Professor Patrick McGinley to Speak at University of Tennessee
Energy & Responsibility Conference
Prof. Patrick C. McGinley will speak in April on a panel at an event titled Energy & Responsibility: A Conference on Ethics and the Environment, hosted by the University of Tennessee. Conflicts and controversies about energy have become familiar features of the political and economic landscape around the globe. The environmental consequences of energy production, distribution and consumption and energy policy invite consideration of the ethical implications of both practice and policy. What are our ethical obligations to manage the earth?s resources and natural environment in a ?sustainable? manner? How should these obligations be enacted, institutionalized and implemented?
This conference invites ethicists, legal theorists, energy policy makers, energy enterprises and environmental activists to engage in a conversation about ethics and responsibility in the contested terrain of energy and the environment.
McGinley will serve on a panel exploring the intersections of legal, grassroots, and faith-based advocacy directed to halting the destructive practices of mountain top removal strip-mining named The Legal, Environmental, Moral and Social Implications of Mountaintop Removal Strip-Mining for Coal. Others appearing on the panel with Prof. McGinley include:
- Dean Rivkin, Professor, The University of Tennessee Law School
- Ann League, Save Our Cumberland Mountains
- Rev. John Rausch, Catholic Committee on Appalachia
The conference dates are April 10-12, 2008 and the event will be held at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and at the Downtown Hilton Hotel, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers at the event:
- Henry Shue, Merton College, Oxford
- Robert H. Socolow, Princeton University
- Dale Jamieson, New York University
- Richard Morgenstern, Resources for the Future
- Dale Bryk, Natural Resources Defense Council and Yale University