re-energizing north america - University of British Columbia Faculty

RE-ENERGIZING NORTH AMERICA:
PIPELINES AND POLICY
A WORKSHOP OF THE NORTH AMERICAN CONSORTIUM ON LEGAL EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA 14 -‐ 15 MARCH 2014 1
RE-ENERGIZING NORTH AMERICA:
PIPELINES AND POLICY
A WORKSHOP OF THE NORTH AMERICAN CONSORTIUM ON LEGAL EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL ALLARD HALL, 1822 EAST MALL VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA 14 -‐ 15 MARCH 2014 Housing for NACLE faculty and students will be arranged at Walter Gage
Residence, 5959 Student Union Blvd, which is a convenient walk to UBC Law
School, where the Workshop will convene. NACLE faculty members must register
on the NACLE website (www.nacle.org) to assure complimentary hotel
accommodations. Non-NACLE faculty should contact [contact Walter Gage
Residence directly?].
For more information on Walter Gage Residence, see
http://www.housing.ubc.ca/walter-gage/overview
THURSDAY, March 13, 2014
Arrivals
6:00 p.m.
Welcome Reception
Allard Hall, Terrace Lounge, 4th Floor
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FRIDAY, March 14, 2014
8:00 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast
Hong Kong Lounge
8:45 a.m.
Forum
Welcoming Remarks
Professor Stephen Zamora
Dean Mary Anne Bobinski
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9.00 a.m.
Forum
Opening Plenary Session:
National Center for Business Law Panel: New trends in dispute settlement related
to energy
Panel Chair: Ljiljana Biukovic (UBC) [email protected]
Presenters:
Julian Cardenas (Houston)
Gordon Christie (UBC)
Tina Cicchetti (Fasken Martineau)
Justice Paul Jeffrey (Alberta Queen’s Bench)
Commentator: Fenner Stewart (Capital University)
The focus of the plenary session is a variety of procedural and substantive laws
that are applicable to disputes involving energy issues. The growing interest in
the security of supply of energy products, the importance of public service
obligations, the development of new sources of energy, public concern over
energy investment, the role of state owned enterprises in energy sector,
environmental implications of the development of energy sector, and the use of
natural resources, are some of the issues surrounding disputes over the energy
investments and trade in energy goods and services. These issues often give rise
to questions over whether domestic litigation and international trade and
investment arbitration are dispute resolution mechanisms can adequately resolve
relevant energy disputes, especially when they involve property rights and
interests of indigenous communities.
11:00 a.m.
Break
11:30 a.m.
Concurrent Workshop Sessions
Concurrent workshop sessions are designed to maximize the exchange of ideas.
For this reason, presenters are referred to as “discussants,” to encourage
interplay between the leader of the discussion and other NACLE participants.
1.
Integration of the Energy Regulatory Framework in North America in the
context of the Mexican Constitutional Reform
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Room 112
Convenor: Gabriel Cavazos (Monterrey Tech)
[email protected]
Presenters:
Isidro Morales (Monterrey Tec) – Mexican Energy Reform
Miriam Grunstein (CIDE)
Jacqueline Weaver (Houston)
2.
Energy Regulation and Indigenous People’s Rights: Reach and scope of
the Duty to Consult in North America
Room 113
Convenor: Gordon Christie [email protected]
Presenters:
Carolina Hernández Nieto, student at UNAM
Naayeli Rodriguez PhD student at UBC (TBC)
This panel's focus is the exploration of the duty to consult through case studies in
North America. The case studies will show some of the problems that Indigenous
peoples still confront when consulted regarding projects in their ancestral
territories. They will also show some areas and opportunities for improvement in
the regulation of this right.
1:00 p.m.
Forum
Luncheon
Speaker: Jacqueline Weaver - North American Energy Independence in a World of
Globalization and Climate Change
2:30 p.m.
NACLE Student Essay Competition
Rooms 122 and 123
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Presentations of award-winning papers by
commentary from NACLE faculty on each paper
5:00 p.m.
NACLE
students,
with
Adjourn
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SATURDAY, March 15, 2014
9:00 a.m.
Room 106
Plenary session:
Centre for Law and the Environment Panel
This panel will focus on the broad topic of “energy technologies and climate
change.” Among other topics, panelists will address the role of technology in the
emerging UN climate regime; legal requirements for climate adaptation; and the
intersection of intellectual property, energy technologies, and climate change
Chair: Benjamin Richardson [email protected]
Presenters:
Prof. Meinhard Doelle (Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University)
The Role of Technology in the Emerging UN Climate Regime
Laura Zizzo (climate law practitioner, Toronto)
Legal Requirements for Climate Adaptation
Graham Reynolds (UBC)
The Intersection of Intellectual Property, Energy Technologies, and Climate
Change
Paul Kariya (Executive Director, Clean Energy BC, Vancouver).
The Makings of Clean Energy in BC: The Social Construction of Technologies
11:00 a.m. Coffee Break
11:15 a.m.
Room 123
Roundtable on Cross-border Collaboration in Teaching
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Convenor: Tony VanDuzer (Ottawa) [email protected]
This session will provide NACLE colleagues with an opportunity to share their
experiences with cross-border collaborative education activities in the classroom.
The goal will be to develop some specific ideas for collaboration among NACLE
colleagues to promote student interaction among NACLE members. Other
participants include Graham Reynolds (UBC), Ljiljana Biukovic (UBC),
Stephen Zamora (Houston), and Laura Spitz (Cornell).
12:30 p.m.
Room 123
Lunch
General discussion: Issues and Challenges in promoting NACLE Student
Exchanges
1:30 p.m. - 3.00 pm
1.
Concurrent Workshops
National Perspectives on Land Use Issues – Public Interest versus Private
Rights
Room 111
Convenor: Robert Godin (McGill) [email protected]
Presenters:
Marcilynn Burke (Houston)
Carole Gilbert (McGill Student)
Free Mining
Fenner Stewart (University of Ohio and Director of Academic Affairs for the
Midwest Center for Energy Law and Policy)
Waking the Sleeping Giant: Clarifying the Ambiguities in Ohio’s Dormant Minerals
Act (TBC)
This session will address a range of issues related to conflicts between public
and private interests in land in the Canada, Mexico and the US.
2.
CEC project
Room 335
Convenors: Lee Paddock (GWU) [email protected] (or Jessica Wentz
(GWU) [email protected]) and Tracy Hester (Houston – [email protected])
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[Other possible participants in the session include Elizabeth Trujillo (Suffolk)
Mark Youdan (student Ottawa), Paul Keelyside (student McGill), student from
Suffolk (TBC), Jamie Benidickson (Ottawa) and a Representative from CEC]
This panel will provide an opportunity for students to present on various research
projects that they have undertaken as part of NACLE’s partnership with the
Commission on Environmental Cooperation (CEC). Two students from GW Law
and Suffolk Law will present their findings from a joint project in which they
evaluating environmental assessment procedures for hydraulic fracturing in the
United States, Mexico, and Canada. The topic will also be open for discussion on
best practices and possible recommendations that could be submitted to the CEC
regarding the coordination and harmonization of environmental assessment laws
in the three countries. Students from Suffolk Law will also present the research
that they have conducted regarding environmental law and international trade.
3:00 p.m.
Coffee Break
3:15 p.m. - 4.30 pm
Room 111
NACLE Annual Business Meeting
(NACLE Faculty and Administrative Representatives and other interested
faculty and students)
4:30-5:30
Room 114
CEC Research Group Meeting
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