The University of Colorado at Boulder Law School

Keynote Session

• Climate Justice and Colorado: MARK UDALL, Congressman (D-CO)
• JEROME RINGO, Chairman of the Board, National Wildlife Federation; President, Apollo Alliance.

Welcome and Introduction: Maxine Burkett, Associate Professor of Law, University of Colorado

Panel 1: Environmental Justice and the Current Social and Political Climate

• ROBERT BULLARD, Professor of Sociology, Clark Atlanta University
• EILEEN GAUNA, Professor of Law, University of New Mexico School of Law
• RACHEL GODSIL, Professor of Law, Seton Hall Law School
• REBECCA TSOSIE, Professor of Law, Arizona State University

Moderator: DAYNA MATTHEW, Associate Dean and Professor of Law, University of Colorado

Panel 2: Climate Justice: The Next Movement?

• LUKE COLE, Director, Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment
• MICHAEL B. GERRARD, Partner, Arnold & Porter (N.Y.)
• RUTH GORDON, Professor of Law, Villanova University School of Law.
• RICHARD LAZARUS, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Moderator: LAKSHMAN GURUSWAMY, Professor of Law, University of Colorado

Panel 3: Strategic Planning: Creating A Roadmap for Intergenerational Environmental Justice

• SHEILA FOSTER, Professor of Law, Fordham Law School
• CLIFF RECHTSCHAFFEN, Professor of Law; Director, JD Environmental Law Program; and Co-Director, Environmental Law and Justice Clinic, Golden Gate University School of Law
• WILLIE SHEPHERD, Chairman and Co-Founder, Kamlet Shepherd & Reichert, LLP
• DEAN SUAGEE, Of Counsel, Hobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker LLP (D.C).
• NICHOLAS TARG, Holland & Knight, former Associate Director for Environmental Justice Integration, Office of Environmental Justice, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Moderator: MARK SQUILLACE, Associate Professor of Law, University of Colorado

CU-Boulder’s Environmental Justice Steering Committee Panel: “The University of Colorado and Boulder’s Role in Providing Solutions to Environmental Injustice”