IN FAIRNESS TO FUTURE GENERATIONS
16th Annual NAELS Conference
University of Florida Levin College of Law
March 8-12, 2006 in Gainesville, Florida

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. President, Waterkeeper Alliance	Durwood Zaelke Chair, NAELS Board	Dan Worth Executive Director, NAELS

In Conjunction with the 12th Annual University of Florida
Public Interest Environmental Conference

PROGRAM

The NAELS Conference Program is arranged as one track of the 12th Annual PIEC. NAELS students may attend programs from any of the panels. Please note: Separate registration is required if you wish to attend the PIEC Banquet on Friday. The NAELS Banquet is on Saturday.

Wednesday, March 8

• Meet in Hilton lobby to walk across 34th Street to Phillips Center (TBA)
• 8pm (doors open at 7pm) Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. : Phillips Center for the Performing Arts

Thursday, March 9

• 6:30-9:30 PM: Registration & Opening Reception
  Featuring Richard Louv,
  Author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder
  Emerson Alumni HallUniversity Ave at North-South Drive
  • 5:30pm Meet in Hilton lobby to take bus #34 to Emerson Alumni Hall.
  • Bus information: Bus #34 will pick up on 34th Street North at Hull Road at approximately 5:30, 5:50, 6:10. Exit and Return from North/South Drive. Bus will not stop on University Avenue.

Friday, March 10

• 8 AM: Meet in Hilton lobby to take RTS bus # 117 Park N Ride 2 from Hilton parking lot, or Bus 20 or 21 from 34th Street at Hull Road, to Reitz Union.
• 8-8:30 AM: Continental Breakfast & Registration at Reitz Union, Second Floor
• 8:30-10AM: Morning Plenary: Introduction to the Tracks (Auditorium)
  • Jonathan Cannon, Professor and Director, Environmental Law Program
    University of Virginia School of Law
  • Edith Brown-Weiss, Francis Cabell Brown Professor of International Law
    Georgetown Law Center
  • TBA
• 10-10:30: BREAK
• 10:30-12PM: Rhetoric in the Environment: All Hot and Bothered: Global Warming, Endangered Species, & Sustainable Development (Room 282 Lecture Hall)
  • Marcilynn Burke, Professor of Law
    University of Houston Law Center
  • Durwood Zaelke, President and founder of the
    Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development
  • Aimee Christensen, President, Christensen Global Strategies, LLC (invited)
• 12 - 1:30: Lunch (on your own - Food Court available in Reitz Union)
• 1:30 - 3:00 At the Altar of Nature: Religion and Spirituality (Rm 282 Lecture Hall)
  • Bron Taylor, Samuel S. Hill Ethics Professor, University of Florida
  • Shannon Estenoz, Environmental Activist
  • Reverend Jim Wright, Holy Trinity Episcopal, Gainesville
• 3:00 Meet in Conference Registration area on Second Floor of Reitz Union for transportation to UF Levin College of Law via Fraternity Row bus #120 (runs every 6 minutes)
• 3:30-6pm: NAELS: Past, Present & Future (Room 180, College of Law)
  • Dan Worth, Executive Director of NAELS
  • Durwood Zaelke, President of NAELS
• 6-6:30 PIZZA dinner (in UF College of Law Courtyard)
• Return to Hilton via Bus # 34 that picks up behind UF College of Law parking lot on the corner of Village Drive.
• 9:00 Pub Crawl in Gainesville (more details to follow)
  

Saturday, March 11

• 8:30 AM: Take RTS Bus #20 across 34th Street from the Hilton to Reitz Union
• 8:30-9: Continental Breakfast (Reitz Union)
• 9-10:30: Morning Plenary: Persuasive Speaking Workshop/ Grassroots Success Stories (Auditorium - Reitz Union)
• 11-12:30: Killing the Messenger: Science, Politics & Ethics
  • Richard E. Condit, General Counsel, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility
  • Michael Tricarico, Of Counsel, Ogletree Deakins
  • Government Scientist, TBA
• 12:30-1:30 Lunch provided, room TBA
• 1:30-3:30 GRANDE FINALE: Children and the Environment
  • Carol Browner, former EPA Administrator and Chair of the Audubon Society
  • Rena Steinzor, Jacob A. France Research Professor of Law
    Director, Environmental Law Clinic
    University of Maryland School of Law
• 4 - 6: NAELS Business Meeting
• 7-9: Banquet - Harn Museum of Art - Across 34th Street from the Hilton
  • Featuring Pat Parenteau - Director of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic &
    Professor of Law, Vermont Law School

Sunday, March 12:

• Optional Field Trip to Lake Wauberg - UF's nearby recreational lake
  • Includes barbeque, canoeing, and kayaking.
  • Meet in Hilton lobby at TBA
    

Conference participants will also be able to attend panels, workshops, and social functions
with over 200 of the region's leading environmental practitioners as part of the
Levin College of Law's 12th annual Public Interest Environmental Conference (PIEC).

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