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Columbia provided me with an excellent foundation for the practice of environmental law. 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 Climate Change Law’s activities fostered an energetic and Leading on the Environment 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.

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Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United Fighting Back Against Attacks States on Climate Science Climate Engineering and Climate Change, the Courts, the Law: Regulation and and the Paris Agreement Liability for Solar Radiation A Critical Question: If a Country Sinks Beneath the Sea, Can Fossil Fuel Companies Management and Carbon is it Still a Country? Be Held Liable for Climate Dioxide Removal Change? Climate Change, Public Health, Rising ocean levels brought about by climate difficult to have a conversation in the interna- Offshore Wind in New York: and the Law change continue to create unprecedented tional community about how countries might What’s Next? Global Climate Change and legal questions for small island nations. adapt to climate change. “But now people Weathering the Storm: U.S. Law, 2nd ed. Among them: If a country is completely recognize that the climate situation will get Resilience & Sustainability in The Law of Clean Energy: submerged, is it still a country? Does it keep worse before it gets better, and we have to Design and Construction Efficiency and Renewables its seat at the United Nations? Who controls begin making serious preparation,” he says. Using Green Infrastructure for its offshore fishing and mineral rights? Does it Climate Change Adaptation The Law of Adaptation to Gerrard has traveled to the Marshall Islands have any legal recourse against those whose and Hazard Mitigation Climate Change: U.S. and multiple times, co-chaired a major conference International Aspects emissions contributed to sea level rise? at Columbia Law with the republic, co-edited a New York Sea Level Rise Projections: Implications for Threatened Island Nations: The Republic of Marshall Islands—a book on its issues, worked with the republic’s Law, Land Use, Buildings and Legal Aspects of Rising Seas Micronesian nation of 29 low-lying coral atolls delegation in the Paris Agreement negotiations, and a Changing Climate Infrastructure in the Pacific just north of the equator—is researched its authority to regulate emissions Should Universities and struggling to secure its survival and is working from ships, and enlisted numerous students Pension Funds Divest from to attract international attention to the plight in the efforts to assist the country and its Fossil Fuel Stocks? of vulnerable countries. In 2009, the republic people. He took the photograph (above left), Legal Issues in Managed enlisted the help of Columbia Law School’s of a burial vault, on his first trip in 2010. Coastal Retreat Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. Revisiting the same spot in 2013, he saw that the sea had risen closer to the vault— EPA Region II Bi-Annual Until just a few years ago, notes Michael Conference (2010 – present) evidence, both literal and figurative, of the Gerrard, faculty director of the center, it was danger posed to the nation’s heritage. Annual David Sive Memorial Lecture (2015 – present) ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY LAW AT COLUMBIA ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY LAW AT COLUMBIA

Environmental Law Clinic Curriculum

Battling Pipelines to Promote Clean Energy

In 2018, clinic students represented the New Jersey directly challenging FERC’s approval of PennEast’s Conservation Foundation and Hunterdon Land Trust, which project. These clinic cases are part of the clinic’s broader were named defendants in land seizure proceedings by clean energy advocacy project. the PennEast Pipeline Company. (PennEast sought to The problem: Fossil fuel infrastructure projects are rapidly condemn conservation lands, state public recreational proliferating as private companies assert that they are a lands, and small, independent farms for its pipeline.) needed “bridge” to a clean energy future. These projects Students also brought a Fifth Amendment challenge cause myriad economic and environmental harms, and against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s are an obstacle to achieving greenhouse gas emissions (“FERC”) practice of approving 99% of pipeline project The course offerings at Columbia built my foundation in the law, while hands-on reductions essential for decelerating climate change. proposals without sufficient economic or environmental experience with the Environmental Law Clinic introduced me to the fundamentals analysis. And the clinic joined the State of New Jersey in The argument: FERC’s rubber stamping of fossil fuel of practice. Throughout my time the outstanding faculty mentored me and guided launching a suit infrastructure projects violates the Natural Gas Act and “ me into the field of environmental law. the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution by failing to Channing Wistar-Jones ’17 ensure that they serve any public benefit. Environmental Protection Bureau, New York State Office of the Attorney General” ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY LAW AT COLUMBIA ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY LAW AT COLUMBIA

