Special Lecture on Climate Change Scheduled for Oct. 16 at the Law School

UPDATE (10/16/08): Lecture Handout: daniel-magraw-minnesota-law-school-speech1

ILS invites law students and faculty to attend Climate Change: Creating a New Global Regime this Thursday, Oct. 16, at 12:15 PM in Room 50. Special guest Daniel Magraw, President of the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) will present this lecture. Should you wish to read more about Mr. Magraw, we have provided additional information below. You may also wish to visit http://www.ciel.org to learn about the organization.

ILS will provide pizza for those in attendance.

This event is made possible in part by funding from the Environmental Law Society and Amnesty International. ILS thanks these organizations for their generous support and contributions.

If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to email us at ILSlaw@umn.edu.

We look forward to seeing you there.

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Daniel B. Magraw, Jr.

President

The Center for International Environmental Law

Daniel Magraw is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL). Located in Washington, DC, CIEL is a public interest law organization founded in 1989 to use principles of ecology and justice to strengthen international environmental law and protect the global environment and human health. In addition to being CIEL’s chief executive officer, he works on various substantive projects, including participating on the National Academy of Sciences Committee analyzing the biological confinement of genetically engineered organisms and the Trade and Environment Advisory Committee to the United States Trade Representative.

From 1992-2001, Mr. Magraw was Director of the International Environmental Law Office at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. During that period, he served on scores of United States delegations to international negotiations and other meetings. He took leave to co-chair a White House assessment of how the United States regulates genetically engineered organisms (5/00-1/01) and to be the Acting Principal Deputy Administrator of the Office of International Activities at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (he was appointed to head that office after its previous officials had been accused of allowing it to become a hostile workplace towards women and minorities, until another person was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to head the office) (1/01-8/01). From 1983-92, he was Professor of International Law at the University of Colorado, where he taught Public International Law, International Environmental Law, International Business Transactions, and International Development Policy and the Law. He was a Visiting Scientist during 1989-90 at the Environmental and Societal Impacts Group of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, in Boulder, Colorado.

Mr. Magraw has a J.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley (1976), where he was Editor-in-Chief of the California Law Review, and a B.A. in Economics (with high honors) from Harvard University (1968). He worked as an economist and business consultant in India with the Peace Corps (1968-72). He practiced international law, constitutional law, and bankruptcy law at Covington & Burling in Washington, DC from 1978-83, during which time he spent six months practicing poverty law at the Neighborhood Legal Services Program. Among other professional activities, he has been Chair of the American Bar Association Section of International Law and Practice, a member of the American Law Institute, a member of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Environmental Law, and a member of the U.S. Department of State’s Study Group on International Business Transactions. He also was the Rapporteur for the American Society of International Law’s Panel on State Responsibility, the Rapporteur on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution for the International Law Association, and on the Roster of Experts of the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations.

Mr. Magraw has lectured in the United States and abroad on a variety of international law topics, ranging from the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice to international environmental law to nuclear war to international business law. He has written articles and books on many international law subjects; his most recent publications include a course book on international environmental law and books on the US-Iran Claims Tribunal, women’s human rights, and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the environment.