Please join us for the next installment of the 2014-2015 ELPP Lecture Series. Susan Biniaz will be the featured speaker.

This event is free and open to the public.

Please join us for the next installment of the 2014-2015 ELPP Lecture Series. Susan Biniaz will be the featured speaker.

Susan Biniaz has been in the Legal Adviser’s Office at the State Department since 1984. She worked on legal issues related to the Middle East, diplomacy, and outer space before turning to oceans, environmental, and scientific affairs--which has remained her specialization. She was the head of the oceans and environment office for many years before becoming a Deputy Legal Adviser. As Deputy, she also supervised the Treaty Office and issues related to human rights, the Western Hemisphere, law enforcement, and private international law. She has been the principal lawyer on the climate change negotiations since 1989 and that is now her main focus. She attended Yale College and Columbia Law School and clerked for Dorothy Nelson on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.‬

She will speak about international climate change negotiations and their key legal and policy issues.