Please join the GW Law Environmental and Energy Law Program for its third annual Shapiro Distinguished Lecture. The lecture celebrates the work and leadership of Professor Arnold Reitze, who, founded GW Law's Environmental and Energy Law Program in 1970 and directed the program until his retirement in 2008. Professor Reitze is the author of seven books and more than 100 research studies and articles on environmental law. His most recent book is Air Pollution Control and Climate Change Mitigation Law (2010). The Shapiro Distinguished Lecture features globally recognized leaders to address pressing issues in climate change and energy law to inform and inspire the GW Law and greater campus community, the Washington, DC legal community, and the global community.

This year's lecture features Dr. Beatriz Martinez Romera, Associate Professor of Environmental and Climate Change Law and Head of the Research Center for Climate Change Law and Governance (CLIMA) at the University of Copenhagen Faculty of Law. Her lecture on integrating obligations under international environmental law in the regulation of international marine transport greenhouse gas emissions will be followed by Q&A session with our in-person and online audiences.

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