Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Navigating the Legal Career Climate (October 22, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68528 68528-17096920@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

What can you do with a law degree? How secure is the legal job market? Join us for a Q&A session with Assistant Dean for Career Planning at UM Law, Ramji Kaul, as he talks us through the current legal job landscape and emerging fields within the industry.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Oct 2019 12:40:00 -0400 2019-10-22T15:30:00-04:00 2019-10-22T16:30:00-04:00 Jeffries Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Lecture / Discussion Newnan Advising Center Pre-Law
Law and Economics (October 31, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68323 68323-17046000@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 11 Oct 2019 15:20:14 -0400 2019-10-31T16:30:00-04:00 2019-10-31T18:30:00-04:00 Jeffries Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Law and Economics (November 7, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68324 68324-17046001@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 11 Oct 2019 15:21:55 -0400 2019-11-07T16:30:00-05:00 2019-11-07T18:30:00-05:00 Jeffries Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Why President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel prejudiced its character and status (November 19, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69261 69261-17275358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

President Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and to move the U.S. embassy to the city has been universally condemned, as it is contrary to a well-established rule of international law stipulating that states must not recognize the fruits of conquest. While the United States chose to exercise its right of veto in the UN Security Council to block a resolution criticizing the presidential decision, the remaining members of the council, including close U.S. allies, criticized it. Similarly, the UN General Assembly, the European Union, the Arab League, and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation have all passed strongly worded resolutions saying that they would not recognize any changes to the pre-1967 borders, including in and around Jerusalem. This talk examines the legal standing of the U.S. decision in light of previous positions that the United States has historically adopted or endorsed.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Nov 2019 11:03:51 -0500 2019-11-19T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-19T17:30:00-05:00 Jeffries Hall University of Michigan Law School Lecture / Discussion
U.S. Energy Transitions in the Trump Administration (November 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69079 69079-17242640@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program

Please join us for the latest installment in the ELPP Lecture Series. Professor Alexandra Klass from the University of Minnesota Law School will discuss recent developments in U.S. energy law, policy, economics, and technology. Although President Trump and his cabinet Secretaries, particularly at the Interior Department, Energy Department, and Environmental Protection Agency, have announced dramatic policy shifts away from those pursued during the Obama Administration, the new administration’s ability to accomplish its goals is in some instances helped and in other instances hindered by existing federal and state laws as well as private sector technology and economic trends. Topics will include the shift away from the use of coal and toward natural gas and renewable energy in the electricity sector; the use of federal public lands to develop oil, natural gas, coal, wind, and solar energy; developments in technology and law associated with hydraulic facturing ("fracking"); and controversies over new oil and gas pipelines such as the Dakota Access and Keystone XL Pipelines.

This event is free and open to the public.

Professor Alexandra B. Klass teaches and writes in the areas of energy law, environmental law, natural resources law, tort law, and property law. Her recent scholarly work, published in many of the nation’s leading law journals, addresses regulatory challenges to integrating more renewable energy into the nation’s electric grid, transportation electrification, oil and gas transportation infrastructure, and the use of eminent domain for electric transmission lines and pipelines. She is a co-author of Energy Law: Concepts and Insights Series (Foundation Press 2017), Energy Law and Policy (West Academic Publishing 2d ed. 2018), Natural Resources Law: A Place-Based Book of Problems and Cases (Wolters Kluwer, 4th ed., 2018), and The Practice and Policy of Environmental Law (Foundation Press, 4th ed. 2017). Professor Klass was named the Stanley V. Kinyon Teacher of the Year for 2009-2010, and she served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2010-2012. She was a Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School in 2015. She is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor and in prior years was the Julius E. Davis Professor of Law and the Solly Robins Distinguished Research Fellow.

Prior to her teaching career, Professor Klass was a partner at Dorsey & Whitney LLP in Minneapolis, where she specialized in environmental law, natural resources, and land use matters. During her years in private practice from 1993-2004, she handled cases in federal and state trial and appellate courts involving contaminated property, wetlands, environmental review, mining, environmental rights, zoning, eminent domain, and environmental torts. She clerked for the Honorable Barbara B. Crabb, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin from 1992-1993.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:42:30 -0500 2019-11-21T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-21T13:00:00-05:00 Jeffries Hall Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program Lecture / Discussion
Law and Economics (November 21, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68325 68325-17046002@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 11 Oct 2019 15:23:35 -0400 2019-11-21T16:30:00-05:00 2019-11-21T18:30:00-05:00 Jeffries Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Law and Economics: Tort Liability and Unawareness (December 5, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68326 68326-17046003@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 11 Oct 2019 15:25:13 -0400 2019-12-05T16:30:00-05:00 2019-12-05T18:30:00-05:00 Jeffries Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
A Meditation on Juliana v. United States (January 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70163 70163-17540919@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program

Please join us for the latest installment of the Environmental Law & Policy Program Lecture Series. Professor Lisa Heinzerling from Georgetown Law will deliver a lecture entitled, "A Meditation on Juliana v. United States."

This event is free and open to the public.

Lisa Heinzerling is the Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. Her specialties include administrative law, environmental law, food law, and torts. She has published several books, including a leading casebook on environmental law and a widely cited critique of the use of cost-benefit analysis in environmental policy (Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Dec 2019 13:30:24 -0500 2020-01-30T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T13:00:00-05:00 Jeffries Hall Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program Lecture / Discussion
CANCELLED: Our Constitution and Our Children in the Era of Climate Crisis: Juliana v. United States (March 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73028 73028-18129604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program

This lecture has been CANCELLED.

Please join us for the latest installment of the Environmental Law & Policy Program Lecture Series. Julia Olson, Executive Director and Chief Legal Counsel of Our Children's Trust, will speak about Juliana v. United States.

This event is free and open to the public.

Julia Olson graduated from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, with a J.D. in 1997. For the first part of her 22-year career, Julia represented grassroots conservation groups working to protect the environment, organic agriculture, and human health. After becoming a mother, and realizing the greatest threat to her children and children everywhere was climate change, she focused her work on representing young people and elevating their voices on the issue that will most determine the quality of their lives and the well-being of all future generations. Julia founded Our Children’s Trust in 2010 to lead this strategic legal campaign on behalf of the world’s youth against governments everywhere. Julia leads Juliana v. the United States, the constitutional climate change case brought by 21 youth against the U.S. government for violating their Fifth Amendment rights to life, liberty, property, and public trust resources. Julia and OCT are recipients of the Rose-Walters Prize for Global Environmental Activism. She received the Kerry Rydberg Award for Environmental Activism in 2017 and is a member of Rachel's Network Circle of Advisors. To rejuvenate, Julia loves being high up in the mountains with her family and her dog or playing tunes on her ukulele with friends.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 09:11:27 -0400 2020-03-12T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T13:00:00-04:00 Jeffries Hall Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program Lecture / Discussion