The Environmental Shakedown: Can Markets and Property Rights Really Improve Environmental Quality?

 The Federalist Society Presents

The Environmental Shakedown

Can Markets and Property Rights Really

Improve Environmental Quality?

Tuesday, 2.28 ·12:00 · K1E · FREE JIMMY JOHNS

Dr. Bruce Yandle, Clemson University· Professor Amy Sinden, Temple Law

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Since time out of mind, human communities, like hummingbird societies, have faced a property rights challenge:  How to ration, protect and enhance the biological envelope that sustains life.  Sometime referred to as the commons problem, related legal and economic issues have to do with defining and protecting property rights to environmental assets.  In short, the problem relates to building and maintaining legal institutions.  Typically in the industrialized world, the environment is managed by government using command-and-control regulation. There are explanation for this preference based on political economy arguments. Notable exceptions to this approach involve defining markets and transferable rights for environmental assets and use.  An exploration of experiences with markets offers insights into how environmental regulation might be improved and made more viable. 

 

DR. BRUCE YANDLE is dean emeritus of Clemson University Business School as well as a professor of economics emeritus. Dr. Yandle’s primary research interests are public choice, regulation, & free market environmentalism. Dr. Yandle is the author of numerous books, including Taking the Environment Seriously, The Political Limits of Environmental Regulation, Environmental Use & the Market, Land Rights, The Economics of Environmental Quality, & most recently, Common Sense & Common Law for the Environment. Dr. Yandle was a senior economist on the staff of the President's Council on Wage & Price Stability, where he reviewed & analyzed newly proposed regulations. He later served as the executive director of the Federal Trade Commission.

AMY SINDEN is a Professor at Temple Beasley School of Law specializing in environmental & property law. Her recent academic writings have criticized the misuse of economic theory in environmental law, arguing against the use of cost-benefit analysis in environmental standard setting & countering claims that private property rights can solve environmental problems in the absence of government regulation. Before joining the law school faculty, Professor Sinden served as senior counsel for Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future, handling litigation on behalf of PennFuture & other citizens' & environmental groups. Prior to this position, Sinden was an attorney for the Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund in Seattle, Washington, where she litigated federal environmental cases focusing on natural resource issues. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Center for Progressive Reform.

Why Progressive Policies Always Fail with Richard Epstein & Jan Ting

The Federalist Society &

The Temple Law Republicans Present

Why Progressive Policies

Always Fail

Tuesday 2.21 × 12:00 × K2A

FREE JIMMY JOHNS

“Richard Epstein is one of the

most influential legal thinkers of modern times”

RICHARD EPSTEIN is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. He is also a Scholar at the Cato Institute, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, a Senior Lecturer at University of Chicago Law School, and a policy advisor for The Heartland Institute. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Senior Fellow of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at University of Chicago Medical School. He served as editor of the Journal of Legal Studies and the Journal of Law and Economics. Legal Times chose Epstein as one of the most influential legal thinkers of modern times.

PROFESSOR JAN TING teaches courses on national security, taxation, & immigration law. His writings have been published in the New  York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and he has appeared on National Public Radio, PBS Newshour, ABC Nightline, the NBC Today Show & Dateline. Ting is a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, the Center for Immigration Studies, & the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He was appointed Assistant Commissioner at the Immigration & Naturalization Service of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1990-93 & testified before Congress and the 9/11 Commission.

FEDERALISM v. FEMINISM: US v. Morrison Twelve Years Later: Did It Set Any Real Limits On Federal Power?

The Federalist Society & 
The Law Students for Reproductive Justice Present

FEDERALISM v. FEMINISM

US v. Morrison Twelve Years Later:

Did It Set Any Real Limits On Federal Power?

Monday 2·13 · 12:00 · K2A

FREE JIMMY JOHNS

MICHAEL ROSMAN serves as General Counsel for the Center for Individual Rights (CIR) & successfully argued on behalf of Tony Morrison in the United States Supreme Court in the landmark case of United States v. Morrison.

A graduate of Yale Law School, Rosman worked as an associate at Rosenman & Colin prior to joining CIR in 1994. Mr. Rosman is the author of several articles, including: Ambiguity & the First Amendment: Some Thoughts On All White Advertising, Standing Alone: Standing Under The Fair Housing Act, & Thoughts on Bakke & Its Effect on Race Conscious Decision Making.

WILLIAM CARTER is a Professor at Temple Beasley School of Law & specializes in constitutional law, civil rights, critical race theory, & international human rights law. His articles have been published in the UCLA Law Review, the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, the UC-Davis Law Review, & the Berkeley Journal of International Law.

Prior to joining our faculty in 2007, Professor Carter was a Professor of Law at Case Law School. Upon graduation from law school, Professor Carter worked as a litigation associate in the Washington, D.C. offices of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey & Ropes & Gray.