Environmental Litigation in 2050

​PANEL DESCRIPTION

​The speaker will argue that in the face of the dark forces that threaten us and our environment, we must not passively and naively ask for "hope." Rather, each individual must engage in courageous and creative litigation and other advocacy as the most satisfying way to live. Examples from around the world and US will illustrate this.

​Moderated by Anna Catherine Nussbaum. Followed by brief closing remarks from Billy Hennessy.

​JOHN BONINE, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON

​John Bonine is one of the pioneers of environmental law in the United States and a professor in Oregon's LL.M. program. He was a Legislative Assistant in the U.S. Senate in 1972 and then moved to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He rose to the supervisory position of Associate General Counsel before joining the University of Oregon in 1978. While at Oregon, he has created or co-founded numerous institutions: the world's first environmental law clinic (now the Western Environmental Law Center); the Public Interest Environmental Law Conferences; the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide; a domestic network of public interest environmental lawyers in the United States; a discussion network of environmental law professors (ENVLAWPROFESSORS); and the Oregon-Lviv University Partnership. 

​He is co-author of two textbooks, The Law of Environmental Protection and Human Rights and the Environment. In recent years, his scholarship has focused particularly on public participation and access to justice in environmental decision-making. Before his recent retirement, he taught Administrative Law, Comparative Environmental Law, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, and the LL.M. Seminar. He is a member of the Commission on Environmental Law of the World Conservation Union and an elected member of the International Council of Environmental Lawyers.