Join us for a special guest lecture with Professor Michael Vandenbergh, David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair in Law at Vanderbilt University Law School, Director of the Climate Change Research Network, and Co-Director of the Energy, Environment and Land Use Program. Professor Vandenbergh will deliver a lecture on his new book Private Environmental Governance from 1:00 to 2:15 p.m. on Monday, December 2 in the Sutliff Auditorium, Lewis Katz Building. The lecture is open to all faculty, students, and staff.

About the Speaker

An award-winning teacher, Professor Vandenbergh has published widely on bypassing climate polarization, private environmental governance, and the opportunity to harness law and social science to achieve a behavioral wedge of carbon emissions reductions. Before joining the Vanderbilt faculty Vandenbergh was a partner at Latham & Watkins in Washington, D.C., and he served as Chief of Staff of the Environmental Protection Agency from 1993-95. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard, the University of Chicago, and the Wharton School. His research has been discussed in major media outlets such as National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, National Geographic, USA Today, Psychology Today, and the Washington Post. He is a 2022 Andrew Carnegie Fellow and a member of the American College of Environmental Lawyers, and he chairs the Board on Environmental Change and Society of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, and the board of directors of the Nashville Electric Service.