Teaching Climate Law blog

2009-08-20 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
for notification of new postings. wil Dr. Wil Burns Class of 1946 Visiting Professor Center for Environmental Studies Williams College Harper House #12 54 Stetson Ct. Williamstown, MA 01267 Ph: 413.597.3391 Mobile: 650.281.9126 william.c.bu...@williams.edu SSRN site: http://ssrn.com/author

RE: examination copies for Global Environmental Politics, 5th edition

2009-08-05 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
Please, Pam. I'm probably teaching GEP in the spring. I hope your summer has been grand so far! wil Dr. Wil Burns Class of 1946 Visiting Professor Center for Environmental Studies Williams College Harper House #12 54 Stetson Ct. Williamstown, MA 01267 Ph: 413.652.0812 william.c.bu

New Book on Climate Change Litigation

2009-07-15 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
, because the holidays are just around the corner J wil Dr. Wil Burns Class of 1946 Visiting Professor Center for Environmental Studies Williams College Harper House #12 54 Stetson Ct. Williamstown, MA 01267 Ph: 413.652.0812 william.c.bu...@williams.edu SSRN site: http://ssrn.com

FYI, new book on Climate Change Litigation

2009-07-15 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
, because the holidays are just around the corner J wil Dr. Wil Burns Class of 1946 Visiting Professor Center for Environmental Studies Williams College Harper House #12 54 Stetson Ct. Williamstown, MA 01267 Ph: 413.652.0812 william.c.bu...@williams.edu SSRN site: http://ssrn.com

RE: Ongoing issue -- responding to 'skeptics'

2009-07-04 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
and generations to come, may be critical to ultimately changing norms, as was true in the civil rights movement in this country, the battle against apartheid, etc. I've reached a point where I'm running out of ways to frame this issue that might prove effective. wil Dr. Wil Burns Class of 1946 Visiting

RE: Ongoing issue -- responding to 'skeptics'

2009-07-03 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
for some great new suggestions in this context from the list! wil Dr. Wil Burns Class of 1946 Visiting Professor Center for Environmental Studies Williams College 11 Harper House, Room 12 54 Stetson Ct. Williamstown, MA 01267 william.c.bu...@williams.edu Williams Purple Cow From

RE: FW: FW: Ongoing issue -- responding to 'skeptics'

2009-07-03 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
Dr. Wil Burns Class of 1946 Visiting Professor Center for Environmental Studies Williams College 11 Harper House, Room 12 54 Stetson Ct. Williamstown, MA 01267 william.c.bu...@williams.edu Williams Purple Cow From: owner-gep...@listserve1.allegheny.edu [mailto:owner-gep

RE: FW: FW: Ongoing issue -- responding to 'skeptics'

2009-07-03 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
to be confronted directly, because otherwise it's really hard to re-frame the issues. Whether we like it or not, climate policy is decided in democratic forums, and if we lose the debates on science, we lose the critical public support that moves us forward. wil Dr. Wil Burns Class of 1946 Visiting Professor

FW: Governance of Clean Development Visiting Fellowship - Call for Applications

2009-07-02 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
FYI. wil Dr. Wil Burns Class of 1946 Visiting Professor Center for Environmental Studies Williams College 11 Harper House, Room 12 54 Stetson Ct. Williamstown, MA 01752 william.c.bu...@williams.edu From: bounce-901459-352...@lists.iisd.ca [mailto:bounce-901459-352

Oops, Skeptics continued

2009-07-02 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
of data, but that's disingenuous. One could cherry pick data, for example, to show sea level rising 3x the time series-smoothed average over the course of the past three decades, but that would be quack science also. wil Dr. Wil Burns Class of 1946 Visiting Professor Center for Environmental Studies

Teaching Climate Change blog launched

2009-06-26 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
message alerts on the website. Also, we invite contributions to the site (I can sign you up as a contributor to facilitate access). Thanks, wil Dr. Wil Burns, Editor in Chief Journal of International Wildlife Law Policy 1702 Arlington Blvd. El Cerrito, CA 94530 USA Ph: 650.281.9126

FW: Invitation to contribute to Viewpoints - NRF, A United Nations Sustainable Development Journal

