UPCOMING Events for 2011 - 2012
  • PUB QUIZ AT BARNEY'S BEANERY with ELS & JELP!
  • Wednesday, April 4, at 8:30 (quiz starts at 9:00). PLEASE RSVP to els@lawnet.ucla.edu if you plan to attend!
  • BEACH VOLLEYBALL: Join us on Saturday, April 7, for a morning volleyball sesh at Annenberg Beach House.
  • We might even take the opportunity to clean up the environment a little if there's trash to be picked up! Meet there at 11 a.m. Parking is $3/hour (or $7 for the day), so help each other out by carpooling.
  • YOGA IN THE COURTYARD!
     A flow for all levels. 5pm    on 4/11/12.
  • HAPPY HOUR MIXER! Us + alumni.
  • April 12, 6-9pm, at the Napa Valley Grille. PLEASE RSVP to els@lawnet.ucla.edu!

Have an idea for an ELS event or activity?  email us.

 



ELS hosts and attends a wide variety of events from speakers to field trips to competitions.  Below is a sampling of past and annual ELS events.

Annual Competitions/Symposiums

•California State Bar Environmental Law Conference, Yosemite (Oct)
•State Bar Environmental Negotiations Competition (Mar)
• Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (Feb)
•Pace Environmental Moot Court Competition (Jan)
•LACBA Environmental Law Section's Fall & Spring Symposiums

Speakers/Conferences

•Screening of ACID TEST with discussion lead by Cara Horowitz, Dir. of the Emmett Ctr
•Jingjing Zhang, Deputy Director of the Public Interest Law Institute, China Program
•Federal Climate Change Legislation Update by Tom Mounteer, partner at Paul Hastings
•Creating Security & Prosperity for the 21st Century, Public forum on climate change legislation with Rep. Henry Waxman, Sen. Fran Pavley
•2009 Working Conference on Nanotech Regulatory Policy
•LA's New Low Carbon Diet: What AB 32 Means For Los Angeles
•Lunch with Jeff Prieto, U.S. Dept of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division
•Implementing California's New Anti-Sprawl Law - SB 375 Workshop
•Assemblywoman Fran Pavley Gives a Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Politics of California’s Landmark Global Warming Laws
•Jason Burnett, EPA Climate Change Whistleblower "Public Endangerment, Unopened Emails, and the Politics of Federal Climate Policy"
•Ken Alex, Senior Assistant Attorney General for the California Dept of Justice
•Moot Argument for Save Tara, Jan Chatten-Brown
•David Freeman, LA Harbor Commissioner
•Transboundary Environmental Cooperation, with Dr. Peter Gleick, Pres. of Pacific Institute for Studies in Development Environment, and Security 
•US Fish & Wildlife Special Agent, Ed Newcomer
•Chadbourne & Parke LLP, Partners,
Adam Umanoff & Ed Zaelke (UCLA Alum)
•Career Paths in Environmental Law   
•Climate Change Symposium
•Waterkeepers International, President,
Steve Fleischli
•Sierra Club, Director of Environmental Law,
Pat Gallagher

Field Trips/Other

•California Coastal Clean Up Day (yearly)
•Tour of LA Ports
•Surfrider paddle out
•Whale-watching trip
•Tour of local waste facilities
•Channel Islands Kayaking trip
•Tour of NRDC Santa Monica offices, award-winning LEED certified “green” building

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