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Law school hosts environmental policy forum

The Penn State Dickinson School of Law will host an environmental policy forum on "The Impact of the 2008 Presidential Election on U.S. Climate Change Policy" from 3 to 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 19, in 112 Forest Resources Building, University Park. The event is free to the public.
 
The forum will feature three distinguished professors who will discuss possible changes in national policy on climate change at the commencement of a new presidential administration. Participants include Jonathan H. Adler, professor of law and director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Adler is one of the most widely cited academics in the area of environmental law and a regular radio and television commentator on environmental and legal issues.
 
Adler will be joined by Jamison E. Colburn, professor of law at Penn State Dickinson, and James S. Shortle, distinguished professor of agricultural and environmental economics in the University's College of Agricultural Sciences. Colburn is a noted scholar of environmental law and policy with experience as an enforcement litigator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Shortle is the director of Penn State's Environment and Natural Resources Institute and is renowned in the area of environmental and natural resource economics.
 
Ross H. Pifer, director of the Agricultural Law Resource and Reference Center at Penn State Dickinson, will serve as moderator of the forum. The event is being sponsored by Penn State Dickinson, the Penn State Environmental Law Review, and the Penn State Environment and Natural Resources Institute. For further information, call (814) 865-3723 or e-mail rhp102@psu.edu.   

Last Updated July 22, 2015

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