Ethics - The Public Lawyer's Role in Ensuring the Integrity of Public Institutions
October 23, 2009
The role government lawyers may have played in enabling legally questionable conduct occupies center state nationally and internationally. How do these issues translate to the local level? What is ethically required of local government lawyers who confront corruption or illegality in public office? Must they be enforcers? How do they avoid becoming enablers?
Keynote speakers The Honorable Marvin R. Baxter, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of California, and Professor Kathleen Clark, Washington University School of Law in St. Louis joined a panel of the country's experts on professional responsibility for a closer look at these, and other issues, at the cutting edge of ethics. Additional Speakers included: Professor Rory Little, UC Hastings College of the Law, and Steve Bereson, Jesselyn Radack, Michael Aguiire, Richard Doyle, Steven Dorsey, David Harris, and Joanne Speers.
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Selected Topics in State and Local Regulation of Oil and Gas Exploration and Production
In the absence of comprehensive federal regulation of the oil and gas production industry, renewed attention is being given to the legal framework controlling oil and gas exploration and production (E&P). How have the states used their discretionary power to regulate? What values do they seek to advance? Do these laws work? This new PLRI report focuses on a handful of states with novel approaches to a century-old industry, with emphasis on the issues raised by hydrogen sulfide, production and storage pits, and casings.
Oil and Gas Exploration and Production
Recent Reports
RFIDs and Privacy
Environmental Justice for All: A Fifty-State Survey of Legislation, Policies and Cases - the third edition of CSLGL's fifty-state Environmental Justice survey. This version for the first time includes writeups of EJ cases before the courts and administrative judges, in addition to setting out relevant legislation, polices and initiatives.
Supplemental Environmental Projects: A Fifty State Survey with Model Practices - a unique online resource. "This comprehensive study offers state and local lawmakers and policymakers, industry, and community advocates a thorough and insightful analysis of the opportunities and challenges presented by the use of supplemental environmental projects. Read in its entirety, this report is roadmap for all stakeholders in designing appropriate, acceptable and beneficial SEPs that can satisfy multiple community environmental needs and goals." Patricia Salkin, Associate Dean and Director Government Law Center Albany Law School
"The Law and Policy of Sex Offender Residency Restrictions: An Analysis of Proposition 83" - with updates and links of interest.
About the Center
The Center for State and Local Government Law, CSLGL, opened its doors in the Fall of 2003. Building on the work of the 21 year old Public Law Research Institute, now a part of the center, CSLGL offers a wide variety of opportunities for students, scholars and lawyers. Through the Center's Local Government Law and Legislation Clinics, students learn about state and local government law hands-on through a combination of classroom work and internships. Through the Center's Conferences and Colloquia, scholars, lawyers and students convene to share ideas and to encourage research based upon their expertise. Through the Public Law Research Institute's (PLRI's) reports and working papers, students and faculty work together to promote research on vital public law issues.
UC Hastings is the only public law school in California offering a program of study and research focusing on state and local government law.
Recent Conferences:
The Supreme Court Giveth, Will the People Taketh Away? Kelo, San Remo, Lingle and Beyond . . . September 6, 2006
Dirt, Dollars and Duty: Flood Control & Governance - May 12, 2006
Additional conferences appear on the State and Local Government Conferences and Colloquia page.