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SUMMARY:State Electricity Regulation in the Shadow of Hughes and EPSA
DESCRIPTION:1.5 CLE credits in the Areas of Professional Practice category. The credit was both transitional and non-transitional.  \nLast year\, the Supreme Court handed down two major opinions – Electric Power Supply Association v. FERC\, and Hughes v. Talen Energy Marketing – that provided new guidance on the contours of Federal Power Act and the boundaries of state versus federal authority over the electricity sector. On November 14th\, the Guarini Center held a discussion with leading experts to examine the implications of these decisions for innovative state electricity policies such as New York’s Clean Energy Standard and REV. \nThis event was produced in collaboration with Latham & Watkins LLP. \nSpeakers: \n\nMichael Gergen (’92)\, Partner\, Latham & Watkins LLP\nRichard B. Miller (’87)\, Assistant General Counsel in the Regulatory Services Department\, Con Edison\nDavid L. Schwartz\, Partner\, Latham & Watkins LLP\nAbraham Silverman\, Chief Regulatory Counsel for NRG Energy\, Inc.\nEleanor Stein\, Adjunct Professor\, Albany Law School; Expert\, America’s Power Plan\n\n \nMichael Gergen a partner in Latham & Watkins LLP’s Washington\, D.C. office\, is a member of the Energy Regulatory and Markets Practice as well as the Project Finance Practice. \nMr. Gergen has extensive experience developing practical applications of economics\, finance and regulatory law to assist clients involved in the electric\, natural gas and other network industries in the United States and internationally. Mr. Gergen represents entities involved in electric generation\, transmission and distribution\, natural gas transportation\, storage and distribution\, electric and natural gas marketing and trading\, and finance\, as well as international governments and financial institutions. Mr. Gergen also assists clients regarding federal and state financing support and incentive programs for clean energy technologies\, products and services. \nMr. Gergen has assisted clients on a wide range of transactional\, controversy\, policy and legislative matters and has represented clients both in commercial negotiations and before various federal and state regulatory agencies\, including the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and various state public utility commissions\, and numerous federal and state courts and arbitral bodies. Mr. Gergen also has served as an economist for an investor-owned public utility\, as well as an economic consultant for a state energy commission. \nMr. Gergen is listed as a leading energy attorney in Who’s Who Legal and in Chambers USA\, which describes him as having “developed a positive reputation in the industry as ‘a quick\, clever and creative lawyer.’” He has given a variety of speeches on energy regulatory and policy matters. He is a member of the Federal Energy Bar Association and the American Bar Association. Mr. Gergen was selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2012 as a recommended attorney in Energy Law. Mr. Gergen is an Adjunct Professor of Law and is a member of the Board of Advisors for the Institute for Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law. \n \nRichard Miller has held a variety of positions at Con Edison since 1998 overseeing legal and policy issues concerning wholesale electric markets\, demand response\, energy efficiency and electric and gas operations.  He is currently an assistant general counsel in the regulatory services department.  From 1998-2003\,  he was Senior Vice-President for Energy at the New York City Economic Development Corporation (where he oversaw City energy policy). Prior to 1998\, he was an energy regulatory attorney for Cohen and Dax in Albany\, New York\, and a litigation associate at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City.  He has written articles on law and energy policy that have been published in the Energy Law Journal and Public Utilities Fortnightly and is a former President of Northeast Energy Bar Association.  