaptation to Climate Change: The Future of the Louisiana Coast
Professor Zygmunt Plater, Boston College Law School, Lessons Learned From a Tiny Fish ... that no one ever told me in Law School
Hon Justice Brian Preston SC, Chief Judge, Land and Environment Court of New South Wales, The Environmental Court

2013 Fall:

Professor Joshua Galperin, Director, Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, Yale Law School, Eating Invaders
Professor John Dernbach, Co-Director of the Environmental Law Center, Widener Law School, Sustainability
Professor Zygmunt Plater, Boston College Law School, 40th Anniversary of the Snail Darter Case
Professor Hillary Hoffmann, Vermont Law School,Cultural Resource Protection and Federal Livestock Grazing Policy

2013 Spring:

Professor Tony Arnold, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville, Emergence and Evolution of Watershed Institutions
Professor Melissa Scanlan, University of Wisconsin Law School, Adaptive Management
Professor Ezra Rosser, Washington College of Law, American University, Ahistorical Indians and Reservation Resources
Professor Kalyani Robbins, University of Akron Law School, The Regulation of Hydraulic Fracturing Under the Endangered Species Act ]
Professor Timothy Mulvaney, Texas Wesleyan University School of Law, Takings Law and the Matter of Koontz v. St. John's
Professor Wil Burns, Johns Hopkins University, The European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme: Climate Model or Climate Muddle?

2012:

Professor Elizabeth Burleson, Pace Law School, Hydraulic Fracturing
Professor Kathryn Kovacs, Rutgers Law School - Camden, Issues Arising Under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act
Professor Wendy Wagner, University of Texas Law School, An Empirical Study of EPA's HAPS rules
Professor Douglas Kysar, Yale Law School, Limited Government in an Era of Unlimited Harm: A Case Study of Climate Change Litigation

2011:

Professor Jessica Owley, State University of New York at Buffalo Law School, Conservation Easements
Professor Sam Kalen, University of Wyoming College of Law, NEPA's Evolution
Professor John Nagle, Notre Dame Law School, How Much Should China Pollute?
Professor Dennis Hirsch, Capital University Law School, Green Business
Professor Michael Vandenbergh, Vanderbilt Law School, Time to Try Carbon Labelling

2010:

Professor Wil Burns, University of Santa Clara School of Law, Geoengineering Proposals, Climate Change and International Governance Structures
Professor Gabriel Eckstein, Texas Tech Law School, Climate Change Implications for Global Water Resources and International Law
Professor James Kushner, Southwestern Law School, Planning for Global Climate Change: Mapping the Potential Legislation
Professor Andrew Long, Florida Coastal Law School, Biodiversity, Forestry and Climate Change in International Environmental Law
Professor Patrick McGinley, West Virginia Law School, Mountain Top Removal

2009:

Professor Peter Appel, University of Georgia Law School, and Dr. T. Rick Irvin, Sustainable Commerce
Professor Tony Arnold, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville, The Lake, the Trust, and the Map: Can Environmental Law Achieve Environmental Conservation?
Professor Kim Diana Connolly and Dr. Sonya Forte Duhe;, University of South Carolina, Dealing with Environmental Law and Policy in the Press
Professor Patricia R. McCubbin, Southern Illinois University School of Law, China and Climate Change
Professor John C. Nagle, Notre Dame Law School, The Evangelical Debate Over Climate Change

2008:

Professor Victor Flatt, University of Houston Law Center, Taking the Legislative Temperature: Which Federal Climate Change Legislative Proposal is Best?
Professor Gary Marchant, Arizona State University College of Law, Environmental Regulation of Nanotechnology
Professor Robin Craig, Florida State University College of Law, Public Health and Ecosystem Services
Professor Deepa Badrinarayana, Chapman University School of Law, Trade and Climate Change: Is There a Path to Sustainable Development Under Law?
Professor Lesley McAllister, University of San Diego School of Law, Moving Toward Stringency in Emissions Trading: The Problem of Slack Caps

2007:

Professor Michael C. Blumm, Lewis and Clark Law School, Justice Kennedy and the Environment
Professor John Dernbach, Widener Law School, Climate Change and Global Warming
Environmental Law Institute, Marine Aquaculture: A Growing Business

