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Burke Center Welcomes Noted Environmental Law Professor Victor Flatt to Law School for the 2022-23 Academic Year
The Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law at ӰƵ School of Law is excited to welcome Professor Victor B. Flatt as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow and a Visiting Professor of Law for the 2022-2023 school year. Professor Flatt is a nationally recognized expert on en...
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Jonathan Adler provides analysis of Supreme Court's ruling in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency
Professor Jonathan H. Adler provided analysis and insight on television, radio and in print after the Supreme Court curtailed the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Adler, the inaugural Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and founding director of ...
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The Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law at Three Years
The Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law celebrated its third anniversary by marking its tremendous progress toward making the ӰƵ School of Law a national presence in environmental law research and education. In just three years, the Burke Center has: Hoste...
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EPA’s Cisar Highlights Agency’s Water Quality Priorities at Burke Center’s Symposium on “The Clean Water Act at 50”
The Environmental Protection Agency’s Elizabeth Cisar, senior policy advisor in the Office of Water, discussed the opportunities and challenges facing the EPA as it seeks to enhance and improve the nation's water quality. Cisar made her remarks, “A View from the EPA,” at the interdisciplinary sympos...
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CWRU Law School Faculty Honored at Annual Awards Night
In May, ӰƵ School of Law held its annual Faculty Achievement Awards ceremony to recognize outstanding work by faculty members. Three major awards were presented: Faculty Distinguished Research Prize, Faculty Distinguished Service Prize and a Chaired Professorship. Facul...
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Burke Center Webinar Considers What's at Stake in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency
Can the Environmental Protection Agency take aggressive action to control greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector? This is the question facing the U.S. Supreme Court in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency. In this one-hour webinar held on Feb. 24, 2022, “Climate Change Returns t...
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CWRU Law's Environmental Law Clinic Opens Its Doors in Fall 2022
Launching in Fall 2022, the Environmental Law Clinic at ӰƵ School of Law will be an interdisciplinary clinic that addresses environmental law and policy problems on behalf of individual clients and organizations including environmental groups, nonprofits and community or...
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Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law Will Host April Symposium: The Clean Water Act at 50
On Friday, April 8, 2022, the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law will sponsor “The Clean Water Act at 50,” a day-long interdisciplinary symposium that will explore the successes, failures and remaining challenges of the Clean Water Act. In 1972, responding to widespread and growing conce...
CWRU’s Jonathan Adler is #6 Most Cited Professor in Environmental Law
ӰƵ School of Law Professor Jonathan Adler was the sixth most cited professor in the field of Environmental Law from 2016-2020, according to a study released this month. A second analysis, looking at the same time period, also identified Professor Adler as one of the 1...
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Endowment Supports Burke Scholars
As part of ӰƵ’s comprehensive financial aid program—ranked fifth in the nation by Business Insider—the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law offers scholarships to outstanding applicants in environmental law. In less than two years, the Environmental Law Center ...