Berkeley Legal Symposium to Include Mono Lake
The ramifications of the lawsuits brought in defense of Mono Lake are just beginning to be felt throughout California. In particular, the Public Trust Doctrine is being used in several environmental struggles for water resources, echoing its landmark importance in Mono Lake's protection. An upcoming environmental symposium, to be held at the University of California at Berkeley on February 21 and 22, will examine the significant role the Public Trust, and other laws, are playing in ecosystem protection.
The symposium brings together a distinguished panel of experts including Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt and Professor Joseph Sax, who authored the influential article "The Public Trust Doctrine in Natural Resource Law: Effective Judicial Intervention." Sax's article led the Mono Lake Committee and National Audubon Society to select the Public Trust Doctrine as the basis for Mono Lake litigation.
Other speakers will include practitioners and scholars of law, economics, and the sciences, representing the most significant ideas in the field of ecosystem protection. The symposium will focus on the challenges and opportunities inherent in using the law to protect and manage whole ecosystems.
A break-out session will provide the opportunity to join attorneys and policy makers involved in the Mono Lake litigation to learn about the strengths and weaknesses of this application of the Public Trust Doctrine in setting the stage for environmental restoration and long-term protection at Mono Lake.
For more information, contact the office of the Ecology Law Quarterly at Boalt Hall, 510-642-0457.
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