Over the course of three days, the Environmental Law Collaborative (ELC) convened in Briarcliff Manor, New York to discuss “Blue Sky Thinking in a Red Sky World.” The ELC comprises a rotating group of law professors who assemble every other year to think, discuss, and write on an important and intriguing theme in environmental law. This year, the group focused on how to think optimistically and proactively about environmental protection when so much is going so quickly in the opposite direction.
Research and Scholarship
Fostering International Conversation
Professor Nicholas Robinson’s article, Fostering International Conversation, co-authored with Dr. Grethel Aguilar Rojas of the IUCN, was published in AAAS Science Policy Forum. The article discusses how international laws seek to half the mass extinction of species on Earth today, beginning with the Endangered Species Act, and the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species, which are 50 years old this year.
As an officer of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Professor Robinson’s distinguished career includes decades of work on these efforts to foster international conservation.