Energy & Environmental Policy Workshop Series
Pepperdine School of Public Policy will be hosting its inaugural Energy & Environmental Policy Series in Fall 2024 and will consist of three workshops on methodology for energy and environmental policy analysis. These 90-minute workshops are designed to complement MPP 617, the course on “Designing and Writing Research Proposals,” but are open to all students. These workshops will introduce students to some of the central analytical questions involved in energy and environment along with the key data sources to master, and major areas and specific examples of promising Capstone topics.
Upcoming Sessions
Monday, September 16, 2024 I Noon – 1:30 pm I Online Webinar
This first of three methodology workshops are intended primarily for students interested in doing their Capstone projects in the area. In this session, Prof. Steven Hayward will introduce key general questions, and preview the spring semester seminar on the subject that is open to all interested students.
Monday, September 30, 2024 I Noon – 1:30 pm I Center for Learning and Technology, Room 159
Good policy analysis of energy and environment is heavily data dependent, and this workshop will introduce the major data sources for students to master, as well as some opening techniques for using the data.
Monday, October 7, 2024 I Noon – 1:30 pm I Center for Learning and Technology, Room 159
The domains of energy and environment exist within elaborate legal and regulatory frameworks. This workshop will introduce some of the basic frameworks, and conclude with suggestions for possible research and Capstone projects in the field.
Featured Speaker: Steven Hayward
Before returning to SPP as the Edward L. Gaylord Visiting Professor of Public Policy,
Hayward was a resident scholar at UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies,
and a fellow of the Law and Policy Program at Berkeley Law. Hayward joined the School
of Public Policy as the William E. Simon Distinguished Visiting Professor in 2013
and the Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy from 2014 to 2016
From 2002 to 2012 Hayward was the F.K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow in Law and Economics at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC. He is currently a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco.
He frequently writes on a wide range of current topics, including environmentalism, law, economics, and public policy for publications including National Review, Reason, The Weekly Standard, The American Spectator, The Public Interest, the Claremont Review of Books, and the Policy Review at the Hoover Institution. His newspaper articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, and dozens of other daily newspapers. Hayward is the author of a two-volume narrative history of Ronald Reagan and his effect on American political life, The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964-1980, and The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counter-Revolution, 1980-1989 (CrownForum books). His other books include Index of Leading Environmental Indicators; The Almanac of Environmental Trends; Mere Environmentalism: A Biblical Perspective on Humans and the Natural World, Churchill on Leadership; Greatness: Reagan, Churchill, and the Making of Extraordinary Leaders; Patriotism Is Not Enough; and M. Stanton Evans: Conservative Wit, Apostle of Freedom.
Hayward received a Ph.D. in American studies and M.A. in government from Claremont Graduate School and a B.S. in business and administrative studies from Lewis and Clark College.