At the Center

The Conservation Law Center helps clients solve natural resources conservation problems, works to improve the body of conservation law and policy, and educates second and third year law students, by offering excellent legal services without charge to conservation organizations.

Animal Migration
Seminar and Publication

November 10, 2009

The CLC attorneys and Clinic interns participated in the second in a series of interdisciplinary seminars on protecting animal migrations, an effort initiated by the environmental program of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. David Wilcove, professor at Princeton and expert on conservation, was the featured guest of the October seminar (the featured guest at September's seminar was Holly Doremus, professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley; November's guest is Paul Cryan, bat expert with the USGS in Colorado). Prior to the start of the seminar series, Jeff co-authored a paper with Professor Robert Fischman titled "The Legal Challenge of Protecting Animal Migrations as Phenomena of Abundance."

Antidegradation Rulemaking

November 1, 2009

CLC attorneys and Clinic interns continue the CLC's multiyear involvement in Indiana's antidegradation rulemaking on behalf of client Alliance for the Great Lakes. The rulemaking is required under the Clean Water Act. After more than a year of stakeholder working groups and intense negotiations over the language of the rule, the draft rule issued by the agency is still unlikely to be approved by USEPA.

CLC Attorneys Present at LTA Rally

October 22, 2009

In mid-October, CLC attorneys presented workshops at the annual national meeting of the Land Trust Alliance in Portland, Oregon. Bill co-presented the workshop "Conservation Easements in a Changing World - Balancing Flexibility with Permanence." Bill, Andrea, and Jeff, along with Christian Freitag, executive director of our long-standing client Sycamore Land Trust, presented the workshop "Drafting Working Landscape Conservation Easements."

Ballast Water Treatment Regulations

October 15, 2009

CLC attorneys and Clinic interns advised long-standing client Great Lakes United as it prepares comments on the U.S. Coast Guard's proposed ballast water treatment regulations.

CLC Helps Friends of Patoka River Incorporate

October 2, 2009

With the legal assistance of CLC attorneys and Clinic interns, Friends of the Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge incorporated as a not-for-profit organization. The Friends' mission is to educate the public about the Patoka River NWF, located in southern Indiana near Oakland City, and to help protect its precious resources.