Environmental Law Symposium

Each year the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law holds an Environmental Law Symposium for attorneys from across North Carolina as part of the Law School's annual Festival of Legal Learning. Under the guidance of UNC Law Professors Victor Flatt, Donald Hornstein, and Maria Savasta-Kennedy, ELP members prepare short papers exploring current topics in environmental law, with a particular focus on North Carolina. These papers inform the symposium presentations and are included in the packet received by symposium attendees.

2014 Symposium Papers

• Hydropower in Central North Carolina: The Battle for the Yadkin -- Eric Anderson
• GMO Crop Regulations: From the Farm to the Shelves -- Daniel Burke
• Genetically Modified Seeds and the Patent Exhaustion Doctrine -- Erin Carter
• Excrement into Energy: Turning North Carolina’s Swine Waste Problem into a Renewable Energy Solution -- Catherine Caycedo
• North Carolina’s Current Political Economy & the Fracking Debates -- Charlotte E. Davis
• Supreme Court Takings Decisions: Koontz v. St. Johns Water River Management District --Carolyn Detmer
• The Role of Mineral Rights In The Future of North Carolina’s Hydraulic Fracturing --Preston H. Dole
• The Future of Nuclear and Energy Policy Post Fukushima: A Chance to Make Lasting Change in the Face of the Worst Nuclear Accident since Chernobyl --Jason Green
• Coastal Erosion in North Carolina: Terminal Groins and the Coastal Policy Reform Act of 2013 -- Drew Hargrove
• Agricultural System: Factory Farming Practices -- Melissa Jarel
• Alternative Energy Sources: Legislation Interacting With Development and Implementation of Renewable Energy Sources -- Aaron Jones
• The Burgeoning Property Rights & Environmental Justice Issues Concerning North Carolina’s Hydraulic Fracturing Laws -- Laura Kessler
• The Kivalina Conundrum: Is there Remedy for Climate Change Refugees? -- Kathryn B. Kushner
• Environmental Justice in North Carolina: Budding Change for Vulnerable Communities - Alison M. Melvin
• Hydraulic Fracturing and Surface Water in the Tar Heel State -- Rich Pepper
• The Opposition to Alternative Energy Progress: Why It Feels Like Running against the Wind -- Luke Pettyjohn
• Secondhand Smoke: North Carolina’s Clean Smokestacks Act and the Quest for Air Quality -- James F. Potts
• EPA’s Proposed Power Plant Carbon Dioxide Standards -- Joseph Shuford
• Alternative Energy And Energy Efficiency Legislation and the Subsidies that Incentivize Their Application -- Patrick VanderJeugdt
• Staring at the Sun: What’s Obstructing the Vision of a Solar-Thermal Powered Future? -- Kirin Walsh