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M I C H I G A N L A W

Environmental Law & Policy ProgramS p r i n g 2 0 1 0 C o n f e r e n c eCo-Sponsored by the Environmental Law Society

F e a t u r e d S p e a k e r

Gary S. GuzyDeputy Director and General Counsel for the White House Council on Environmental Quality

12:30 P.M.

Environmental Law and Economics

April 9, 2010

University of Michigan Law SchoolHutchins Hall625 South State StreetAnn Arbor, Michigan

www.law.umich.edu/CentersandPrograms/ELPP

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Welcome to the second conference presented by Michigan Law’s Environmental Law and Policy Program and Environmental Law

Society. We gather just two weeks before the 40th anniversary of Earth Day to focus on “Environmental Law and Economics.” The late Senator Gaylord Nelson, one of the founders of Earth Day and the environmental movement in the United States, once said, “the economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the other way around.” Today, it is increasingly clear that a sustainable future depends upon rethinking the relationship between environmental protection and economic priorities as Senator Nelson urged.

Our panel discussions will consider the relationship between the environment and the economy from three perspectives. First, we will discuss traditional approaches to environmental protection and economic priorities, including cost-benefit analysis and market-based approaches. Second, we will assess efforts to reconcile environmental stewardship and economic growth through emphasis on the green economy and green jobs. Third, we will consider ecological economics and the proposition that economic growth must be limited to promote long-term sustainability.

We are delighted that Gary Guzy, the Deputy Director and General Counsel for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, will be our featured speaker. Gary is playing a leading role in President Obama’s efforts to promote a more sustainable future. He brings a rich background to his current position, including service during the Clinton administration as the EPA’s General Counsel and as a leader in promoting alternative energy and sustainability.

Our moderators are University of Michigan professors who are leading interdisciplinary efforts to address climate change, alternative energy, and sustainability. They are joined by panelists who are academics, economists, attorneys, and policymakers from the United States and Canada.

We are pleased that our conference participants include Michigan Law faculty and students, their colleagues from other schools at the University of Michigan as well as from other law schools, and civic leaders and interested citizens from the Ann Arbor community and throughout Michigan.

I look forward to meeting as many of you as possible during the conference and welcome your suggestions about themes and topics for future conferences, as well as for other ELPP programs. Thank you for joining us and helping to make our April 2010 conference a success. We are grateful for your support and hope that we will see you again at future ELPP events.

David M. Uhlmann Director, Environmental Law and Policy ProgramJeffrey F. Liss Professor from Practice

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Friday, april 9, 2010All panel discussions are held in 100 Hutchins Hall, Law School

8:00 A.M. regiStration and BreakFaSt

8:45 A.M. Welcome David M. Uhlmann Director of the Environmental Law and Policy Program and Jeffrey F. Liss Professor from Practice, University of

Michigan Law School

9:00 – 10:30 A.M. coSt-BeneFit analySiS and market-BaSed approacheS to environmental regulation moderator

Barry raBe Professor of Public Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Professor of Environmental Policy at the School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan

paneliStS Avi Garbow Deputy General Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency Kathryn Harrison Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts and Professor of

Political Science, University of British Columbia Nina A. Mendelson Professor, University of Michigan Law School Amy Sinden Associate Professor, Temple University Beasley School

of Law

10:45 – 12:15 P.M. the green economy and eFFortS to harmonize SuStainaBility and economic groWth moderator

andreW J. HoFFman Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan

paneliStS Bracken Hendricks Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress Leslie Lowe Program Director, Energy and Environment, Interfaith

Center on Corporate Responsibility

Conference Schedule

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Eric Orts Guardsmark Professor and Director, Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership (IGEL), Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

James Salzman Samuel F. Mordecai Professor of Law and Nicholas Institute Professor of Environmental Policy, Duke University

12:30 – 1:45 P.M. luncheon Lawyers Club Lounge Featured Speaker Gary S. Guzy Deputy Director and General Counsel for the White House

