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. Papers from the 2013 symposium can be accessed below.

The Land Use and Water Nexus in the Clean Water Act's 40th Year and a Look Ahead

February 9, 2013

• Challenges to CAFO Regulations Play Out in North Carolina Courts Achieving Mixed Results - Tyler Burgess
• Why Lawyers Should NOAA what CERCLAs in our Oceans: Laws and Regulations Governing Ocean Dumping - Jacquelin Uhlik
• The Rising Tension over Sea Level Rise: Applying Common Law Doctrines to Unprecedented Environmental Changes in North Carolina - Melissa Schoeman
• Regulation, Infrastructure, and Water Scarcity in North Carolina: 2011-2012 Water Law Put into Perspective - J. Sawyer Lucy
• North Carolina’s Presumptive Liability for Hydraulic Fracturing: An Appropriate Standard for North Carolina? - Brian Phillips
• A Look at the EPA and FEMA Pilot Projects in North Carolina - Jennifer Nusbaum
• Overview of State Regulations Affecting Local Citizens and Governments and Corresponding Suggestions for North Carolina’s Evolving Regulatory Regime -Christina Nasuti
• L&S Water Power v. Piedmont Triad Regional Water Authority: The Evolution of Modern Riparian Rights in North Carolina - Kathleen McConnell
• Pesticide Regulation Under the NPDES PGP- Llogan Walters
• Levees, Oysters, and Dirt: How Breaching the Mississippi River May Save Louisiana’s Coast - Emily Love
• Where Will All the Water Go? A National Comparison of Surface Water Rights and the Future of Water Allocation Under the Eastern Riparian Model - Erin Locker
• Which Four Letters have the N.C. Supreme Court Up in Arms? APFOs in Lanvale v. County of Cabarrus - Kristen Kenley
• An Improper Disposal: Coal Ash, Groundwater Contamination, and The Need for Federal Regulation - Taylor Johnson
• Shifting Regulation for Mountaintop Mining Valley Fills and the Confusion it Creates: The Spruce No. 1 Mine—Inception to Current Litigation - H. Hillaker
• Ready or Not, Here Comes E15 -Brittany Cartner
• Transportation in Western North Carolina: Paving the Way for Corridor K - R. Kyle Evans
• Seeping Through the Cracks: North Carolina Regulatory Gaps Enable Unchecked Groundwater Use as Growing State Thirsts for More Resources - Brian Willett
• Genetic Use Restriction Technology: How Far Should We Go to Protect Intellectual Property Rights? - Caleb White