NRLI Distinguished Visitors

On October 3-5, 2011 we welcomed our 24th Annual Natural Resources Law Institute Distinguished Visitor, Jody Freeman, the Archibald Cox Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.  On October 4, Professor Freeman delivered a lecture at the law school entitled:  “The President’s Role in Environmental Law.”

Professor Freeman is a leading scholar of administrative and environmental law and the founding director of the Harvard Law School Environmental Law and Policy Program.  Professor Freeman served in the White House as Counselor for Energy and Climate Change from 2009-2010.  In that role, she contributed to a variety of policy initiatives on greenhouse gas regulation, renewable energy, energy efficiency, transmission policy, oil and gas drilling, and comprehensive energy and climate legislation to put a market-based cap on carbon.  She played a key role in the President’s historic national auto agreement, which set the first-ever greenhouse gas standards and strictest-ever fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks.  After leaving the administration, Professor Freeman served as an independent consultant to the President’s bipartisan Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.  This year, she received a prestigious appointment as a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States, the government think tank for improving the administrative and regulatory process.  She has published numerous articles on a wide array of environmental law topics and is co-author of a leading casebook in environmental law.  She has produced two other significant books: Moving to Markets in Environmental Regulation, Lessons after Twenty Years of Experience (Oxford University Press 2006, edited with Charles Kolstad) and Government by Contract: Outsourcing and American Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2009, edited with Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow).  Professor Freeman consults on administrative law and environmental law matters, and lectures widely both in the U.S. and abroad.  She received his LL.B. from University of Toronto, LL.M. from Harvard Law School, and S.J.D. from Harvard Law School.  

Professor Freeman 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:  

 

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”