Paul M. Barrett, assistant managing editor and senior writer at Bloomberg Businessweek and author of the New York Timesbestseller Glock: The Rise of America’s Gun, American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion, and The Good Black: A True Story of Race in America, will discuss his forthcoming book, Law of the Jungle. Written with the flair of the best narrative nonfiction, Law of the Jungle is the gripping story of lawyer Steven Donziger's obsessive crusade—waged at any cost—against Big Oil on behalf of the poor farmers and indigenous tribes of the Amazon rainforest. After twenty years of no-holds-barred hostilities, Donziger won a $19 billion judgment against Chevron--the biggest environmental damages award in history. But when Chevron launched a damaging counter-attack, both Donziger and his case began to unravel...
Registration is required and lunch will be available. To register and for more information, please visit: http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/registrations/event/paul-m-barrett/
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Interdisciplinary Law and Policy Studies at the Moritz College of Law, Office of Energy and Environment, Environmental Policy Initiative, the School of Environment and Natural Resources, and the Poverty, Inequality and Changing Environments Working Group from the Center of Latin American Studies.