Council on Environmental Quality

2:00 – 3:30 P.M. ecological economicS: rethinking the relationShip BetWeen environment and economicS

moderator Donald Scavia Director, Graham Environmental Sustainability

Institute, Graham Family Professor of Environmental Sustainability, Professor of Natural Resources and the Environment, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Special Counsel to the President for Sustainability, University of Michigan

paneliStS Richard B. Howarth Rosenwald Professor of Environmental Studies,

Dartmouth College Bruce Jennings Director of Bioethics, Center for Humans and Nature Sarah Krakoff Associate Dean of Research and Professor, University

of Colorado Law School Thomas Princen Professor, School of Natural Resources and

Environment, University of Michigan

3:30 P.M. cloSing remarkS and reception David M. Uhlmann

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Gary S. Guzy Deputy Director and General Counsel for the White House Council on Environmental Quality

Gary S. Guzy, Deputy Director and General Counsel for the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), brings 25 years of environmental leadership experience in business, government, and academia to his job.

Prior to his appointment, Guzy served as Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary of APX, Inc., the leading infrastructure provider for environmental and energy markets. He was also an Adjunct Professor of Environmental

Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he taught the law school’s first-ever course on climate change law. Prior to that, Guzy served as the Global Practice Leader for Climate Risk and Sustainability at Marsh, Inc., the world’s leading insurance broker and strategic risk advisor, and was Marsh’s chief strategist and spokesperson on climate and sustainability issues.

Guzy was appointed by President Clinton and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as the General Counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from 1998 to 2001. In that role, he served as the Agency’s chief legal officer and as a member of its senior leadership team, working with the Administrator to establish and carry out strategic regulatory, legislative, and public relations goals, accomplishing important air pollution and tailpipe emissions protections, fostering Everglades protection, and designing regulatory approaches to protect children. He also authored climate change opinions that were later ratified by the U.S. Supreme Court in its landmark decision finding that greenhouse gases are pollutants under federal law. Prior to serving as General Counsel, Guzy served as Counselor to the Administrator at EPA, as EPA’s Deputy General Counsel, and as a Senior Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he handled major environmental litigation from the Everglades to Alaska. He has also practiced environmental law in the private sector as a partner with the law firm of Foley Hoag LLP and served as a consultant to the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.

Gary is the author of the “Climate Change and Insurance” chapter of the American Bar Association’s recent book on Climate Change and U.S. Law. He received his J.D. degree, cum laude, from Cornell Law School and his B.A., magna cum laude, from Cornell University, and began his legal career as a Judicial Clerk for the Honorable Elbert P. Tuttle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Featured Speaker Biography

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Avi GarbowAvi Garbow was appointed by President Obama to serve as the EPA’s Deputy General Counsel in September 2009. Prior to his appointment, he spent approximately seven years in private practice at a major international law firm, and then in a smaller plaintiffs’-side firm where he co-chaired its international human rights practice group. Before entering private practice, Garbow served with distinction in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Environmental Crimes Section, and in the enforcement office of the EPA. He received his J.D. and a master’s degree

in marine affairs from the University of Virginia, and is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan.

Kathryn Harrison Kathryn Harrison is a Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts at the University of British Columbia. She has a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Western Ontario, master’s degrees in political science and chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in political science from UBC. Before entering academia, she worked as a policy analyst for both Environment Canada and the United States Congress. Dr. Harrison is the author of Passing the Buck: Federalism

and Canadian Environmental Policy, coauthor of Risk, Science, and Politics: Regulation of Toxic Substances in Canada and the United States, and has also edited several volumes, the most recent of which is Global Commons, Domestic Decisions: The Comparative Politics of Climate Change (forthcoming). She has published recent articles in Global Environmental Politics, the Canadian Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Her current research focuses on environmental regulation in the context of economic globalization, instrument choice in climate policy, and the comparative politics of climate change.

Panelist and Moderator Biographies

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Bracken Hendricks Bracken Hendricks, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, works at the interface of global warming solutions and economic development. He is a longtime leader in promoting policies that create green jobs, sustainable infrastructure, and investment in cities. Hendricks served as an advisor to the campaign and transition team of President Barack Obama, and was an architect of clean-energy portions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. He also served in the Clinton administration as special assistant to the Office

of Vice President Al Gore, with the Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and with the President’s Council on Sustainable Development. He was founding executive director of the Apollo Alliance for good jobs and energy independence and has served as an energy and economic advisor to the AFL-CIO, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell’s Energy Advisory Task Force, and numerous other federal, state, and local policymakers and elected officials. His publications include the book Apollo’s Fire: Igniting America’s Clean Energy Economy, which he co-authored with U.S. Congressman Jay Inslee (D-WA).

