Confirmed Speakers
Hofstra Law School, WRM America and Congdon, Flaherty, O’Callaghan, Reid, Donlon, Travis & Fishlinger are pleased to host the “Energy and the Environment: Empowering Consumers” Conference to be held March 19 & 20, 2009. The confirmed speakers include:
Keynote Address:James L. LaroccaHope Babcock
Commissioner
New York State Public Service Commission
Professor of Law
Georgetown University
Eric Biber
Acting Professor of Law
University of California at Berkeley
Cynthia Bogard
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
Hofstra University
Donald A. Brown
Associate Professor of Environmental Ethics, Science, and Law
Pennsylvania State University
Ariane van Buren Ph.D.
Director of Investor Engagement
Ceres
Maxine Burkett
Associate Professor of Law
University of Hawaii
Laura DeMartino
Assistant Director
Enforcement Division of Federal Trade Commission
John C. Dernbach
Distinguished Professor of Law
Widener University
Kerry Dukes
Chief Executive Officer
Ardour Capital Investments
Katherine Farrara
Attorney
Better Business Bureau National Advertising Division
William J. Fishlinger
Chairman and CEO
WRM America
Leslie Pickering Francis
Alfred C. Emery Professor of Law
University of Utah
Elizabeth M. Glazer
Associate Professor of Law
Hofstra University
Phil S. Goldberg
Associate, Shook
Hardy & Bacon LLP
Daniel J.H. Greenwood
Professor of Law
Hofstra University
Richard V. Guardino, Jr., Esq.
Executive Dean, Wilbur F. Breslin Center for Real Estate Studies
Hofstra University
Douglas J. Hayden
Vice President - Corporate Development
WRM America
Sean Hecht
Executive Director of Environmental Law Center
University of California at Los Angeles
James E. Hickey, Jr.
Professor of Law
Hofstra University
Anhthu Hoang
General Counsel
WE ACT for Environmental Justice, Inc.
Wayne Horsley
Suffolk County Legislator
Richard Hsia
Executive Vice President and General Counsel
WRM America
Christopher M. Jones
Staff Research Associate
Berkeley Institute of the Environment at the University of California, Berkeley
Paul Kellstedt
Associate Professor & Director of the American Politics Program
Texas A&M University
Richard M. Kessel
President
New York Power Authority
David Kincaid
Environmental/Construction Consultant
Great Neck Public Schools
Katrina Fisher Kuh
Associate Professor of Law
Hofstra University
Douglas Kysar
Professor of Law
Yale Law School
Steve Levy
Suffolk County Executive
Serge Martinez
Associate Clinical Professor of Law
Hofstra University
Aaron M. McCright
Assistant Professor
Environmental Science and Policy Program at Michigan State University
Nancy G. Milburn
Partner
Arnold & Porter LLP
Sharon Nelson
Former Chair
Consumers Union Board of Directors
Ashira Ostrow
Associate Professor of Law
Hofstra University
Christine Overdevest
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology at the University of Florida
Matthew F. Pawa
Attorney in Kivalina v. ExxonMobil and Connecticut v. AEP
Jedediah Purdy
Associate Professor of Law
Duke University
Glenn Harlan Reynolds
Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law
University of Tennessee
Ronald H. Rosenberg
Professor of Law
The College of William and Mary
Mark Sagoff
Senior Research Scholar
School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland
Patricia E. Salkin
Raymond and Ella Smith Distinguished Professor of Law
Albany Law School
Daniel Sangeap
Assistant New York State Attorney General
Investor Protection Bureau
Joseph A. Siegel
Senior Attorney
Environmental Protection Agency
Norman I. Silber
Professor of Law
Hofstra University
Jeffrey A. Smith
Partner
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Trisha L. Smith
Counsel
Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP
Thomas Suozzi
Nassau County Executive
Dr. Mark Toney
Executive Director
The Utility Reform Network
Katherine Trisolini
Environmental Law Fellow
University of California at Los Angeles
Kevin Tuerff
Principal and President
EnviroMedia Social Marketing
Rebecca Tushnet
Professor of Law
Georgetown University
Wendy Williams
Co-Author
Cape Wind
Jonathan M. Zasloff
Professor of Law
University of California at Los Angeles