He is a graduate of Amherst College and New York University School of Law. On a personal note\, he lives in New York City and uses a bicycle as his primary form of transportation\, bicycling approximately 5000 miles annually. \n \nDavid Schwartz is a partner in the Finance Department of Latham & Watkins LLP’s Washington\, D.C. office. He serves as global Chair of the Energy Regulatory and Markets Practice\, is a member of the Project Finance Group\, and is Co-chair of the firm’s Global Energy – Power Industry Group. He has extensive experience representing entities involved in electric generation\, transmission and distribution\, electric and gas marketing and trading\, and gas transportation and distribution. \nMr. Schwartz has been active in the formation of the developing electricity markets in the United States; led transactional and regulatory teams in mergers and acquisitions and divestitures of energy companies and assets; litigated contract\, rate and transmission access disputes; and drafted federal and state energy legislation. He also has extensive experience in negotiating power purchase and sale agreements\, electric transmission agreements\, natural gas transportation agreements\, energy management agreements\, and electric and gas interconnection agreements. \nMr. Schwartz regularly advises clients on energy matters before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)\, various state public utility commissions\, the US Department of Justice (DOJ)\, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)\, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)\, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Department of Energy (DOE). \nMr. Schwartz is consistently recognized as a top energy attorney in Corporate Counsel Magazine\, Best Lawyers in America\, Who’s Who Legal: Energy\, Chambers USA\, Chambers Global\, and The Legal 500 US\, which recently selected him as a “Leading Lawyer” for his transactional energy practice. \nMr. Schwartz is a member of the American Bar Association and has held leadership positions in the Energy Bar Association. \nAbraham Silverman\, heads the regulatory affairs group and is chief regulatory counsel for NRG Energy\, Inc.\, an independent power producer with over 50 GW of generation nationwide\, and one of the largest solar and wind portfolios in the word. NRG\, through its various retail affiliates\, serves over 3 million retail customers in 16 states. Abe counsels the company on regulatory strategy and compliance issues\, and does extensive wholesale and retail market design work in each of the organized markets\, as well as in the non-organized markets. Prior to joining NRG in 2008\, Abe served at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Office of General Counsel for over three years\, and was an associate at the law firm of Perkins Coie\, based in Washington\, DC. Abe graduated from the University of Maryland with a B.S. in Geology and a B.A. in English\, and then received his Juris Doctor from The George Washington University School of Law. \n \nEleanor Stein is a former Administrator Law Judge with the New York Public Service Commission\, and former project manager of its Reforming the Energy Vision initiative. She teaches Law of Climate Change: Domestic & Transnational at Albany Law School and the University at Albany and is now an expert with America’s Power Plan. She served as an Administrative Law Judge at the New York State Public Service Commission from 1994-2014; until November 2015 she was Project Manager for the Commission’s Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) initiative for a more customer-centered\, renewable\, and distributed energy future.  In 2015 she received a Master of Laws degree with distinction in climate change law and policy from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.  She teaches Law of Climate Change: Domestic & Transnational at Albany Law School and the Power Dialog at the University at Albany.  While at the NY PSC\, she presided over or mediated the Renewable Portfolio Standard (2004)\, the Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard (2007) and the Con Edison Resiliency Collaborative (2013-14).  Her areas of interest include public policy dispute resolution\, mobilizing public participation in energy matters\, and climate justice.  She is on the Board of EcoViva\, a US-based project in solidarity with climate adaptation and sustainability in rural El Salvador.  She is an expert with America’s Power Plan.
URL:https://guarinicenter.org/event/state-electricity-regulation-in-the-shadow-of-hughes-and-epsa/
LOCATION:NYU School of Law\, Vanderbilt Hall\, Faculty Library\, 40 Washington Square South\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States
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SUMMARY:Environmental Law in the Trump Administration: Where Do “Greens” Go from Here?