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Administrative agencies play a Students in the Environ- transaction, from initial consideration of whether to by noted environmental law practitioners as well as critical role in determining the duties and entitlements of mental Law Clinic represent local, regional, and national go forward, to determination of its structure and financing, Law School faculty. the public. This course introduces students to the constitu- environmental and community organizations working to negotiations between the buyer and the seller, securing tional and statutory frameworks regulating administrative solve critical environmental challenges facing the board approval, obtaining regulatory approvals, presenta- In the spring semester, the Society sponsors one team to agencies in their exercise of this authority. Focusing on the metropolitan region (see page 4). We have worked with tions to the investment community and rating agencies, compete in the National Environmental Law Moot Court major federal agencies, we consider the forms of agency community groups concerned about pollution and public proxy solicitation and shareowner vote, closing, and competition, based on a short writing competition. action (e.g., rulemaking and adjudication) and the health, and with statewide and national organizations and structuring the new company. Particular emphasis will be procedures required by the Administrative Procedure Act; coalitions dealing with land conservation and transportation. devoted to issues that are distinctive to regulated utilities in Students constitutional constraints limiting agency action; and the In weekly seminars, students lead discussions on issues the energy industry. who have completed the Environmental Law Clinic have means used by Congress, the President, and the courts to they are facing in their cases. The clinic emphasizes litigation the opportunity to engage more deeply in the work of the control and review what agencies do, plus some attendant skills that have applications beyond environmental law, such A look at the legal status of non-human Clinic and to take on an even more significant role with separation of powers questions. In addressing these as drafting pleadings, arguing motions, and negotiating animals, including a review of the relationship between respect to Clinic cases and projects. issues, we consider both political and legal dynamics settlements, and exposes students to such mechanisms humans and animals, how it can vary according to the use about the twenty-first-century administrative state. as citizen suits, that can be found in both civil rights and to which animals are put and the scientific understanding environmental cases. While this is a one-semester clinic, of the capacities of various animal species. We investigate How can extractive industry investments be leveraged for A survey course introducing the students have the opportunity to continue working with the classification of animals as “property”—whether it is sustainable and equitable development, particularly in basic problems and approaches that characterize contem- clients in subsequent semesters. appropriate or important and how such “property” can be low-income resource-rich countries? What is the interna- porary environmental regulation. We review the ecological legally valued—and discuss laws impacting people’s tional, national and regional regulatory framework under and economic justifications for government regulation to A survey of the relationship with pets, industry’s use of animals, including which such investments are made? How can the challeng- protect the environment, and examine the strategies and foundations of international environmental law. We explore animals in agriculture; current animal protection laws, es of poverty alleviation, environmental sustainability, and tools for doing so. We focus primarily on the Clean Air Act, a broad range of contemporary international environmental both state and federal; as well as recent efforts to reform governance be addressed in an integrated, multi-stake- the Clean Water Act, the National Environmental Policy issues including biodiversity loss, the marine environment, these laws through legislation and litigation and the overall holder framework for extractive industry investments that Act, the Superfund law, and the Endangered Species Act. ozone depletion, genetic resources and intellectual problems of litigating on behalf of animals. promotes sustainable development, respects the profitabil- property issues, and trade. We examine the relationship ity of private-sector investments, and builds the mutual An overview of the between international environmental law and general A survey and evaluation of the rules trust needed for long-term investments? This course legal tools available to combat global climate change and principles of international law; the role of “soft” and “hard” restricting the use of land and the various local ordinances, covers the inter-related challenges of governance, to adapt to its impact. We evaluate the evolution of the law in addressing international environmental problems; state and constitutional doctrines limiting these restrictions. infrastructure, economic diversification, environmental international legal regime for addressing climate change and and the contribution of international tribunals to the The objective of the course is to build an understanding of management, and economic development. attempts to develop a U.S. regulatory scheme, and look at development of international environmental law. the full range of powers—both constitutional and political— how energy efficiency, renewable energy sources, coal, and that local and state governments have to regulate use of The Law school offers forestry and agriculture figure in the process. We discuss the privately owned land. Among the issues we address are several opportunities for experiential learning in environ- implications for international human rights, trade, environmental A seminar devoted to an exploration of selected issues at zoning ordinances, subdivision, variances, growth controls, mental law externships. The Externship on the Federal justice, and equity and examine special challenges posed the cutting edge of climate regulation. Topics vary each community development, environmental impact review and Government in Washington D.C. enables students to by China. Proposals for adaptation to climate change and year depending on new and impending developments. regulatory takings. Students learn about and critique the work in participating federal government law offices and geo-engineering are examined as well. Students prepare a major paper and engage in vigorous delegation of specific land use powers afforded state and in D.C.-based environmental groups. The Externship on dialogs with guest speakers and each other. local governments and explore how it influences the Advancing Social and Environmental Justice in the : A course devoted to the regulation practice of land use, environmental, and real estate law, New York Attorney General’s Office places students in of energy resources, and facilities, paying special attention including administrative procedure and judicial review. the Environmental Protection Bureau, where they come to the current and future roles of natural gas, renewable This class explores how environmental laws affect a host of to understand the authority and work of state attorneys energy, energy efficiency, nuclear power and the regulation business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, general while getting hands-on experience in public interest and deregulation of electricity. We discuss rate and service securities offerings, lending and secured transactions and Sponsored by the Environmental Law Society and falling investigation and litigation. The United Nations Externship regulation; the responsibilities of the Federal Energy real estate development—in virtually every industry, from under the Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison Moot places students in various UN divisions, and provides Regulatory Commission and state public utility commissions; heavy manufacturing to Internet commerce. Students Court Program, the fall semester’s Environmental Moot students with an opportunity to learn more about the law and energy law’s interaction with environmental law. study how environmental liabilities and risks are identified, Court offers students the opportunity to hone their and practice of the world organization and the processes evaluated and allocated in corporate transactions and skills in appellate brief writing and master the art of of making and implementing institutional law there. A seminar on natural resources what regulatory, market and political forces are at play. oral argument. The Moot Court’s environmental legal law in the U.S. Drawing on pertinent cases, statutes and problems are selected from those posed by the National regulations we cover public lands management, wilderness, Environmental Law Moot Court Competition held annually National Parks and National Monuments, mining, forestry, This course requires students to apply concepts from at Pace Law School. Issues are drawn from real cases coastal resources, oil and gas development on the Outer a variety of doctrinal areas to a hypothetical complex and argued by three adversarial teams, reflecting the Continental Shelf, water law, conservation on agricultural transaction involving the merger of two electric utility often complex, multi-party nature of environmental lands, and ecosystem-scale approaches. companies.The course goes through all phases of this litigation. Teams engage in oral arguments, adjudicated ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY LAW AT COLUMBIA ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY LAW AT COLUMBIA

