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The CBA Constitutional and Human Rights Law Conference, IP Day 2017 and the CCCA Agents of Change Conference are just three of the National Sections and Forums conferences coming up this spring. Read on for a list of what else you can expect.

Feeling an itch to write for something more than a good grade? Several CBA National Sections are running essay contests offering a range of prizes.

Message from the Chair of the National Environmental, Energy and Resources Law Section.

The CBA’s Environment, Energy and Resources Law Section and Aboriginal Law Section have responded to an expert panel reviewing the federal government’s environmental assessment process.

In partnership with E&E News, the ABA Section of Environment, Energy and Resources presents this discussion of what a Trump administration might mean for the energy and environment legal landscape.

Is your Section having a conference this fall? Read on to see our list of upcoming conferences.

The winner of the 2016 CBA Viscount Bennett Fellowship is Daniel Del Gobbo, a student in the S.J.D. program at the University of Toronto whose study area “falls at the intersections of alternative dispute resolution and feminist legal theory.”

Sarah Walsh, a third-year law student at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University, is the winner of the 2016 Canadian Bar Association (CBA) National Environmental, Energy and Resources Law Section (NEERLS) Law School Essay Contest David Estrin Prize.

NEERLS Chair Stuart Chambers, from McLennan Ross in Edmonton, reviews the Section’s Annual Law Summit, held in early March in Calgary in partnership with the Canadian Institute of Resources Law’s annual Symposium.

In the January 10, 2014 issue of the Eco-Bulletin, we wrote about Fort McKay First Nation v. Alberta Energy Regulator, an intriguing appeal of the approval of an oil sands development in which the Alberta Court of Appeal would be asked to define the Alberta Energy Regulator’s jurisdiction to decide constitutional questions.