Environmental Law
Why Attend?
In its thirty-seven-year history, this course of study has served as the leading annual program and meeting for attorneys, private and governmental, who are engaged in, or are planning to engage in, the practice of environmental law. The course has attracted lawyers and other environmental professionals from all 50 states who share a commitment to update their skills and knowledge continually.
Featuring over 16 hours of instruction, the course is widely recognized as the preeminent annual opportunity for environmental lawyers and other professionals to learn from one another and from a faculty of leading practitioners, scholars, and governmental officials. A significant percentage of the nation's environmental bar has attended this course, which, through the years, has served more and more practitioners with considerable experience in the practice.
While designed principally for the environmental law practitioner, the course also continues to serve attorneys seeking to enter the field, in part through a series of optional introductory lectures on the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Superfund, and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. (These introductory lectures are presented on the Wednesday evening before the first full day of the course.) Through the years, however, the course has evolved as an advanced review and update of the particularly significant recent developments in each subject area. This trend has enabled the course to serve the substantial and ever-increasing percentage of registrants who are experienced practitioners.
Time is reserved throughout the program to address written questions from the registrants.
Planning Chairs
Pamela R. Esterman, Sive, Paget & Riesel, P.C., New York
Daniel Riesel, Sive, Paget & Riesel, P.C., New York
Faculty
Margaret Lattin Bazany, Senior Counsel, Rohm and Haas Company, Philadelphia
Andrea L. Berlowe, Senior Counsel, Law and Policy Section, Environment and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.
Edward A. Boling, Deputy General Counsel, Council on Environmental Quality, Washington, D.C.
Susan E. Bromm, Director, Office of Site Remediation Enforcement, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.
Leslie A. Carothers, President, Environmental Law Institute, Washington, D.C.
William M. Cohen, Adjunct Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, American University, Washington, D.C.; Of Counsel, Perkins Coie LLP; Retired Chief, General Litigation Section, Environment and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Michael C. Davis, Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP, Washington, D.C.
E. Donald Elliott, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, Washington, D.C.; Adjunct Professor, Yale Law School and Georgetown University Law Center
Robert D. Fox, Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox, LLP, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania
Daphne A. Fuller, Assistant Chief Counsel, Airports & Environmental Law, Federal Aviation Agency, Washington, D.C.
Michael B. Gerrard, Arnold & Porter LLP, New York
Bruce S. Gelber, Chief, Environment Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.
Stuart F. Gruskin, Executive Deputy Commissioner, New York Department of Environmental Conservation, Albany
Paul E. Hagen, Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., Washington, D.C.
Karen M. Hansen, Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., Washington, D.C.
Thomas Hassenboehler, Minority Counsel, U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Washington, D.C.
Adam M. Kushner, Director, Air Enforcement Division, Office of Civil Enforcement, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.
Richard J. Lazarus, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C.
James R. May, Widener University School of Law, Wilmington, Delaware
Walter E. Mugdan, Director, Division of Environmental Planning and Protection, Region 2, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, New York
Steven M. Neugeboren, Associate General Counsel, Water Law Office, Office of General Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.
Michelle B. Nowlin, Senior Attorney, Southern Environmental Law Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Bettina Poirier, Staff Director and Chief Counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Washington, D.C.
Steven P. Quarles, Crowell & Moring LLP, Washington, D.C.
Christopher Rizzo, Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP, New York
Manik Roy, Ph.D., Director of Congressional Affairs, Pew Center on Global Climate Change, Arlington, Virginia
Mark Squillace, Professor and Director, Natural Resources Law Center, University of Colorado Law School, Boulder
Margaret N. Strand, Venable LLP, Washington, D.C.
