Conference Agenda
Global Climate Change Policy Without the United States: Thinking the Unthinkable
Co-sponsored by the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fund at Yale Law School, the Yale Climate & Energy Institute, and the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy
Draft Agenda
Friday, November 9
3:30-4:30 PM Public Registration
Room 122, Yale Law School
4:30-4:45 PM Welcome and Introduction
Room 127, Yale Law School
Doug Kysar, Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law and Deputy Dean, Yale Law School
4:45-6:00 PM Opening Keynote Address
Room 127, Yale Law School
Sir Robert Watson, Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 1997-2002
6:00-6:45 PM Reception
Yale Law School Dining Hall
Saturday, November 10
8:00-9:00 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast
Registration is in Yale Law School’s Room 122. Breakfast will be available in the dining hall.
9:00-10:45 AM Session One
Room 127, Yale Law School
Robert Howse, Lloyd C. Nelson Professor of International Law, New York University School of Law: "Border Adjusted Taxes and Regulatory Measures as WTO-compliant Climate Mitigation Strategies"
Dan Farber, Sho Sato Professor of Law and Chair of the Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley: “Climate Law in a System of Divided Powers: Dealing with Carbon Leakage and Regulatory Linkage”
Richard B. Stewart, University Professor and John Edward Sexton Professor of Law, New York University School of Law: “Building Blocks for Global Climate Protection”
Commentator:
Michael B. Gerrard, Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice and Director, Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School
Moderator:
Joshua Galperin, Associate Director, Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy
10:45-11:00 AM Coffee Break
Room 122, Yale Law School
11:00 AM-12:15 PM Session Two
Room 127, Yale Law School
David Anthoff, Assistant Professor, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan: "Optimal global climate policy with limited participation"
Peter M. Haas, Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: "Lessons from Nonstate Global Environmental Governance"
Commentator:
Michael W. Wara, Associate Professor, Stanford Law School
Moderator:
Ken Gillingham, Assistant Professor of Environmental & Energy Economics, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
12:15-1:45 PM Lunch
Yale Law School Dining Hall
Keynote Speaker: Ambassador Stuart Beck, Permanent Mission of Palau to the United Nations
1:45-3:00 PM Session Three
Room 127, Yale Law School
Edward A. (Ted) Parson, Professor, UCLA School of Law: “Climate Engineering in Global Climate Governance: New Challenges for US (Non) Participation”
Jane C.S. Long, former Associate Director at Large, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: "A prognosis (or perhaps proposal) about geoengineering"
Commentator:
Daniel Bodansky, Lincoln Professor of Law, Ethics and Sustainability, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
Moderator:
Alex Hanafi, Attorney, Environmental Defense Fund's International Climate Program
3:00-3:15 PM Coffee Break
Room 122, Yale Law School
3:15-4:30 PM Session Four
Room 127, Yale Law School
Bernarditas de Castro-Mueller, Career Diplomat, Republic of the Philippines: “US Involvement in Global Climate Change Policy-Making: A Developing Country Perspective”
Kenneth W. Abbott, Professor of Law and Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University: “Building a Transnational Climate Change Regime: Bypassing and Managing States”
Commentator:
Steinar Andresen, Research Professor, Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway
Moderator:
Elizabeth Burleson, Associate Professor of Law, Pace Law School
4:30-5:15 Closing Remarks
Room 127, Yale Law School
Robert Socolow, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University