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‘Environmental Health and the Law’ conference examines legislative role in addressing persistent environmental threats to human health
On March 27, the Law-Medicine Center hosted its annual conference, “Environmental Health and the Law,” co-sponsored by the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law and the Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health. The interdisciplinary conference examined the effectiveness of 50 years...
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ϳԹ Law School’s Environmental Program ranked among the top in the nation
In 2019, ϳԹ School of Law received a $10 million gift to launch the Burke Center for Environmental Law. The size of this transformative gift instantly put ϳԹ on the map in the environmental law field, as recognized by the Spring 2020 issue of PreLaw magazine, which gave ϳԹ’s Environmental Law ...
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Environmental Law Center hosts lecture with U.S. DOJ Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division
The federal government’s top environmental lawyer discussed climate change litigation, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and the role of the Department of Justice in environmental policy in recent remarks at the ϳԹ School of Law. Jeffery Bossert Clark, Unite...
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EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler to headline ϳԹ School of Law symposium marking EPA’s 50th anniversary
Wheeler, a ϳԹ alum, joins more than a dozen nationally recognized environmental, legal experts at Oct. 18 symposium Andrew Wheeler, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and ϳԹ alumnus, returns to campus as keynote speaker in a daylong symposium ...
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ϳԹ alumnus launches Center for Environmental Law with $10 million gift
Alumnus Coleman P. Burke’s contribution—the law school’s largest-ever—will support interdisciplinary education and research Nearly a decade after endowing a professorship in honor of his law school mentor Leon Gabinet, alumnus Coleman P. Burke (LAW ’70) has committed $10 million to establish a cent...