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The University of San Diego's Second Annual Climate & Energy Law Symposium will explore various regulatory approaches being proposed and adopted to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Panels will focus on how innovative policy instruments such as emissions trading and carbon taxes complement, displace and otherwise interact with traditional regulatory approaches.

This year’s Symposium will include a half-day pre-symposium workshop that will explore how California’s environmental protection laws, such as the California Environmental Quality Act, affect the permitting and siting process for energy projects that could help California achieve its ambitious greenhouse gas reduction targets.

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Welcome

Keynote
John Geesman – Co-chair, American Council on Renewable Energy and former California Energy Commissioner (2002-2008)

PANEL
Siting Energy Projects in California: Finding the Balance
Ken Alex – Senior Assistant Attorney General, State of California
V. John White – Executive Director, Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technology
Jeffrey Durocher – Wind Permitting Manager, Iberdrola
John McKinsey – Partner, Stoel Rives LLP
Moderator: John Lormon – Partner, Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

Keynote
Jody Freeman – Professor of Law, Harvard University; former White House Counselor for Energy and Climate Change

PANEL
Markets for Emissions Reductions: Cap & Trade and Beyond
David M. Driesen – University Professor, Syracuse University
Kevin Kennedy – Assistant Executive Officer, Office of Climate Change, California Air Resources Board
Lesley K. McAllister – Associate Professor of Law, University of San Diego
Michael Wara – Assistant Professor of Law, Stanford University
Moderator: Thomas R. Brill – Director, Corporate Regulatory Policy, Sempra Energy

PANEL
Climate Change and Tax Law
Reuven S. Avi-Yonah – Irwin I. Cohn Professor of Law, University of Michigan
David G. Duff – Professor of Law, University of British Columbia
Roberta Mann – Professor of Law, University of Oregon
Walter Wang – Founder and Managing Director, Sunflower Tax, LLC; Adjunct Professor of Law, University of San Diego
Moderator: Karen C. Burke – Warren Distinguished Professor of Law, University of San Diego

PANEL
Instrument Choice Over Time: Stability vs. Ossification
Leslie Carothers – President, Environmental Law Institute
Holly Doremus – Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Richard J. Lazarus – Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., Professor of Law, Georgetown University; and the Stanley Legro Professor in Environmental Law, University of San Diego
Robert A. Wyman, Jr. – Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP
Moderator: John H. Minan – Professor of Law, University of San Diego