Friday, November 6, 2015
Seventh Annual Climate and Energy Law Symposium
"California to Paris: Linking Climate and Energy Policy at teh State, National, and International Levels"
Welcome
- Stephen C. Ferruolo, Dean and Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law
- Andrew Walters, Editor in Chief, San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law
- Scott J. Anders, Director, Energy Policy Initiatives Center, University of San Diego School of Law
Keynote Panel
- Congressman Scott Peters, U.S. Congress, District 52
- Ken Alex, Senior Policy Advisor to Governor Jerry Brown and the Director of the Office of Planning and Research
- Moderator: Scott J. Anders, Director, Energy Policy Initiatives Center, University of San Diego School of Law
Panel One
State Responses to the US EPA Clean Power Plan
- Karen Edson, Vice President, Policy and Client Services, California Independent System Operator, "California ISO"
- Amy Stein, Associate Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, "Clean Power Plan Federalism"
- Kevin Poloncarz, Partner, Paul Hastings LLP, "State Responses to the Clean Power Plan: Legal Challenges"
- Moderator: Tim Duane, Visiting Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law
Panel Two
International Perspectives
- Michael Barsa, Professor, Northwestern University School of Law, "Can a Switching Costs Approach Help Foster International Agreement?"
- David Victor, Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego
- Kenneth Abbott, Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor School of Law, Arizona State University, "The CPP and Transnational, Subnational Governance"
- Danny Cullenward, Philomathia Fellow, UC Berkeley
- Moderator: Nilmini Silva-Send, Adjunct Professor, Assistant Director, Energy Policy Initiatives Center, University of San Diego School of Law
Panel Three
The Role of Subnational Actions to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Hari M. Osofsky, Professor, University of Minnesota Law School, "The Role of Regions in Scaling Up Subnational Climate and Change Action"
- Steven Ferrey, Professor, Suffolk University Law School
- Nancy Shurtz, Professor, University of Oregon School of Law, "State and Local Carbon Tax Initiatives in Western North America: Blueprint for Global Climate Change Policy"
- Sharon Mascher, Professor, University of Calgary Faculty of Law, "California to Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia and Beyond"
- Moderator: John Leslie, Partner, Dentons, Energy and Climate Change Practices