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ENVIRONMENTAL LAW HIGHLIGHTS |
$1 Million Cy Pres Award to Miami Law Will Support Environmental Law Efforts The University of Miami School of Law recently received a $1 million cy pres award as part of the distribution of a settlement fund relating to fuel economy for gasoline-powered vehicles. The School of Law will use the funds to support the work of the Environmental Justice Clinic and the Environmental Law Program. |
Clinic Tackles Equitable Weatherization and Climate Change in South Florida Miami Law’s Environmental Justice Clinic and community partners focus on creating equal opportunity for access to weatherization in historically marginalized communities. |
Miami Law Students and Professors Attend UN Climate Change Conference in Egypt Fourteen students from a United Nations negotiations class and professors Jessica Owley and Daniel Suman will attend the United Nations COP27 conference and have the unique opportunity to see how an international treaty is negotiated and engage in problem-solving for the most significant problems of our era. |
The Clinic has a place for students with varying interests from human rights to race to local government to urban design to public health. It had a big procedural win in Styles et al. v. City Miami et al. when the Court denied both Defendants’ Motions to Dismiss. |
On the anniversary of the Accord, the Miami Law maritime expert was again on the world stage advising on the war in Ukraine. |
Recent Graduate's Research Paper on Sustainability Reporting Cited by the SEC A research paper written by Kenya Rothstein, J.D. ’21, when she was a Miami Law student in Professor Ileana Porras’ climate change law and policy course, was cited by the Securities and Exchange Commission in a new proposed rule, the Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors. |
| FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP
Caroline Bradley
Presenter, “Why (and Why Not) Climate Finance?” at American Society of International Law International Economic Law Interest Group Biennial Conference, Texas A&M University School of Law Xavier Cortada Underwater Homeowners Association: Using Socially Engaged Art to Problem-Solve in an Imperilled, Polarized and Imperfect World, 3 J. ENV'T MEDIA 163 (2022) (with Adam Roberti & Ryan Deering). Presenter, “HELLO” Cortada at COP26, UN Climate Change Conference, 2021. Keynote Speaker, “The Role Art Can Have in Solving Critical Water Challenges,” Future of Water Summit 2022, Aug. 8-9, 2022. Presenter, “Underwater, Using Social Engaged Art to Plan for a Future with Rising Seas,” TED Talk London, England, Oct. 3, 2022.
Presenter, “At What Point Managed Retreat?” Columbia Climate School The Earth Institute, June 22, 2021.
Selected to 2022 Grist 50 “Fixer” annual list of emerging leaders from across the U.S. who are working on fresh, real-world solutions to our planet’s biggest challenges.
Inaugural Artist-in-Residence, Office of the Mayor, Miami-Dade County, FL.
Abigail Fleming Armoring the Just Transition Activist, 25 RICH. PUB. INT. L. REV. 172 (2022) (with Catherine Dremluk).
Resilience Challenge Project Member, “Climate Gentrification: Designing A Comprehensive Assessment Tool of Historical, Social, and Geographic Factors to Guide Actionable and Equitable Neighborhood Resilience,” U-Link Laboratory for Integrative Knowledge, University of Miami.
Daniel Magraw
The Web of Life and Rights: Environmental Rights, Human Rights and Environmental Justice, in The People’s Environment Narrative (UNEP forthcoming) (with Li Lin).
Toward Product-Based Regulation of Crops: Current Process-Based Approaches to Regulation Are No Longer Fit for Purpose, 377 SCIENCE 1051 (2022) (with Fred Gould, et al.).
Erin Okuno IMPROVING IN-LIEU FEE PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION: LONG-TERM MANAGEMENT OF MITIGATION SITES (2021), (with Royal C. Gardner & Rebecca Kihslinger).
IMPROVING IN-LIEU FEE PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION: FULL COST ACCOUNTING (2021), (with Rebecca Kihslinger, Akielly Hu & Royal Gardner).
IMPROVING IN-LIEU FEE PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION: PROGRAMMATIC AUDITS (2021), (with Rebecca Kihslinger, Akielly Hu & Royal Gardner).
