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Environmental Law at Columbia Columbia Provided Me with an Excellent Foundation for the Practice of Environmental Law

Environmental Law at Columbia Columbia Provided Me with an Excellent Foundation for the Practice of Environmental Law

Environmental 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 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 Center for Columbia Curriculum Faculty Student Our Partner Career Climate Environmental Actvities Opportunities Full-time Earth Institute Change Law Law Clinic Columbia Adjuncts Journal of Environmental Law Columbia Environmental Law Society Student Animal Legal Fund ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AT COLUMBIA

Leading on the Environment

For more than 40 years, New York City has provided a stimulating backdrop against which Columbia has emerged as a leading center for the study of environmental law. In the earliest days of the , 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 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 environmental law, there is no better location.

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Center for Climate Change Law

Recent Publications “Climate change and developments are the next big things in environmental and ,” 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. (forthcoming) 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 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 Utility 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 Center for Climate Change Law tracks and interprets regulatory issues, devel- ops model and best practices for states, municipalities and other entities, informally advises public officials, and gives lectures and courses around the

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Center for Climate Change Law

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

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Environmental Law Clinic

Fracking, industrial agriculture, clean air, “smart growth,” 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) 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 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 , the Agency, Earthjustice, the Natural Resources 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 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’ coverage of injuries to interests in land, public and private nuisance, and Property, which explores fundamental questions of ownership, connect contemporary environmental law and litigation with their early sources. Second- and third-year students can supplement the environmental and energy law courses in the curriculum with , State and Local Government Law, and property and real 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 further enrich the study of the field.

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The Environmental Law Curriculum

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

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The Environmental Law Curriculum

Seminar in Energy Industry 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 utilities 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 Environmental Justice and : 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 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.

Animal Law: A look at the legal of non-human I came to Columbia Law School planning to animals, including a review of the relationship between focus on environmental law, and once I arrived I was humans and animals, how it can vary according to the use pleased—even somewhat overwhelmed—with all the to which animals are put and the scientific understanding of the capacities of various animal species. We investigate opportunities there. I watched debates about the classification of animals as “property”—whether it is “environmental issues (and went on hikes) with the appropriate or important and how such “property” can be Environmental Law Society; edited scholarly articles for legally valued—and discuss laws impacting people’s the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law; litigated relationship with pets, industry’s use of animals, including cases with the Environmental Law Clinic; networked animals in agriculture; current animal protection laws, with like-minded grad students in business, international both state and federal; as well as recent efforts to reform affairs, and science at the Earth Institute; and conducted these laws through legislation and litigation and the overall research and attended conferences hosted by the Center problems of litigating on behalf of animals. for Climate Change Law. As an honors attorney with the Environmental and Natural Resources Division of the Land Use Law: A survey and evaluation of the rules U.S. Department of Justice, I know my experience restricting the use of land and the various local ordinances, at Columbia Law School not only helped me land this state and constitutional doctrines limiting these restrictions. The objective of the course is to build an understanding of job, but helps me keep up with the challenges of the full range of powers—both constitutional and political— environmental litigation I encounter daily here as well. that local and state governments have to regulate use of privately owned land. Among the issues we address are zoning ordinances, subdivision, variances, growth controls, Ben Schifman ’11 community development, environmental impact review and Environmental and Natural Resources Division, regulatory takings. Students learn about and critique the U.S. Department of Justice of specific land use powers afforded state and ”

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FACULTY

Our faculty is distinguished by its depth of experience in all aspects of environmental law. Many faculty members are actively involved in litigating and shaping policy and law in the field, and all continue to contribute to the scholarship surrounding this dynamic discipline.

Full-Time

Michael B. Gerrard

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

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Full-Time

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 , on 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

Susan J. Kraham

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

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Full-Time

Michael Heller

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

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 Policies (2012), B.A., Rhodes Scholar, Oxford In the late 1980’s, Merrill served a leading casebook in the field. University as deputy 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 & Wood 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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ADJUNCT faculty

Susan E. Amron

Lecturer-in-Law: Environmental lawyer, she 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 &

Patricia J. Beneke

Lecturer-in-Law: staff member, she was instrumental in Early in her career, she was an attorney at Natural Resources Law the development and passage of the the Department of Agriculture and a trial Act of 1992, the Energy attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, J.D. Harvard University, Policy Act of 1995, and the Energy handling environmental litigation. She has B.A. Iowa State University Independence and Security Act of 2007. been a visiting lecturer in natural resources Beneke is a Democratic Senior Counsel Beneke was Associate Solicitor for law and policy at Harvard Law School. for the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Resources at the Department Energy and Natural Resources, where of the Interior during the Clinton she works on energy development on Administration and served as the public lands, , mining, oil Assistant Secretary of the Interior for and gas development, and national Water and Science from 1995 until 2000. energy policy. A longtime Committee

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. Politics, 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, , access to health care, environmental , 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

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ADJUNCT faculty

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

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 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: 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 Africa’s Animal in her field. Chief Court Attorney at the New York 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 , 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 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.

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Our Partner

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 Center for Climate Change Climate and Society; the National Center for Law is an Institute affiliate. Its Director, Michael Disaster Preparedness; and the Millennium Gerrard, and Edward Lloyd, Director of its Villages Project. 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 Susan Amron, ‘84, Chief, Practice Group, Arnold & Porter General Counsel, Wildlife Environmental Law Division, LLP—New York Office Conservation Society New York City Law Department Matthew Morreale ’97, Lisa Perfetto ’11, Steven N. Brautigam ’94, Assistant Partner-in-charge, Environmental Associate Attorney, Earthjustice Commissioner for Environmental Affairs, Practice, Cravath Swaine & Moore New York City Department of Sanitation Academia Daniel Riesel ’61, Name partner, Steve Bullock ’94, Karl Coplan ’84, Professor of Law Sive Paget & Riesel, an environmental Governor, Montana and Co-Director-Environmental Law law boutique in New York, with Clinic, Pace Law School Brenda Mallory ’83 colleagues Jeffrey Gracer ’85, General Counsel, Council Partner, and Devin McDougall ’12, Nicholas A. Robinson ’70, on , Associate University Professor and Executive Office of the President Gilbert & Sarah Karlin Distinguished Sarah H. Sigman ’08, Associate, Professor of Environmental Law, Janette Sadik-Kahn ’87, San Francisco environmental boutique Pace Law School Commissioner, New York City Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger Department of Transportation Not-for-Profits (to 2014) and In-House Kenneth S. Berlin ’73, Senior Vice Ben Schifman ’11 and Claire Christopher Angell ’10, President and General Counsel, Woods ’11, trial attorneys, and Corporate Counsel, Opower Coalition for Green Capital Alice Thurston ’84 , appellate Ira Feldman ’85, President and lawyer, Environmental and Jean Chen ‘06, Associate Counsel Senior Counsel, Greentrack Strategies Natural Resources Division, at Hudson River Foundation and U.S. Department of Justice Open Space Institute Frank Friedman ’65, President, Frank Friedman Associates, Carter H. Strickland Jr. ’95, Paul Gallay ’84, President and an environmental consulting firm. Commissioner, New York City Hudson Riverkeeper at Riverkeeper Department of Environmental Arundhati (Tinku) Khanwalkar ’83, Clay Hiles ’75, Executive Director, Protection (to 2014) Senior Director—Environmental Hudson River Foundation Law Firms Management, PPL Services Corporation Amanda Hungerford ’10, Theodore Garrett ’68, Attorney, The Humane Society Senior Counsel and former Peter Lehner ’84, head, Environmental Practice, Executive Director, Covington & Burling Natural Resources Defense Council

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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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