GLOBAL SYMPOSIUM on “JUDICIARY and the ENVIRONMENT: ADJUDICATING OUR FUTURE” August 23-24, 2018
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GLOBAL SYMPOSIUM ON “JUDICIARY AND THE ENVIRONMENT: ADJUDICATING OUR FUTURE” August 23-24, 2018 SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES LUIS ALMAGRO is a Uruguayan lawyer, diplomat, politician, and currently serving as the 10th Secretary General of the Organization of American States. Prior to serving as the Secretary General, Mr. Almagro served as the Foreign Minister of Uruguay, a Senator in the country’s General Assembly, an Ambassador to China, and a senior diplomat in Uruguay’s foreign ministry, including its embassies in Germany and Iran. As Foreign Minister for President José Mujica, he defined several emblematic initiatives that put his country on the global map, from receiving former prisoners from Guantanamo, to welcoming dozens of Syrian families who had been victims of the country´s conflict, to building support in the United Nations so that, beginning in 2016, Uruguay could become part of the Security Council. DENISE E. ANTOLINI has served as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the William S. Richardson School of Law since 2011, is former Director of the Environmental Law Program, and has been a member of the Law School faculty since 1996. She is the Deputy Chair of the World Commission on Environmental Law of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Dean Antolini attended Princeton University for her undergraduate degree, and obtained a Master’s in Public Policy at UC Berkeley and concurrently a J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley, where she was editor-in-chief of Ecology Law Quarterly. After a two-year federal district court clerkship in Washington, D.C., she spent eight years practicing public interest law with the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund (now Earthjustice) in Seattle and Honolulu, serving as Managing Attorney of the Honolulu office until 1996. She is currently serving as an elected member of the IUCN U.S. National Committee Executive Committee. ANTONIO H. BENJAMIN is a Justice of the High Court of Brazil, and a global leader in the environmental law community. Justice Benjamin is the Chair of the World Commission on Environmental Law, and an OAS Goodwill Ambassador for Environmental Justice. He was recently sworn in as Director of the National Judicial School of Brazil. He served as Assistant Attorney General of the Brazilian State of Sao Paulo for 20 years and served as head of the Environmental Protection Division for several years. Justice Benjamin was the founding President of both the Brazilian Consumer Law and Policy Institute and the Law for a Green Planet Institute, and is also a member of the UN Secretary General Expert Group on Crimes against the Environment and Secretary General of the International Advisory Council for Environmental Justice of UN Environment. He is a member of the Interim Governing Committee of the Global Judicial Institute on the Environment. 1 FRUZSINA BÖGÖS is an administrative judge at the Budapest-Capital Administrative and Labour Court in Hungary, specializing in environmental cases. She is the leader of the Working Group for Environmental Issues at the Budapest-Capital Administrative and Labour Court. Since 2015 Ms. Bögös has been working as the secretary-general of the European Union Forum of Judges for the Environment where she has been a member since 2012. Judge Bögös is also a founding member of the Global Judicial Institute on the Environment. JONATHAN Z. CANNON is director of the University of Virginia Law School's Environmental and Land Use Law Program, a Blaine T. Phillips Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law, and a Hunton & Williams Professor of law. He joined the Law School faculty in 1998 from the Environmental Protection Agency, where he served as general counsel (1995- 98) and assistant administrator for administration and resources management (1992-95). Prior to his work with the EPA, Cannon was in the private practice of environmental law; served as an adjunct professor at Washington and Lee Law School, where he taught environmental law; and was a lecturer at the Law School. Cannon is the author of the new book, "Environment in the Balance: The Green Movement and the Supreme Court." JEFF CRABTREE grew up in Hawaii and graduated from Punahou School. After college (Williams College and University of San Francisco), law school (New York University, Root-Tilden Scholar) and working several years on the mainland in Boston and New York City, he returned home to Honolulu and practiced civil litigation from 1983 to 2014. In 2014, Mr. Crabtree was nominated and then confirmed to be a circuit court judge. As of April 2017, Judge Crabtree is assigned to the Civil Litigation/ Division. Effective August 1, 2017, Judge Crabtree was designated as the Senior Environmental Court Judge for the First Circuit. He is a member of ELI´s Board of Directors CLAUDIA S. DE WINDT is an international environmental lawyer and expert in political sciences from the Dominican Republic. In the Organization of American States for