Reply to Bridgewater (2021), ‘Response to Davies et al., ‘Towards a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Wetlands’, 72 MARINE & FRESHWATER RSCH. 1401 (2021) (with G. T. Davies, et al.).
Towards a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Wetlands, 72 MARINE & FRESHWATER RSCH. 593 (2021) (with G. T. Davies, et al.).
Presenter, “Long-term Protection of Compensatory Mitigation Sites – Equivalency Across Mitigation Providers?” National Mitigation and Ecosystem Banking Conference, Boise, Idaho May 4, 2022.
Presenter with Royal Gardner and Katherine Pratt, “Improving Long-Term Protection of Aquatic Resource Compensatory Mitigation Sites: Permittee-Responsible Mitigation,” EPA Mitigation Workgroup Meeting, Jan. 28, 2022.
Presenter with Rebecca Kihslinger and Royal Gardner, “In-Lieu Fee Implementation Guides,” EPA Mitigation Workgroup Meeting, Nov. 16, 2021.
Presenter, “Protecting the Coasts Using Nature-Based Solutions: The Role of Reefs,” 2nd Southeast Asian Biodiversity and Climate Change Policy Forum, Metro Manila, Philippines, Jan. 11, 2021.
Prepared amici curiae brief submitted on behalf of scientific societies in the case Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency before the Supreme Court of the United States, brief filed June 16, 2022.
Member, Competition Committee, Stetson International Environmental Moot Court Competition.
Adapting to 4 Degrees C World, 52 ENV'T L. REP. 10211 (2022) (with Karrigan Bork, et al.).
Vermin of Proof: Arguments for the Admissibility of Animal Model Studies as Proof of Causation in Toxic Tort Litigation, 34 GEO. ENV’T L. REV.303 (2022) (with Kristen Ranges).
The Afterlife of Confederate Monuments, 98 INDIANA L.J. (forthcoming 2022) (with Jess R. Phelps).
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, DISRUPTED (Environmental Law Institute 2021) (edited with Keith H. Hirokawa).
Private Environmental Action as Disruptive Innovation, in ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, DISRUPTED 123 (Keith Hirokawa & Jessica Owley eds., 2021).
Environmental Law, Disrupted by COVID-19, in ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, DISRUPTED 279 (Keith Hirokawa & Jessica Owley eds., 2021) (with Rebecca Bratspies, et al.).
Climate-Induced Human Displacement and Conservation Lands, 58 HOUSTON L. REV. 665 (2021).
Federal Land Conservation in Rural Areas, 86 BROOK. L. REV. 839 (2021) (with Jess Phelps).
The Paris Agreement Compliance Mechanism: Beyond COP 26, 11 WAKE FOREST L. REV. ONLINE 147 (2021) (with Imad Antoine Ibrahim & Sandrine Maljean-Dubois).
Panelist, "The Implications of West Virginia v. EPA on the Administrative State," Florida Law Review 2022 Allen L. Poucher Lecture, Judicial Obstacles to Environmental Protection in the United States, 2022 Oslo (3rd) International Environmental Law Conference, Oct. 6, 2022.
Presenter, “Pesticides and Marijuana: Uncertain Impacts on the Environment, Workers, and Consumers,” Sustainability Conference of American Legal Educators (SCALE) at Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, May 11, 2022.
Presenter, “Pesticides and Marijuana: Environmental Regulation of Illegal Activity,” Vermont Law School Environmental Law Colloquium, Sept. 21, 2022.
Presenter with Kristen Ranges, “Facing the Worst Climate Case: The Role of Law,” Environmental Law Collaborative Workshop in Colorado Springs, CO, July 27-29, 2021.
