On January 6, 2021, Professor Heidi Gorovitz Robertson presented her current research project at the 2021 AALS Annual Meeting’s State and Local Government Law and Natural Resources and Energy Law Joint Program, Co-Sponsored by Agricultural and Food Law and Environmental Law.  The program was titled, “Considering Obstacles to State and Local Laws about Environmental Sustainability.”  Robertson’s presentation was titled “Global Lessons on the Rights of Nature: How the World Might Help U.S. Local Governments Protect the Environment.”  She was selected to participate on this panel through a competitive call for papers.

Robertson was re-elected to the Executive Boards of both the AALS Section on Environmental Law, and the AALS Section on Natural Resources and Energy Law.

Robertson is the Steven W. Percy Distinguished Professor of Law at C|M|LAW, and Professor of Environmental Studies at the Levin College of Urban Affairs.