Andrew J. Hoffman Andy Hoffman is the Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan; a position that holds joint appointments at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the School of Natural Resources and Environment. Within this role, Andy also serves as Associate Director of the Frederick A. and Barbara M. Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise. Hoffman’s research uses a sociological perspective to understand the cultural and institutional aspects of environmental issues for organizations. In particular,

he focuses on the processes by which environmental issues both emerge and evolve as social, political, and managerial issues. He has written extensively about the evolving nature of field level pressures related to environmental issues; the corporate responses that have emerged as a result of those pressures, particularly around the issue of climate change; the interconnected networks among nongovernmental organizations and corporations, and how those networks influence change processes within cultural and institutional systems; the social and psychological barriers to these change processes; and the underlying cultural values that are engaged when these barriers are overcome. He has published seven books and over 80 articles and book chapters on these issues. Prior to academics, Andy worked for the EPA (Region 1), Metcalf & Eddy Environmental Consultants, T&T Construction & Design, and the Amoco Corporation.

Panelist and Moderator Biographies

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Richard B. Howarth Rich Howarth is the Rosenwald Professor of Environmental Studies at Dartmouth College and the editor in chief of Ecological Economics. His work centers on the normative aspects of environmental governance with applications to topics such as energy use, climate change, and ecological conservation. He is committed to the view that rigorous economic analysis is essential in understanding the causes of environmental problems and designing solutions that effectively balance the multiple objectives of environmental policy. At the same time, environmental

issues have moral, behavioral, social, and ecological dimensions that are sometimes in tension with the assumptions of textbook economics. This highlights the need to integrate economics with a cross-cutting, interdisciplinary approach. Howarth received degrees from the Biology and Society Program at Cornell (A.B., 1985) and the Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (M.S., 1987). He earned his Ph.D. at the Energy and Resources Program at the University of California at Berkeley (1990), where his work focused on international comparisons of energy-use trends and the economics of sustainable development. Prior to his appointment at Dartmouth College, he held positions at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1990–1993) and the University of California at Santa Cruz (1993–1998).

Bruce Jennings Bruce Jennings is Director of Bioethics at the Center for Humans and Nature (CHN), a private, nonpartisan research and educational institute that studies philosophical, ethical, and policy questions arising at the intersection of environmental policy, public health, and regional planning. Jennings also serves as editor of CHN’s electronic journal, Minding Nature. Since 1996 he has taught at the Yale University School of Public Health and has been a leader in ethics education in the field of public health. In addition, he holds a faculty appointment

at the Weill Cornell Medical College. He also is Senior Consultant and an elected Fellow at The Hastings Center, a research institute that studies ethical and social issues in medicine, the life sciences, and the professions. From 1991 through 1999, he served as Executive Director of The Hastings Center. A political scientist by training (Yale University B.A. 1971 and Princeton University M.A. 1973), Jennings has written and edited 20 books and has published over 150 articles on bioethics and public policy issues. Among his recent books are Public Health Ethics: Theory, Policy and Practice and The Perversion of Autonomy: The Proper Uses of Coercion and Constraints in a Liberal Society, 2nd. Ed. He has recently completed work on two new books: one on the ethics of end of life care, and the other on public health and political theory. Work in progress includes a study of the relationship between the concept of nature and the concept of culture in modern social philosophy.

Panelist and Moderator Biographies

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Panelist and Moderator Biographies

Sarah Krakoff Sarah Krakoff, Associate Dean of Research at the University of Colorado Law School, teaches and is widely published in the areas of American Indian law and natural resources law. Her article examining the effects of federal law on the Navajo Nation’s exercise of sovereignty, A Narrative of Sovereignty: Illuminating the Paradox of the Domestic Dependent Nation, received the Jules Millstein Faculty Writing Award at the University of Colorado Law School in 2006 and has been cited in several federal district court opinions. Krakoff has also written about

environmental ethics, public lands, and global warming. Her current projects include a new American Indian law casebook (coauthored by Bob Anderson, Bethany Berger, and Phil Frickey) and a book (currently titled Parenting the Planet) about the different stages of the human relationship to nature. When Professor Krakoff first came to Colorado, she was the Director of the American Indian Law Clinic, supervising students in a range of federal Indian and tribal law matters. She succeeded in securing permanent University funding for the Clinic before moving to nonclinical teaching in 1999. Before coming to Colorado, Professor Krakoff was awarded an Equal Justice Works Fellowship to work on the Navajo Nation as Director of the Youth Law Project for DNA-People’s Legal Services. Professor Krakoff clerked on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for Judge Warren J. Ferguson from 1992–93, and received her J.D. from Boalt Hall, U.C. Berkeley, in 1991 and her B.A. from Yale University in 1986.

