Each summer, ELI convenes a complimentary seminar series that offers an introduction to the legal and policy foundations of environmental protection in the United States.
ELI's Summer School is a series of brown-bag lunch seminars taught by experts in their fields, introducing the audience to the major environmental statutes (including NEPA, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, TSCA, RCRA, and CERCLA) and land use law. Faculty will also incorporate major regulatory and judicial updates to the laws.
Who will benefit: All are welcome. Students and emerging professionals will have unique opportunities to learn, hear updates, ask questions, and network. The series is intended for:
- undergraduates,
- law students and graduate students, and
- working professionals new to or looking for a refresher course in environmental law (such as interns, summer clerks, and associates, or second-career professionals).
Hazardous Waste and Sites
Environmental law has brought about a sea change in how we manage waste. Faculty explored both the dense regulatory efforts and the simple liability efforts used to bring about this change with emphasis on:
- the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and
- the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA).
The speakers discussed the events that led to the enactment of CERCLA and addressed uncertainties that still exist in RCRA, such as the definition of waste and the rules for recycling.
Faculty:
Ravi Arulanantham, Ph.D., Senior Principal Consultant, Geosyntec
Toby Chun, Partner, Environmental Transactional Practice Group, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Mary Ellen Ternes, Partner, Earth & Water Law, LLC
Materials:
Ravi Arulanantham presentation
Toby Chun presentation
Mary Ellen Ternes presentation
**See the entire Summer School 2018 schedule HERE.**