{"id":23339,"date":"2023-02-23T14:33:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T19:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=23339"},"modified":"2023-02-23T14:40:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T19:40:33","slug":"coastal-legal-issues-are-focus-of-climate-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/coastal-legal-issues-are-focus-of-climate-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Coastal legal issues are focus of climate symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article in the <a href=\"https:\/\/charlestoncitypaper.com\/2023\/02\/22\/coastal-legal-issues-are-focus-of-climate-symposium\/\">Charleston City Paper<\/a> highlights the 15th annual Law &amp; Society Symposium, sponsored by the Charleston School of Law and the Riley Institute at Furman University. The free event is set for Friday, Feb. 24, 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. in the auditorium of Charleston Museum and is expected to draw about 200 attendees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe symposium presents a unique opportunity to hear from experts about a pressing series of legal issues,\u201d said Larry Cunningham, law school provost and dean. \u201cEach year, I am grateful for our collaboration with the Riley Institute on this important event.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Phyllis A. Cuttino, a 1988 Furman University political science and history alumna and longtime climate and clean energy advocate, will keynote the symposium. She is president and CEO of D.C.-based The Climate Reality Project, which was launched by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the symposium from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/riley\/speaker-award-events\/speaker-events\/law-society-2023-climate-change-and-the-law\/\">The Riley Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 15th annual Law &amp; Society Symposium, sponsored by the Charleston School of Law and the Riley Institute, explores the question of how the law is affected as a result of climate change and how legal professionals should adapt. Furman alumna Phyllis Cuttino &#8217;88 of The Climate Reality Project delivers keynote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":9949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1908,42,6,32,29],"tags":[1518,1909,1910,1911,1912],"class_list":["post-23339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-charleston-city-paper","category-history","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-riley-institute","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming","tag-legal-response-to-climate-change","tag-phyllis-cuttino","tag-the-climate-reality-project"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}