LAW: Corporations and Climate Change: The State of Play

Breakfast on campus - 8:30-9am

Opening: Dean Alicia Ouellette: 9-9:15am

Panel 1: ESG and Climate Reporting and Investing - 9:15-10:30am
Moderator: Prof. Melissa Powers - Professor of Law, Lewis & Clark Law School
Panelists:

• Dr. Lisa Benjamin - Associate Professor, Lewis & Clark Law School
• Prof. Cynthia Williams - Professor of Law and Roscoe C. O’Byrne Chair in Law, Maurer School of Law, Indiana University
• Taylor Nchako - Former Climate and Clean Energy Fellow, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
• Dr. Nathan de Arriba-Sellier - Director of the Erasmus Platform for Sustainable Development, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University

Panel 2: Industry and NGO perspectives on disclosure initiatives – 10:30am-11:30am
Moderator: Prof. Cynthia Williams - Professor of Law and Roscoe C. O’Byrne Chair in Law, Maurer School of Law, Indiana University
Panelists:

• Jake Rascoff - Director for Climate Disclosure and Securities Regulation, Ceres
• Cris Banahan – Senior Director, Global Head of Citizenship & Sustainability, TransUnion
• Tony Lim – Senior Counsel, Supply Chain – Global Manufacturing and Sustainability, Nike
• Dominique-Chantale Alepin - Senior Counsel, ESG Compliance, Salesforce

Coffee/Tea break: 11:30-12:00pm

Panel 3: Net Zero Targets, Commitments and Perspectives – 12-1pm
Moderator: Prof. Daniel Rohlf, Professor of Law, Lewis & Clark Law School and Of Counsel, Earthrise Law Center
Panelists:

• Prof. Peter Boyd - Lecturer and Resident Fellow, Yale Center for Business and the Environment, Co-Chair of the Expert Peer Review Group, Race to Zero (Virtual)
• Prof. Tracy Hester - Co-Director Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Law Center and Founding Co-Director, Center for Carbon Management in Energy, Professor of Law, University of Houston
• Prof. Hari Osofsky – Director, Energy Innovation Lab, Director, Rule of Law Global Academic Partnership, Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and Professor of Environmental Policy and Culture (courtesy) at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences (Virtual)
• Lucas Black - Vice President of Climate Finance, WWF

Lunch – 1-2pm

Panel 4: Corporate Climate Litigation – 2-4pm
Moderator: Dr. Lisa Benjamin - Associate Professor, Lewis & Clark Law School
Panelists:

• Prof. Jackie Peel - Director of Melbourne Climate Futures, ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellow, and Professor of Law, University of Melbourne Law School (Virtual)
• Kaia Turowski, PhD in Law Candidate, Grantham Research Institute of Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Sciences
• Prof. Sarah Haan - Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
• Dr. Joana Setzer - Associate Professorial Research Fellow, Grantham Research Institute of Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Sciences (Virtual)
• Dr. Maria Antonia Tigre - Director of Global Climate Change Litigation, Sabin Center, Columbia University (Virtual)

This event has been approved for 4 general CLE credits. Please note that L&C Law can only submit Oregon Bar Numbers. Non-Oregon Bar members will need to apply for CLE credits individually.