Stegner Center Calendar
February 7, 2012
Green Bag
Renwable Energy Development and Finance: Market Drivers and key Contractual Relationships
Sean McBride, Vice President and General Counsel of Renewable Energy Development Corporation
12:15 – 11:15 pm, Room 106
S.J. Quinney College of Law
1 Hour CLE, Lunch provided
February 9, 2012
Conference
Electric Power in a Carbon Constrained World
Speakers include: Lincoln Davies, University of Utah College of Law; John Dernbach, Widner University School of Law; Steven Ferrey, Suffolk University Law School; James Holtkamp, Holland & Hart; Alexandra Klass, University of Minnesota Law School; Bruce Pendery, Wyoming Outdoor Council; Richard Pierce, George Washington University Law School; Arnold Reitze, University of Utah College of Law; John Ruple, University of Utah Institute of Clean and Secure Energy; Michael Stern, Stern & Stern; Christopher Thomas, HEAL Utah; Hannah Wiseman, University of Tulsa College of Law.
Sutherland Moot Courtroom
S.J. Quinney College of Law
6 hours CLE. Lunch provided.
Registration required.
February 14, 2012
Green Bag
American Indians and the Constructed “Wilderness” of Yellowstone National Park
Rosemary Sucec, Branch of Cultural Resources, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area/Rainbow Bridge National Monument (formerly Cultural Anthropologist/ Tribal Liaison, Yellowstone National Park)
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm, Room 106
S.J. Quinney College of Law
1 hour CLE. Lunch Provided.
March 8, 2012
Wallace Stegner Lecture
Philip J. Landrigan, Dean for Global Health; Professor and Chair, Preventative Medicine; and Professor of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Time TBD, Sutherland Moot Courtroom
S.J. Quinney College of Law
1 hour CLE.
Principal funding: R. Harold Burton Foundation, the Cultural Vision Fund, and Chevron.
March 9-10, 2012
17th Annual Symposium
Silent Spring at 50: The Legacy of Rachel Carson
Speakers include: Susan Avery, President and Director, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Terrence Collins, Senior Institute Member, The Institute for Green Science, Carnegie Mellon University; Robin Craig, Attorneys’ Title Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Environmental Programs, and Co-Director of the Environmental and Land Use Law Program, Florida State University College of Law; Paul Holthus, founding Executive Director, World Ocean Council; Rowan Jacobsen, author of Fruitless Fall and other books; Priscilla Murphy, Author of What a Book Can Do: The Publication and Reception of Silent Spring; Naomi Oreskes, Professor of History and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego and author of Merchants of Doubt; Sandra Steingraber, Ecologist and author of Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment and other books; Wendy Wagner, Joe A. Worsham Centennial Professor, School of Law, University of Texas at Austin, and the production of “Air Tight,” a play by Aden Ross.
Two Day Event. Fort Douglas Ballroom
University Guest House, University of Utah
12 hours CLE.
Principal funding: R. Harold Burton Foundation,the Cultural Vision Fund, and Chevron.
Registration required.
March 27, 2012
Green Bag
Salt Lake City’s Sustainable Code Revision Initiative
Sustainability Director Vicki Bennett
Assistant Planning Director Cheri Coffey
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm, Room 106
S.J. Quinney College of Law
1 hour CLE. Lunch Provided.
April 5, 2012
Green Bag
Partnering with the Planet and Ourselves: Lawyers and Environmental Stewardship
Marc Weinreich, Vice President
Greenfield Environmental Trust Group
12:15 – 1:15pm, Room 106
S.J. Quinney College of Law
1 hour CLE. Lunch provided.
April 9, 2012
Green Bag
The Future of the World’s Birds in the 21st Century
Cagan Sekercioglu, Assistant Professor
University of Utah, College of Biology
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm, Room 106
S.J. Quinney College of Law
1 hour CLE. Lunch Provided.