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Global Environmental Democracy Project
Preparing students to be advocates for global change

The ENR Program's projects allow faculty and students to integrate traditional course work, through the law school curriculum, with specialized study in each of the project’s subject areas. The Global Environmental Democracy Project explores the principles of public participation, freedom of information, and access to the judicial system and how those principles play out when confronting international environmental problems. Faculty leaders are John Bonine, Svitlana Kravchenko and Mary Wood.

Upcoming Events

Recent Accomplishments

The Project was excited to launch the climate crisis initiative website this year, a public interest resource devoted to the issue of climate change which features current events, curriculum information, and recent scholarship. The climate crisis initiative can be found at www.law.uoregon.edu/org/enr/climatechange.html.

Organized by the Public Interest Public Service Program and the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, David Cobb, an attorney who was the Green Party's candidate in the 2004 presidential election, delivered a lecture on systemic problems in the electoral process on October 24, 2007. Cobb discussed the role that attorneys and other citizens play in ensuring fairness and encouraging widespread participation in elections. You can watch and listen to his lecture by clicking on the icons below.

David Cobb: "How Fair and Open Are Elections in the United States?" (October 24)
      

Combating Climate Change on the Regional Level: West Coast Policy and Litigation, October 19, 2007, Fall Symposium sponsored by the Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation and the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program. For more information, see http://www.law.uoregon.edu/org/jell/climate.php.

Fellows

	Kevin Parks A third year law student, Kevin focuses on international environmental law, and the institutional processes that can pave the way towards a sustainable dynamic between healthy economic development and natural resource management and conservation.
	Michelle Platt Michelle is a third-year student in a four-year JD/MA program in international studies. She is focusing her joint degree on international environmental challenges and has been studying how development generates global inequities and resource scarcity.

Faculty

	John Bonine Professor Bonine is former Associate General Counsel for Air Quality for the U.S. EPA in Washington, D.C. He was in charge of EPA's legal positions under the Clean Air Act in the 1970s. At EPA, he defended over 200 lawsuits brought by industry and others that challenged EPA regulations. Prof. Bonine has published a casebook, The Law of Environmental Protection, which teaches law students about this and other pollution laws. His focus is on the power and techniques of EPA, States, and cities to regulate global warming, with a special expertise in "technology-forcing."
	Svitlana Kravchenko Professor Svitlana Kravchenko is an expert in climate change issues internationally. She teaches science, international treaties - UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol, implementation of and compliance with treaties, cases and litigation in the US and other countries - in her course Global Environmental Challenges. Prof. Kravchenko made presentations at the conferences at the University of Oregon and the George Washington University. Intersection of the climate change and human rights is part of her forthcoming casebook "Human Rights and the Environment" (accepted by the Carolina Academic Press, in co-authorship with Prof. John Bonine and Don Anton).
	Mary Wood A natural resources law/federal Indian law/property law professor, Mary Wood is studying domestic climate litigation involving states and federal agencies. Her focus is on the politicization of agency regulation in this area and the viability of judicial review. She is exploring common law claims brought by states and tribes against the federal government for its failure to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Professor Wood is a co-author of a national textbook in natural resources law and authoring a forthcoming book, Nature's Trust, in which she argues that the global atmosphere is a property asset owned by all nations of the world as sovereign trustees who hold a duty of protection towards future generations.

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