DESCRIPTION:Please join NYU Law’s distinguished environmental law faculty for a discussion on the path forward for environmental law and policy during the Trump Administration. All students and alumni are invited to attend. \nRegister Here \nSpeakers include: \n\nRichard Revesz\, Lawrence King Professor of Law\, Dean Emeritus\, Director\, Institute for Policy Integrity\nBryce Rudyk\, Climate Program Director\, Guarini Center on Environmental\, Energy and Land Use Law\, Adjunct Professor of Law\nRichard Stewart\, University Professor\, John Edward Sexton Professor of Law\, Director\, Frank J. Guarini Center on Environmental\, Energy\, and Land Use Law\nKatrina Wyman\, Sarah Herring Sorin Professor of Law\, Director\, Environmental and Energy Law LLM Program\n\nRichard Revesz is one of the nation’s leading voices in the fields of environmental and regulatory law and policy. His work focuses on the use of cost-benefit analysis in administrative regulation\, federalism and environmental regulation\, design of liability regimes for environmental protection\, and positive political economy analysis of environmental regulation. His book Retaking Rationality: How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health (with Michael Livermore ’06\, 2008) contends that the economic analysis of law can be used to support a more protective approach to environmental and health policy. In 2008\, Revesz co-founded the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law to advocate for regulatory reform before courts\, legislatures\, and agencies\, and to contribute original scholarly research in the environmental and health-and-safety areas. Revesz received a BS summa cum laude from Princeton University\, an MS in civil engineering from MIT\, and a JD from Yale Law School\, where he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. After judicial clerkships with Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the US Supreme Court\, Revesz joined the NYU School of Law faculty in 1985 and served as dean from 2002 to 2013. Revesz is the director of the American Law Institute\, the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify\, modernize\, and otherwise improve the law. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations\, the Administrative Conference of the United States\, and the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. \nBryce Rudyk was the Executive Director at the Center from 2011 to 2014 and is currently the Climate Program Director. He is also an adjunct professor teaching International Environmental Law\, International Environmental Law Clinic\, and Global Environmental Governance. For 2014-2016\, he is a Senior Legal Advisor to the Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) in the United Nations Climate Change Negotiations. AOSIS is the negotiating group of the 44 small island developing states around the world. \nHe has been at the Center since 2009\, initially as a Research Fellow and then Director of the Climate Finance Project. His research focuses on the global institutional structure for climate finance and alternative transnational institutions for global climate action. He has an LLM in International Law from NYU Law\, a JD from the University of Toronto\, and a BSc in Biology from McMaster University. He practiced private international law and was a lobbyist for higher education before moving to international environmental law. \nRichard Stewart is recognized as one of the world’s leading scholars in environmental and administrative law. His current research projects include “megaregional” international agreements on regulation\, trade\, and investment; using law to reform and secure justice in global governance; private and hybrid global regulation; innovative institutional strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; and solving the challenge of nuclear waste. Stewart also works on global climate law initiatives and environmental law reform projects in developing countries through the International Environmental Law Clinic and the Guarini Center on Environmental\, Energy\, and Land Use Law. Students are closely involved in these projects. He is launching a new course on Food Law and Policy. \nBefore joining the faculty\, Stewart served as Byrne Professor of Administrative Law at Harvard Law School and as a member of the faculty of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He has served as assistant attorney general in charge of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the US Department of Justice and chairman of the Environmental Defense Fund. Stewart directs\, with NYU School of Law Professor Benedict Kingsbury\, a major project on global administrative law that examines and advances mechanisms of transparency\, participation\, reason giving\, and review to meet accountability gaps in global regulatory institutions. He recently published a major book on US nuclear waste law regulation and policy. Stewart serves as Advisory Trustee of the Environmental Defense Fund. \nKatrina Wyman Born and raised in Canada\, Katrina Wyman has a BA\, MA\, and LLB from the University of Toronto and an LLM from Yale Law School. Before joining NYU School of Law in 2002\, she was a research fellow at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 2001-02. Wyman’s research interests relate primarily to property and natural resources law and policy. She has undertaken case studies of the evolution of emissions trading\, and property rights in fisheries and taxi licenses. She also has worked on the Endangered Species Act and the policy and legal responses to the possibility that climate change might prompt large-scale human migration.
URL:https://guarinicenter.org/event/environmental-law-in-the-trump-administration-where-do-greens-go-from-here/
LOCATION:NYU School of Law\, Vanderbilt Hall\, Room 212\, 40 Washington Square South\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States
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