2009-06-24 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
FYI. wil Dr. Wil Burns, Editor in Chief Journal of International Wildlife Law Policy 1702 Arlington Blvd. El Cerrito, CA 94530 USA Ph: 650.281.9126 Fax: 510.779.5361 ji...@internationalwildlifelaw.org http://www.jiwlp.com SSRN site: http://ssrn.com/author=240348 Skype ID: Wil.Burns

FW: [Policy] MCBI Policy Internship

2009-06-15 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
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FW: fully funded fellowships - United Nations-Nippon Fellowship Programme

2009-06-07 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
FYI. wil Dr. Wil Burns, Editor in Chief Journal of International Wildlife Law Policy 1702 Arlington Blvd. El Cerrito, CA 94530 USA Ph: 650.281.9126 Fax: 510.779.5361 ji...@internationalwildlifelaw.org http://www.jiwlp.com SSRN site: http://ssrn.com/author=240348 Skype ID: Wil.Burns United

FW: IISD's Global Search for President Chief Executive Officer

2009-06-06 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
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FW: World Environment Day 2009 | Media Watch on Climate Change

2009-06-05 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
FYI. wil Dr. Wil Burns, Editor in Chief Journal of International Wildlife Law Policy 1702 Arlington Blvd. El Cerrito, CA 94530 USA Ph:   650.281.9126 Fax: 510.779.5361 ji...@internationalwildlifelaw.org http://www.jiwlp.com SSRN site: http://ssrn.com/author=240348 Skype ID: Wil.Burns

RE: india's election and climate change negotiations

2009-05-21 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
the election either. Younger members of the UPA, e.g. Gandhi and Dixit, are pretty progressive on climate, but it's all relative. I don’t' see them advocating anything more than the vague commitment that we're likely to see at Copenhagen to take action to address GHG emissions. Dr. Wil Burns, Editor

FW: Access WTO Case Law articles now via the World Trade Review

2009-04-30 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
FYI. For those of you who teach the interface of environmental law/trade, the piece below on the Biotech Products case is quite good. Wil Dr. Wil Burns, Editor in Chief Journal of International Wildlife Law Policy 1702 Arlington Blvd. El Cerrito, CA 94530 USA Ph: 650.281.9126 Fax

Suggestions for texts

2009-04-16 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
I may be teaching a domestic environmental law course for undergraduates next year and would appreciate suggestions of potential texts to use. Thanks, wil Dr. Wil Burns, Editor in Chief Journal of International Wildlife Law Policy 1702 Arlington Blvd. El Cerrito, CA 94530 USA Ph

FW: U.S. Public opinion on CC

2009-03-25 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
For those who haven't seen it, pretty disconcerting new Gallup poll on climate change. 41% of the public now think that the media is exaggerating on the climate change issue, and level of concern over the issue has also declined in the past few years. wil

FW: United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights analytical study on climate change and human rights is now available

2009-03-24 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
FYI. wil Dr. Wil Burns, Editor in Chief Journal of International Wildlife Law Policy 1702 Arlington Blvd. El Cerrito, CA 94530 USA Ph: 650.281.9126 Fax: 510.779.5361 mailto:ji...@internationalwildlifelaw.org ji...@internationalwildlifelaw.org http://www.jiwlp.com/ http

U.S. Public Opinion on CC

2009-03-23 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/2009/03/gallup-poll-more-americans/ Dr. Wil Burns, Editor in Chief Journal of International Wildlife Law Policy 1702 Arlington Blvd. El Cerrito, CA 94530 USA Ph: 650.281.9126 Fax: 510.779.5361 mailto:ji...@internationalwildlifelaw.org ji

RE: undergrad journals

2009-03-18 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
to the effect that undergraduate submissions are encouraged. Of course, the scope of the journals suggested in the past few days are broader than environmental topics. Wil P.S. We invite suggestions of other journals to include in the database. Dr. Wil Burns, Editor in Chief Journal

Call for Panels: ILA Law Weekend

2009-03-14 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
International Law Weekend 2009: Call for Panel Proposals On October 22-24, 2009, the American Branch of the International Law Association will hold its annual International Law Weekend in New York, bringing together hundreds of practitioners, members of the governmental and non-governmental

RE: enviro news services?