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University of Michigan Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a hundreds of articles—Gerrard City Bar Association from Business School’s William widely published author of texts is a two-time winner of the 2015 to 2018, he was Chair Davidson Institute and was a and articles exploring Association of American of the Faculty of Columbia J.D. Stanford Law School, term member of the Council on a variety of land ownership Publishers’ Best Law Book University’s Earth Institute., and A.B. Harvard College Foreign Relations. He has been issues, including the celebrated award. Since 1986 he has been the Environmental Law Section One of America’s leading a visiting professor at UCLA The Gridlock Economy: How an environmental law columnist of the New York State Bar authorities on property, Heller School of Law, Fellow at the Too Much Ownership Wrecks J.D. New York University School for the New York Law Journal. Association. Several independent joined the Columbia Law Faculty Center for Advanced Study Markets, Stops Innovation, and of Law, B.A. Columbia College rating services ranked Gerrard in 2002 and teaches property, in the Behavioral Sciences Costs Lives (Basic Books 2008). Gerrard has served on the as the leading environmental land use, and real estate law. (2004-05), visiting professor at Gerrard joined the Columbia Law executive committees of the lawyer in New York and one Prior to his tenure at Columbia, NYU Law School, Olin Senior School faculty in 2009 after 30 boards of the Environmental of the leading environmental he taught at the University of Fellow at Columbia, and visiting years practicing environmental Law Institute and the American lawyers in the world. Michigan Law School where he lecturer at Yale Law School. In law in New York, most recently as College of Environmental received the early 90’s, Heller worked at partner-in-charge of the New York Lawyers, and as chair of the the L. Hart Wright Award for the World Bank on post-socialist office of Arnold & Porter LLP. American Bar Association’s excellence in teaching. property law transition. He 10,000-member Section of He co-directed corporate clerked for the Honorable The nation’s most prolific writer Environment, Energy and governance research at the James R. Browning, Ninth on environmental law—he has Resources, the Executive written or edited 13 books and Committee of the New York

