Federalism and Energy in the United States
Thursday, March 1 - Friday, March 2, 2012
Confirmed Speakers | Registration | Agenda | Papers
The Searle Center Conference on Federalism and Energy in the United States is organized by David A. Dana, Stanford Clinton Sr. and Zylpha Kilbride Clinton Research Professor of Law, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs: Faculty & Research.
Conference panels will include Hydro-Fracking, The Electricity Grid, and Preemption and Climate Change.
This conference is co-sponsored by the Initiative for Sustainability and Energry at Northwestern University.
Confirmed Speakers
- David E. Adelman, University of Texas, Austin
- Rich Boucher, Partner, Government Strategies Group, Sidley Austin LLP and former 14 term Congressman, U.S. House of Representatives, Virginia’s 9th District
- William W. Buzbee, Emory University School of Law
- John T. Colgan, Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC)
- James L. Connaughton, Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs, Public and Environmental Policy at Constellation Energy and former chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and Director of the White House Office of Environmental Policy
- David A. Dana, Northwestern Law
- Joshua Paul Fershee, The University of North Dakota Law School
- Craig Glazer, PJM Interconnection
- Robert L. Glicksman, The George Washington University Law School
- Terry Harvill, ITC Holdings Corporation
- David R. Hill, Sidley Austin LLP
- Lynne Kiesling, Northwestern University
- Christopher S. Kulander, Texas Tech University School of Law
- Howard Learner, Environmental Law and Public Policy Center
- Hari Osofsky, University of Minnesota Law School
- Garrick B. Pursley, The University of Toledo College of Law
- David B. Spence, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin
- Daniel F. Spulber, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
- David Vitale, ISO New England Board
- Hannah Wiseman, Florida State University College of Law
Papers
Session One: Electricity Grid, Transmission Siting, and Federalism
"Restructuring a Green Grid: Legal Challenges to Accommodate New Renewable Energy Infrastructure"
Steven Ferrey, Suffolk University Law School (Background Paper submitted by Hari Osofsky)
Session Two: Competition in Pricing and Delivery and Federalism
Papers forthcoming.
Session Three: Hydro-Fracturing, State Regulation and the Federal Role
"American Law and Jurisprudence on Fracing-2012"
Chris S. Kulander, Assistant Professor of Law, Texas Tech University School of Law (Background Paper)
"State and Local Regulation of Shale Oil and Gas Development: Adaptation, Experimentation, or Chaos?"
Hannah Wiseman, Assistant Professor, Florida State University College of Law
Session Four: Preemption and Climate Change
"A Multi-Dimensional Framework for Reallocating Government Authority in Response to Regulatory Stress: The Climate Change Adaptation Example"
Robert L. Glicksman, J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law, The George Washington University Law School (Background Paper co-authored be Alejandro E. Camacho)
Registration
Please note that there is no registration fee to attend this conference, but an invitation is required.
To request an invitation please send an email message with complete contact information, including title and affiliation to d-gundersen@law.northwestern.edu.
Location of Conference
Northwestern University School of Law
Wieboldt Hall (Room #147)
340 E. Superior Street
Chicago, IL 60611
Contact
For more information regarding this conference or other initiatives of the Searle Center, please call (312) 503-1811 or send an email to searlecenter@law.northwestern.edu .
