Richard Lazarus

LAW SCHOOL PRESENTATIONS

  • Yale Law School Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic Conference, Important Questions of Federal Law – Assessing the Supreme Court’s Case Selection Press, held in Washington, D.C. on September 18, 2009
  • Vermont Law School, Faculty Lecture Series, April 2009: Environmental Law in the Roberts Court
  • Tulane Law School, April 2009: Environmental Law Summit: Environmental Law Before the Supreme Court: October Term 2008
  • University of Michigan, March 2009: Environmental Litigation Before the U.S. Supreme Court: A Case Study of the Roberts Court
  • Northwestern University, February 2009: Advocacy Matters: The Emergence of a Modern Supreme Court Bar
  • University of San Diego Climate Change Conference, February 2009: Keynote Address
  • University of Richmond Faculty Lecture, February 2009: The Plain Meaning of Plain Meaning – Entergy v. Riverkeeper
  • Harvard Law School, Faculty Workshop Series, November 2008: Super Wicked Problems and Climate Change
  • Harvard Law School, October 2008: Preview of October Term 2008 – Environmental Law
  • New York University School of Law, March 2008 – Breaking the Logjam Symposium – Ulysses, the Sirens of Politics, and Climate Change
  • Georgetown University Law Center Faculty Retreat (February 2008): The Challenges of Making Climate Change Law
  • Georgetown University Law Center Supreme Court Institute (December 2007): Luncheon Presentation on Impact of Modern Supreme Court Bar on the Supreme Court’s Dockets and Rulings
  • New York University School of Law (December 2007): Remaking Environmental Lawmaking to Address Climate Change
  • Yale Law School (November 2007): Climate Change in Court
  • Yale Law School (November 2007): Impact of Modern Supreme Court Bar on the Supreme Court’s Dockets and Rulings
  • University of South Carolina School of Law (October 2007): Reflections on Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council, Fifteen Years Later
  • University of Illinois (October 2007): Modern Supreme Court Bar and Its Impact on U.S. Supreme Court Docket and Rulings
  • Georgetown University Law Center (September 2007): Supreme Court Institute Annual Press Briefing (Impact on the Court of the Modern Supreme Court Bar)
  • Harvard Law School, Worldwide Alumni Congress (June 2007): Environmental Law in the Supreme Court
  • Harvard Law School, Junior Environmental Law Scholars Workshop (June 13, 2007) (co-sponsored by UCLA and Boalt Law Schools)
  • Georgetown University Law Center Summer Faculty Workshop (June 12, 2007) (talk on impact on Supreme Court of re-emergence of Supreme Court Bar)
  • Georgetown University Law Center Faculty Workshop (June 2007): Supreme Court Advocacy draft article
  • Georgetown University Law Center (Apr. 3, 2007): Global Warming and the Clean Air Act in the Supreme Court: The Massachusetts and Duke Energy Decisions (panel discussion on recent Supreme Court environmental decisions)
  • Georgetown University Law Center Environmental Law Society (April 2007): Presentation on Climate Change and Environmental Justice
  • Washington & Lee School of Law (March 2007): The Making of Environmental Law (keynote address on the history of U.S. environmental law)
  • University of Colorado Law School (Mar. 16-17, 2007): The Climate of Environmental Justice: Taking Stock (panel discussion on climate change and environmental justice)
  • George Washington University Law School, 17th Annual National Association of Environmental Law Societies Conference (Mar. 15-18, 2007): The Making of Environmental Law (talk on history of U.S. environmental law)
  • Georgetown University Law Center (Nov. 29, 2006): Global Warming in the Supreme Court: Massachusetts v. EPA (panel discussion following oral arguments in the the Supreme Court)
  • George Washington University School of Law (Sept. 26, 2006): Celebrating United States v. SCRAP (talk on Supreme Court's decisionmaking process within the Court in United States v. SCRAP, 412 U.S. 669 (1973))
  • Georgetown University Law Center (Sept. 25, 2006): Georgetown Law Supreme Court Institute Annual Press Briefing (briefing on forthcoming Supreme Court cases) (transcript available here)
  • William and Mary School of Law (Sept. 16, 2006) (talk on Supreme Court and environmental law)
  • Georgetown University Law Center (June 20, 2006): The Clean Water Act in the Supreme Court: the Rapanos and Carabell Decisions (panel discussion on recent Supreme Court decisions)
  • Columbia University Law School (Apr. 5, 2006) (talk on Commerce Clause and the Supreme Court)
  • University of Michigan School of Law (Mar. 2006): The Making of Environmental Law (talk on the history of U.S. environmental law)
  • Harvard Law School (Mar. 2006): The Clean Water Act, Environmental Federalism and the Roberts Court (talk on the Commerce Clause and the Clean Water Act)
  • Yale Law School (Nov. 2005): Crystals and Mud in Nature (talk at conference celebrating scholarship of Prof. Carol Rose)
  • Harvard Law School (Oct. 2005): Whither Takings (talk on the evolution of regulatory takings law in the U.S. Supreme Court)
  • University of Virginia School of Law (Oct. 2005): Human Nature, the Laws of Nature, and the Nature of Environmental Law (talk on theoretical and practical challenges of environmental lawmaking) (Powerpoint presentation available here )
  • Georgetown University Law School (Sept. 19, 2005): Supreme Court Institute Press Briefing Fall 2005 (briefing on forthcoming Supreme Court cases) (transcript available here)
  • William and Mary School of Law, 18th Annual Supreme Court Review and Preview (Sept. 2005): Confirmation Politics (talk on the confirmation of Chief Justice John Roberts); Business Cases before the Supreme Court (talk on some of the antitrust cases before the Supreme Court)
  • Georgetown University Law Center Faculty Workshop (June 2005): Environmental Law in the U.S. Supreme Court and the Papers of Justice Harry Blackmun
  • Duke University School of Law (Mar. 9, 2005): The Making of Environmental Law (talk on the history of U.S. environmental law)
  • Georgetown University Law Center (July 1, 2004): The Supreme Court's Environmental Decisions from the 2003-2004 Docket (panel discussion)

