The CLSR Environmental Advocacy Project

The EAP brings together law professors, students, and other members of the environmental community to study, aid and promote environmental causes. While EAP projects vary as widely as the interests of the students who develop them, a primary focus of our work is environmental advocacy in the New England States.

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2007 Report of Activities

Environmental Advocacy Project director Professor Manus was on sabbatical during the 2006-2007 academic year, researching and writing in the area of indigenous peoples' environmental rights. By partnering with the law school's very active student-run Environmental Law Society, the EAP still managed to host a number of events. These included:

A screening of An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore's documentary on global warming, followed by commentary and a group discussion led by Anne Weeks, Esquire, Litigation Director, The Clean Air Task Force; James W. Hunt III, Chief of Environmental and Energy Services, City of Boston; and Dr. David Cash, Assistant Secretary for Policy, Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs.

A discussion of the landmark environmental decision Massachusetts v. EPA, led by Massachusetts Assistant Attorney General James Milkey, who argued the case before the U.S. Supreme Court.

A discussion of the Massachusetts Superior Court decision Ten Residents of Boston v. Boston Redevelopment Authority, led by Douglas H. Wilkins, Esquire, of Anderson & Kreiger, LLP, and Eugene B. Benson, Esquire, Legal Counsel and Program Director for Alternatives for Community and Environment. The Ten Residents decision found inadequate the Environmental Impact Report developed in connection with the BioSquare Research Park project, a plan to site a high-security medical research laboratory in a densely populated Boston neighborhood.

A screening of Who Killed the Electric Car?, followed by commentary and a panel discussion led by Dr. Chella Rajan, Senior Fellow, Tellus Institute; Jeff Rosenblum, Founder and Executive Director of LiveableStreets Alliance; Professor Elizabeth K. Spahn, New England School of Law; and Ian J. Finlayson, State Sustainability Program Manager, Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs.

Professor Manus also participated in the Environmental Law Society event Careers in Environmental Law, a panel of New England School of Law alumni who have taken diverse career paths in the environmental field. Moderated by 2007-08 Center Fellow Sidra Vitale, the panel included Antigone Simmons, Esquire, of the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation; Lieutenant Commander Russell Bowman, Assistant District Legal Officer, United States Coast Guard, and Brian Glascock, Esquire, Director, City of Boston Environment Department.