Date and Time
October 18, 2010
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM
October 18, 2010
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Availability
RSVP by 5PM October 17
RSVP by 5PM October 17
Discussion on human rights and environmental justice
implications surrounding the BP oil spill from regulatory, litigation and
conceptual perspectives.
Introduced and moderated by Dr. Helen Stacy, Co-ordinator,
Program on Human Rights in the Center on Democracy, Development and Rule of Law
and Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute.
Panelists:
Meg Caldwell, Director, Environmental and Natural Resources
Law & Policy Program; Executive Director, Center for Ocean Solutions, Woods
Institute for the Environment. Professor Caldwell's scholarship focuses on the
environmental effects of local land use decisions, the use of science in
environmental and marine resource policy development and implementation, and
developing private and public incentives for natural resource conservation.
Deborah Sivas, Luke W. Cole Professor of Environmental Law
and Director, Environmental Law Clinic. Professor Sivas's current research is
focused on the interaction of law and science in the arena of climate change and
coastal/marine policy and the ability of the public to hold policymakers
accountable.
Ursula Heise, Director, Program in Modern Thought &
Literature and Professor of English; member of the Executive Committee of the
Program in Science, Technology & Society; Affiliated Faculty of the Woods
Institute for the Environment. Author of Sense of Place and Sense of Planet:
The Environmental Imagination of the Global (Oxford University Press,
2008), After Nature: Species Extinction and Modern Culture,
(forthcoming) and The Avantgarde and the Forms of Nature (in
progress).
Location
Stanford Law School
Room 280B
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