Too Hot to Handle? Global Warming and Climate Change

Climate Change and Global Warming:
The Science, the Law, and the Talmud

• What are the Scientific Facts...and What is the Hype?
• Floods, Famine and Drought: Who's Responsible and Who Pays?
• Tikun Olam: the Torah's View on Ecology and the Environment

Featuring Dr. Leah A. Dundon

Dr. Dundon is the Director of the Vanderbilt Climate Change Initiative, as well as a practicing environmental attorney with the law firm of Beveridge & Diamond, P.C.. She holds a research appointment in environmental engineering at the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, and served as the chair of the Committee on Innovations, Management Systems and Trading, a committee of the American Bar Association’s Section of the Environment, Energy and Resources. Leah received her Ph.D. and J.D. from Vanderbilt University and she regularly publishes and lectures on issues related to climate change, risk, and resilience.

and Rabbi Dr. Yitzchak Breitowitz

Senior Lecturer in Jewish Ethics and Law at Yeshiva Ohr Somayach, Jerusalem and formerly a Professor of Law at the University of Maryland. Rabbi Breitowitz is a graduate of Ner Israel Rabbinical College and Harvard Law School, and lectures internationally on all areas of medical, business, legal, and social ethics and is the author of numerous academic articles on US and Talmudic law.