Conference to explore intersection of public health and environmental law

Writer: Stephanie E. Ackerstein, (706) 542-5172, lawprstu@uga.edu Contact: Suzanne T. Lewis, stim@uga.edu Athens, Ga. – The University of Georgia School of Law’s 26th Annual Red Clay Conference, titled “Healthy Planet, Healthy People: Conversations from Environmental Law and Public Health Perspectives,” will address the intersection of public health and environmental law. Starting at 9:30 a.m. on Feb. 28, this daylong symposium will take place in the Larry Walker Room of Dean Rusk Hall on North Campus. Rena Steinzor, a professor at the University of Maryland School of Law, will deliver the keynote address at 2:30 p.m. Steinzor has written extensively on the efforts to reinvent environmental regulation in the United States, the use and misuse of science in environmental policy and the devolution of legal and administrative authority to the states. She also serves as the president of the Center for Progressive Reform, which is comprised of scholars from across the country who are dedicated to preserving the fundamental value of the life and health of human beings and the natural environment. There will be four panel sessions covering topics such as urban design, agricultural policy, water quality, and litigation and regulation. Panelists for these sessions will include: General Counsel and Vice President for Atlanta BeltLine, Patrise Perkins-Hooker; Agriculture Practice Group Leader at the law firm Hall Booth Smith, Joel McKie; General Counsel for the Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, Juliet Cohen; and Executive Director of GreenLaw, Stephanie Stuckey Benfield; among others. This event is free for members of the UGA community. The conference will offer five CLE credits for attorneys for $45. All other registrants will be charged $10. For more information or to register for the event, please visit http://www.law.uga.edu/red-clay-conference or contact Suzanne T. Lewis at stim@uga.edu. Sponsored by the law school\u27s Environmental Law Association, the Red Clay Conference was established to increase public awareness of environmental issues of regional, national and international significance through a series of educational presentations and open forum discussions. UGA School of Law Consistently regarded as one of the nation’s top public law schools, the School of Law at the University of Georgia was established in 1859. With an accomplished faculty, which includes authors of some of the country’s leading legal scholarship, Georgia Law offers two degrees—the Juris Doctor and Master of Laws in U.S. Law—and is home to the renowned Dean Rusk Center for International Law and Policy. The school counts six U.S. Supreme Court judicial clerks in the last nine years among its distinguished alumni body of more than 9,700. For more information, please see www.law.uga.edu. #