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University of Virginia School of Law professor Jon Cannon's 'Environment in the Balance: The Green Movement and the Supreme Court' offers a legal and cultural assessment of the modern environmental movement, using 30 of the most influential Supreme Court cases in the past 40 years.

University of Virginia School of Law professor Michael Livermore discusses the economic and environmental aspects of offshore oil leasing on federal outer-continental shelf lands.

Avi Garbow, general counsel of the Environmental Protection Agency, delivers the keynote address at "Acceptable Risks: Reconciling Pesticide Registration with Endangered Species Protection" symposium.

Kathryn Fuller, chair of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, presented "The Changing Face of Nature Conservation" for UVA Law's Inaugural Lillian Stone Distinguished Lecture in Environmental Policy on Oct. 20.

Wayne Pacelle, CEO and president of the Humane Society of the United States, gave at talk at UVA Law titled "Animal Protection in the 21st Century: Finding Clarity in Our Tangled, Contradictory Relationship with Animals."

Robert Sussman, former senior counsel for the EPA, delivered the keynote address at the Virginia Environmental Law Journal symposium, "The Promise and Limits of Presidential Action on Climate Change" on Oct. 9.

Marco Simons of EarthRights International and University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett discuss corporate liability in U.S. courts for global actions.

Virginia Assistant Attorney General Michell Welch discusses prosecuting animal cruelty cases.

Stephen Burns, general counsel for Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and Daniel Farber of the University of California, Berkeley, discuss how environmental and natural disasters shape energy policy.

The United States must move forward with laws and policies that halt global climate change, President Barack Obama’s former senior adviser on climate change and energy said Thursday at the University of Virginia School of Law.

The ongoing debate over man-made global warming came to Caplin Pavilion on Oct. 11, as skeptics and advocates discussed the science and policy implications of climate change.

Michael Walker, senior enforcement counsel for administrative litigation in the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, discussed how to find summer internships and permanent positions in environmental law.

Daniel Bonilla, a law professor at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia, spoke at an open session of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples seminar on March 29.

Altering climate change regulations is a task that starts and ends with the states, according to a pair of experts who spoke last week at a Law School symposium sponsored by the Virginia Environmental Law Journal.

The Supreme Court increasingly endorses a weak form of cost-benefit analysis when evaluating environmental cases, Jonathan Cannon said at a chair lecture Wednesday.

International agreements like the Kyoto Protocol helped establish institutions for nations to talk about climate change, but the next step in reducing emissions will require more buy-in from participants, Professor Jon Cannon told students at a J.B. Moore Society event Nov. 16.

Environmentally friendly and energy efficient “green” building practices have caught on remarkably in recent years, but both the government and the private sector could do more to promote such construction, a panel of experts said Friday during a symposium at the Law School.

Michael Rodemeyer, J.D., former executive director of the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology; and Larisa Rudenko, Ph.D., senior advisor for Biotechnology, Center for Veterinary Medicine, FDA discuss the FDA's recent decisions on food use of cloned animals.

Environmental advocates spoke out against towering power lines they hope won’t become the new symbol of rapid development in Northern Virginia, during the Virginia Environmental Law Journal’s Fall Symposium Nov. 2.

Nine years ago, Professor Jon Cannon, currently director of Virginia's environmental and land use law program, was general counsel of the EPA. He warned that the EPA could regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases as “air pollutants” under the Clean Air Act if found to be dangerous.

A look from mid-term revealed that the Supreme Court docket was full of key environmental and business cases, U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement observed at a Federalist Society talk in Caplin Pavilion April 11.

Debates over how to best address global climate change go on as if all of the world’s countries had the same sorts of economic, legal, and cultural frameworks, suggested Ruth Greenspan Bell at a Virginia Environmental Law Journal symposium Friday.

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Environmental Defense v. Duke Energy this month. Caleb Jaffe '01, an attorney at the Southern Environmental Law Center and co-author of the petitioner brief to the Supreme Court, spoke about the case at the Law School Nov. 14.