Program Agenda and Videos
May 14, 2010
Morning Session
9:00 a.m.
Welcome by Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, School of Law, University of California, Irvine
Keynote Speakers (View Video)
9:10 a.m.
"Protecting the U.S. Marine Habitat: The Story of a Public Interest Campaign"
Eric A. Bilsky, Assistant General Counsel, Senior Litigator, OCEANA
Michael LeVine, Pacific Senior Counsel, OCEANA
10:00 a.m.
"How Can We Govern the Water?"
Joseph F.C. DiMento, Professor of Law and Planning, Director, Newkirk Center for Science and Society
(View Video)
10:50 a.m.
Coffee Break
Governance of the Colorado River Delta Panel Discussion
11:00 a.m.
Alejandro Camacho, Moderator, Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine
"The History and Future of the Colorado River Delta in the US-Mexico Transboundary Resource Management."
David Getches, University of Colorado at Boulder Law School (View Video)
"Informal Stakeholders and a New Governance Regime in the Colorado River"
Carlos Alfonso de la Parra Renteria, Research Professor, Department of Urban and Environmental Studies, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (View Video)
"Research, Networks, and Collaboration: Shaping Governance Strategies for the Colorado River Delta"
Margaret Wilder, Assistant Research Professor of Environmental Policy, Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, University of Arizona (View Video)
12:45 p.m
Lunch
The Rule of the Law and Mexico's Northwest Coast: Case Studies (View Video)
1:45 p.m.
Sergio Knaebel, Moderator, Grant Director, Sandler Family Supporting Foundation
"The Case of the Bahia de Los Angeles: Using the Law to Protect a Pristine Marine Hotspot"
Jose Fernando Ochoa Pineda, Executive Director of Defensa Ambiental del Noroeste (DAN)
"The Case of Isla Espiritu Santo: Landowners, Gonvernment, and Conservationists Reach a Creative Legal Agreement to Protect an Important Island"
Rodolfo Ogarrio, Director of the Mexican Foundation for Environmental Education
"Environmental Law, National Progress, and the Progressive Destruction of Mexico's Pacific Coast"
Ambassador Alberto Szekely
3:45 p.m.
Coffee Break
4:00 p.m.
Panel on the Future of Coastal Conservation in Mexico
5:00 p.m
Reception in the Beckman Center Atrium