Environmental and at Columbia Columbia provided me with an excellent foundation for the practice of . The faculty are outstanding, and I benefited greatly from their instruction, mentoring, and career advice. As an editor at the Columbia Journal of Environmental“ Law, I researched and published an academic article exploring a complex procedural issue encountered during an off-campus summer internship. The Sabin Center for Law’s activities fostered an energetic and fascinating dialogue on climate-related issues. Finally, learning the fundamentals of practice in the Environmental Law Clinic prepared me to hit the ground running as an associate at a New York City law firm specializing in environmental law.

Devin McDougall ’12 Sive Paget & Riesel, P.C. ”

CONTENTS 2 4 5 8 14 15 16 Sabin Center Columbia Curriculum Faculty Student Our Partner Career for Climate Environmental Actvities Earth Institute Opportunities Change Law Law Clinic Full-time Faculty Columbia Journal of Full-time Environmental Staff Law Adjuncts Columbia Environmental Law Society Student Animal Legal Defense Fund ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY LAW AT COLUMBIA

Leading on the Environment

For more than 40 years, New York City has provided a stimulating backdrop against which Columbia Law School has emerged as a leading center for the study of environmental law. In the earliest days of the environmental movement, armed with a social conscience and an awareness of burgeoning legal issues concerning the environment, Law School Professor Frank Grad—who had spent several years from 1959 and onward helping revise the New York City Health Code—created the school’s first seminar in environmental law and . In 1971, his notes for that course were transformed into Environmental Law: Sources and Problems, the first environmental law book produced at a major law school. From then on, New York has been at the fulcrum of the development of environ- mental law. As the headquarters city of the United Nations, the financial and media capital of the country, the center of a region facing great challenges, and the nation’s most dense and most vibrant city, New York has emerged not only as the laboratory for bold experiments in but also as the venue for much of the sharpest analysis and debate on the topic. Columbia University is deeply immersed in all of this. Its world-renowned Earth Institute is the home of much cutting-edge research in the physical and social sciences. At Columbia Law School, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and the Environmental Law Clinic, following in the spirit of Frank Grad, are forging new paths in the study, teaching and practice of environmental law. For a truly global perspective on envi- ronmental law, there is no better location.

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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

Recent Publications “Climate change and developments are the next big things in environmental and energy law,” Michael Gerrard, Andrew Sabin Professor of Global Climate Change and Professional Practice, told Greenwire in 2009. One of the world’s foremost environ- U.S. Law, 2nd ed. mental attorneys, Gerrard’s comments came just months after he joined the The Law of Clean Energy: Columbia Law School faculty and became founding director of the Sabin Center for Efficiency and Renewables Climate Change Law. “My goal is to make this Center a focus for legal innovation The Law of Adaptation to in the climate change arena,” he said. Climate Change: U.S. and International Aspects Since then, the Center has successfully pursued this goal, tackling thorny legal questions arising from climate change issues and advancing its mission to: Threatened Island Nations: Legal Aspects of Rising Seas  train climate change law’s next generation of leaders, and a Changing Climate Public Commissions  develop groundbreaking legal techniques to combat climate change and help & Energy Efficiency: A society cope with its effects, Handbook of Legal and Regulatory Tools for  develop legal materials useful to , public officials and students around Commissioners & Advocates the world. Managed Coastal Retreat: In collaboration with scientists at Columbia’s Earth Institute, the Law School’s A Legal Handbook on Shifting Development Away Environmental Law Clinic and New York’s many governmental, non-governmental From Vulnerable Areas and academic organizations, the Center probes for legal solutions to some of the Carbon Offshoring: field’s most difficult problems, including how to greatly increase the efficiency of The Legal and Regulatory energy systems, how U.S. coastal areas and their inhabitants can adapt to climate Framework for Exports change, and how small island nations whose very existence is threatened by climate change can make their case to the United Nations. The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law tracks and interprets regulatory issues; develops model and best practices for states, municipalities and other entities; informally advises public officials; and gives lectures and courses around the world.

