Upcoming Events

UVA President Jim Ryan ’92 will sit down with Arun Majumdar to discuss how the economy can achieve net zero carbon emissions and what policies can be implemented now to achieve that grand challenge. Welcoming remarks by Provost Liz Magill ’95 and ERI Director Karen McGlathery. Full schedule of Climate Ambition Summit events

Cortney Hawkins, the University Police Department’s diversity officer, and Marrissa Jones, the Batten School’s social equity advisor, will co-moderate a panel discussion with community organizers, activists and scholars with expertise in organizing advocacy efforts, collective healing and trust building in response to instances of racial injustice. Register for Zoom

Professors Sarah Krakoff and Gerald Torres will discuss issues of politics, justice and progress at the intersection of environmental governance and the rights and interests of Native American peoples. The discussion will focus on threats to lands and other natural and cultural resources, such as Bears Ears, and the exclusion of historic tribal uses from publicly managed lands, such as the Grand Canyon. Krakoff, a nationally recognized expert in Native American law, natural resources law and environmental justice, is the Moses Lasky Professor of Law at the University of Colorado. Torres, also a distinguished scholar of environmental law and federal Native American law, is a Professor of Environmental Justice at the Yale School of the Environment and professor of law at Yale Law School. The event is the fourth in the “PLACE and Power” series of virtual conversations exploring connections between human place-based relationships and the law and politics of environmental governance, including governance of the built environment. Register for Zoom

In an environment of increasing academic specialization, Oxford-Virginia Legal Dialogs seeks to build bridges across academic disciplines by introducing a new kind of workshop. For each session, a tax scholar will select a non-tax, but law-related, work that is prominent in its own field and explain how the work is relevant to the study of taxation. The author of the work will then respond before the session is opened to questions and discussion by workshop attendees. The featured work for this session is by Jedediah S. Britton-Purdy, Davie Singh Grewal, Amy Kapczynski, and Sabeel K. Rahman, “Building a Law-and-Political-Economy Framework: Beyond the Twentieth-Century Synthesis” (March 2, 2020), with commentator Anne Alstott (Yale). Amy Kapczynski (Yale), and possibly other of the co-authors, will attend. Details | Register