Events

BOOK PANEL

Reviving Rationality: Saving Cost-Benefit Analysis for the Sake of the Environment and Our Health

Tuesday, Nov. 17
7 p.m.

In their new book “Reviving Rationality: Saving Cost-Benefit Analysis for the Sake of the Environment and Our Health,” UVA Law professor Michael Livermore and New York University School of Law professor Richard Revesz argue that President Donald Trump’s administration has destabilized the decades-long bipartisan consensus that federal agencies must base their decisions on evidence, expertise and analysis.

In a panel moderated by PLACE Director Jonathan Z. Cannon, the authors and other scholars will discuss the future of cost-benefit analysis and environmental law and policy. 

Panelists

• Jonathan Adler, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law; Director, Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
• Michael Livermore, Edward F. Howrey Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
• Richard Revesz, Lawrence King Professor of Law; Dean Emeritus; Director, Institute for Policy Integrity, New York University School of Law
• Amy Sinden, Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law
• Moderator: Jonathan Z. Cannon, Blaine T. Phillips Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law; Director, Program in Law, Communities and the Environment (PLACE), University of Virginia School of Law

PLACE and Power

This series of virtual conversations explores connections between human place-based relationships and the law and politics of environmental governance.

PLACE and Power: Pathways to Racial and Economic Equity

Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020
4 p.m. 

Sponsored With the Virginia Environmental Law Journal and the Virginia Environmental Law Forum

PLACE and Power: A Conversation With Mary Nichols and Ann Carlson 

Oct. 16, 2020
4 p.m. 

Sponsored With the Virginia Environmental Law Journal and the Virginia Environmental Law Forum

California Air Resources Board Chair Mary D. Nichols and UCLA law professor Ann E. Carlson will discuss the productive but fraught relationship between cities, states and national environmental decisions-makers, with a focus on the important strides made to improve air quality in California over the past several decades.

Carlson, one of the country’s leading scholars of climate change law and policy, is the Shirley Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law, and the inaugural faculty director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the UCLA School of Law. She is also on the faculty of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.

Nichols joined the California Air Resources Board in 2007. She has also served as California’s secretary for Natural Resources (1999-2003); a senior staff attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council; assistant administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Air and Radiation; and head of the Institute of Environment and Sustainability at UCLA.

PLACE and Power: A Conversation With Emily Prifogle and Earl Swift

Friday, Sept. 18, 2020
10:30 a.m.

Sponsored With the Virginia Environmental Law Journal and the Virginia Environmental Law Forum

Legal historian Emily Prifogle and author Earl Swift will discuss the importance of rural places in shaping the laws, customs and attitudes of the people who live in them, as well as their role in the cultural and political future of the nation.

Prifogle, a University of Michigan Law School professor, focuses on the use and experience of law in rural areas. She is currently working on a book that tells a story of the rural Midwest in a constant process of transformation along lines of class, race and gender in the 20th century.

Swift is a journalist and author of “Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island.” The book records Tangier Island’s distinctive community as the physical place that defines and supports it shrinks with the rising waters of the Chesapeake Bay.