First Biennial Environmental Law Symposium
About this Event
1535 W. 15th Street, Lawrence, KS 66045
"The Nexus Symposium: Crosscutting Environmental Issues and Intersections"
Friday, March 6, 2026
University of Kansas School of Law | Green Hall
1535 W. 15th Street.
Lawrence, KS 66045 (map and directions)
The University of Kansas School of Law will host the first biennial Environmental Law Symposium on Friday, March 6, 2026, entitled "The Nexus Symposium: Crosscutting Environmental Issues and Intersections."
From the 1960s through the 1980s, Congress and the states established environmental, natural resources and energy laws largely on a medium-by-medium (e.g., Clean Air Act vs. Clean Water Act), resource-by-resource (e.g., water vs. energy), sovereign-by-sovereign (United States vs. states vs. Tribes), and/or place-by-place basis (e.g., federal public lands vs. anywhere else). While these laws generally made a good first cut at reducing pollution, managing resources and providing reliable energy, we have now reached the point where the need for new linkages and cooperations both among these legal regimes and between these regimes and other laws and developments has become increasingly obvious.