J.B. Ruhl – After Cap-and-Trade: The Climate-Forced Path of Environmental Law and Distinguished Graduate Awards
October 29th, 2009Natural Resources Law Institute Distinguished Visitor
J.B. Ruhl – After Cap-and-Trade: The Climate-Forced Path of Environmental Law and Distinguished Graduate Awards
October 1, 2009
Student Life
Each fall we invite a leading scholar in environmental law to join us for three days on campus to meet with students and faculty. In this podcast, J.B. Ruhl, the Matthews & Hawkins Professor of Property at Florida State University College of Law, gives a lecture on “After Cap-and-Trade: The Climate-Forced Path of Environmental Law.”
The Environmental and Natural Resources Law program, now in its 39th year, reports that:
Professor Ruhl is a nationally regarded expert in the fields of endangered species protection, ecosystem services policy, regulation of wetlands, ecosystem management, environmental impact analysis and related environmental and natural resources fields. He has published extensively in these fields.
His case book, The Law of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management(Foundation Press, 2d ed. 2006), is the first casebook to organize environmental law under these emerging themes, and his book The Practice and Policy of Environmental Law (Foundation Press 2008) is the only environmental law casebook incorporating a practice context focus. He also recently published The Law and Policy of Ecosystem Services (Island Press 2007).
Prior to entering full-time law teaching, Professor Ruhl practiced environmental and natural resources law with the law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P. in its Austin, Texas and Washington, D.C. offices. He received his B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Virginia, his LL.M. in Environmental Law from the George Washington University Law School, and a Ph.D. in Geography from Southern Illinois University.
At the beginning of this program, Dean Robert Klonoff introduces the program.
Professor Michael Blumm presents the Distinguished Graduate award for Paul Horwitz (in absentia).
Associate Dean and Director of the Environmental & Natural Resources Law Program Janice Weis presents a Distinguished Graduate award to Nicole Cordan.
Professor Janet Neuman presents the Distinguished Graduate award to Kathleen Trever.
Professor Allison LaPlante presents the Williamson Award to Kristen Monsell.
The program was held at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon on October 1, 2009.
