Environmental & Energy Law

UT Law to host Appalachian environmental and social justice conference
September 29, 2016 1:16 pm
UT Law invites lawyers, activists, students, scientists, faculty, and members of the community to gather October 21–23 for an international, three-day conference on achieving environmental and social justice throughout the Appalachian bioregion and surrounding areas.
Ruhl, Grant

UT Law student wins 2016 TBA Hastings Writing Competition
April 22, 2016 12:05 pm
Grant L. Ruhl (’17), a student of the University of Tennessee College of Law, was recently named the winner of the 2016 Jon E. Hastings Memorial Award Writing Competition, sponsored by the Tennessee Bar Association’s Environmental Law Section.

In the news: Heminway weighs in on EPB ownership case
August 25, 2015 11:01 am
Joan Heminway, the W.P. Toms Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee College of Law, recently spoke to the Chattanooga Times Free Press regarding a case that will determine whether local energy provider Electric Power Board (EPB) is a branch of City Hall in Chattanooga or its own corporate identity.