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Law, Property, and Society. Co-founder, Environmental Law Collaborative. Member, IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law and World Commission of Protected Areas. Member, Graduate Program Committee, University of Miami Climate Resilience Academy. Bernard H. Oxman Choice of Forum for Settlement of Law of the Sea Disputes, in A BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS: DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN THE LAW OF INTERNATIONAL WATERCOURSES AND THE LAW OF THE SEA 83 (Helene Ruiz Fabri, et al. eds., 2021). Member, Institut de Droit International, the American Law Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations. Judge ad hoc, International Court of Justice and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. Ileana Porras Appropriating Nature: Commerce, Property and the Commodification of Nature in the Law of Nations in LOCATING NATURE: MAKING AND UNMAKING INTERNATIONAL LAW, Usha Natarajan & Julia Dehm eds., Cambridge University Press (2022) 111-134. Participant, “Reimagining Livelihoods: A Conversation with Ethan Miller, Katherine Gibson,” Law & Regions Working Group, Harvard Law School, Oct. 21, 2022. Presenter, “Law, the ‘Region,’ and Designing Pathways Towards Better Worlds,” Sustainable “Regions” Group’s Roundtable, Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, July 13-16, 2022. Podcast Interview, “Pénurie, Consommation et Crise Environnementale: Du Développement Durable au Développement Frénétique (Scarcity, consumption and environmental crisis: from sustainable development to frenetic development),” The Laboratoire de la Critique en Droit, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada, Nov. 25, 2021. Panelist, “Reinventing Critique: Understanding the Human/Nature Relationship from a New Perspective,” Critical Approaches to Law and the Environment: Concepts and Methodologies Workshop, Nov. 25-26, 2021. Founding Member, Sustainable “Regions” Group, interdisciplinary collaboration of faculty from Harvard Law, Northeastern Law, Sciences Po Law, University of New South Wales Law, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design, University of Virginia Sociology, and the ASU School of Life Sciences.
OCEANS AND SOCIETY (Routledge Press, forthcoming) (with A.K. Spalding).
A Scientific Synthesis of Marine Protected Areas in the United States: Status and Recommendations, 9 FRONTIERS MARINE SCI. Art. 849927 (2022) (with Jenna Sullivan-Stack, et al.).
Coastal Impacts of Climate Change, 52 ENV’T L. REP. 10169 (2022) (with Amy Reed, et al.).
Prefácio, in 2 GESTÃO AMBIENTAL E SUSTENTABILIDADE EM ÁREAS COSTEIRAS E MARINHAS: CONCEITOS E PRÁTICAS xiii (Raquel Dezidério Souto ed., 2022).
Presenter, “Climate Change and National Security,” 2nd International Seminar on Climate Change as a Shared Responsibility of the Mexican State, National Defense College, Mexico, Feb. 2022.
Presenter, “Coastal Impacts of Climate Change: The Surfside Condominium Collapse and Future Risks,” Environmental Law Institute (ELI) webinar, Dec. 2021.
Presenter, “Beach and Shoreline Management in Miami in light of Sea Level Rise” Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil, Dec. 2021.
Party Delegate, Panama, UNFCCC COP26 and Presenter, “Mangrove Blue Carbon and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation,” Glasgow, Scotland. Nov. 1-12, 2021.
Keynote Speaker, “Marine Protected Areas and Biodiversity Conservation”, Forum on Ecological and Environmental Protection – Preparation for COP15 Convention on Biological Diversity, Yunnan University, Kunming, China, Nov. 2021.
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MIAMI LAW EXPLAINER PODCAST
Our expert faculty gives context, relevance, and significance to the news of the day. Past podcasts focusing on environmental law include: Carbon Emissions in the Crosshairs Climate change on the docket. Environmental law expert JESSICA OWLEY unpacks the stalls and the threats. The recent White House Hunger Summit looked at reducing hunger in the U.S. Right to food expert R. DENISSE CORDOVA MONTES addresses best practices. |
| MORE NEWS Tamar Ezer and Denisse Córdova Montes Organize Miami Law Food, Housing, and Racial Justice Symposium Miami Law Places Second in North American Round of the Largest Environmental Law Moot Competition Professor Narine Weldon Participates in Panel on Sustainability Reporting During Earth Month Miami Law and the Explainer Podcast Raise the Specter of Climate Change SCOTUS Opinion Seen as Setback in Fight Against Global Warming Marine Protected Areas Can Help Safeguard Ocean Biodiversity |
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