As wild storms, flooding rivers, rising seas, droughts, heat, and fire jeopardize our communities, how should the legal academy respond? At the 2014 AALS Annual Meeting, speakers from the Section on Environmental Law Field Trip spoke from the trenches about the challenges facing New York and New York City’s monumental effort to plan and build a more resilient city that can withstand the changes to be wrought by climate change. This year, we bring together scholars and clinicians of state and local government law and of environmental law to take the next step: to share perspectives on how governmental institutions at every level can evolve to create effective and equitable responses to the profound challenges posed by climate change adaptation.
Business meeting of Section on Environmental Law at program conclusion.
Business meeting of Section State and Local Government Law at program conclusion.