John Walke, Director, Clean Air Program, Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, D.C. (invited)
Michael P. Walls, Managing Director, Health, Products and Science Policy, American Chemistry Council, Arlington, Virginia
David M. Winfrey, Legal Counsel - Health, Safety, Environmental, Waste Management, Inc., Houston
ALI-ABA Staff Attorney: William S. Stevens, Assistant Director, Office of Courses (wstevens@ali-aba.org)
Note: This course also is available as a LIVE VIDEO webcast at your desktop! Go to the Group Webcast Page for detailed information about participating in ALI-ABA's live webcasts. For group webcasts, please email Ruth Johnson at rjohnson@ali-aba.org for registration instructions and tuition discounts.
Program Schedule
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2008
5-8 p.m. Early Registration
Webcast Segment A
Optional Introductory Lectures (included in course tuition)
6:00 p.m. The Clean Air Act - Mr. Elliott
7:00 p.m. The Clean Water Act - Ms. Hansen
8:00 p.m. Networking Break
8:15 p.m. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
(CERCLA) and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) - Messrs. Davis and Rizzo
9:15 p.m. Adjournment for the Day
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2008
7:45 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
Webcast Segment B
8:45 a.m. Introductory Remarks and Course Overview - Ms. Esterman and Mr. Riesel
9:00 a.m. Congressional Developments - Mss. Carothers and Poirier, Mr. Hassenboehler, and Dr. Roy
10:00 a.m. Networking Break
10:15 a.m. Clean Air Act Developments - Messrs. Elliott, Kushner, and Walke
11:45 a.m. U.S. Supreme Court Roundup - Professor Lazarus
12:30 p.m. Lunch Break
Webcast Segment C
1:45 p.m. CERCLA, RCRA, and Brownfields Developments - Ms. Bromm and Messrs. Fox and Winfrey
3:00 p.m. Networking Break
3:15 p.m. State and Federal Enforcement Proceedings and Citizens' Suits - Messrs. Gelber, Gruskin, and Riesel
4:30 p.m. Hot Topics - Messrs. Gerrard, May, and Mugdan
• Global Warming
• Green Buildings
5:45 p.m. Adjournment for the Day; Networking Reception for Registrants and Faculty
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2008
7:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
Webcast Segment D
8:30 a.m. Ethical Issues in the Practice of Environmental Law - Mss. Berlowe and Esterman
9:30 a.m. Networking Break
9:45 a.m. Clean Water Act and Wetlands Developments - Mss. Hansen and Strand and Mr. Neugeboren
11:15 a.m. Public Lands and the Endangered Species Act - Mr. Quarles and Professor Squillace
12:30 p.m. Lunch Break
Webcast Segment E
1:45 p.m. National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and Environmental Justice - Messrs. Boling and Cohen and Mss. Fuller and Nowlin
3:00 p.m. Networking Break
3:15 p.m. International Environmental Law: Chemicals Regulation - Ms. Bazany and Messrs. Hagan and Walls
4:30 p.m. Adjournment
Total 60-minute hours of instruction: 16.5, including one hour of ethics
Suggested Prerequisite: Limited experience in legal practice in subject matter or completion of Basic CLE Course in subject matter
Educational Objective: Acquisition of knowledge and skills to develop proficiency as a practitioner; maintenance of professional competence as a practitioner; provision of information on recent legal developments
Level of Instruction: Advanced
Here's what registrants have said about this course:
"I was very happy with the breadth and depth of the material presented. I was also pleased with the mix of faculty in terms of government, industry, and advocacy perspectives."
"Overall quality of presenters was impressive. I feel privileged to have had the opportunity to hear them."
"Overall, a great conference!"
"This was my first ALI-ABA conference and I absolutely loved it. Each speaker was clearly knowledgeable in the area he or she spoke on."
"The speakers were exceptional."
"I thought all presentations were professional, informative and, above all, fabulous."
"Introductory lectures and materials are great."
"This is my first ALI-ABA course, and I am very impressed. I found the study materials especially helpful."
"As a law student this was overwhelming, informative and accessible. Though at times I was feverishly taking notes for later gathering of perspective, the insights afforded here supplement the gloss I receive in school on these topics. To hear the development of law directly from practitioners and their response helped color my understanding of broad topics with the necessary details."
