NUSL Conference: Lawyering for the Sustainable City 

Cities are inventive places where new collaborations foster creative solutions to pressing environmental challenges, such as changing climate, rising sea levels, extreme weather events and aging infrastructure. Lawyers lead the way in mobilizing the search for innovative answers. Through the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, they work to configure resilient urban designs and to incorporate environmental insights and concerns for human welfare into land use and resource management decisions. We will explore the important roles that lawyers play in questioning old arrangements and fashioning ecologically sound designs to support resilient, healthy, and equitable communities in the face of environmental threats and uncertainties.

We will consider how legal transactions and regulatory frameworks can ease transitions and protect vulnerable groups, giving particular attention to innovations in zoning, economic development, energy use, urban transportation and water management.

All events will take place in 240 Dockser Hall, unless otherwise noted.

For more information, including the full day's schedule and a list of speakers, please click here.

This event is free of charge.