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Ron Engel is Keynote Speaker at Conference in New Zealand

April 25th, 2009

Ron at conference_web

Ron Engel, CHN Senior Fellow, was a keynote speaker at a conference celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Center for Environmental Law at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. The Conference was devoted to the subject of “Property Rights and Sustainability: The Evolution of Property Rights to Meet Ecological Challenges” and Ron’s presentation was titled “Property: Faustian Pact or New Covenant with Earth?” Judge Christopher Weeramantry (former Vice President of the International Court of Justice), and Professor Eric Freyfogle (Max L. Rowe Professor of Law, University of Illinois) were fellow keynote speakers.

While in Auckland Engel also taught a course on “Law, ethics and governance for sustainability” in the master’s program of the University of Auckland School of Law, the first course in the program to base a course in international environmental law on ethics. A 600 page casebook of selected readings was prepared for this course, which Engel hopes to make available to other educators.

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CHN Staff Invited to the University of Auckland School of Law for Course and Conference

November 20th, 2008

CHN Senior Fellow Ron Engel has been invited to be a Visiting Professor at the University of Auckland School of Law for the April 2009 intensive course, “Law, Ethics and Governance for Sustainability.” He will lead the course with School of Law Professor and New Zealand Center for Environmental Law (NZCEL) Director, Klaus Bosselmann. Dr. Engel will also be a Keynote Speaker at the NZCEL conference, Property Rights and Sustainability: the evolution of property rights to meet the challenges of sustainability. Other keynote speakers include Judge Christopher Weeramantry (Sri Lanka) and Professor Eric Freyfogle (USA). CHN colleague Kathryn Kintzele has been offered a Visiting Fellowship and will assist in the course, as well as participate in the conference.
(http://www.nzcel.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/law/about/assns/nzcel/nzcel.cfm)

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