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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: As President Biden’s first executive orders demonstrate, climate change is now at the heart of the federal environmental policy agenda. Outside of government, there’s a growing momentum among private companies to focus on and invest in renewable energy. In this episode, WilmerHale podcast co-host and Partner John Walsh welcomes Partner Peggy Otum, who leads a discussion with special guests Professor Daniel Farber and Marsden Hanna on climate change and renewable energy. Otum is the co-chair of See more + As President Biden�...

This event has passed. March 3 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Seminar Series Description Join us on March 3 for the fourth installment of the COVID-19 and the Law: Disruption, Impact, and Legacy Seminar Series. This seminar series will consider the ethical, legal, regulatory, and broader social and institutional impacts that COVID-19 has had, as well as the longer-lasting effects it may have on our society. This fourth seminar in the series will focus on role that social disparities and structural forces have played in the pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected almost all aspects of life in the U...

Initiative on Global Law and Policy at UH Law Center to host international speaker series Feb 16, 2021 3:15 PM ET Legal Newswire POWERED BY LAW.COM The Initiative on Global Law and Policy for the Americas, founded by University of Houston Law Center Professor Elizabeth Trujillo, will launch by hosting a webinar series in Spring 2021 in partnership with the University of Bologna Center for Latin American Studies.  The Latin America Interest Group from the American Society of International Law (ASIL-LAIG) will also co-sponsor the event. The theme of the series is, "Constitutionalism, Tra...

collaboration. This publication is based on a piece drafted for Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania and made possible in part by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York. The views expressed are solely the author’s. When it comes to dealing with floods, droughts, heat waves, or other adversities that our lively planet throws at us, one classic solution for humanity has always been to simply pick up and leave. Mobility has always been a strategy for humans to deal with climate change effects, whether they be seasonal shifts, regional droughts, or mini ice ages. Advertis...

Date Time How Donald Trump has tested ethical limits of presidential pardons President Donald Trump has issued fewer pardons than any president in modern history – and many of them are for conservative political allies who have run afoul of the law, says UC Berkeley historian and legal scholar Daniel Farber. (Flickr photo by Gage Skidmore licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0) The power to grant clemency to people accused or convicted of crimes is one of the broadest powers granted to a president under the U.S. Constitution. A president can grant a pardon to override a failure of the justice system, ...