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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

Students work side-by-side with faculty and staff attorneys on all of these projects, Recent Conferences and often produce publications under their own by-lines. “The work the students do with us is central to our work, and we have already helped launch several of Should Universities and them on careers in environmental law,” said Professor Gerrard. Pension Funds Divest from Stocks? Legal Issues in Managed Coastal Retreat A Critical Question: If a Country Sinks Beneath the Sea, The UN Climate Negotiations: is it Still a Country? Perspectives From a Small Island Nation Rising ocean levels brought about by climate Until just a few years ago, notes Michael What is the State of the change have created unprecedented legal Gerrard, head of the Center, it was difficult Art in Preparing for Extreme questions for small island nations and their to have a conversation in the international Weather Events? neighbors. Among them: If a country is community about how countries might The Future of the Regional completely submerged, is it still a country? adapt to climate change. “But now people Greenhouse Gas Initiative Does it keep its seat at the United Nations? recognize that the climate situation will get Who controls its offshore fishing and worse before it gets better, and we have to The Future of the Indian Point rights? Does it have any legal recourse begin making serious preparation,” he said. against those whose emissions contributed Gerrard has traveled to the Marshall Islands Climate Change, , to sea level rise? twice as part of this work, co-chaired a major and the WTO conference at Columbia with the Republic, U.S. Climate Change The Republic of Marshall Islands—a co-edited a book on their legal issues, and in the Context of Micronesian nation of 29 low-lying coral enlisted numerous students in the efforts to Congressional Paralysis atolls in the North Pacific—is struggling to assist the country and its people. He took Soaring Insurance Rates: secure its survival, and is working to attract the photograph (above left), of a burial vault, Should Congress Step In? international attention to vulnerable countries’ on his first trip in 2010. Revisiting the same plights. In 2009, the Republic enlisted the Extraterritoriality in EU Law: spot in 2013, he saw that the vault had Aviation, help of Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center slipped further toward the sea—, and Beyond for Climate Change Law. both literal and figurative, of the danger EPA Region II Conference posed to the nation’s heritage. (2010, 2012, 2014)

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Environmental Law Clinic

Fracking, industrial agriculture, clean air, “smart growth,” wetlands preservation, . From New York City and its metropolitan area to the most remote environments on the planet, the Environmental Law Clinic has tackled an enormous trove of environmental trouble. Led by noted environmental activists and litigators Professor Edward Lloyd (who established the Clinic in 2000 with the support of the Evan M. Frankel Foundation) and Susan Kraham, the student litigators have chalked up a series of victories that are helping to shape the future of environmental law. Clinic cases are chosen for their 1) educational opportunity, 2) ability to meet clients’ need for counsel and 3) environmental significance. In the one-semester course, students work in groups to represent organizational clients. They participate in weekly seminars, team meetings, simulations, and other exercises to help them hone valuable “lawyering” techniques; and independently, and in collaboration with other law clinics, develop and litigate cases. “I want my students to take away a number of skills from this Clinic: listening carefully to their clients, and analyzing strategies—including litigation, policy change, possible regulatory reform—to resolve them,” said Lloyd. “And even if students choose not to practice environmental law, I hope they take with them a sense of the breadth and depth of the environmental challenges facing this country and the world.” Clinic alumni have gone on to continue their work in posts at the Department of Justice, the Environmental Protection Agency, Earthjustice, the Natural Defense Council, other non-governmental agencies, firms, and in all levels of government.

Protecting the Red Knot: Clinic Scores a Win for the N.J. Audubon Society

In 2011, clinic students represented the New Jersey The problem: Industry’s harvest of the crabs has severely Audubon Society, which had been denied access to limited the supply of crab eggs for these hungry shorebirds. important information about the harvest of horseshoe And while there are that limit the harvest, efforts crabs in the Delaware Bay. to monitor compliance have been stymied by the State’s refusal to provide harvest reports. These crabs are critical to the survival of the Red Knot—a small bird that migrates each year from its wintering area in South The argument: In their challenge to the State, clinic America to its breeding ground in the Arctic. Every May, students cited its failure to provide these reports under New hundreds of thousands of Red Knots Jersey’s public information law. A third year student argued and other shorebirds arrive in the the matter before a trial judge who ruled that the State Delaware Bay where they gorge must turn over the documents to the Audubon Society. themselves on the fat-rich Resolution: This information will allow conservation biologists horseshoe crab eggs that give and advocates to continue to protect the Red Knot and them the energy needed for other threatened and endangered shorebird species. their journey north.