also taught at Northwestern Appeals for the District of with the New Jersey Public Defense Fund, and has served University Law School, where Columbia Circuit. Among his Interest Research Group, as a member of the New Jersey he was the John Paul Stevens written works is Property: where he spent ten years. Supreme Court Committee J.D. University of Chicago Law Professor of Law. Principles and Policies (2012), He continues to serve as its on Environmental Litigation. School, B.A. Grinnell College, a leading casebook in the field. general counsel. Lloyd has testified before the B.A., Rhodes Scholar, Oxford In the late 1980’s, Merrill served J.D. University of Wisconsin U.S. Senate and House of University as deputy solicitor general in the Lloyd has lectured on environ- Law School, B.A. Chemistry, Representatives committees on U.S. Department of Justice, mental legal issues at Judicial An expert in three fields— Princeton University environmental enforcement. representing the country before College for New Jersey judges, property, administrative and Lloyd has played a prominent the U.S. Supreme Court. He on citizen suit litigation at the environmental law—Merrill role in protecting New Jersey’s was “of counsel” with Sidley Practicing Law Institute and ALI/ joined the law school in 2003 environment for more than Austin Brown & Wood for more ABA, and at numerous environ- as Charles Keller Beekman 30 years. In 2000, he came to than twenty years. mental courses for the practic- Professor of Law, and was Columbia to launch its Environ- ing bar at the New Jersey named to his current position He clerked for the Honorable mental Law Clinic, after 15 years Institute for Legal Education. He in 2009. Merrill came to Columbia Harry A. Blackmun, U.S. Supreme as director and founder of the is a co-founder and co-director from Yale Law School, and had Court; and the Honorable David Rutgers University Law School of the Eastern Environmental L. Bazelon, U.S. Court of Environmental Law Clinic. Law Center, a member of the After graduating from law New Jersey Pinelands Commis- school, Lloyd began his career sion and the Litigation Review as an environmental advocate Committee of the Environmental ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY LAW AT COLUMBIA ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY LAW AT COLUMBIA

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and a trilogy on American Before joining the Law School program, where she advocated litigation strategies to address politics that concluded with A faculty in 2019, Purdy taught at for sustainable energy choices legacy pollution of regional J.D. Yale Law School Tolerable Anarchy (2009). His Duke Law School for 14 years. in the region and fought to waterways, and successfully A.B. Harvard College legal scholarship has appeared He has been a visiting professor prevent the proliferation of gas advocated for the preservation in the Yale Law Journal, Harvard at Yale Law School, Harvard pipeline infrastructure. Prior to of 600 wetlands acres in the Purdy joined the law school in J.D. Boston University Law Review, University of Law School, Stanford Law her energy work at EELC, she Hackensack Meadowlands. Ms. 2019, and teaches and writes School of Law Chicago Law Review, and many School, the University of Virginia was of counsel to Bradley M. Danis began her law career as a on constitutional, environmental, B.A. University of Pennsylvania and property law as well as legal other journals. He is also a School of Law, and the George- Campbell, LLC, where she used litigator at Kirkland & Ellis in New theory and law’s intersection frequent contributor to publica- town University Law Center. He Danis, a litigator with significant legal and scientific tools to York. In addition to her role at with social and political thought. tions such as The Atlantic, n+1, served as a law clerk for Judge experience in environmental and address toxic contaminants the Clinic, she alsoserves on the Purdy is the author of six books, The New Republic, and The Pierre N. Leval of the U.S. Court energy law, joined the Clinic in under the Resource Conserva- Conservation and Research including After Nature (2015) New Yorker. of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. 2018. Previously, she served as tion and Recovery Act. Working Committee of the New Jersey the Senior Staff Attorney for as an attorney at the Natural Audubon Society. Eastern Environmental Law Resources Defense Council, Center’s Energy Infrastructure Ms. Danis researched complex

