Williams Lecture Focuses on Climate Change and Cultures01:55PM / Tuesday, November 17, 2009
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Eric Dannenmaier, associate professor of law and Dean's Fellow at Indiana University School of Law, will deliver the lecture "Climate Change and Vulnerable Communities: Standing on the Rights of Land-Based Cultures" on Thursday, Nov. 19, at 7:30 p.m. in Griffin Hall, Room 6 at Williams College. The event is free and open to the public
Dannenmaier has been an adviser to governments and international organizations in the reform of environment and natural resource laws and in the design of legal frameworks for public participation in development decision-making.
He was director of Tulane Law School's Institute for Environmental Law and Policy and a legal adviser for the environment and director of the Environmental Law Program of the U.S. Agency for International Development from 1996 to 2000.
His principal research is focused on citizen access to decision-making processes under both national and international law, with an emphasis on decisions affecting international development and the environment.
He is author of studies and policy papers on topics including the implementation of Climate change, water policy and decentralization, environmental security, international trade and the environment, and environmental democracy.
His books include "Citizen Sherpas or Basecamp Barbarians? Lawmaking on the Road to International Summits," "Beyond Indigenous Property Rights: Exploring the Emergence of a Distinctive Connection Doctrine," and many law review and journal articles, including Democratic Models for International Environmental Institutions: Challenges, Taxonomies, and Citizen Advisory Groups and The JPAC at Ten: A Ten-Year Review of the Joint Public Advisory Commission of the North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA Commission on Environmental Cooperation.
He received his bachelor's degree from Drury College, his juris doctorate from Boston University and his master of laws from Columbia University.
The lecture is sponsored by The Class of 1960 Scholars Program in Environmental Studies. |
