professor gulasekaram's scholarship focuses on federalism and constitutional rights. hear from two scholars working on environmental law/climate change issues, energy issues, professor amy stein from the university of florida school of law who's going to be discussing the dynamics of cooperative federalism under the obama administration in the area of environmental law, her scholarship focuses on energy policy and climate change, and then finally we'll hear from professor hari osofsky from the university of minnesota, and she will explore president obama's use of executive in authority to address climate change in the context of federalism and energy partisanship. professor osofsky's scholarship focuses on governance and justice concerns related to energy and climate change, so thank you so much for joining us and we'll start with professor metzger. >> thank you. thank you, raquel, and i'm delighted to be here. in particular talking about the subject of this panel on the role of federalism and how it relates to congressional dysfunction and executive law making. i thi