Events and Lectures

Miami Law host events from the frontrunning lectures on issues in environmental law to networking opportunities. A sampling of past events includes:

Environmental Law Program Distinguished Speaker Series - "The Right to a Healthy Environment: From Recognition to Practice," February 2023
"An Unequal Burden: Exploring Environmental Justice and the Climate Crisis - University of Miami Law Review Symposium, Feburary 2023
“Evolution or Collapse? Climate Change and the International Legal Order,” with Professor Maxine A. Burkett, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law, March 2021
Climate and Racial Justice Talk Series: “Cascading Disasters at the Intersection of Underserved Communities,” “Miami Climate Justice Leadership,” and “Miami Climate Justice Activism,” February and March 2021
“Resiliency, Climate Change and Redevelopment,” with Neisen Kasdin, December 2020
“Debate on Environmental Health Between Miami Law and UM Miller School of Medicine,” October 2020
“Department of Florida v. Treasure Salvors, Inc.,” with David Paul Horan, March 2020
“The Obligation to Negotiate Access to the Pacific Ocean: The Decision of the International Court of Justice in the case between Bolivia and Chile,” with international and humanitarian law expert Claudio M. Grossman, as part of the Keith C. Wold Maritime Law LL.M. Program Teaching Fund, February 2020
“The Long Road Home: Fighting Climate Change Via the Interstate Highway System,” Professor Blake Hudson, University of Houston Law Center, October 2019
"Litigation Strategies and Practice in Modern Maritime and Cruise Industry Panel," September 2019
“Perspectives on Environmental/Climate/Energy Policy in Brazil under the Bolsonaro Government," with Dr. Eduardo Viola, Emeritus Professor of International Relations, University of Brasilia, January 2019
“Behind the Veil: Climate Migration, Regime Shift, and a New Theory of Justice,” Professor Maxine Burkett, University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law, February 2018
“Climate Wrongs and Human Rights,” University of Miami Law Review 2017 Symposium, February 2017
“Law at Sea: Future Issues in Maritime Law,” with Professor Bernard Oxman and Daniel Suman, February 2017
“Environmental and Legal Issues at the International Maritime Organization (IMO),”with Frederick Kenney, Jr., the Director of Legal and External Affairs at the International Maritime Organization, January 2016
“The South China Sea Arbitration,” with Professor Bernard Oxman, October 2016
"Science and Law for the Anthropocene," with Dr. Dale Jamieson, the Director of Environmental Studies at New York University, January 2013
"The Future of International Environmental Law," with Daniel Magraw, President Emeritus of the Center for International and Environmental Law, and James W. Nickel, UM Professor of Philosophy and Law, September 2013

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