JASON J. CZARNEZKI

Useful conference or brilliant way to get potential faculty candidates to visit a law school…you decide.  See here.

The third annual meeting of the Society for Environmental Law and Economics will be held on June 24 and 25, 2011, at the University of Amsterdam in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The meeting is sponsored by the Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics and the Amsterdam Center for Environmental Law and Sustainability.

Just as environmental problems tend to run across artificial political boundaries, the Society for Environmental Law and Economics (SELE) is, as the name implies, a truly interdisciplinary organization bringing together legal scholars, economists, and interested researchers in other fields to address important environmental issues that inevitably cut across artificial disciplinary boundaries. SELE includes economists, legal scholars, and other scientists among its members, and we encourage broad participation from all relevant fields of study.

We hope to build upon the great success of past meetings, and continue to build a community of environmental scholars interested in working in the intersection of law, economics, and environmental or natural resource issues. In the spirit of collegiality, the meeting will take place in a workshop format, in which all sessions will be plenary. We strongly encourage all attendees to attend all presentations.

Our goal is to create a program that includes a variety of disciplinary perspectives, ideally consisting of 20-30 papers over the two-day period. There will be no funding available for travel or lodging expenses, but the University of Amsterdam will provide food and drink during the workshop for the speakers. Further information regarding accommodation, the conference program and other logistic matters will be posted on http://sele.acle.nl

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

Please email a Word or PDF file to Josephine van Zeben at  j.a.w.vanzeben@uva.nl  with the subject line “SELE SUBMISSION,” by November 1, 2010.  We will review all the papers and get back to you by December 8. Preference will be given to final papers.

Richard O. Zerbe, Daniel J. Evans Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington

Daniel H. Cole, R. Bruce Townsend Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law

Shi-Ling Hsu, Associate Professor, University of British Columbia Faculty of Law

Jonathan R. Nash, Professor, Emory University School of Law

Josephine van Zeben, Hauser Global Research Fellow 2010-11, New York University School of Law; PhD candidate, University of Amsterdam

http://law.gsu.edu/agora/index/recruitment/environmental_law

On November 5, 2010, the 13th Annual Conference on Litigating Takings Challenges to Land Use and Environmental Regulations will be held at Berkeley Law in Berkeley, California.  This year’s conference, sponsored by Vermont Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, Berkeley Law and others, will feature a discussion of constitutional review of property rulings in the aftermath of Stop the Beach Renourishment, takings claims in the era of climate change, eminent domain practice five years after Kelo, takings questions arising from regulation of water use, and other topics.

The program brochure and registration information are available at:

http://www.vermontlaw.edu/x11644.xml

Call for Articles

The George Washington University Journal of Energy and Environmental Law (JEEL) is calling for full length articles for its spring issue. Articles should address topics that explore critical issues at the intersection of energy, environment and climate. We are particularly interested in articles addressing international treaties, legislative initiatives in other countries, U.S. federal and state legislation, and case law developments dealing with issues such as:

• energy generation and distribution with a special focus on renewable and distributed sources;
• facility siting, including transmission infrastructure;
• mechanisms for enhancing energy efficiency in all use sectors;
• public benefit funds, net metering requirements, renewable portfolio standards and other forms of utility regulation;
• implementation of a “smart grid;”
• climate change and carbon sequestration;
• air and water pollution issues related to energy generation;
• water use and water conservation related to energy production;
• land use questions;
• assessment of the environmental impacts of energy production and energy-intensive activities; and
• resource extraction

JEEL is published twice each year as a supplement to ELI’s Environmental Law Reporter (ELR) News & Analysis.

For more information and to view a sample issue visit JEEL’s website at:

http://www.law.gwu.edu/Academics/Pages/JournalofEnergyEnvironmentalLaw.aspx

Articles must be submitted by September 20, 2010 to: gwjeel@gmail.com

Questions can also be directed to Lee Paddock, Associate Dean for Environmental Law Studies, at lpaddock@law.gwu.edu.

This Fall, the Albany Law Review will be hosting a symposium focusing on the legal and regulatory effects of the oil spill in the Gulf.  In conjunction with this symposium, they will publish an issue exclusively devoted to this symposium topic, and are currently seeking articles to fill this issue.  More info here.