2006:

Professor Dorothy Bisbee, Southern New England School of Law, Applying Agricultural Nuisance and Zoning Exemptions to On-Farm Wind Farms
Professor Fred Cheever, University of Denver College of Law, Law and Nature on the Wildland-Urban Border
Environmental Law Institute, Water Cases Before the Supreme Court: Is Federal Environmental law Sunk?
Professor J.B. Ruhl, Florida State University Law School, The Effects of Wetlands Mitigation Banking on People
Professor Eleanor Stein, Albany Law School, Global Warming: Public Nuisance or Political Question? A Case Study of Connecticut v. American Electric Power

2005:

Professor Peter Appel, University of Georgia Law School, Wilderness Policy
Professor William C.G. Burns, University of Redlands, Department of Environmental Studies, Far From Heaven: The Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Pacific Island Developing Countries and International Legal Responses
ELI Associates Seminar,Alternative Strategies for Addressing Mercury Pollution
Professor Dennis Hirsch, Capital Law School, What Privacy Regulation Can Learn From Environmental Law
Professor Hari Osofsky, Whittier Law School, Learning from Environmental Justice: A New Model for International Environmental Rights

2004:

ELI Associates Seminar, Healthy Forests Initiative
Professor Shi-Ling Hsu, George Washington University Law School, Fairness Versus Efficiency in Environmental Law
Professor Irma Russell, University of Memphis School of Law, Ethics in the Practice of Environmental Law
Professor Stephen M. Johnson, Mercer University Law School, Market-Based Pollution Control Programs and Environmental Justice

2002:

Ray Coss, Bridgestone-Firestone, Environmental Management Systems and Voluntary Environmental Codes
Environmental Law Institute Associates Seminar,Prospects for Second Generation Legislation: Congressional, State, EPA and Other Views
Dr. Robert J. Goldstein, Pace University School of Law, "Putting Environmental Law on the Map: A Spatial Approach to Environmental Law Using GIS"

2001:

Environmental Law Institute Associates Seminar, Climate Change: Using State Policy Tools at the Federal Level
Professor Zygmunt Plater, Boston College Law School, "Of Small Fish, Environmental Law and Democratic Governance"
Professor Susan Smith, Willamette University College of Law, "The Endangered Species Act Goes to the City"
Professor Robert Verchick, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, "The Commerce Clause, Environmental Justice and the Interstate Garbage Wars

2000:

Andriy Andrusevych, Lviv National University (Ukraine), "Environmental Human Rights in International Law"
Professor William Buzbee, Emory University Law School, "Sprawl"
Professor Bob Collin, University of Oregon, "Environmental Justice, Sustainability, and Urban Planning"
Professor Kim Diana Connolly, University of South Carolina Law School, "Essential Fish Habitat"
Professor Robin Craig, Western New England College of Law, "Nonpoint source pollution"
Professor Gary Marchant, Arizona State University Law School (Co-counsel in American Trucking), "American Trucking Associations, Inc. v. EPA"

1999:

Professor John Bonine, University of Oregon Law School, "Standing to Sue: The First Step in Access to Justice"
Doctor Robert D. Bullard, Clark Atlanta University, "Environmental Justice: Strategies fot Creating Healthy and Suatainable Communities"
Professor James Grijalva, University of North Dakota School of Law, "Environmental Law in Indian Country"
Professor Howard Latin, Rutgers Law School/Newark, "EcoVitality"
Paul Smyth, U.S. Dept. of Interior, Solicitor's Office, "Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument"
Justine Thompson, Southern Envtl. Law Center, "Regulation of CAFOs"

1998:

Professor Robert Kuehn, Dir. - Tulane Law School Environmental Law Clinic, "The Shintech Siting Controversy"
Professor Wang Xi, Vice Director, Research Institute of Environmental Law, Wuhan University, "China's role in international environmental law"
Robert Yuhnke, Lead Counsel, American Lung Assn. v. Browner "The NAAQS process"

The History: Building on a project that was started in Spring 1998, Mercer University Law School (Macon, Ga.) is working with several other schools to sponsor a "virtual" environmental law lecture series/discussion list over the Internet during the Spring 2021 semester.