law and law & literature, and drinking water to the renovation I came to Columbia Law School planning to focus The environmental law faculty at Columbia are directed the law school’s of Washington Square Park. on environmental law, and once I arrived I was tremendous pedagogues and internationally environmental and land use law More recently, he has served pleased—even somewhat overwhelmed—with all recognized for their leadership and expertise. They clinical externship program. as counsel of record for the “ the opportunities there. I watched debates about “always had time to answer my questions and give Prior to that, he taught in the nation’s largest local government J.D. Columbia Law School, environmental issues (and went on hikes) with the advice on classes, papers, and career choices. Lawyering program at NYU associations and dozens of Environmental Law Society; edited scholarly articles With their guidance and support, I interned for two M.F.A.-Creative Writing School of Law. cities in lawsuits concerning the for the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law; stellar environmental organizations and published New York University, Clean Power Plan, greenhouse Before beginning his career in litigated cases with the Environmental Law Clinic; two articles on environmental law topics. Through B.A. Brown University gas emissions standards for the legal academy Burger networked with grad students in business, interna- my connections at Columbia, I’ve found environ- automobiles, fossil fuel company A prolific scholar and accom- served as an environmental liability for climate change, and tional affairs, and science at the Earth Institute; and mental pro bono opportunities at my firm and look plished litigator, Burger joined attorney at the Office of the air pollution at the Port of Los conducted research and attended conferences forward to an active role in the environmental bar. the law school as the first Corporation Counsel for the City Angeles. He is also a co-editor hosted by the Sabin Center for Climate Change I couldn’t have received a better start. Executive Director of the Sabin of New York, where he litigated of Climate Change, Public Law. As an attorney with the Environmental and Center in 2015. Previously he and counseled the City on Health and the Law, and a Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department Emily Hush ’18 was Associate Professor at issues ranging from global co-founder of the Environmental of Justice, I know my experience at Columbia Law Debevoise & Plimpton Roger Williams University warming and energy efficiency ” Law Collaborative. School of Law, where he taught to protection of the City’s School not only helped me land this job, but it also administrative law, environmental helps me keep up with the challenges of environ- mental litigation I encounter daily.

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Amron is General Counsel of the New mental and land use laws and represent- Rivlin heads Allen & Overy’s Global environmental disputes, toxic tort risk, York City Department of City Planning. ed the City as both a plaintiff and a Environmental Law Group, their U.S. SEC disclosure requirements and Before joining City Planning, she was defendant in environmental and land use Environmental and Regulatory Law corporate governance issues. Rivlin J.D. Boston University, J.D. Columbia Law School, Chief of the Environmental Law Division litigation. Before joining the City, Amron Group and U.S. Pro Bono Program. also advises on the U.S. Foreign Corrupt B.A. Brown University B.A. Yale University of the New York City Law Department spent six years as a litigation associate at He advises on environmental and Practices Act (FCPA), dealings with and has practiced environmental and Willkie Farr & Gallagher. She currently OFAC-sanctioned countries, Exon-Florio land use law for the City for almost 30 also serves on the executive committee regulatory risk in transactions involving a and similar matters. wide range of industries, compliance with years. As the City’s chief environmental of the New York State Bar Association’s Prior to joining Allen & Overy, he worked U.S. and EU environmental requirements, lawyer, Amron counseled City agencies Environmental and Energy Law Section. at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP and emissions trading and climate change, about federal, state, and local environ- McCarter & English LLP.

Robert J. Grey is a partner in the law firm Preston Gates & Ellis (now K&L Gates) Lisa Sachs is the Director of the Colum- the UN Sustainable Development of K&L Gates and was formerly executive in Seattle, Washington, and Portland, bia Center on Sustainable Investment. Solutions Network’s thematic group on vice president, general counsel and Oregon. His experience also includes Since joining CCSI in 2008, she estab- the Good Governance of Extractive and J.D. Emory University, secretary of PPL Corporation, a major several years as a staff counsel for the lished and now oversees CCSI’s applied Land Resources and has participated in LL.M. George Washington University, energy company. Prior to joining PPL in New York Public Service Commission, J.D. Columbia Law School research, activities and technical several World Economic Forum Councils B.A. Columbia University 1995 he was general counsel for Long and he served as an attorney for the U.S. M.A. Columbia School of assistance projects related to invest- related to sustainable investment, Island Lighting Co. Prior to that, he had Environmental Protection Agency. International and Public Affairs ments in natural resources, national and public-private cooperation, and mining. been a partner with the law firm of B.A. Harvard College international investment law and policy, and sustainable investing. She co-chairs

