JASON J. CZARNEZKI

I am attempting to build a collection of used/recycled/old/worn/vintage T-shirts to wear in my Natural Resources Law and Frontiers in Environmental Law & Policy classes this year.  I’m looking for T-shirts that have designs about parks, nature, environment, sustainability, local food, vegetarianism, small farming, agriculture, climate change, energy, organic, earth, local food restaurants or anything else that has some sort of ecologically positive message.  Please sift through you old T-shirts (size L or XL) and if you find one, please deliver it to my office, home, the softball field, or even mail it to the Vermont Law School.  While I’m offering no money, I will attribute the source to you and you can feel good about recycling your old shirts (and limiting my consumption of new ones).  Any shirts I don’t wear will be given to a clothing charity.

…and not because of a Nelly video.

The NY Times Green Blog, citing NOAA, reports that “average global temperatures from April to June and from January to June were the highest ever recorded in those time periods.”

The graph below shows through the year 2009, the warmest years of the past century are 1998, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2009.

Global Annual Mean Surface Air Temperature Change

Once again Prawfsblawg is compiling a list of Law School Faculty Hiring Chairs.

Vermont Law School is hiring this year.  Our Faculty Appointments Commitee (entry and lateral) is chaired by Michael McCann of sports law fame.  Other members of the Committee include Jason Czarnezki (me), Stephanie Farrior, Oliver Goodenough, Cheryl Hanna, Mark Latham, and Marc Mihaly.  If interested, please send an email with cover letter and CV to FacultySearch@vermontlaw.edu.

In classic Vermont fashion, today we went to Wrightsville Reservoir with our new-to-us canoe and our new-to-us Subaru.  There has been much debate in Vermont of late about appropriate recreational uses for man-made reservoirs and ponds, especially if they are used as a source of drinking water.  Wrightsville has a no wake and swimming area which we paddled through, but the jet ski that arrived on the boat launch just as we were finishing really lessened our experience.  While allowed on that part of the reservoir, the noise, exhaust and smell were quite terrible.

Another fantastic reservoir in Vermont is Green River Reservoir State Park where you canoe into your campsite.  Power boats are banned and the shoreline is completely undeveloped.  “The Green River Reservoir is a 5,113 acre park including a 653 acre Reservoir with 19 miles of shoreline, which is the longest stretch of undeveloped shoreline in Vermont,” according to the Friends of the Green River.

Photo: Our Subaru and canoe on the Wrightsville Reservoir Boat Launch.

My friend and Vermont Law School Professor David Mears has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to teach and to assist the environmental law clinics at Sun Yat-sen University and the Center for Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims at the China University of Political Science and Law during the 2010-2011 academic year. He also intends to reach out to other universities across China that are interested in establishing environmental law clinics.

Read the full press release here.

David actually lives down the road from me in Montpelier, and will be living in the same apartment building in Guangzhou where I lived last year while on my Fulbright.

I’m excited about my new blog and website CZARNEZKI.COM.  Right now, it’s location is at http://www.czarnezki.wordpress.com, but I just bought the domain name for czarnezki.com, so that should work soon.

I hope to write about life, current events in the law, and natural resources and environmental policy.

CZARNEZKI.COM is a blog and website authored by Jason J. Czarnezki.   Jason is a Professor of Law in the Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law School, home to one of the nation’s leading environmental and natural resources law and policy programs.  He has held academic appointments at Marquette University Law School, DePaul University College of Law, and Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University in Guangzhou, China, as a J. William Fulbright Scholar.  Previously, Professor Czarnezki served as a law clerk to the Honorable D. Brock Hornby of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine, and as a law clerk for the Bureau of Legal Services at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.  Jason, who received his undergraduate and law degrees from The University of Chicago, was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and currently lives in Montpelier, Vermont.