The Only Fish Story Where the Fish Gets Smaller: Retelling the most extreme environmental law case ever
Presented by Professor Zyg Plater
Thursday
November 12
7pm
Johnson 200
Zyg Plater, Professor of Environmental Law at Boston College Law School, has been an activist law professor for three decades, teaching on the faculties of seven universities in the U.S. and abroad. With his students he has done significant environmental protection work on oil pollution for the State of Alaska in the aftermath of the Exxon-Valdez oilspill, on community toxic contamination, on smart growth land use, endangered species, international conservation negotiations, and more.

Lead author of the national environmental law textbook, "Environmental Law and Policy: Nature, Law, and Society," he was initiator and lead attorney in the classic Supreme Court endangered species case, TVA v. Hill, the river-defense battle between the "snail darter" and a TVA dam. Mischaracterized at the time as "tiny fish stops huge dam," the snail darter case still has important lessons for governance today, which will be the focus of Zyg's talks at Lake Forest.

Prof. Plater teaches Environmental Law, Administrative Law, and Property Law. He also founded and oversees a multi-university symposium that teaches law students to teach environmental law to undergraduates in the Boston area.

. Sponsored by Environmental Studies and Politics.

Contact: Liz Birnbaum
Email: birnbaum@lakeforest.edu
Phone: (847) 735.6282

If you need any special accommodations to be able to participate in
this event please contact Teryn J. Robinson at Robinson@lakeforest.edu
or 847-735-5167, at least 24 hours in advance.