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Curriculum

Crafting a Specialty in Environmental Law Columbia Law School students with a keen interest in environmental law have a range of courses to choose from, beginning with two first-year foundation courses, and . Torts, which covers injuries to interests in and public and private nuisance, and Property, which explores fundamental questions of owner- ship, connect contemporary environmental law and litigation with their early com- mon law sources. The Law School offers a wide array of upper level electives in environmental and energy law. (See next page.) Second- and third-year students can supplement these courses with , State and Local Government Law, and property and real estate courses that address issues important to this specialty. They can also add to their environmental experience by enrolling in the Environmental Law Clinic. To deepen their knowledge of a particular area, Law School students can take advantage of graduate courses in Columbia University’s schools of engineering, business, international and public affairs, public health, and architecture and plan- ning, and its science and economics departments. The student-edited Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, the Environmental Law Society, and Environmental Moot Court further enrich the study of the field. An Environmental Law Advisory Committee advises the Dean and faculty of the Law School on its environmental programs. The Committee consists of distin- guished members of the private, public interest, and in-house bars and represen- tatives from the philanthropic community. Columbia’s environmental activities are further enhanced by the David Sive Memorial Fund, established in 2014 in honor of the late David Sive ’48, one of the pioneers of environmental law, by the law firm he co-founded, Sive Paget & Riesel. The fund supports conferences, lectures and other events on environmental law topics at Columbia.

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THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY LAW CURRICULUM

Administrative Law: Administrative agencies play a Environmental Law Clinic: Students in the Environ- critical role in determining the duties and entitlements of mental Law Clinic represent local, regional, and national the public. This course introduces students to the constitu- environmental and community organizations working to tional and statutory frameworks regulating administrative solve critical environmental challenges facing the agencies in their exercise of this authority. Focusing on the metropolitan region (see page 4). We have worked with major federal agencies, we consider the forms of agency community groups concerned about pollution and public action (e.g., and ) and the health, and with statewide and national organizations and procedures required by the Administrative Procedure Act; coalitions dealing with land conservation and transportation. constitutional constraints limiting agency action; and the In weekly seminars, students lead discussions on issues means used by Congress, the President, and the to they are facing in their cases. The clinic emphasizes litigation control and review what agencies do, plus some attendant skills that have applications beyond environmental law, such separation of powers questions. In addressing these as drafting pleadings, arguing motions, and negotiating issues, we consider both political and legal dynamics settlements, and exposes students to such mechanisms about the twenty-first-century administrative state. as citizen suits, that can be found in both civil rights and environmental cases. While this is a one-semester clinic, Environmental Law: A survey course introducing the students have the opportunity to continue working with basic problems and approaches that characterize contem- clients in subsequent semesters. porary environmental . We review the ecological and economic justifications for government regulation to International Environmental Law: A survey of the protect the environment, and examine the strategies and foundations of international environmental law. We explore tools for doing so. We focus primarily on the Clean Air Act, a broad range of contemporary international environmental the Clean Act, the National Environmental Policy issues including loss, the marine environment, Act, the Superfund law, and the Endangered Species Act. , genetic resources and issues, and trade. We examine the relationship Climate Change Law and Policy: An overview of the between international environmental law and general legal tools available to combat global climate change and principles of ; the role of “soft” and “hard” to adapt to its impact. We evaluate the evolution of the law in addressing international environmental problems; international legal regime for addressing climate change and and the contribution of international to the attempts to develop a U.S. regulatory scheme, and look at development of international environmental law. how energy efficiency, renewable energy sources, coal, and forestry and agriculture figure in the process. We discuss the Advanced Seminar in Climate Change Law: implications for international human rights, trade, environmental A seminar devoted to an exploration of selected issues at justice, and and examine special challenges posed the cutting edge of climate regulation. Topics vary each by China. Proposals for adaptation to climate change and year depending on new and impending developments. geo-engineering are examined as well. Students prepare a major paper and engage in vigorous dialogs with guest speakers and each other. Energy Regulation: A course devoted to the regulation of energy resources, and facilities, paying special attention Environmental Issues in Business Transactions: to the current and future roles of , renewable This class explores how environmental laws affect a host of energy, energy efficiency, nuclear power and the regulation business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, and deregulation of . We discuss rate and service securities offerings, lending and secured transactions and regulation; the responsibilities of the Federal Energy real estate development—in virtually every industry, from Regulatory Commission and state public utility commissions; heavy manufacturing to Internet commerce. Students and energy law’s interaction with environmental law. study how environmental liabilities and risks are identified, evaluated and allocated in corporate transactions and Natural Resources Law: A seminar on natural resources what regulatory, market and political forces are at play. law in the U.S. Drawing on pertinent cases, and regulations we cover public management, , and Gas Law: This course provides an overview of National Parks and National Monuments, , forestry, oil and gas law, from its traditional roots in the coastal resources, oil and gas development on the Outer of property and to more recent developments in Continental Shelf, water law, conservation on agricultural administrative law and regulations. Students learn about how lands, and ecosystem-scale approaches. the law has shifted from a focus on production to a concern

