NRLI Distinguished Visitors

Environmental and Natural Resources Law

On October 24th, the Environmental & Natural Resources Law Program welcomed its 25^th annual Natural Resources Law Institute Distinguished Visitor, Hope M. Babcock, Professor of Law at Georgetown School of Law. The NRLI Distinguished Visitor spends three days on campus attending classes and meeting students and presenting a lecture to the law school community. Professor Babcock gave a public lecture entitled: Putting a Price on Whales to Save Them: The Moral Infirmities of a Market-Based Solution to a Regulatory Failure or What Do Morals Have to Do With It?

Prior to the lecture, Professor Michael Blumm announced the awards for the Distinguished Environmental Graduate: Barb Craig ‘87, Jim Grijalva ‘89, and Erik Lemelson ‘92.

Mark Riskedahl, Executive Director of the Northwest Environmental Defense Center, honored Marla Nelson (‘11) with the Williamson Award for the current year graduating class member who demonstrates outstanding commitment, vision, leadership, and creativity in the field of public interest environmental law.

Professor Babcock is the co-director of the Institute for Public Representation (IPR) at Georgetown Law. Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty, she was general counsel for the National Audubon Society, practiced energy and environmental law at various Washington, D.C. law firms, and was a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy and Minerals in the U.S. Department of the Interior where she oversaw the drafting of strip mining and offshore oil and gas regulations. She served on the ABA’s Standing Committee on Environmental Law and the Clinton-Gore Transition Team. She has published extensively in the fields of environmental, natural resources, and Indian law and has written articles on topics as diverse as indigenous oral history, federalism, the BP Gulf Oil Spill, the legal fiction doctrine, and ocean fish ranching. She received her undergraduate degree from Smith College and law degree from Yale Law School.

Professor Babcock joins a distinguished list of environmental law luminaries who have shared their particular expertise with the Lewis & Clark Law community. Previous Distinguished Visitors, each of whose scholarly work has subsequently appeared in Lewis & Clark’s Environmental Law, include:

2011	Jody Freeman Harvard Law	The President’s Role in Environmental Law
2010	Douglas A. Kysar Yale Law School	What Climate Change Can Do About Tort Law
2009	J.B. Ruhl Florida State University College of Law	After Cap-and-Trade: The Climate-Forced Path of Environmental Law
2008	Christopher Schroeder Duke University School of Law	Moving the 21st Century Environmental Agenda: Lessons from the Environmental Decade of the 1970s
2007	Lisa Heinzerling Georgetown University Law Center	Climate Change in the Supreme Court
2006	Robert Glennon University of Arizona Rogers College of Law	The Environmental Consequences of Groundwater Pumping: Herein Tales of Bottled Water and French Fries
2005	Professor Eric Freyfogle University of Illinois School of Law	Goodbye to the Public/Private Divide
2004	Professor Nicholas Robinson Pace University School of Law	Conceiving Laws for the Biosphere
2003	Dean David H. Getches University of Colorado School of Law	“Water Wrongs: Why Can’t We Do It Right the First Time?”
2002	Professor Robert Percival University of Maryland School of Law	“Greening the Constitution”
2001	Professor Zygmunt Plater Boston College School of Law	“Law and the Fourth Estate: Endangered Nature, the Press, and the Dicey Game of Democratic Governance”
2000	John Leshy, Solicitor U.S. Department of Interior (1993-2001)	“The Babbit Legacy at the Department of Interior: A Preliminary View”
1999	Professor Barton Thompson, Jr. Stanford University Law School	“Tragically Difficult: The Problems of Regulating the Commons”
1998	Professor Suedeen G. Kelly University of New Mexico School of Law	“The New Electric Power Houses in America: Will They Transform Your Life?”
1997	Professor Oliver Houck Tulane University School of Law	“Are Humans Part of Ecosystems?”
1996	Professor Richard Lazarus Georgetown University Law Center	“Fairness in Environmental Law”
1995	Professor Gerald Torres University of Texas School of Law	“Taking & Giving: Police Power, Public Value, and Private Right”
1994	Professor Robert Fowler Director, Australian Centre for Environmental Law	“Applying Environmental Disclosure Requirements Extraterritorially to Transnational Corporations”
1993	Professor Carol Rose Yale Law School	“Environmental Lessons”
1992	Professor Harrison Dunning University of California at Davis School of Law	“Current Issues”
1991	Professor William Rodgers University of Washington Law School	“Working with Scientists, Public Lands Acquisition, Other Recent Lessons from Washington, D.C.”
1990	Professor Daniel Farber University of Minnesota School of Law	“Reserve Mining and Judicial Review”
1989	Professor James Krier University of Michigan Law School	“The Critical Roles of Politics and Economics in Resolving Environmental Issues”
1988	Professor Frederick Anderson American University Washington College of Law	“Environmental Aspects of Recombinant DNA Research and Products”

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