September 27/Cleveland, OH: Climate Change Goes to Court

Last spring, the Supreme Court curtailed the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector in West Virginia v. EPA. Additional lawsuits filed by state attorneys general and conservative groups challenge a wide swath of the Biden Administration's climate policy initiatives, including the use of the "social cost of carbon." At the same time, state and local governments have filed suit against fossil fuel companies in state courts, seeking compensation for local climate change impacts and seeking to hold such companies responsible for the consequences of consuming their products. These cases have been consumed by procedural wrangling, but could also end up in the Supreme Court soon. Join us for a discussion of these legal developments and how what happens in court will affect efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change.
Title:
Climate Change Goes to Court
When/Where:
Tuesday, September 27, 2022 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Eastern Time
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
George Gund Hall
Room A59, Moot Courtroom
11075 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106
Register Now For This Free Continuing Legal Education In-Person Event!
Speaker:

• Jonathan H. Adler is the inaugural Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and the founding Director of the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where he teaches courses in environmental, administrative and constitutional law. Professor Adler is the author or editor of seven books, including Marijuana Federalism: Uncle Sam and Mary Jane (Brookings Institution Press, 2020), Business and the Roberts Court (Oxford University Press, 2016) and Rebuilding the Ark: New Perspectives on Endangered Species Act Reform (AEI Press, 2011). His articles have appeared in publications ranging from the Harvard Environmental Law Review and Yale Journal on Regulation to the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. He has testified before Congress a dozen times, and his work has been cited in the U.S. Supreme Court. A 2021 study identified Professor Adler as the fifth most cited legal academic in administrative and environmental law from 2016 to 2020. Professor Adler is a contributing editor to National Review Online and a regular contributor to the popular legal blog, The Volokh Conspiracy. A regular commentator on constitutional and regulatory issues, he has appeared on numerous radio and television programs, ranging from the PBS Newshour and National Public Radio to the Fox News Channel and Entertainment Tonight. Professor Adler is also a senior fellow at the Property & Environment Research Center in Bozeman, Montana. Prior to joining the faculty at Case Western Reserve, Adler clerked for the Honorable David B. Sentelle on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. From 1991 to 2000, Adler worked at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market research and advocacy group in Washington, D.C., where he directed CEI's environmental studies program.
• Professor Victor B. Flatt joins CWRU Law School as a Visiting Professor of Law in 2022 from the University of Houston where he was the Dwight Olds Professor of Law and the Co-Director of the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources (EENR) Center. Professor Flatt received his B.A. in Chemistry and Math from Vanderbilt University where he was a Harold Stirling Vanderbilt Scholar, and his J.D. from Northwestern University, where he was a John Henry Wigmore Scholar. After graduating from Northwestern, Professor Flatt clerked for the Honorable Danny J. Boggs of the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Professor Flatt’s teaching career began at the University of Washington’s Evins School of Public Affairs, and he taught at Georgia State University College of Law, and at the University of North Carolina School of Law, before joining the Houston faculty. He is a nationally recognized expert on environmental law, climate law, and energy law, and the intersection of these areas. He is co-author of a popular environmental law casebook, and has authored more than 50 law review articles, which have appeared in journals such as the Notre Dame Law Review, Ecology Law Quarterly, The Ohio State Law Journal, Washington Law Review, Houston Law Review and Carolina Law Review. Seven of his articles have been recognized as finalists or winner of the best environmental law review article of the year.

By:
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Credit:

• Ohio: 2.0 (for in-person attendance) hours of CLE credit has been approved
• Other Jurisdictions: You may be able to self-apply to your credit-granting authority.

Cost:
Free and open to the public.

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