Leslie Lowe Leslie Lowe has been director of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility’s (ICCR’s) program on Energy and the Environment since 2003. She has guided ICCR members as they press companies to reduce greenhouse gases, expose polluters, and convince corporations that a good environmental record is critical for a healthy bottom line. Lowe entered the field of environmental law in the early 1980s, when she took on land-use cases as a law clerk and discovered how often environmental topics become

intertwined with issues of social justice. After serving as an assistant commissioner for a New York City agency, she later became executive director of New York City’s Environmental Justice Alliance, a citywide network of 16 community organizations based in low-income neighborhoods and communities of color. She has seen companies evolve in their view of environmental sustainability, from skepticism to a growing realization that they must minimize their ecological footprint. Lowe is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Lowe received a B.A. from Bennington College and did postgraduate research in economics and social history at the University of Paris. She is a member of the American Bar Association’s Committee on Environmental Disclosure and serves on the board of the Social Investment Forum, the Highlander Center and the River Network.

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Nina A. Mendelson Nina Mendelson is a Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she teaches and conducts research in the areas of administrative law, environmental law, statutory interpretation, and the legislative process. Her work is published in prominent law reviews, including the Columbia Law Review, the N.Y.U. Law Review, and the Michigan Law Review. She currently serves as one of three U.S. special legal advisers to the NAFTA Commission on Environmental Cooperation and is a member scholar at the Center for Progressive Reform. Prior

to joining the Michigan faculty in 1999, Mendelson served for several years as an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division, litigating and advising with other federal agencies on legislative matters and environmental policy initiatives. She also participated extensively in federal legislative negotiations. Professor Mendelson earned her A.B. in economics, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Harvard University. Her J.D. is from Yale Law School, where she was an articles editor of the Yale Law Journal. Following law school, she clerked for Judge Pierre Leval in the Southern District of New York and for Judge John Walker Jr., ‘66, on the Second Circuit.

Eric Orts Eric Orts is the Guardsmark Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a professor in the Legal Studies and Business Ethics department with a joint appointment in the Management Department. He directs the Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership (IGEL) at Penn/Wharton. He also serves as an academic co-director of the FINRA at Wharton certificate program for securities compliance and regulatory professionals. Orts’ primary research and teaching interests are in environmental law and policy, corporate governance, and

professional ethics. His scholarly work is widely published in academic journals (mostly law reviews) and books. Prior to joining Wharton’s faculty in 1991, Orts practiced law at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City and was a Chemical Bank fellow in corporate social responsibility at Columbia Law School. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and visited at the UCLA School of Law, University of Michigan Law School, Tsinghua University, Sydney Law School, and NYU School of Law. He has also been visiting Fulbright professor in the law department of the University of Leuven, the Eugene P. Beard Faculty Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Ethics and the Professions, and a faculty fellow in the Center for Business and Government at the Kennedy School at Harvard. Professor Orts is a graduate of Oberlin College (B.A.), the New School for Social Research (M.A.), the University of Michigan (J.D.), and Columbia University (J.S.D.).

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Panelist and Moderator Biographies

Thomas Princen Thomas Princen explores issues of social and ecological sustainability at the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. His primary focus is on the drivers of overconsumption and the conditions for restrained use of resources. Princen is the author of Treading Softly: Paths to Ecological Order, and The Logic of Sufficiency, and lead editor of Confronting Consumption. The last two were awarded the International Studies Association’s Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for the “best book in the study of international environmental problems.” He is coauthor of Environmental NGOs in World Politics: Linking the Local and the Global and author of Intermediaries in International Conflict. He is currently working on two book projects: Localization: Adaptations for the Coming Downshift (with Raymond De Young, under review) and Distant Horizons: An Ethic of the Long Term. Princen was named an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow, sponsored by the Packard Foundation, and before that was a Pew Faculty Fellow for International Affairs. He received his Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University in 1988 and a Bachelor of Arts in biology from Pomona College in 1975. He was a MacArthur Foundation Post-Doctoral Visiting Research Fellow in International Peace & Security at Princeton University from 1988 to 1989. He now serves as an Associate Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy at the University of Michigan.

