As a former Legal Counsellor at the Council of the European Union in Brussels, Dr BErnaard Schloh brings relevant perspective and insight to the current state of the European Union. Until his retirement in 1994, Dr. Schloh was also a faculty member of the School of Law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels. He has also been a visiting faculty member at the University of Georgia, Saint Louis University, Washington and Lee University, Santa Clara University, and Tulane University.

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Three law students who were Nordenberg Fellows during the summer 2010 (Andrew DiSipio, Morgan Kronk and Andrew Vogeler) will share their experiences. The European legal institutions they interned at include the European Court of Auditors, Luxembourg, the European Commission's Legal Service, Brussels, and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg.

This panel includes presentations by three graduate students: Gunes Ertan, Lance Lindauer and Farhod Yuldashev.

Panelists will include:

Aya Okada (PhD Student, GSPIA), Muge Finkel (Assistant Professor, GSPIA), Larry Foulke (Adjunct Professor, School of Engineering), Paul Scheinert (Advisory Engineer, Bettis Laboratory), Atsunori Nakao (Tokusyukai Medical Assistance Team, School of Medicine), and Louise Comfort (Director, Center for Disaster Management).

In this 2011 Jean Monnet Symposium, Alexander Carius, Stanley Kabala, Joseph Marriott and Edward Rubin will discuss transatlantic perspectives on climate change and energy, both from a scientific and technological perspective and regarding the policy implications. A reception will follow the panel presentation.