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Lloyd K. Garrison Lecture on Environmental Law
March 12, 2013, 5:30 pm, Robert B. Fleming Moot Courtroom (immediately following the presentation of the Nicholas A. Robinson Awards for Alumni Achievement)
Lisa Heinzerling
Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
"Inside EPA"
SYNOPSIS
Hear an insider’s view of the complex and confounding relationship between the Environmental Protection Agency, which is charged with environmental regulation, and the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), which has frequently stalled EPA regulations. Professor Heinzerling tells this tale from the dual vantage point of an expert who worked in two administrations. Under the Bush Administration, she critiqued OMB and OIRA and the rise of value-free cost-benefit analysis. She was appointed to the Obama Administration, where she observed the same obstructive dynamics in action while serving in the positions of Senior Climate Policy Counsel to the EPA Administrator and then head of EPA’s Office of Policy and Planning.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Lisa Heinzerling is Professor of Law at Georgetown University. After graduating from the University of Chicago Law School, Professor Heinzerling clerked for Judge Richard A. Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., of the U.S. Supreme Court. She was a Skadden Fellow at Business & Professional People for the Public Interest in Chicago and for three years practiced environmental law in the Massachusetts Attorney General's office. While at Georgetown, Professor Heinzerling has continued to litigate cases in environmental law. Most prominently, she served as lead author of the winning briefs in Massachusetts v. EPA, in which the Supreme Court held that the Clean Air Act gives EPA the authority to regulate greenhouse gases. Her specialties include environmental and natural resources law, administrative law, the economics of regulation, and food and drug law. From January 2009 to July 2009, Professor Heinzerling served as Senior Climate Policy Counsel to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and then, from July 2009 to December 2010, she served as Associate Administrator of EPA’s Office of Policy.
For more information, please see Professor Heinzerling's faculty page.
Please RSVP to Leslie Crincoli at lcrincoli@law.pace.edu or (914) 422-4413.
GARRISON LECTURE HISTORY
Over forty-five years ago, Lloyd K. Garrison and his associate, Albert K. Butzel, of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, won the landmark decision to preserve Storm King Mountain on the Hudson River. This victory for the Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference did more than safeguard "an area of unique beauty and major historical importance" - it inaugurated what today we recognize as the field of environmental law.
Standing in court to protect nature, citizen suit legislation, the environmental impact statement process, and the balancing of economics with the preservation of scenic beauty and historic resources: these are all rooted in Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference v. Federal Power Commission, 354 F.2d 608 (2d Cir. 1965). The Lloyd K. Garrison Lecture celebrates the vision, public spirit and life of this attorney whose legal acumen led citizens in their successful advocacy of environmental quality at Storm King.
Lloyd K. Garrison was a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law. His calling to the bar led him immediately into public service, helping to start the National Labor Relations Board while serving as Dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School. A great-grandson of William Lloyd Garrison, the abolitionist, he was a member of the National Urban League from 1924 on, and labored constantly in support of civil rights, defending Arthur Miller, Langston Hughes and J. Robert Oppenheimer during the era of McCarthyism. Garrison’s service in support of honest and open government marked his role with the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and his participation on numerous federal commissions and agencies from Presidents Herbert Hoover through Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman.
Lloyd K. Garrison passed away in 1991. For all his 93 years, Garrison devoted his brilliance and indefatigable energy to building a humane and caring society, respectful of the Rule of Law. Consistent with this dedication, Lloyd K. Garrison took up the citizens’ call to represent the Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference in its struggle to protect the Hudson River Gorge at Storm King Mountain. With characteristic enthusiasm he championed public participation rights for the community’s environmental interest, just as he did for civil rights and liberties. The Scenic Hudson victory is a living testament to Garrison's ever hopeful spirit.
The Lloyd K. Garrison Lecture on Environmental Law was established in his memory in 1995, four years after his death, and continues in his honor.
PAST GARRISON LECTURES
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Archibald Cox Professor of Law and Director, Environmental Law Program
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“Climate and Energy Policy in the Obama Administration"
April 6, 2011
Daniel A. Farber
Sho Sato Professor of Law
University of California, Berkeley
“Sustainable Consumption and Communities:
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April 15, 2010
Albert K. Butzel
Principal, Albert K. Butzel Law Offices, New York, NY
“Storm King Revisited: A View from the Mountaintop”
April 1, 2009
Robert V. Percival
Robert F. Stanton Professor of Law and Director of the Environmental Law Program, University of Maryland School of Law
"The Globalization of Environmental Law"
April 17, 2008
Hope Babcock
Professor of Law, Georgetown University
"Global Climate Change: A Civic Republican Moment"
2007
John Bonine
Professor of Law, University of Oregon School of Law
“From Silent Spring to Sweltering Summers: The Past and Future of Private Public Interest Law”
2006
Karin P. Sheldon
Professor of Law, Associate Dean for the Environmental Law Program and Director of the Environmental Law Center, Vermont Law School
“Upstream of Peril: The Role of Federal Lands in Addressing the Extinction Crisis"
2005
Cass R. Sunstein
Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Chicago Law School
“Irreversible and Catastrophic: Global Warming, Terrorism, and Other Problems”
2004
Edith Brown Weiss
Francis Cabell Brown Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
“International Water Disputes”
2003
J. William Futrell
President of the Environmental Law Institute (ELI)
“The Transition to Sustainable Development Law”
2002
Zygmunt J. B. Plater
Professor of Law, Boston College Law School
“Environmental Law at the Crossroads: The Road Travelled and the Road Ahead”
2001
Gerald Torres
H. O. Head Centennial Professor in Real Property Law, University of Texas Law School
"Who Owns the Sky?"
2000
A. Dan Tarlock
Distinguished Professor of Law and Co-Director Program in Environmental and Energy Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
"The Future of Environmental 'Rule of Law' Litigation"
1999
Richard J. Lazarus
Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
"Thirty Years of Environmental Protection Law in the Supreme Court"
1998
Oliver A. Houck
Professor of Law and Director of Environmental Law Programs, Tulane University School of Law
"Environmental Law and the General Welfare"
1997
William H. Rodgers, Jr.
Professor of Law, University of Washington School of Law
"Defeating Environmental Law: The Geology of Legal Advantage"
1996
Joseph L. Sax
Counselor to Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, US Department of the Interior
"Using Property Rights to Attack Environmental Protection"
1995
David Sive, Esq.
Founding Partner, Sive, Paget, & Reisel, PC
Adjunct Professor of Law, Pace Law School
"The Litigation Process in the Development of Environmental Law"