over a decade, she led the Department of Sustainable Development initiatives on Environmental Law, Policy and Good Governance until recently joining the Secretariat for Multidimensional Security. A graduate of Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE) and a Master of Laws in International Legal Studies from American University, Washington College of Law. Prior to joining the OAS in 2001, Dr de Windt practiced banking, maritime, corporate and investment law with the firm Headrick, Rizik Alvarez & Fernández. She is a Judicial Interpreter of the Court of First Instance of Santo Domingo, a member of the roster of experts in environmental law of the EU-Central America Association Agreement, a member of the UN Environment Expert Group on Crimes that have serious impacts on the Environment and a member of the Steering Committee of the World Commission on Environmental Law of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (WCEL-IUCN). 2 EVA DUER is the Legal Officer and Team Leader in the field of Knowledge Management and Environmental Law at UN Environment, and develops cost effective capacity building tools for environmental lawyers around the world. Previously, she provided technical assistance and capacity building on environmental law at the national level, including support to the development of climate change adaptation legislation for countries in Asia and development of legislation for the clean development mechanism of the Kyoto protocol for the Government of Mali. She also held the position of Special Assistant to the Director of the Division of Regional Cooperation. SYLVIA EARLE is a marine biologist, explorer, author, and lecturer. She has been a National Geographic explorer-in-residence since 1988. Sylvia Earle was the first female chief scientist of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and was named by Time Magazine as its first Hero for the Planet in 1998. She is also part of the group Ocean Elders, which is dedicated to protecting the ocean and its wildlife. Dr. Earle was the Curator of Phycology at the California Academy of Sciences and a research associate at the University of California, Berkeley, Radcliffe Institute Scholar and research fellow at Harvard University. In 1992, Dr. Earle founded Deep Ocean Exploration and Research to further advance marine engineering. SCOTT FULTON is the President of the Environmental Law Institute (ELI). Prior to his work at the ELI, Mr. Fulton was a Principal at the environmental law firm Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., and served as General Counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Mr. Fulton has also served as the Acting EPA Deputy Administrator, head of the EPA’s Office of International Affairs, Judge on the Environmental Appeals Board, and head of the Agency’s enforcement program. He served as Assistant Chief of the Environmental Enforcement Section of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Environment and Natural Resources Division. He serves as a member of the United Nations Advisory Council on Environmental Justice and teaches International Environmental Governance as an adjunct professor at the George Washington School of Law. MICHAEL B. GERRARD is an Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Law School, teaches courses on environmental law, climate change law, and energy regulation, and is Director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. He also chairs the faculty of Columbia University’s Earth Institute. Previously, he practiced environmental law in New York, most recently as partner in charge of the New York office of the firm now known as Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer. Upon joining the Law School faculty in 2009, he became the firm’s senior counsel. Professor Gerrard was the 2004- 2005 chair of the American Bar Association’s 10,000-member section of environment, energy, and resources. He also chaired the New York City Bar Association’s executive committee and the New York State Bar Association’s environmental law section. He earned his B.A. from Columbia University and his J.D. from the NYU School of Law. 3 ALFREDO GUTIERREZ ORTIZ-MENA is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mexico, and an OAS Goodwill Ambassador for Environmental Justice. He is a graduate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and have an LLM in International Tax Certificate from Harvard University. Justice Gutierrez Ortiz-Mena has also worked for a number of international law firms, served in the Ministry of Finance, and worked as the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue and Customs Services. MICHAEL HANTKE is the Chief Justice of Chile’s Third Environmental Court. He is a Chilean lawyer with expertise in water and environmental law, governance, public policy, and economic and antitrust regulation. Justice Hantke, has more than 20 years of experience as an academic, regulator, former United Nations staff member, international consultant, and judge. Justice Hantke has also a long standing academic professional background as a professor on water law, environmental litigation, and economic regulations, among other topics.