Climate Change, the Environment, and Constitutions: 2024 Drake Constitutional Law Center Symposium
Monday, April 8th, 2024
The Drake Constitutional Law Center will host the 2024 Constitutional Law Symposium on Saturday, April 13, from 8:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. The program will be delivered in Cartwright Hall, room 213, or virtually via Zoom. The annual Constitutional Law Symposium invites scholars, judges, and lawyers from across the country to discuss a timely constitutional issue. This year, speakers will focus on an array of constitutional and environmental issues. Speakers include:
Jerry Anderson, Dean and Richard M. and Anita Calkins Distinguished Professor of Law, Drake Law School
Abre’ Conner, Lecturer, UC-Davis and Director, Center for Environmental and Climate Justice, NAACP
Jonathan H. Adler, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and Director, Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law, Case Western Reserve School of Law
Erin Daly, Professor of Law and Director, Dignity Rights Clinic, Widener University Delaware Law School
James Salzman, Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law with joint appointments at the Bren School and UCLA Law School
The symposium is approved for 4 hours of Iowa Continuing Legal Education credit and is open to the public. Register online here.
The proceedings are published in an upcoming issue of the Drake Law Review. Registrants may pre-order a copy for $12.
This year’s Constitutional Law Symposium is dedicated to the tenure of Dean Jerry Anderson, who served as dean of Drake Law School for the past eight years. Dean Anderson will continue to serve students as a member of the faculty.
About the Drake Constitutional Law Center
Congress created the Constitutional Law Center to commemorate the bicentennial of the Constitution in 1987. Drake Law School is one of only four law schools designated by statute to receive a permanent endowment “to encourage graduate study of the American Constitution, its roots, its formation, its principles and its development.”
The annual Constitutional Law Symposium invites scholars, judges, and lawyers from across the country to discuss a timely constitutional issue. The proceedings are published in the Drake Law Review. Learn more about the Drake Constitutional Law Center.