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THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY LAW CURRICULUM

for safety and the environment, and will consider mod- zoning ordinances, subdivision, variances, growth controls, ern-day complexities posed by exploration in the eastern community development, environmental impact review and , offshore drilling, and . regulatory takings. Students learn about and critique the of specific powers afforded state and Seminar in Restructuring: local governments and explore how it influences the This course requires students to apply concepts from practice of land use, environmental, and real estate law, a variety of doctrinal areas to a hypothetical complex including administrative procedure and . transaction involving the merger of two electric utility companies.The course goes through all phases of this Environmental Law Moot Court transaction, from initial consideration of whether to Sponsored by the Environmental Law Society and falling go forward, to determination of its structure and financing, under the Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison Moot negotiations between the buyer and the seller, securing Court Program, the fall semester’s Environmental Moot board approval, obtaining regulatory approvals, presenta- Court offers students the opportunity to hone their tions to the investment community and rating agencies, skills in appellate brief writing and master the art of proxy solicitation and shareowner vote, closing, and oral argument. The Moot Court’s environmental legal structuring the new company. Particular emphasis will be problems are selected from those posed by the National devoted to issues that are distinctive to regulated in Environmental Law Moot Court Competition held annually the energy industry. at Pace Law School. Issues are drawn from real cases and argued by three adversarial teams, reflecting the and Environmental Health: often complex, multi-party nature of environmental In this seminar examining the role of legal advocacy in the litigation. Teams engage in oral arguments, adjudicated context of the environmental justice movement, its origins, by noted environmental law practitioners as well as tenets, challenges, and strategies, we focus specifically Law School faculty. on issues of environmental health addressed by the movement, including exposure to toxics, special problems In the spring semester, the Society sponsors one team to related to the impact of industrial agriculture, and human compete in the National Environmental Law Moot Court health problems associated with pesticide use. We competition, based on a short writing competition. examine legal strategies to address issues of environmental health that disproportionately affect low income communities and communities of color. I came to Columbia Law School planning to focus on environmental law, and once I arrived I was Animal Law: A look at the legal of non-human pleased—even somewhat overwhelmed—with all the animals, including a review of the relationship between opportunities there. I watched debates about humans and animals, how it can vary according to the use environmental issues (and went on hikes) with the to which animals are put and the scientific understanding “ Environmental Law Society; edited scholarly articles for of the capacities of various animal species. We investigate the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law; litigated the classification of animals as “property”—whether it is cases with the Environmental Law Clinic; networked appropriate or important and how such “property” can be with like-minded grad students in business, international legally valued—and discuss laws impacting people’s affairs, and science at the Earth Institute; and conducted relationship with pets, industry’s use of animals, including research and attended conferences hosted by the Sabin animals in agriculture; current animal protection laws, both state and federal; as well as recent efforts to reform Center for Climate Change Law. As an honors attorney these laws through legislation and litigation and the overall with the Environmental and Natural Resources Division problems of litigating on behalf of animals. of the U.S. Department of Justice, I know my experience at Columbia Law School not only helped me land this Land Use Law: A survey and evaluation of the rules job, but helps me keep up with the challenges of restricting the use of land and the various local ordinances, environmental litigation I encounter daily here as well. state and constitutional doctrines limiting these restrictions. The objective of the course is to build an understanding of Ben Schifman ’11 the full range of powers—both constitutional and political— Environmental and Natural Resources Division, that local and state governments have to regulate use of U.S. Department of Justice privately owned land. Among the issues we address are ” 7 ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY LAW AT COLUMBIA

FULL-TIME FACULTY

Michael B. Gerrard

Andrew Sabin Professor The nation’s most prolific writer 10,000-member Section of of Professional Practice, on environmental law—he has Environment, Energy and Faculty Director, written or edited 11 books Resources, the Sabin Center for and hundreds of articles— Committee of the New York Climate Change Law Gerrard is a two-time winner City Association, and and Associate Chair of of the Association of American the Environmental Law Section the faculty of Columbia Publishers’ Best Law Book of the New York State Bar University’s Earth Institute award. Since 1986 he has Association. Several independent been an environmental law rating services ranked Gerrard J.D. New York University School columnist for the New York as the leading environmental of Law, B.A. Columbia College Law Journal. in New York and one of the leading environmental Gerrard joined the Columbia Gerrard has served on the lawyers in the world. Law School faculty in 2009 executive committees of the after 30 years practicing boards of the Environmental environmental law in New York, Law Institute and the Ameri- most recently as partner-in- can College of Environmental charge of the New York office Lawyers, and as chair of the of Arnold & Porter LLP. American Bar Association’s

