Environmental Policy Seminar | Virginia v. EPA: Considering the scope of EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases
Join us on Thursday, April 7th, from 2-3:30 PM EDT for Energy & Climate Policy Seminar: Virginia v. EPA: Considering the scopeEPA’sPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases with Lisa Heinzerling, Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center.
About the Speaker:
Lisa Heinzerling is the Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. Her primary specialties are environmental and administrative law. She has published several books, including a leading casebook (with Zygmunt Plater and others) on environmental law, a then-novel casebook (with Mark Tushnet) aimed at introducing first-year law students to the regulatory and administrative state, and a hard-hitting critique of the use of cost-benefit analysis in environmental policy (Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing, co-authored with Frank Ackerman). Peer environmental law professors have four times voted her work among the top ten articles of the year.
Professor Heinzerling has received the Georgetown President’s Award for Distinguished Scholar-Teachers, the Frank F. Flegal faculty teaching award at Georgetown Law, and numerous awards related to her scholarship and advocacy in environmental law. She is a former public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States and a former chair of the board of the Center for Science in the Public Interest.