Great Lakes Freshwater Symposium: Possible Future Uses of New Lakefront at the Port of Milwaukee
The Center for Water Policy hosted an Earth Day webinar featuring James Wasley, Professor at UW-Milwaukee and 2024-2025 Water Policy Scholar. He presented his research on the possible future uses of the Dredged Material Disposal Facility at the Port of Milwaukee. This facility is part of a broader network of dredge-spoil sites across the Great […]
Canada-United States Law Institute 49th Annual Conference
Thursday, April 10th – Friday, April 11th, 2025 Case Western Reserve University – School of Law* Cleveland, Ohio The North American Crisis – Dismantling the World Trading Order? Exploring the challenges and impacts of changes in the rules-basedtrading order Featured panels on the following: The 49th Annual Canada-U.S. Law Institute Conference on April 10 […]
Great Lakes Freshwater Symposium: Monitoring and Controlling Invasive Species in the Great Lakes
What do sea lamprey, zebra and quagga mussels, round goby, and phragmites all have in common? They have invaded the Great Lakes and are changing the entire ecosystem. This webinar highlighted some of the current research around monitoring and controlling invasive species in the Great Lakes. Panelists included: This event is co-hosted by the […]
Great Lakes Freshwater Symposium: Great Lakes Offshore Wind
The five Great Lakes contain 20 percent of the planet’s freshwater resources. They also hold tremendous potential for producing wind energy. What are the challenges and opportunities for offshore wind energy in the Great Lakes? Cora Sutherland presented the Center for Water Policy’s legal research on Great Lakes offshore wind energy. Her talk, titled […]
Canada-United States Law Institute 48th Annual Conference
The Economics of Human Rights: Canadian and US Perspectives on Supply Chains, Sanctions, and Securing Reconciliation The conduct of business either protects human rights or enables their violation. Cananda and the United States influence the enforcement and advancement of human rights through their approaches to regulating business activities. Both countries play a vital role in […]
Climate-Smart Agriculture – Overcoming Barriers and Financing the Transition
A vital keynote address of the 2023 Critical Conversation forum organized by the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), one of CGLR’s Great Lakes Higher Education Consortium institutional members. The agriculture sector is on the front lines of climate change that threaten production across the US. Climate-smart […]