International Environmental Law:



International Environmental Law:

Global Climate Change

An outreach workshop for Attorneys, Policy Makers, State Agencies, Civil Society Groups and

Other Interested Groups and Individuals

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Lubar Commons (7200 Law), UW Law School

CLE credit for Wisconsin attorneys pending

Sponsors

Global Legal Studies Center, UW Law School

Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE)

Co-sponsors

International Practice Section, Wisconsin Bar

Environment Section, Wisconsin Bar (to be confirmed)

Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, UW-Madison

Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE),

UW-Madison

This is part of a series of workshops on Global Legal

Issues on the theme:

“When Global Society Meets Local Society: The Impact of Globalization on

National Law”

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Outreach Workshop on International Environmental Law:

Global Climate Change

Lubar Commons (7200 Law), UW Law School

Agenda

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

2:45-3:00 Registration

3:00-3:05 Welcome

Professor Heinz Klug

Professor of Law, UW Law School & Director, Global Legal Studies Center

3:05-3:25 “What is Global Climate Change? Scientific Aspects”

Professor Jonathan Foley

Professor of Environmental Studies & Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences & Director, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE)

3:25-4:00 “International Environmental Law, Sustainable Development, and Global Climate Change”

Sumudu Atapattu

Associate Director, Global Legal Studies Center,

UW Law School

4:00 – 4:45 “A North American Perspective on Global and Domestic Climate Change Politics”

Professor Douglas Macdonald,

Senior Lecturer, Centre for Environment, University of Toronto, Canada

4:45 – 5:00 Q&A Session

5:00 – 5:20 "Climate Change Regulation: Litigation as a Catalyst?”

Professor Stephanie Tai

Assistant Professor, UW Law School

5:20 – 5:30 Q&A Session

5:30 – 6:00 Reception

Biography of Speakers

Sumudu Atapattu is the Associate Director of the Global Legal Studies Center of the UW Law School. She received an LL.M. Degree in Public International Law and a Ph.D. Degree in International Environmental Law from the University of Cambridge, U.K., and is an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. She has taught the seminar on Selected Problems in Environmental Law: International Environmental Law at the UW Law School since 2003.

Prior to coming to Madison, she was an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, where she taught Environmental Law and Public International Law. She has also worked as a Senior Consultant to the Law & Society Trust, a human rights non-governmental organization in Colombo, Sri Lanka. In 2003 she was appointed the Lead Counsel for Human Rights and Poverty of the Center for International Sustainable Development Law based in Montreal, Canada. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the McGill International Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy. She was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at the New York University Law School and the George Washington University Law School.

Her book Emerging Principles of International Environmental Law was published in Fall 2006 by Transnational Publishers, New York.

Jonathon Foley is the Gaylord Nelson Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences at UW-Madison. He is also the Director of the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), UW-Madison.

Professor Foley’s work focuses on the behavior of complex global environmental systems and their interactions with human societies. In particular, Foley's research group uses state-of-the-art computer models and satellite measurements to analyze changes in land use, ecosystems, climate and freshwater resources across local, regional and global scales. He and his students and colleagues have contributed to our understanding of large-scale ecosystem processes, global patterns of land use, the behavior of the planet's water and carbon cycles, and the interactions between ecosystems and the atmosphere.

Professor Foley joined the University of Wisconsin faculty in 1993 as the first Bryson Distinguished Professor of Climate, People and Environment. He has won numerous awards and honors, including the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development Award, the Samuel C. Johnson Distinguished Faculty Fellowship, the J.S. McDonnell Foundation's 21st Century Science Award, and the Sustainability Science Award from the Ecological Society of America. In 1997, President Bill Clinton awarded him the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. He has also been named a Vilas Associate and Romnes Fellow of the University of Wisconsin, and an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow of the Ecological Society of America. He is currently the Chief Editor of the interdisciplinary scientific journal, Earth Interactions.

Douglas Macdonald is a Senior Lecturer, Centre for Environment, University of Toronto, Canada. He received his BA and MA Degrees from University of Toronto and the PhD Degree from York University. He has served as the Executive Director of the Canadian Environmental Law Research Foundation (now the Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy), Chair of the Board of Directors of the Toronto Environmental Alliance and a Member of Board of Directors, and Chair of the Research Committee, Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy. Professor Macdonald was the Director of the Environmental Studies Program at Innis College from 2001 - 2005. He was the President of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada (L’association canadienne d’études environnementales) from 1997-1999 and a Board member from 2003 – 2006.

In 2001, Professor Macdonald was awarded the Marcel Cadieux Distinguished Writing Award by the Canadian Institute for International Affairs for the article he co-authored with Dr. Heather A. Smith, entitled: “Promises Made, Promises Broken: Questioning Canada’s Climate Change Commitments,” published in the International Journal in1999-2000. He has extensive experience in the field of environmental protection and has won many research awards. He has published widely and his book entitled The Politics of Pollution was published by McClelland and Stewart, Toronto in 1991. His latest book entitled Business and Environmental Politics in Canada was published by the Broadview Press in March 2007.

Stephanie Tai focuses her scholarly research on the interactions between environmental and health sciences and administrative law. She has written on the consideration of scientific studies and environmental justice concerns by administrative agencies, and is currently studying the role of scientific dialogues before the judicial system. She was an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown from 2002-2005 and a visiting professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law during the 2005-06 academic year. Her teaching interests include administrative law, environmental law, property, environmental justice, risk regulation, and comparative Asian environmental law.

Raised in the South by two chemists, she decided to combine her chemistry background with a legal education to improve the use of science in environmental protection. At Georgetown, she was the Editor-in-Chief of the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review and was a member of the Georgetown Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Team.

After graduating from Georgetown, Professor Tai worked as the editor-in-chief of the International Review for Environmental Strategies, a publication by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies in Japan. She also served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Ronald Lee Gilman on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She then worked as an appellate attorney in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she briefed and argued cases involving a range of issues, from the protection of endangered cave species in Texas to the issuance of dredge and fill permits under the Clean Water Act.

During the summer before joining the Wisconsin Law School faculty, Professor Tai teamed up with several other law professors to work on two Supreme Court amicus briefs: one for a group of legislators in Environmental Defense v. Duke Energy Corp., No. 05-0848, and another for a group of scientists in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, No. 05-1120.

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