<p><img class="FloatRight" src="{staticroot}site/files/oldnewsfiles/ELCDistinguishedSpeakers235px.jpg" alt="ELCDistinguishedSpeakers235px" width="235" height="200" />Widener Law and its Environmental Law Center will host a Distinguished Speaker Series with public events at both of its locations. <br /><br />The lineup includes:</p>
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<li><strong>Wednesday, Feb. 18, 4 p.m.</strong> &ndash; Villanova University School of Law Professor Todd S. Aagaard on &ldquo;Rethinking the Energy-Environment Divide,&rdquo; room A180 of the administration building at Widener Law Commonwealth, 3737 Vartan Way. This will be teleconferenced to the Alfred Avins Special Collection Library Room at Widener Law Delaware.</li>
<li><strong>Monday, March 16, noon.</strong> &ndash; Joshua Gellers, LEED green associate and assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Florida on &ldquo;Environmental Rights, Environmental Justice, and Democracy,&rdquo; in the Alfred Avins Special Collection Library Room at Widener Law Delaware, 4601 Concord Pike, Wilmington. This will be teleconferenced to room 101 in the library building at Widener Law Commonwealth.</li>
<li><strong>Tuesday, April 14, noon. </strong>&ndash; Louis J. Kotze, professor of law at North-West University in South Africa on &ldquo;The Reconciliatory Role of Sustainable Development in Transformative Environmental Constitutionalism: The South African Example,&rdquo; in the Alfred Avins Special Collection Library Room at Widener Law Delaware, 4601 Concord Pike, Wilmington. This will be teleconferenced to room 101 in the library building at Widener Law Commonwealth.</li>
<li><strong>Thursday, April 16, 4 p.m.</strong> &ndash; Linda Malone, the Marshall-Wythe Foundation professor of law and the founding director of the Human Security Law Center at the College of William and Mary School of Law on &ldquo;The History and Potential Future of Ecofeminism,&rdquo; room A180 of the administration building at Widener Law Commonwealth, 3737 Vartan Way. This will be teleconferenced to the Alfred Avins Special Collection Library Room at Widener Law Delaware.</li>
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<p>Attorneys from Delaware and Pennsylvania who attend the in-person lectures with Aagaard and Malone on the Harrisburg campus will be eligible for one continuing legal education credit. All of the events are free and open to the public.<br /><br />To register for an in-person event at Widener Law Commonwealth contact Sandra Graeff at <a href="mailto:slgraeff@widener.edu">slgraeff@widener.edu</a> or 717.541.3965. To register for the in-person event at Widener Law Delaware contact Carol Perrupato at <a href="mailto:caperrupato@widener.edu">caperrupato@widener.edu</a> or 302.477.2178.</p>