Edward Lloyd

Evan M. Frankel Clinical Interest Research Group, member of the New Jersey Professor in Environmental where he spent ten years. Supreme Court Committee Law and Director, He continues to serve as its on Environmental Litigation. Environmental Law Clinic general counsel. Lloyd has testified before the U.S. Senate and House of J.D. University of Wisconsin Lloyd has lectured on environ- Representatives committees Law School, B.A. Chemistry, mental legal issues at Judicial on environmental enforcement. Princeton University College for New Jersey judges, on citizen suit litigation at the Lloyd has played a prominent Practicing Law Institute and role in protecting New Jersey’s ALI/ABA, and at numerous environment for more than environmental courses for the 30 years. In 2000, he came to practicing bar at the New Columbia to launch its Environ- Jersey Institute for Legal mental Law Clinic, after 15 years Education. He is a co-founder as director and founder of the and co-director of the Eastern Rutgers University Law School Environmental Law Center, a Environmental Law Clinic. member of the New Jersey After graduating from law Pinelands Commission and the school, Lloyd began his career Litigation Review Committee as an environmental advocate of the Environmental Defense with the New Jersey Public Fund, and has served as a

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FULL-TIME FACULTY

Michael Heller

Lawrence A. Wien University of Michigan Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Professor of Real Estate Law Business School’s William He is a widely published author Davidson Institute and was a of texts and articles exploring J.D. Stanford Law School, term member of the Council on a variety of land ownership A.B. Harvard College Foreign Relations. He has been issues, including the celebrated One of America’s leading a visiting professor at UCLA The Gridlock Economy: How authorities on property, Heller School of Law, Fellow at the Too Much Ownership Wrecks joined the Columbia Law Center for Advanced Study Markets, Stops Innovation, and Faculty in 2002 and teaches in the Behavioral Sciences Costs (Basic Books 2008). property, land use, and real (2004-05), visiting professor at estate law. Prior to his tenure NYU Law School, Olin Senior at Columbia, he taught at the Fellow at Columbia, and University of Michigan Law visiting lecturer at Yale Law School where he received School. In the early 90’s, Heller the L. Hart Wright Award for worked at the World Bank on excellence in teaching. post-socialist He co-directed corporate transition. He clerked for the governance research at the Honorable James R. Browning,

Thomas Merrill

Charles Evans Hughes also taught at Northwestern L. Bazelon, U.S. Court of Professor of Law University Law School, where Appeals for the District of he was the John Paul Stevens Columbia Circuit. Among his J.D. University of Chicago Law Professor of Law. written works is Property: School, B.A. Grinnell College, Principles and (2012), B.A., Rhodes Scholar, Oxford In the late 1980’s, Merrill served a leading casebook in the field. University as deputy solicitor general in the U.S. Department of Justice, An expert in three fields— representing the country before property, administrative and the U.S. Supreme Court. He environmental law—Merrill was “of counsel” with Sidley joined the law school in 2003 Austin Brown & for more as Charles Keller Beekman than twenty years. Professor of Law, and was named to his current position He clerked for the Honorable in 2009. Merrill came to Columbia Harry A. Blackmun, U.S. Supreme from Yale Law School, and had Court; and the Honorable David

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FULL-TIME STAFF

Susan J. Kraham

Senior Staff Attorney, has supervised clinic students ernmental organizations Environmental Law Clinic exploring the impact of to analyse and assess the and Lecturer-in-Law, agricultural practices on environmental impact of Columbia Law School security and the environment, mineral extraction . and transparency in food J.D. Columbia Law School, Prior to joining the Environmental labeling and regulation. M.A. Urban Planning-New York Law Clinic faculty, she served University-Wagner School, Also involved in clean water as Counsel to the New Jersey B.A. Columbia College and domestic and international Audubon Society. Before that, extractive industry projects, she was Associate Clinical Kraham has spent her legal she has worked on a number of Professor at Rutgers Law career representing public state court cases addressing School, Newark. Kraham clerked interest clients with a particular concerns surrounding hydraulic for the Honorable Justice Gary focus on environmental and fracturing, including the team Stein of the New Jersey land use law. Currently leading that successfully challenged Supreme Court, and has served the Clinic’s efforts on Concen- Pennsylvania’s efforts to strip as both a Skadden Fellow and trated Animal Feeding Opera- local government of its zoning an Echoing Green Fellow. tions (CAFOs) and other issues authority as it relates to at the intersection of agricul- fracking. Internationally, she ture and the environment, she has partnered with non-gov-

