Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
In the People’s Interest: Openings for Pollution Public Interest Law Cases in China
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Vermont Law School presents a panel discussing how and why public interest law has become a “hot” topic among the law, policy, and NGO communities.
When:
January 1, 1999 12:00am
Where
China recently amended its civil procedure law to allow nongovernmental organizations to sue on behalf of the public interest. This provision could be transformative, and Chinese NGOs will have to learn quickly how to litigate public interest lawsuits. There has been only one public interest case brought by a grassroots NGO to look to and learn from so far: a pending case brought by two NGOs over illegal chromium pollution in Yunnan province. The speakers at this panel will discuss how and why public interest law has become a “hot” topic among the law, policy, and NGO communities. They will discuss the facts of this case as well as the obstacles the attorneys have faced. They will also analyze why this case was accepted, unlike the many others that have been rejected. Finally, they will analyze the implications of what we know about this case for future environmental public interest cases.
Event Speakers List
Jessica Scott, Attorney at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of General Counsel
Jingjing Liu, Vermont Law School
Robert V. Percival, Robert F. Stanton Professor of Law and the Director of the Environmental Law Program at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law
Phone Number:
202-691-4000
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