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Student-moderated panel discussion on the competing interests and various stakeholders within the Wasatch canyons. Laura Briefer, Salt Lake City Corporation, Water Resources Manager, Laura Briefer, Salt Lake City Corporation, Water Resources Manager Jason Davis, UDOT, Regional Director of Transportation for the Wasatch Front, and Carl Fischer, Save Our Canyons, Executive Director serve as panelists.

Energy development and wilderness preservation are often thought of as competing and incompatible goals. Recent agreements in Utah between conservation groups, industry, and federal and state governments provide real world examples that this does not have to be the case. Mr. Bloch discusses those agreements and the potential for similar win-win solutions.

Professor Steve Ramirez, Loyola University School of Law, Director Corporate Law Center, speaks on "Assessing the Legislative and Regulatory Answers to Economies in Crisis". Professor Jeffrey Schwartz moderates the discussion.

Professor Christian Johnson, University of Utah College of Law, speaks on "Assessing the Legislative and Regulatory Answers to Economies in Crisis". Professor Jeffrey Schwartz moderates the discussion.

Professor Jose Gabilondo, Florida International University School of Law, speaks on "Assessing the Legislative and Regulatory Answers to Economies in Crisis". Professor Jeffrey Schwartz moderates the discussion.

Professor Andre Cummings, Indiana Tech Law School, speaks on "Assessing the Legislative and Regulatory Answers to Economies in Crisis". Professor Jeffrey Schwartz moderates the discussion.

George Sutton, Partner, Jones Waldo Holbrook & McDonough, speaks on the subject of "Lessons from the European Experience: Is Austerity a Viable Approach for the U.S. Economic Situation." Professor Christian Johnson moderates the discussion.

Kern Alexander, Chair of Law and Finance at the University of Zurich, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Financial Analysis & Policy, University of Cambridge, S.J. Quinney 2013 Rolapp Scholar gives the keynote adress.

Dr. Tim Kane, Chief Economist at the Hudson Institute, speaks on the subject of "Lessons from the European Experience: Is Austerity a Viable Approach for the U.S. Economic Situation." Professor Christian Johnson moderates the discussion.

Dr. Tara Rice, Chief, Global Financial Institutions, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, speaks on the subject of "Lessons from the European Experience: Is Austerity a Viable Approach for the U.S. Economic Situation." Professor Christian Johnson moderates the discussion.

Clay Lowery, former Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department, speaks on the subject of "Lessons from the European Experience: Is Austerity a Viable Approach for the U.S. Economic Situation." Professor Christian Johnson moderates the discussion.

Tim Kane and Clay Lowery debate the timely topic of austerity measures in the 29th Annual Fordham Debate: “Resolved: Austerity measures are a necessary tactic to deal with a country’s financial crisis.”

Mark A. Pacella, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Charitable Trusts and Organizations Section, Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General, speaks on working with State Attorney General offices.

Terry M. Knowles, Assistant Director, Charitable Trusts Unit, Department of Attorney General of New Hampshire, speaks on sworking with State Attorney General offices.

Darla Guenzler, Executive Director, California Council of Land Trusts, speaks on working with State Attorney General offices.

Theodore Sims speaks on the history of tax deductions for conservation easements, specifically Section 170(h) of the Internal Revunue Code.

K. King Burnett, Uniform Law Commissioner, Member of Uniform Conservation Easement Drafting Committee, speaks on the history of state enabling statutes.

Jeffrey Pidot, Former Chief of the Natural Resources Division of the Maine Attorney General’s Office (retired); Originator of Maine’s Enabling Statute Reforms, speaks on state enabling statutes.

Nancy A. McLaughlin, Robert W. Swenson Professor of Law, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, speaks on charity oversight.

Marion R. Fremont-Smith, Senior Research Fellow, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard University, speaks on the history of charity oversight.

Melanie B. Leslie, Professor of Law, Cardozo Law School, speaks on charity oversight.

Nancy A. McLaughlin, Robert W. Swenson Professor of Law, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, gives the introductory remarks for the "Perpetual Conservation Easements: What Have We Learned and Where Should We Go From Here?" conference.

Climbers are seldom celebrated as environmental thinkers, but there is a long list of environmental leaders who discovered their calling in the mountains. This green Mount Rushmore might include John Muir, David Brower and Yvon Chouinard. Jeff McCarthy’s talk will start by celebrating the connection between climbing and American environmentalism, and go on to ask if that connection emerges from an interchange between the climber's physical body and nature's physical presence. McCarthy’s ideas challenge our culture’s given understanding of nature as an inert backdrop to human activity. Instead, his research gives an active role to the natural world. The payoff is a reconsideration of the way our bodies interact with the substances that surrounds us. This talk celebrates climbing and inquiries into humanity’s material partnership with a material world.

Unmanned drones, cruise missiles, automated weapons, even armed robot warriors. Emerging technologies make it possible to conduct “clinical strikes” that limit civilian deaths, and even “remote warfare” that might lead to reductions in combatant casualties. What are the ethics of waging war from a safe distance? Who is responsible for decision-making? Do different rules of autonomy and accountability apply? If so, who is drafting these new rules of armed conflict and how will they be enforced?

Unmanned drones, cruise missiles, automated weapons, even armed robot warriors. Emerging technologies make it possible to conduct “clinical strikes” that limit civilian deaths, and even “remote warfare” that might lead to reductions in combatant casualties. What are the ethics of waging war from a safe distance? Who is responsible for decision-making? Do different rules of autonomy and accountability apply? If so, who is drafting these new rules of armed conflict and how will they be enforced?

