2022 Conference Program Schedule
Thursday, May 12, 2022
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.: Pre-Conference Dinner – Great Hall, Beus Center for Law & Society, 111 E. Taylor St., Phoenix, AZ 85004
Dinner Discussion:
Patrick Sigl (SRP), Rhett Larson (ASU), Mark McGinnis (Salmon, Lewis & Weldon), and Sarah Porter (ASU)
Arizona Water and Energy: Envisioning a Sustainable Future
Friday, May 13, 2022
8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.: Check-in and Light Breakfast (Great Hall, Beus Center for Law & Society)
8:30 a.m.: Introductions and Morrison Laureate Address (Great Hall)
Morrison Laureate(s): Joshua C. Macey & Matthew R. Christiansen
Long Live the Federal Power Act’s Bright Line, 134 Harvard Law Review 1360 (2021)
9:30-10:50 am
Break-out Session #1
Room 150 / Freestanding Presentations: “Confronting Environmental Externalities”
- E. Donald Elliott (Yale), “The End Environmental Externalities Manifesto: A Rights-Based Foundation for Environmental Law” (I)
- Daniel Esty (Yale), “The End Environmental Externalities Manifesto: A Rights-Based Foundation for Environmental Law” (II)
- Seema Kakade (Maryland), “Environmental Enforcement”
- Lakshman Guruswamy (Colorado), “Sustainable Development and the SDGS: Does Climate Actions Undermine Reduction of Global Poverty?”
Room 240 / Panel: “Exposing Environmental Law’s Hidden Value Judgments“
- Sonya Ziaja (Baltimore)
- Keith Hirokawa (Albany)
- Cinnamon Carlane (Ohio State)
- Karrigan Bork (UC Davis)
Room 250 / Freestanding Presentations: “Advancing Renewable Energy Law and Policy”
- K.K. DuVivier (Denver), “Policy Impediments to Distributed Energy Generation and Storage” (I)
- Steven Ferrey (Suffolk), “Policy Impediments to Distributed Energy Generation and Storage” (II)
- Richard Wallsgrove (Hawai’i), “The Magic of 100% Renewable Electricity Standards as Climate Change Policy Vanguards”
- Todd Aagard (Villanova), “Leveraging Renewable Energy Markets for Decarbonization”
11:00-12:20 pm
Break-out Session #2
Room 150 / Freestanding Presentations: “Natural Resources and Indigenous Rights”
- Robin Craig (USC), “Saltwater Sovereignty: Tribal Marine Management Authority Along the Pacific Coast“
- Nadia Ahmad (Barry), “Evacuation Waves“
- Kellen Zale (Houston), “Inholdings“
- Rhett Larson (Arizona State), “Advancing Water Security in Colonias”
Room 240 / Freestanding Presentations: “Topics in Environmental Law”
- Jessica Owley (Miami), “Pesticides and Marijuana: Uncertain Impacts on the Environment, Workers, and Consumers”
- Michael Livermore (Virginia), “Power Conserving Federalism in U.S. Environmental Law”
- Karen Bradshaw (Arizona State), “Uncovering Existing Rights of Nature in the United States”
- Nancy McLaughlin (Utah),“State-of-the-Art: Conservation Easement Enabling Statutes”
Room 250 / Panel: “The Law and Social Science of Sustainability”
- Jonathan Nash (Emory), “Polarization, Environmental Risks and Governance Strategies”
- Tracey M. Roberts (Samford), “Regulatory Taxation Revisited”
- Arden Rowell (Illinois), “The Psychology of Pollution Control”
- Stephanie Stern (Chicago-Kent), “Climate Cliffs: The Interaction Between Rising Water and Consumer Housing Psychology”
12:30-1:30 pm
Lunch Break & Keynote Address (Great Hall, Beus Center for Law & Society)
Keynote Speaker: Lee Fennell, Max Pam Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School, “Aggregating Sustainability”
1:40-3:00 pm
Break-out Session #3
Room 150 / Freestanding Presentations: “Sustainability Law and the Private Sector”
- Jill Fraley (Washington and Lee), “The History of Corporate Personhood and Its Impacts for Environmental Good”
- Al Lin (UC Davis), “Fixing Net Zero Leakage”
- Anthony Moffa (Maine), “Private Environmental Nudges”
- Sarah Morath (Wake Forest), “Greenish”
Room 240 / Panel: “What the Sustainable Development Goals Mean for the United States”
- John Dernbach (Widener)
- Scott Schang (Wake Forest)
- Gerald Torres (Yale)
Room 250 / Freestanding Presentations: “Sustainability and Energy Law”
- Gabriel Pacyniak (New Mexico), “Keeping Everyone’s Lights On in the Energy Transition: Lessons from COVID-19”
- Heather Payne (Seton Hall), “Efficiency and Energy Justice“
- Robert Glicksman (George Washington), “Judicial Review of Scientific Uncertainty in Climate Change Lawsuits: Deferential and Nondeferential Evaluation of Agency Factual and Policy Determinations”
- Michael Wolf (Florida), “Superflouous Judicial Activism: The Takings Gloss”
3:10-4:30 pm
Break-out Session #4
Room 150 / Panel: “Native Nations in a Time of Energy Transition”
- Monika Ehrman (UNT Dallas)
- Monte Mills (Montana)
- Pilar Thomas (Arizona State)
- Cherie Metcalf (Queen’s University)
Room 240 / Freestanding Presentations: Sustainability, Equity and Justice
- Sarah Schindler (Denver), “Anti-Tenancy as Anti-Environmentalism: Sustainability, Equity, and the Second-Class Status of Tenants”
- Troy Rule (Arizona State), “Utility Mission Creep”
- Felix Mormann (Texas A&M), “Nuclear Self-Regulation for Police Reform”
- Chinonso Anozie (Arizona State), “Equalizing Remediation”
Room 250 / Panel: “Rights of Nature: Exploring the Application of Rights of Nature Within Tribes and Municipalities“
- Elizabeth K. Warner (Utah)
- Erin Ryan (Florida State)
- Kekek Stark (Montana)