One of the nation’s leading environmental the Executive Director of the Natural lawyers, Lehner directs Earthjus- Resources Defense Council and the Sullivan, an adjunct professor of animal as well as Animal Rights Africa’s Animal tice’s Sustainable Food & Farming NRDC Action Fund, chief of the Environ- law at Brooklyn Law School and Cardozo Law Review Consultation Workshop in J.D. Columbia Law School J.D. Fordham University School of Law, Program, developing strategies to reduce mental Protection Bureau of the New Law School, recently retired as Deputy Johannesburg, she is currently the B.A. Harvard College B.A. Newton College health, environmental, and climate harms York State Attorney General’s office, a Chief Court Attorney at the New York president of the Board of Directors of Our from production of our food and to staff attorney at NRDC and the founder State Appellate Division, First Department. Hen House, as well as that organization’s promote a more environmentally sound and division chief of the environmental She has served as chair of the Committee Program Director, and serves on the agricultural system. Previously, he was prosecution unit for New York City. on Legal Issues Pertaining to Animals Board of Directors of Animal Welfare of the New York City Bar Association Trust and Animal Welfare Advocacy. and the Animal Law Committee of the She is a former member of the boards American Bar Association’s Tort Trial of Farm Sanctuary and The Animals Insurance Practice Section. A frequent Agenda, and a prolific writer on issues A partner in the Corporate Department of litigation; environmental indemnification speaker at conferences and animal law in her field. Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, in charge disputes; and environmental aspects of related events throughout the country, of its environmental practice, Morreale periodic reporting obligations under J.D. Columbia Law School, M.S., B.A. advises Cravath’s clients on environmental securities laws. He lectures and writes on and B.A.S., University of Pennsylvania matters relating to mergers and acquisi- environmental topics, and has served on tions, securities offerings and financings the Board of Directors of the Columbia in the U.S. and abroad. He also provides Journal of Environmental Law since 1997. counseling on environmental compliance matters; environmental and toxic tort ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY LAW AT COLUMBIA ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY LAW AT COLUMBIA

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OUR PARTNER 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 and Edward Lloyd, Director of its Environmental Law environmental law journals in the country. Recognized for its animals through the legal system. Its film screenings, Widely recognized as the world’s foremost organization Clinic, are members of the Institute’s multi-disciplinary innovative scholarship on emerging areas of environmental lunches and other events bring together those with a addressing the challenges of global sustainable development, faculty, with Gerrard formerly serving as Chair of this law, its articles have contributed substantially to the shared interest in animal welfare and/or animal rights. the Earth Institute’s 850 scientists, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and Lloyd as Chair of the faculty Practice Committee. evolution of laws in this specialty. And it helps connect students to pro bono and career staff and students work across many disciplines to find Law School students have the opportunity to take courses opportunities in the field of animal law. solutions for problems in public health, poverty, energy, with faculty in other schools in the university. Published twice a year, the Journal is managed by ecosystems, climate, natural hazards and urbanization. second- and third-year law school students. It showcases More than 30 research centers are under the Institute’s both the scholarship of leading environmental lawyers and Established in 1995, its experts collaborate with corporations, umbrella, including the Center for Research on Environmental academics, and student work, featured in its “2L Note” government agencies, non-profits, individuals, national Decisions; the Center for Climate Systems Research; program. Law student staff also host a Climate Change governments and the United Nations to help educate the the Columbia Water Center; the Lamont-Doherty Earth Symposium each spring, and publish an associated, next generation of leaders in this important area. Observatory; the International Research Institute for Climate digital-only version of the Journal. and Society; the National Center for Disaster Preparedness; The Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and the Millennium Villages Project. is an Institute affiliate. Its Faculty Director, Michael Gerrard, 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 OUR COLLABORATORS AT COLUMBIA efforts at the Law School among them.

Each year, the group hosts some of the world’s top The skills and knowledge in environmental practitioners from government, public environmental law that I learned CCSI, a joint center of Columbia Law School and the CGEP’s mission is to enable public and private sector interest groups, and private law firms at a variety of Earth Institute at Columbia University, is the only universi- leaders to make more informed choices about the world’s events, ranging from informal luncheons and panel “at Columbia have been invaluable ty-based applied research center and forum dedicated most pressing energy issues by providing an independent discussions to Earth Day Celebrations and movie to launching my career, and the to the study, practice and discussion of sustainable and interdisciplinary platform for insights and data driven screenings. Environmentally conscious pro-bono projects support of the Columbia network international investment. Its mission is to develop critical analysis, convening and information-sharing, education are also available through the Environmental Law Society, understanding, practical approaches and governance and training, and actionable recommendations on the including their annual caravan trip. The society also truly helped me enter the tools for governments, investors, communities and other current and future global energy system. It accomplishes gets involved with the New York City community, through environmental law field confident stakeholders to maximize the benefits of international this by producing best-in-class research; providing a global group events like park clean-ups and tree-planting. that I could contribute right away. investment for sustainable development. CCSI pursues platform to communicate the insights from that research this mission through research, policy and advisory work, across traditional and new media, public events, and organizing multi-stakeholder and expert dialogue, private roundtables; and training tomorrow’s energy policy Surbhi Sarang ’16 teaching and curriculum development, and development and market leaders and communicators. Environmental Defense Fund ” of practical resources and governance tools. ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY LAW AT COLUMBIA ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY LAW AT COLUMBIA

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