Good morning. Welcome to the hudson institute. We are honored and privileged to be hosting this great event, a conversation with robert obrien, the assistant to the president on National Security affairs, otherwise known as National Security adviser. I want to welcome all of you here who were able to join us, and the audience watching live stream from the hudson website. But also a very special welcome , to our cspan audience who will be following this event on cspan2 today, and were delighted to have you here, if only virtually, and delighted to have everyone who was been able to participate in this discussion. This i think is going to be one of the most interesting and significant events that weve done here at hudson, particularly given the fact that we are less than a week away from the election when so many of these issues that were going to be talking about today, the question of what america is going to do, where americas going to go from here, those issues are going to be decide
But also a very special welcome to our cspan audience who will be following this event on cspan2 today, and were delighted to have you here, if only virtually, and delighted to have everyone who was been ablo participate in this discussion. This i think is going to be one of the most interesting and significant events that weve done here at hudson, particularly given the fact that we are less than a week away from the election when so many of these issues that were going to be talking about today, the question of what america is going to do, where americas going to go from here, those issues are going to be decided very, very soon. And so what happens in our discussion here i think will help us to understand as a guide to what takes place, regardless of who it is who will be sitting in the oval office come january january 21. I want to say a few words about our distinguished guest. Robert obrien was born in los angeles and graduated from the university of california berkeley with a law
We are going to be looking at and wire mental legal doctrine, more broadly its social philosophical, kind of issues to grapple with. We also talked at the beginning of the semester, about how society deals with times of aggregate. The big pitchers the effects of large numbers of individual personal disputes on the big picture. And we will be dealing in talking about aggregates a little bit today. The class will lead to a couple of Big Questions big question number one, how much can we regulate in the interest of protecting the environment, big question number two who actually gets to advocate on behalf of the environment, or governmental issues. Those are the two things we are going to be focusing on all right, im going to begin today on talk about environmental change in u. S. History, including what was and what was not instinctive about the consciousness we refer to as environmentalism. When it came onto the scene in the mid 20th century. And let me introduce you to problems. And he
Class and we talked about what law and society is, we talked about how law and society is often the study of law and legal issues outside of the box of legal doctrine or sort of outside the box of legal logic, all right . Well be looking at environmental law and litigation, not simply through questions and american legal doctrine but more broadly as kind of social, philosophical issues to grapple with, all right . We also talked in the beginning of the semester how law and society deals, at times, in aggregates, right . Its sort of the big picture or sort of the effects of large numbers of kind of individual personal disputes on the big picture, all right . Well be dealing and thinking in aggregates a little bit today as well, all right . Its a class that will lead to a couple of big questions, all right . Big question number one, how much can we regulate private property in the interest of protecting the environment, all right . Big question number two, who actually gets to advocate o
Everything there is to say about the subject, which could obviously be an entire course in its own right, but rather today im going to focus on a few recurring big picture problems that Environmental Issues pose for the subject matter of this class, namely law and society. If you remember when we went back to day one, day two of this class and we talked about what law and society is, we talked about how law and society is often the study of law and legal issues outside of the box of legal doctrine or sort of outside the box of legal logic, all right . Well be looking at environmental law and litigation, not simply through questions and american legal doctrine but more broadly as kind of social, philosophical issues to grapple with, all right . We also talked in the beginning of the semester how law and society deals, at times, in aggregates, right . Its sort of the big picture or sort of the effects of large numbers of kind of individual personal disputes on the big picture, all right