Michael Burger

Executive Director, Sabin the law school’s environmental coalition of the nation’s largest Center for Climate Change and land use law clinical local government associations in Law and Lecturer-in-Law, externship program. Prior to the U.S. Supreme Court case Columbia Law School that, he taught in the Lawyering American Trucking Associations program at NYU School of Law. v. City of Los Angeles. He is also J.D. Columbia Law School, a co-founder of the Environmen- M.F.A.-Creative Writing Before beginning his career in tal Law Collaborative. New York University, the legal academy Burger served B.A. Brown University as an environmental attorney at the Office of the Corporation A prolific scholar and accom- Counsel for the City of New plished litigator, Burger joined York, where he litigated and the law school as the first Execu- counseled the City on issues tive Director of the Sabin Center ranging from global warming and in 2015. Previously he was energy efficiency to protection of Associate Professor at Roger the City’s to the Williams University School of renovation of Washington Law, where he taught adminis- Square Park. More recently, he trative law, environmental law was counsel of record to a and law & literature, and directed

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ADJUNCT FACULTY

Susan E. Amron

Lecturer-in-Law: Environmental lawyer, she counsels City agencies Gallagher. While at Columbia Law Law Moot Court about the requirements of federal, School, she was an editor for its state, and local environmental and Journal of Law and Social Problems. J.D. Columbia Law School, land use laws and represents the City B.A. Yale University as both a plaintiff and a defendant Amron is Chief of the Environmental in litigation involving a broad range of Law Division of the New York City Law environmental and land use laws. Department and has practiced environ- Before joining the New York City Law mental law for the City for more than 20 Department, Amron spent six years as years. As the City’s chief environmental a litigation associate at Willkie Farr &

Marianne Engelman Lado

Lecturer-in-Law: Environmental the effects of environmental contamination NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Justice and Environmental Health on vulnerable and overburdened Fund, Inc. (LDF), where she represented populations. She previously served for clients attempting to break barriers of J.D. University of California at Berkeley, ten years as General Counsel at New access to health care and quality education. M.A. , Princeton University, York Lawyers for the Public Interest, a B.A. Cornell University non-profit civil rights law firm, where she Lado joined Earthjustice in 2010 as Chair directed a legal and advocacy program of the Environmental Health Practice focused on racial and ethnic disparities in Group, focusing on toxics, pesticides, access to health care, environmental waste, the health impacts of industrial justice, and disability rights. She began agriculture, civil rights enforcement, and her legal career as a staff attorney at the

Robert J. Grey

Lecturer-in-Law: Seminar in Corporation, a major energy company. counsel for the New York Public Service Energy Industry Restructuring Prior to joining PPL in 1995 he was Commission, and he served as an general counsel for Long Island Lighting attorney for the U.S. Environmental J.D. Emory University, Co. Prior to that, he had been a partner Protection Agency. LL.M. George Washington University, with the law firm of Preston Gates & Ellis B.A. Columbia University (now K&L Gates) in Seattle, Washington, Grey is executive vice president, and Portland, Oregon. His experience general counsel and secretary of PPL also includes several years as a staff

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ADJUNCT FACULTY

Saritha Komatireddy

Lecturer-in-Law: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Oil and Gas Law Offshore Drilling. She previously taught Oil and Gas Law at George Washington J.D. Harvard University, University Law School; worked as an B.A. Harvard University associate with Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Komatireddy is an Assistant U.S. Todd, Evans & Figel; and clerked for Attorney for the Eastern District of New Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh of the U.S. York. She served as counsel to the Court of Appeals for the District of National Commission on the BP Columbia.

Matthew Morreale

Lecturer-in-Law: Environmental advises Cravath’s clients on environmental periodic reporting obligations under Issues in Business Transactions matters relating to mergers and acquisi- securities laws. He lectures and writes on tions, securities offerings and financings environmental topics, and has served on J.D. Columbia Law School, M.S., B.A. in the U.S. and abroad. He also provides the Board of Directors of the Columbia and B.A.S., University of Pennsylvania counseling on environmental compliance Journal of Environmental Law since 1997. A partner in the Corporate Department of matters; environmental and toxic Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, in charge litigation; environmental indemnification of its environmental practice, Morreale disputes; and environmental aspects of

Ken Rivlin

Lecturer-in-Law: Environmental regulatory risk in transactions involving a Prior to joining Allen & Overy, he worked Issues in Business Transactions wide range of industries, compliance with at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP and U.S. and EU environmental requirements, McCarter & English LLP. J.D. Boston University, emissions trading and climate change, B.A. Brown University environmental disputes, toxic tort risk, Rivlin heads Allen & Overy’s Global SEC disclosure requirements and Environmental Law Group, their U.S. corporate governance issues. Rivlin Environmental and Regulatory Law also advises on the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Group and U.S. Pro Bono Program. Practices Act (FCPA), dealings with He advises on environmental and OFAC-sanctioned countries, Exon-Florio and similar matters.