Barry Rabe Barry Rabe is a Professor of Public Policy in the Ford School and also holds appointments in the School of Natural Resources and Environment and the Program in the Environment at the University of Michigan. He is a nonresident senior fellow in the Governance Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. Much of his recent research examines state and regional development of policies to reduce greenhouse gases, which has been conducted in collaboration with the Brookings Institution, the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of

Virginia, and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. In 2006, Rabe became the first social scientist to receive a Climate Protection Award from the EPA in recognition of his contribution to both scholarship and policymaking. Recent publications include a 2004 Brookings book, Statehouse and Greenhouse: The Evolving Politics of American Climate Change Policy, which received the 2005 Lynton Keith Caldwell Award from the American Political Science Association in recognition of the best book published on environmental politics and policy in the past three years.

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James Salzman Jim Salzman holds joint appointments at Duke University as the SamuelFox Mordecai Professor of Law at the Law School and as the NicholasInstitute Professor of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School ofthe Environment. A popular classroom teacher, Salzman has twice been voted Professor of the Year by students at Duke’s School of the Environment. An honors graduate of Yale and Harvard, he has lectured on environmental policy in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa. He has served

as a visiting professor at Yale, Harvard, and Stanford universities, as well as at Macquarie (Australia), Lund (Sweden), and Tel Aviv (Israel) universities and the European University Institute (Italy). In more than 60 articles and five books, his broad-ranging scholarship has addressed topics spanning trade and environment conflicts, the history of drinking water, environmental protection in the service economy, wetlands mitigation banking, and the legal and institutional issues in creating markets for ecosystem services. A national survey of environmental law professors has voted his work among the top 10 articles of the year on four separate occasions. Salzman is active in the fields of practice and policy, serving since 1996 as a principal liaison for the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee, a government-appointed body providing counsel to the EPA and U.S. Trade Representative on trade and environment issues. He serves on the boards of a number of environmental nonprofits.

Donald Scavia Don Scavia is the Graham Family Professor of Environmental Sustainability, Professor of Natural Resources and Environment, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Director of the Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute, and Special Counsel for Sustainability to the University of Michigan President. Scavia was Director of Michigan Sea Grant from 2004 to 2009, SNRE Associate Dean for Research from 2004 to 2006, Director of the Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research from 2004 to 2007, Associate

Editor for Estuaries and Coasts from 1998 to 2007; Associate Editor for Frontiers in Ecology and Environment from 2002 to 2006, served on the Boards of Directors for the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography and the International Association for Great Lakes Research, and the Science Committee of NSF’s Collaborative Large-scale Engineering Network for Environmental Research program. Prior to joining the Michigan faculty, Scavia was Chief Scientist of NOAA’s National Ocean Service and was responsible for the quality, integrity, and responsiveness of NOS’s science programs, and for ensuring that NOS’s operations and resource management were based on solid science and technology. Before becoming the NOS Chief Scientist, he was Director of the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science and Director of NOAA’s Coastal Ocean Program, where he managed coastal and Great Lakes research programs in NOS laboratories, monitoring and assessment offices, and extramural research. Between 1975 and 1990, Don was a research scientist with NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate degrees in Environmental Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Michigan.

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Panelist and Moderator Biographies

Amy Sinden Amy Sinden is an Associate Professor at Temple University Beasley School of Law and a member scholar of the Center for Progressive Reform. Her recent academic writings have criticized the misuse of economic theory in environmental law, arguing against the use of cost-benefit analysis in environmental standard setting, and countering claims that private property regimes can solve environmental problems or that free trade will enhance global environmental welfare. She has also written about the application of classical human rights

norms to environmental conflicts. Sinden’s articles have appeared in a number of books and academic journals, including the Iowa Law Review, the University of Colorado Law Review, and the Harvard Environmental Law Review. Before entering academia in 2001, Sinden represented citizens’ groups in environmental litigation, first with Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund in Seattle and then with Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future. In addition to her involvement with environmental issues, Sinden also practiced for several years at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, where she represented parents in civil child abuse and neglect proceedings and advocated on behalf of welfare recipients seeking job training and education. She served twice as a law clerk, first for Judge John F. Gerry of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, and later for Judge Dolores K. Sloviter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1991, where she was associate editor of the law review and was named a Public Interest Fellow.

