Carbon Cap and Trade Schemes vs. Carbon Taxation: Comparative Advantages and Disadvantages and What Lies Ahead

Program Number: 1837

Program Date: 11/14/2008

Description

Join us for this month’s installment of William Tanenbaum’s popular new series on hot topics in going green and green technology law. Here he and his Kaye Scholer colleague Sydney Unger address carbon credit trading schemes and carbon taxation, their relative advantages and disadvantages, and more.

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Arizona, California, Colorado Eligible, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, New Jersey Eligible, New York, Texas Self Study

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50 minute credit hour - 1 General CLE credit
60 minute credit hour - 1 General CLE credit

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Presenters


William A. Tanenbaum, Esq.

Kaye Scholer LLP

William A. Tanenbaum, Esq. is the international chair of Kaye Scholer LLP's Technology, Intellectual Property & Outsourcing practice and a partner in the firm's New York office. Mr. Tanenbaum, whose practice focuses on IP and IT law, has been identified as an "internationally recognized intellectual property, technology and outsourcing lawyer" by Chambers in its Guides to America's and The World's Leading Lawyers for Business . Chambers named him as a "Leading Individual" and awarded him "Recommended" ratings in technology and outsourcing law, selected him as "Notable Practitioner" at the national level in Business Process Outsourcing, and found that he has built "one of New York City's most outstanding transactional IT law practices." Mr. Tanenbaum, a co-author of a book on privacy and a columnist on "Privacy and Data Management" for the New York Law Journal, is a past President of the Computer Law Association and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Who"s Who in America, and The World"s Leading Lawyers. He is a graduate of Brown University (Phi Beta Kappa) and Cornell Law School.

 

Sydney E. Unger, Esq.

Kaye Scholer LLP

Sydney E. Unger, Esq. is Chair of the Tax Department of Kaye Scholer LLP and a partner in the firm’s New York office. An Adjunct Professor at New York Law School (LL.M. in Taxation Program), he formerly served as Chair of the Committee on Taxation of Corporations of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Mr. Unger, who practices in the area of tax law, concentrating in corporate and joint venture matters, as well as matters involving high-net-worth individuals, is a frequent lecturer and author and, in addition to his various bar memberships, he is a Certified Public Accountant.