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ADJUNCT FACULTY

Mariann Sullivan

Lecturer-in-Law: Animal Law of the New York City Bar Association Program Director, and serves on the and the Animal Law Committee of the Board of Directors of Animal Welfare J.D. Fordham University School of Law, American Bar Association’s Tort Trial Trust and Animal Welfare Advocacy. B.A. Newton College Insurance Practice Section. A frequent She is a former member of the boards Sullivan, an adjunct professor of animal speaker at conferences and animal law of Farm Sanctuary and The Animals law at Brooklyn Law School and Cardozo related events throughout the country, Agenda, and a prolific writer on issues Law School, recently retired as Deputy as well as Animal Rights ’s Animal in her field. Chief Court Attorney at the New York Law Review Consultation Workshop in State Appellate Division, First Department. Johannesburg, she is currently the She has served as chair of the Committee president of the Board of Directors of Our on Legal Issues Pertaining to Animals Hen House, as well as that organization’s

Evan van Hook

Lecturer-in-Law: the New Jersey Department of Hudson Riverkeeper, the Board of the International Environmental Law Environmental Protection from 2002 Old Chatham Conservation Association, to 2004. He is a former Chair of the and the Advisory Board of the Yale J.D. Yale University Law School, Environmental Law Committee of the Center for Business and the Environment. B.A. Trinity College New York City Bar Association and a Van Hook is Corporate Vice President for former member of the Board of Directors Health, Safety, Environment & Remediation of the Paul Taylor Dance Company and for Honeywell International. A former of Work 101, a nonprofit organization partner in the law firm of Sidley Austin, providing worker training. He currently he served as Assistant Commissioner of serves on the Advisory Board of the

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student activities

The Columbia Journal of Environmental Law Student Animal Legal Defense Fund (SALDF) Founded in 1972 with a grant from the Ford Foundation, SALDF is a student chapter of the national Animal Legal the Journal is one of the oldest and most preeminent Defense Fund, which aims to advance the interests of environmental law journals in the country. Recognized for its animals through the legal system. Its film screenings, innovative scholarship on emerging areas of environmental lunches and other events bring together those with a law, its articles have contributed substantially to the shared interest in animal welfare and/or animal rights. evolution of laws in this specialty. And it helps connect students to pro bono and career opportunities in the field of animal law. Published twice a year, the Journal is managed by second- and third-year law school students. It showcases both the scholarship of leading environmental lawyers and academics, and student work, featured in its “2L Note” program. Law school staff also publishes an on-line journal, “Field Notes,” which, like its print counterpart, features works by leading academics and practitioners as well as students.

Environmental Law Society Students concerned about environmental issues and/or interested in environmental careers are welcome to join the Environmental Law Society. The society offers a host of opportunities for involvement—promoting environmental efforts at the Law School among them. The strength of the Environmental Law Clinic was a major factor in my choice Each year, the group hosts some of the world’s top to go to Columbia Law School. I could not environmental practitioners from government, public interest groups, and private law firms at a variety of have“ made a better decision. The clinic was events, ranging from informal luncheons and panel by far the highlight of my law school experi- discussions to Earth Day Celebrations, and gets ence. It really is a tremendous opportunity involved with the New York City community through group events like park clean-ups and tree-planting. to challenge yourself, build new skills, and receive the best hands-on instruction you could ask for. My time in the clinic gave me the skills and network I needed to move directly into a career in public interest environmental law. I would not be where I am today without that experience.

Lisa Perfetto ’11 Earthjustice ” 14 ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY LAW AT COLUMBIA

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THE EARTH INSTITUTE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Widely recognized as the world’s foremost Institute’s multi-disciplinary faculty, with Gerrard organization addressing the challenges of global serving as Associate Chair of this faculty and , the Earth Institute’s 850 Lloyd as Chair of the faculty Practice Committee. scientists, postdoctoral fellows, staff and students Law School students participate in its gover- work across many disciplines to find solutions for nance as members of its advisory board and problems in public health, poverty, energy, ecosys- have the opportunity to take courses with faculty tems, climate, natural hazards and urbanization. in other schools in the university. Established in 1995, its experts collaborate with More than 30 research centers are under the corporations, government agencies, non-profits, Institute’s umbrella, including the Center for individuals, national governments and the United Research on Environmental Decisions; the Center Nations to help educate the next generation of for Climate Systems Research; the Columbia leaders in this important area. Water Center; the Lamont-Doherty Earth Obser- vatory; the International Research Institute for The Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Climate and Society; the National Center for Law is an Institute affiliate. Its Faculty Director, Disaster Preparedness; and the Millennium Michael Gerrard, and Edward Lloyd, Director of Villages Project. its Environmental Law Clinic, are members of the