2009-03-12 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
One of the best services for climate change policy is Carbon Positive News: http://www.carbonpositive.net/ Dr. Wil Burns, Editor in Chief Journal of International Wildlife Law Policy 1702 Arlington Blvd. El Cerrito, CA 94530 USA Ph:   650.281.9126 Fax: 510.779.5361 ji

RE: suggestions for text for climate policy and responses class

2009-02-19 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
a repository of about 700 such documents with a key that you could look at that tells you the topic of each document. Let me know if you want to see it and I'll then email you any of the documents that you want. wil Dr. Wil Burns, Editor in Chief Journal of International Wildlife Law Policy 1702 Arlington

FW: kind of a job lead...requires flying

2009-02-10 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
FYI. wil Dr. Wil Burns, Editor in Chief Journal of International Wildlife Law Policy 1702 Arlington Blvd. El Cerrito, CA 94530 USA Ph: 650.281.9126 Fax: 510.779.5361 mailto:ji...@internationalwildlifelaw.org ji...@internationalwildlifelaw.org http://www.jiwlp.com/ http

FW: Call for Papers - Clean Tech International Trade

2009-02-10 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
FYI. wil Dr. Wil Burns, Editor in Chief Journal of International Wildlife Law Policy 1702 Arlington Blvd. El Cerrito, CA 94530 USA Ph: 650.281.9126 Fax: 510.779.5361 ji...@internationalwildlifelaw.org http://www.jiwlp.com SSRN site: http://ssrn.com/author=240348 Skype ID: Wil.Burns

RE: FW: kind of a job lead...requires flying

2009-02-10 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
about the program, especially the marine and coastal component. wil Dr. Wil Burns, Editor in Chief Journal of International Wildlife Law Policy 1702 Arlington Blvd. El Cerrito, CA 94530 USA Ph: 650.281.9126 Fax: 510.779.5361 mailto:ji...@internationalwildlifelaw.org ji

RE: recycling recession

2009-01-11 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
/greenbuildingnews/news/green_building_reces sion_1202/ wil Dr. Wil Burns Senior Fellow, International Environmental Law Santa Clara University School of Law 500 El Camino Real, Loyola 101 Santa Clara, CA 95053 USA Phone: 408.551.3000 x6139 Mobile: 650.281.9126 Fax: 408.554.2745

FW: [bioplan] A drop in the Ocean?

2009-01-07 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
FYI for those that address oceans issues, some nice new summary pieces by the Economist in a special section this week. See links below. wil Dr. Wil Burns, Editor in Chief Journal of International Wildlife Law Policy 1702 Arlington Blvd. El Cerrito, CA 94530 USA Ph:   650.281.9126 Fax

FW: envlawprofessors: teaching and youtube's greatest environmental law hits

2009-01-06 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
This sounds like a good idea. If you share your ideas off list with me, I'll transmit them to both this list and the Environmental Law Professors list. Happy New Year to everyone! wil Dr. Wil Burns, Editor in Chief Journal of International Wildlife Law Policy 1702 Arlington Blvd. El Cerrito, CA

RE: need suggestions for MA programs

2008-12-18 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
Jonathan, I forgot to add that the University of London also has an external program in Environmental Management: http://www.londonexternal.ac.uk/prospective_students/listing/index.shtml wil Dr. Wil Burns, Editor in Chief Journal of International Wildlife Law Policy 1702 Arlington Blvd. El

Climate Change Law Syllabi

2008-12-10 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
contributions. If you do, please send them to me for posting. We'll soon also start posting climate change simulations that can be used in classes, so please send those along also. Thanks, wil Dr. Wil Burns, Editor in Chief Journal of International Wildlife Law Policy 1702

FW: [ECOLOG-L] VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

2008-12-09 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
FYI. wil -Original Message- From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Heather Leslie Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 6:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ECOLOG-L] VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES VISITING

Mellon Fellowship

2008-12-08 Thread Dr. Wil Burns
FYI. Wil Dr. Wil Burns, Editor in Chief Journal of International Wildlife Law Policy 1702 Arlington Blvd. El Cerrito, CA 94530 USA Ph: 650.281.9126 Fax: 510.779.5361 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jiwlp.com/ http://www.jiwlp.com SSRN site: http://ssrn.com