JASON J. CZARNEZKI

Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Essential Principles of Small- and Mid-Scale

Food Value Chain Development

Manuscripts due February 15, 2011

For details about JAFSCD and author guidelines, visit www.AgDevJournal.com/submissions.

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Applications are invited for two fellowships in climate change law at Columbia Law School’s Center for Climate Change Law.  For both, the salary will be $60,000/year plus benefits.  Applicants must have received a J.D. degree within three years prior to the beginning of the Fellowship. Strong academic qualifications and background in environmental law and policy will be expected. The Fellows will function as Associate Directors of the Center; will supervise various fellows, visiting scholars and interns; will work on a wide variety of research and writing projects; and will help organize conferences, seminars, collaborative publications, and other projects concerning climate mitigation and adaptation.

The Earth Institute Climate Law Fellowship will be for a two-year period, from September 2011 through August 2013. The application deadline is December 20, 2010. The winner will also participate in seminars and other programs of Columbia University’s Earth Institute, which is partly funding this position.

The Center for Climate Change Law Fellowship will be for a one-year period, from September 2011 through August 2012. The application deadline is February 15, 2011.

Prospective fellows may apply for one or both fellowships.  It will be assumed that those applying for the Earth Institute Climate Law Fellowship will, if unsuccessful in that application, also wish to apply for the Center for Climate Change Law Fellowship, unless they indicate otherwise in the cover letter; resubmission of their application will not be necessary.

More information about the Center is available at www.ColumbiaClimateLaw.com. Applicants should submit a cover letter, C.V. and law school transcript to gregory.wannier@law.columbia.edu (no calls, please).

…Friday, September 23, 2011.  Mark your calendars.  The Call for Abstracts will be announced in the spring.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Nov. 22, 2010
 
SOUTH ROYALTON, VT –– Vermont Law School will release its inaugural “Top 10 Environmental Watch List” on Jan. 3, 2011, to spotlight the most critical environmental law and policy issues of 2010 and how they may play out in 2011.

Produced by the nation’s top-ranked environmental law school, the Watch List will evaluate judicial, regulatory, legislative and other actions from 2010, a major year for environmental news. More than a compilation of the year’s top stories, the Watch List will be a predictive, analytical look forward intended to help the media in reporting further on the causes, consequences and solutions to environmental challenges that significantly affect human beings and the natural world.

The Watch List was selected by VLS’s Environmental Law Center faculty with assistance from student staffers at the school’s Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, who together researched dozens of issues before deciding on the Top 10. In a series of concise briefs, the Watch List will provide scholarly insight and common-sense analysis intended to promote public understanding of the critical environmental issues of our time.

The Vermont Law Top 10 Environmental Watch List will be published on the VLS home page, http://www.vermontlaw.edu/

EPA Region 6 Office of Regional Counsel
2011 Summer Intern Honors Program
The Office of Regional Counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 6, located in Dallas, Texas, is looking for law students to participate in our Summer Intern Honors Program.  Under this program, EPA Region 6 will select students to work as interns in an intensive training program that will expose them to demanding front-line environmental enforcement (civil and criminal) or counseling work this summer.  The interns will work at EPA’s office in Dallas.  Selections will be made on a rolling basis until all positions are filled, and no applications will be accepted after February 11, 2011.  Accepted law students can expect to work on both substantive and procedural matters involving almost every EPA program (e.g., Superfund, RCRA, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, etc.), attend strategy meetings with agency clients and negotiations with the regulated community in enforcement and other cases, receive formal briefings from agency expert attorneys on current front-burner issues, and participate in local environmental bar educational and social sessions.

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