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Environmental Law Explored: A Podcast SEERiesThe ESG Era: Progress, Pushback, and the Path AheadIn 2024, key legal and regulatory shifts transformed the ESG landscape across the U.S., Canada, U.K., and EU. In the U.S., the SEC adopted—and later stopped defending—climate disclosure rules, while the Department of Labor's ESG rule faced litigation and Congress advanced anti-ESG bills. At the same time, the EPA began deploying $27 billion under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, and youth-led climate lawsuits saw major wins. California's climate reporting laws (SB 253, SB 261, AB 1305) faced challenges but remained in effect, and greenwashing litigation expanded to cover broad corporate ESG claims. Internationally, the U.K. i...
2025-06-3019 min
Curiosity WeeklyDigital Privacy & Protecting Your DataYou might think you have nothing to hide on your devices but everyone does. From bank accounts to passwords to travel plans, protecting your digital privacy is one of the biggest issues we face today. Digital privacy expert Eva Galperin joins host Dr. Samantha Yammine to discuss the importance of protecting your data and how to best do so. Sam also explores recent updates on a nuclear battery that can keep devices charged for years as well as a man who might be the key behind creating a universal antivenom to protect against snakebites. Be sur...
2025-05-2828 min
Quaker MattersPiper Roskovensky ’26 | Connecting with Careers: Josh Galperin ’00Piper Roskovensky ’26 interviews Josh Galperin ’00. Josh is currently an Assistant Law Professor at Pace University. He studied at the University of Delaware, Yale School of Environment, and Vermont Law School. He has researched and taught environmental law, food and agriculture law and policy, property, constitutional law, and tort law. In their interview, they discussed his journey of teaching law and working in environmental law.
2024-07-0821 min
Law to FactPromissory EstoppelIn this episode, Professor Josh Galperin, Professor of Law at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law interviews me about equitable remedies and promissory estoppel.Some key takeways...1. Promissory estoppel is an equitable remedy, awarded for fairness when a legal remedy is not available.2. Promissory estoppel is only available in the absence of a legal contract.3. Promissory estoppel is available if (1) the promisor should reasonably expect to induce action or forbearance on the part of the promisee (objective evaluation) (2) the promisee did rely on the promise (subjective evaluation) (3) injustice...
2022-03-1324 minLaw to FactRule Making and Administrative LawIn this episode...Professor Josh Galperin explains government rule-making authority and provides a broad overview of topics covered in administrative law.Some key takeaways....Administrative law is the law that governs day-to-day government operations. It explains how federal agencies like the EPA, FDA, or SEC get authority to act, restrictions on their actions, and judicial review of their work.Agencies make rules, adjudicate disputes, enforce law, and offer policy guidance.Rules are prospective and general policymaking while adjudication is case-by-case, fact-oriented dispute resolution.Guidance is the process, short of making...
2021-04-1336 min
Conversations With the Legal AcademyPrivate Enviornmental Governance featuring Josh GalperinJosh Galperin, the director of the Environmental Protection Clinic and clinical lecturer in law at Yale Law School, discusses his research on private environmental governance. He was on campus as part of the Arkansas Law Review Symposium in October of 2017.
2018-05-1100 min
On the EnvironmentStrategic Environmental Communications: A Conversation with Francesca KoeFrancesca Koe, a communications specialist, joins Josh Galperin in the studio to talk about strategic environmental communications. Francesca is the former Director of Campaigns and Strategic Initiatives at the Natural Resources Defense Council where she continues to consult for NRDC's Climate Center and Center for Policy Advocacy. Francesca is also on the steering committee and is a coalition advisor for the Climate Advocacy Lab, is an environmental consultant to the AdCouncil, is President of the Greater Farallones Association, and is on the National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council. In this podcast Francesca and Josh discuss climate and marine communications, the strategies...
2015-10-1329 min
On the EnvironmentExploring the Roots of Environmental Law: a Conversation with Tom Jorling + Leon BillingsIn this podcast, Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy Associate Director Josh Galperin visits with former US Senate staffers Leon Billings and Tom Jorling about the policies and personalities that led to the first major environmental laws in the nation -- and what the history of environmental lawmaking can tell us about the political stalemate we face today.
2014-04-2136 min
On the EnvironmentEating Invaders (and Other Strategies for Managing Invasive Species)To the untrained eye, invasive species blend into the environment, so unless they are incredibly ugly (snakehead anyone?) -- or trendy (bacon-wrapped wild boar chops?) -- they're not often a topic of conversation. But invasive species, from bamboo and eucalyptus to Asian carp and zebra mussels, disrupt their environments and have serious ecological impacts. In this podcast, Josh Galperin, associate director of the Yale Center of Environmental Law & Policy, and Connie Vogelmann, Yale Law School '14, discuss invasive species management, highlighting one troubling trend -- eating invaders -- that may have unintended consequences.
2013-09-2331 min