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OUR STUDENTS AND GRADUATES: CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

The Environmental Law program at Columbia Law School prepares students for careers in a wide variety of organizations. Our presence in New York City enables us to place students in internships with not-for-profit advocacy organizations, federal, state and local government agencies, United Nations consulates, and private law firms, ranging in size from small environmental boutiques to large national and international firms These placements often lead to full-time jobs, either immediately after law school, or after judicial clerkships. And many of our students go on to similar jobs in other cities.

Here’s a snapshot of where just a few of our graduates are today

Government Nelson Johnson ’92, Christopher McKenzie ’92, Partner-in-charge, Environmental Senior Vice President and ‘ Chief, Susan Amron, 84, Practice Group, Arnold & Porter General Counsel, Environmental Law Division, LLP—New York Office Conservation Society New York City Law Department Matthew Morreale ’97, Michael Panfil ’11, Attorney,

Suzanne Alana Beddoe ’93, Partner-in-charge, Environmental Environmental Defense Fund Senior Vice President and Practice, Cravath Swaine & Moore General Counsel, New York State Caitlin Peale ’11, Attorney, Environmental Facilities Corp. Daniel Riesel ’61, Name partner, Conservation Law Foundation Sive Paget & Riesel, an environmental law Assistant Steven N. Brautigam ’94, boutique in New York, with colleagues Lisa Perfetto ’11, Commissioner for Environmental Affairs, Associate Attorney, Earthjustice Jeffrey Gracer ’85, Partner, and New York City Department of Devin McDougall ’12, Associate Daniel Raichel ’11, Attorney, Steve Bullock ’94, Natural Resources Defense Council Sarah H. Sigman ’08, Associate, San Governor, Montana Francisco environmental boutique Shute, Academia Brenda Mallory ’83 Mihaly & Weinberger Executive Director General Counsel, Council Michael Burger ’03, Not-for-Profits Sabin Center for Climate Change Law on Environmental Quality, Executive Office of the President Kenneth S. Berlin ’73, Senior Vice Karl Coplan ’84, Professor of Law and President and General Counsel, Co-Director-Environmental Law Clinic, Janette Sadik-Kahn ’87, Coalition for Green Capital Pace Law School Commissioner, New York City Department of Transportation (to 2014) Jean Chen ’06, Associate Counsel Susan J. Kraham ‘92 Senior Staff at Hudson River Foundation and Open Attorney, Columbia Law School Alice Thurston ’84, Samantha Klein Space Institute Environmental Law Clinic Frank ’00, Emily M. Meeker ’08, Vivian H.W. Wang ’08, Travis Annatoyn ’10, J. William Futrell ’65, President (retired), Nicholas A. Robinson ’70, Ben Schifman ’11, and Claire Environmental Law Institute University Professor and ’11, Attorneys with the Environmental Gilbert & Sarah Karlin Distinguished Paul Gallay ’84, President and and Natural Resources Division, Professor of Environmental Law, Hudson Riverkeeper at Riverkeeper U.S. Department of Justice Pace Law School David G. Hawkins ’70, Carter H. Strickland Jr. ’95, Environmental Consulting and In-House Director of Climate Programs, Commissioner, New York City Department Natural Resources Defense Council of Environmental Protection (to 2014) Christopher Angell ’10, Corporate Counsel, Opower Law Firms Clay Hiles ’75, Executive Director, Hudson River Foundation Ira Feldman ’85, President and Senior Theodore Garrett ’68, Counsel, Greentrack Strategies

Senior Counsel and former Amanda Hungerford ’10, Attorney, The Humane Society head, Environmental Practice, Frank Friedman ’65, President, Frank Friedman Associates, Covington & Burling Peter Lehner ’84, an environmental consulting firm. Executive Director, William H. Hyatt, Jr. ’64, Natural Resources Defense Council Environmental partner, K&L Gates Arundhati (Tinku) Khanwalkar ’83, Senior Director—Environmental Management, PPL Services Corporation

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SABIN CENTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE LAW

Professor Michael B. Gerrard, Director [email protected] (212) 854-3287

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CLINIC

Professor Edward Lloyd, Director [email protected] (212) 854-4376

DEVELOPMENT OFFICE

Barbara Diamond, Director of Corporate & Foundation Relations [email protected] (212) 854-1379

OFFICE OF ADMISSIONS

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