David M. UhlmannDavid Uhlmann is the Jeffrey F. Liss Professor from Practice and the inaugural Director of the Environmental Law and Policy Program. His research, writing, and advocacy interests include criminal and civil enforcement of environmental laws, Clean Water Act jurisprudence, worker endangerment, and efforts to address global climate change. Since joining the Michigan faculty in 2007, Uhlmann has published articles in The Environmental Law Forum, The New York Times, the American Constitution Society’s Issue Briefs series, and the Utah Law Review;

he is also the coauthor of an article regarding global climate change in the Stanford Environmental Law Journal with Professor Reuven Avi-Yonah. Uhlmann previously served for 17 years at the U.S. Department of Justice, the last seven as Chief of the Environmental Crimes Section, where he was the top environmental crimes prosecutor in the United States. Professor Uhlmann coordinated national legislative, policy, and training initiatives regarding criminal enforcement and chaired the Justice Department’s Environmental Crimes Policy Committee. Earlier in his Justice Department career, Uhlmann was the lead prosecutor in United States v. Elias, chronicled in The Cyanide Canary. Until recently, the 17-year prison sentence that resulted was the longest sentence ever imposed in the United States for environmental crimes. Professor Uhlmann received a J.D. from Yale Law School and a B.A. in history with high honors from Swarthmore College. Following law school, Professor Uhlmann clerked for United States District Court Judge Marvin H. Shoob in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Conference Sponsors

THe environmenTal laW and policy program

The Environmental Law and Policy Program (ELPP) at the University of Michigan promotes scholarship, teaching, and interdisciplinary programs to address the myriad challenges facing our global environment. ELPP draws on the Law School’s rich tradition in environmental and natural resources law, which dates to the early years of the environmental movement in the United States, and builds on the University of Michigan’s outstanding interdisci-plinary and dual degree programs with the School of Natural Resources and Environment, the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, the School of Public Health, and the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

ELPP offers a diverse range of courses and independent study opportunities to Michigan Law students who want to learn more about environmental issues and may be considering careers in environmental law. In addition to sponsoring an annual conference, ELPP hosts an annual lecture series and an array of special programs that bring distinguished leaders, policymakers, academics, corporate officials, and attorneys from public interest, public service, and private practice to Michigan Law.

THe environmenTal laW SocieTy

The University of Michigan Environmental Law Society (ELS) serves fore-most as a forum for students energized by environmental issues and con-cerned with how the law may or may not adequately address those issues. ELS also strives to provide first-hand opportunities for those students who see environmental law in their professional future. We encourage students from all backgrounds to become involved; we currently have members from the schools of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE), Business, Public Policy, and Public Health, as well as the Law School.

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AcknowledgmentsA conference cannot occur without assistance and support from throughout the

Law School community. ELPP and ELS wish to express their appreciationto the following individuals who were instrumental to the success

of our second environmental law conference.

SympoSium execuTive commiTTee

David M. Uhlmann, Director, Environmental Law and Policy ProgramSarah Bullard, Symposium Co-Chair, Environmental Law Society

Joshua Hopstone, Symposium Co-Chair, Environmental Law SocietyLaurie Williams, Symposium Co-Chair, Environmental Law Society

Alonzo LaGrone, ELPP Program Coordinator

THank you To THe FolloWing

Evan H. Caminker, Dean

Jenni Borden, Data ManagerJoey Friedmann, Environmental Law Society

Lara Furar, Director of Alumni RelationsTish Holbrook, Art Director

Alex Lee, Web DesignerJohn Masson, Media Relations Officer

Diane Nafranowicz, Manager, Lawyers Club Caitlin Ross, Environmental Law Society

Sam VanVolkenburgh, Environmental Law SocietyLyle Whitney, Programming Supervisor

Lisa Yellin, Assistant Director of Communications