Unmanned drones, cruise missiles, automated weapons, even armed robot warriors. Emerging technologies make it possible to conduct “clinical strikes” that limit civilian deaths, and even “remote warfare” that might lead to reductions in combatant casualties. What are the ethics of waging war from a safe distance? Who is responsible for decision-making? Do different rules of autonomy and accountability apply? If so, who is drafting these new rules of armed conflict and how will they be enforced?

Legal Responsibility of Businesses for Violations of International Human Rights Anita Ramasastry is the UW Law Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Washington. She teaches and researches in the areas of business and human rights, commercial law and law and development. Her current research focuses on the accountability of the private sector in conflict and weak governance zones, and also how successor regimes may deal with corrupt transactions negotiated by prior governments. From 2009 to 2012 she served as a Senior Advisor in the Obama Administration and worked in in US Department of Commerce – International Trade Administration. Her work for Comemrce focused on anti corruption in international trade as well as business and human rights. She supervised trade strategies for 6 emerging mrkets - Colombia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Turkey, South Africa and Saudia Arabia. She recently published a major report on Human Rights Due Diligence: The Role of States – co authored with Professor Oliver de Schutter and Mark Taylor, which was launched at the first annual UN Forum on Business and Human Rights in December.

Over the past decade, the human rights movement has become almost synonymous with the fight against impunity. Increasingly, to be for human rights means to favor criminal accountability for those individuals who have violated international human rights or humanitarian law. It also means to be against amnesty for those who have violated such law. The anti-impunity focus of the human rights movement has affected not only the direction of human rights discourse and jurisprudence, but that of international law more generally and of NGO funding and activity.

Barry Baker - Director of Canyonlands Research Center, The Nature Conservancy

"Sustainable Development: Financing Renewable Energy and Low-Carbon Growth" Presentation by Tariq Banuri for the Global Justice Center's International Law Colloquium

Victims of Enviromental and Other Crimes

Woody Tasch is Founder and Chairman of Slow Money, a 501(c)3 non-profit formed in 2008 to catalyze the flow of investment capital to small food enterprises and to promote new principles of fiduciary responsibility to support sustainable agriculture and the emergence of a restorative economy. Tasch is Chairman Emeritus of Investors' Circle, a nonprofit network of investors that has facilitated the flow of $150 million to 230 sustainability minded, early stage companies and venture funds. For most of the 1990’s Woody was Treasurer of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, where he pioneered mission related investing. He is an experienced venture-capital investor and entrepreneur, he has served on numerous for-profit and non-profit boards, and was founding chairman of the Community Development Venture Capital Alliance, which supports venture investing in economically disadvantaged regions. In 2010, Utne Reader named Woody one of “25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.” Woody's book "Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money" is published by Chelsea Green and now available in paperback.

The 47th Annual Leary Lecture, “The New Reproductive Battlefront: Law, Medicine and the Cultural Politics of Pregnancy"

Tony Arnold is the Boehl Chair in Property and Land Use, Professor of Law, and Affiliated Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Louisville. An internationally recognized interdisciplinary scholar in the environmental regulation of land use, water, and property.

Juan Palma is the Utah State Director for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). He provides leadership for the 23 million acres of BLM in Utah. Prior to his appointment to Utah he was the State Director for the BLM’s Eastern States. Under his guidance and leadership, the BLM’s mission and vision were carried out in 31 states east of and bordering the Mississippi River.

11.0 CLE credit hours total

Presentation given as part of the Wallace Stegner Center 17th Annual Symposium, Silent Spring at 50: The Legacy of Rachel Carson. Featuring Jay Vroom, President and CEO, CropLife America.

11.0 CLE credit hours total

Presentation given by Anya Plutynski as part of the Wallace Stegner Center 17th Annual Symposium, Silent Spring at 50: The Legacy of Rachel Carson.

11.0 CLE credit hours total

Presentation given by Naomi Oreskes as part of the Wallace Stegner Center 17th Annual Symposium, Silent Spring at 50: The Legacy of Rachel Carson.

11.0 CLE credit hours total

Panel discussion of Rachel Carson's influence. Part of the Wallace Stegner Center 17th Annual Symposium, Silent Spring at 50: The Legacy of Rachel Carson.

11.0 CLE credit hours total

Presentation given by Terrence Collins as part of the Wallace Stegner Center 17th Annual Symposium, Silent Spring at 50: The Legacy of Rachel Carson.

11.0 CLE credit hours total

Presentation given by Wendy Wagner as part of the Wallace Stegner Center 17th Annual Symposium, Silent Spring at 50: The Legacy of Rachel Carson.

11.0 CLE credit hours total

Presentation given by Paul Holthus, founding Executive Director, World Ocean Council, as part of the Wallace Stegner Center 17th Annual Symposium, Silent Spring at 50: The Legacy of Rachel Carson.

11.0 CLE credit hours total

Presentation given by Robin Craig as part of the Wallace Stegner Center 17th Annual Symposium, Silent Spring at 50: The Legacy of Rachel Carson.

1 CLE credit hour

Philip Landigran: The Impact of the Environment on Human Health: The Special Vulnerability of Children. Delivered March 8, 2012.

11.0 CLE credit hours total

Presentation given by Wendy Wagner as part of the Wallace Stegner Center 17th Annual Symposium, Silent Spring at 50: The Legacy of Rachel Carson.

11.0 CLE credit hours total

Presentation given by Mark Lytle as part of the Wallace Stegner Center 17th Annual Symposium, Silent Spring at 50: The Legacy of Rachel Carson.