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Event alert! Free EJ event at UC Davis on Friday, March 9th!

March 8, 2018

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Dear Friends and Colleagues,

I would like to cordially invite you to the 2018 Environmental Law Symposium,  Humans & Their Environment: Protecting Our Planet and Its Inhabitants . The symposium is happening  this  Friday, March 9th , from  8:30 AM  to  5:30 PM , and is being brought to you by the Environmental Law Society at the UC Davis School of Law, in partnership with the Aoki Center for Critical Race & Nation Studies.

The theme of this year’s symposium is human interaction with the environment. The Aoki Center is sponsoring two panels on environmental justice –  Restoring the Balance in Indian Country  and  Environmental Justice in the Central Valley . All four of our panels have wonderful speakers and we truly hope you can join us.

If you can attend, please  register online . To see a full program of the day’s events, download a digital copy  here .

Whether you can attend the full symposium or only part of the day, we hope to see you there. If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know.

P.S. Please share with anyone whom you think would be interested. The symposium is free and open to all!

Sincerely,

John Miller, J.D.

Legal Fellow | Aoki Center for Critical Race & Nation Studies

Martin Luther King, Jr. School of Law | UC Davis

https://law.ucdavis.edu/centers/critical-race/

jwamiller@ucdavis.edu

530.752.4028

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