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06/28/2007 - Class of 2007 graduate Kimberly Breedon was awarded "Honorable Mention" in the second annual ELI-ABA "Endangered Environmental Laws" Student Writing competition. Breedon's entry was entitled "Garamendi's Unspoken Assumptions: Assessing Executive Foreign Affairs Preemption Challenges to State Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions."
The competition is co-sponsored by the Environmental Law Institute's (ELI) Endangered Environmental Laws Program and the Constitutional Law Committee of the American Bar Association's (ABA) Section of the Environment, Energy and Resources. Law students are invited to explore issues at the intersection of constitutional and environmental law. "Each of these papers on timely topics helps advance our understanding of the constitutional foundation of modern environmental law," said Leslie Carothers, President of the Institute. "Their authors are part of the next generation of legal scholars and practitioners."
The winning paper was authored by Hannah Change, a 2007 Yale Law School graduate. Her winning entry, "Foreign Affairs Preemption: The Legality of California's Link with the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme," examines the extent to which California and other states may enact climate change legislation and enter into international agreements, given the constitutional constraints of the dormant foreign affairs power and dormant foreign commerce clause.
The Environmental Law Institute is an independent, nonpartisan education and policy research center dedicated to environmental protection through improved environmental law and governance. The Endangered Environmental Laws Program seeks to defend the U.S. framework of environmental law by advancing a vision of constitutional and environmental law based on principles such as broad access to federal courts, uniform minimum federal environmental standards, and leeway for state innovation in environmental protection.
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