NON-LAW SCHOOL PRESENTATIONS

  • First World Congress of Environmental History, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 7, 2009: The National Environmental Policy Act before the United States Supreme Court: A Reappraisal and a Peek Behind the Curtains
  • Environmental Law Institute, Los Angeles, California, January 2009, Review of Environmental Law before the Roberts Court: The First Four Terms
  • Sheriff’s Meadow Annual Dinner, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, July 2008: The Future of Environmental Law
  • Coke Inn of Court, Washington D.C., March 2008, The Emergence of a Modern Supreme Court Bar
  • American Law Institute / American Bar Association Annual Environmental Law Meeting, Washington, D.C., February 2008, Environmental Law in the Supreme Court – October Term 2007
  • Woodrow Wilson Center (January 15, 2008) (Book Discussion – Harry A. Blackmun: The Outsider Justice)
  • Smithsonian Institution (November 2007) (Supreme Court October Term 2007)
  • Analysis Group, Boston MA (November 2007) (Emergence of Modern Court Bar and its Impact on the US Supreme Court)
  • Environmental Law Institute (October 23, 2007) (Review of Supreme Court October Term 2006 and Preview October Term 2007) (with E. Donald Elliott)
  • Maryland Attorney General Annual Meeting (October 2007) (keynote address on role of States in environmental law)
  • Street Law High School Teacher Program (June 2007) (Decisionmaking with the Supreme Court)
  • The Clean Energy Group (June 2007) (Clean Air Act in the Supreme Court)
  • Harvard Law School Worldwide Alumni Congress (June 15, 2007) (talk on Supreme Court and Environmental Law)
  • National Association of Attorneys General - Annual Meeting of Chiefs of Environmental Offices (May 17, 2007) (Recent Supreme Court Clean Air Act decisions before the Roberts Court)
  • American Law Institute / American Bar Association - Course in International Environmental Law (Apr. 12, 2007) (Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts v. EPA)
  • American Law Institute / American Bar Association - Annual Course in Environmental Law (Feb. 9, 2007) (Environmental Law in the Supreme Court)
  • National Annual Meeting of Federalist Society (Nov. 16, 2006) (Climate Change in the Courts)
  • American Farm Bureau Federation (Sept. 18, 2006) (Supreme Court Advocacy and Environmental Law before the Court)
  • National Association of Attorneys General (Apr. 24, 2006) (The Supreme Court and environmental law before the Roberts Court)
  • American Law Institute / American Bar Association (Feb. 2006): The Making of Environmental Law (talk on the history of U.S. environmental law); Environmental Law in the Supreme Court (talk on the environmental law cases currently before the U.S. Supreme Court)
  • Marbury Institute (Jan. 2006): Confirmation Mess or Intelligent Design (talk on the Confirmation of Chief Justice John Roberts and the Nomination of then-Judge Samuel Alito)
  • Annual Meeting of the California Environmental Bar (Oct. 2005): The Making of Environmental Law (talk on the history of U.S. environmental law); Environmental Law in the Supreme Court and the Ninth Circuit (talk on the environmental law cases recently decided and currently before the U.S. Supreme Court and the Ninth Circuit); Teaching Environmental Law (roundtable discussion  on the challenges of teaching environmental law)
  • Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars (Oct. 2005): Review of Joan Biskupic's Book: Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice (talk on new O'Connor biography)
  • Environmental Defense Fund (Sept. 2005) (talk on environmental law, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Roberts Court)
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Sept. 2005): The Making of Environmental Law (talk on the history of U.S. environmental law)
  • Marthas Vineyard Book Festival (Aug. 2005): The Making of Environmental Law (talk on the history of U.S. environmental law)
  • American Constitution Society Supreme Court Review (June 2005): Environmental Law in the U.S. Supreme Court October Term 2004 (transcript available here)
  • Annual Meeting of the National Association of State Attorneys General and Solicitors General (June 2005): Regulatory Takings and Eminent Domain Law in the Supreme Court: October Term 2004
  • Federal Circuit Judicial Conference (June 2005): Regulatory Takings and the Blackmun Papers (talk on the evolution of regulatory takings law in the Supreme Court as highlighted by the papers of Justice Blackmun)
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit: Law Clerk's Roundtable (June 2005): The Making of Environmental Law (talk on the history of U.S. environmental law)
  • Bar of the City of New York (June 2005): The Making of Environmental Law (talk on the history of U.S. environmental law)
  • Resources for the Future (May 2005): The Making of Environmental Law (talk on the history of U.S. environmental law)
  • National Association of Environmental Law Societies (Apr. 2005): The Making of Environmental Law (talk on the history of U.S. environmental law)
  • ABA Annual Winter Environmental Law Meeting (Mar. 2005): The Making of Environmental Law (talk on the history of U.S. environmental law)
  • Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars (Sept. 28, 2004): The Making of Envrionmental Law: Past, Present, and Future (talk on U.S. environmental law)

Many of the above publications may also be accessed through SSRN.