Climate Adaptation Strategies
On February 10, Professor Sara Bronin will moderate a panel called "Takings Law and Climate Adaptation Strategies" at the "Legal Solutions to Coastal Climate Change Adaptation in Connecticut" conference co-sponsored by the Law School's Center for Energy and Environmental Law.
Professor Bronin joined the faculty in 2006 and is an associate professor of law and the co-director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Law. She has researched and published in the area of property, land use, historic preservation, green building, and renewable energy law. Her scholarship focuses on creating economically and environmentally sustainable American cities.
Professor Bronin has served as one of the lead attorneys for the mixed-use, transit-oriented, LEED-Platinum-designed 360 State Street project. She has also been the president of the Connecticut Hispanic Bar Association (during the year it won the Hispanic National Bar's Affiliate of the Year Award), the vice president of the Hartford Historic Preservation/Properties Commissions, and a board member of the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation. She is an affiliated faculty member of the University of Connecticut Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering and has coordinated several Gallivan Conferences in real property law. After successfully completing all licensing requirements, Professor Bronin expects to officially become a licensed architect in the state of Connecticut in September 2011.
Recent Homepage Highlights
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On May 17, Professor Peter Kochenburger will provide testimony to the House Committee on Financial Services during a hearing on "U.S. Insurance Sector: International Competitiveness and Jobs."
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On May 16, Professor Peter Lindseth will speak on his latest book, Power and Legitimacy - Reconciling Europe and the Nation State, at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna.
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On May 11, Professor Richard Pomp will be a panelist for "States vs. Tribes - The Tobacco Tax Controversies" at the 2012 May Meeting of the Section of Taxation of the American Bar Association.
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On May 10, Professor Peter Lindseth will speak on "European Solidarity and National Identity - An American Perspective" as the lead panelist at a conference at the Free University of Berlin.
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On May 9, Professor Peter Lindseth will speak on "Power and Legitimacy" at a graduate colloquium at the Walter Hallstein Institute on European Constitutional Law at Humboldt University-Berlin.
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On April 30, Professor Thomas Morawetz presented "Lessons from the Humanities" to the Legal Philosophy Discussion Group of Greater Los Angeles.
