MADISON CONDON 139 MacDougal Street • Wilf Hall, 319 • New York, NY 978-518-7234 • [email protected]
EDUCATION
Harvard University, J.D. 2014 Harvard Human Rights Journal, Student Writing Editor Harvard Environmental Law Review, Staff and Submissions Editor Law and International Development Society (LIDS), Executive Board Member
The Fletcher School, Tufts University, M.A. in Law and Diplomacy 2014 Concentrations: Environmental Regulation in Developing Economies Global Political Economy
Columbia University, B.S., Earth and Environmental Engineering, Economics Minor 2008 Robert Peele Prize for greatest proficiency in Environmental Engineering Award for best senior design project: Design of check dams for Koraro, Ethiopia
PUBLICATIONS
Externalities and the Common Owner (job talk, forthcoming) The paper examines recent shareholder activism seeking emissions reduction and climate risk disclosure from portfolio firms. It argues that institutional investors have incentives to impose voluntary regulation, contrary to traditional conceptions of shareholder profit maximizing norms, because they have portfolios diversified across the entire economy.
The True Costs of “Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science” (submitted to Review of Environmental Economics and Policy) (with Michael Livermore and Jeffrey Schrader).
Do Voluntary ESG Initiatives Actually Change Corporate Behavior? (working paper) (with Varshini Parthasarathy, Luc Bonnafous, and Upmanu Lall).
Understanding Environmental, Health and Economic Interactions Following Transition of Ownership in Gold Mining Areas in Tanzania: A Case of Private to Public, Land Use Policy (2018) (with Sophia Rhee, Elias Charles Nyanza, Joshua Fisher, Theresia Maduka, and Anja Tolonen).
Managing the Future of Energy Storage: Implications for Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Institute for Policy Integrity Report (2018) (with Richard Revesz and Burcin Unel).
Citizen Scientists, Data Transparency, and the Mining Industry, 32 Natural Resources & Environment 24 (2017).
Contributor: “Environmental Disclosure,” Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Law: The Year in Review 2016, American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources.
The Integration of Environmental Law into International Investment Treaties and Trade Agreements: Negotiation Process and the Legalization of Commitments, 33 Virginia Journal of Environmental Law 102 (2015).
Challenge and Response in the Indus Basin, 16 Water Policy 58 (2014) (with Erum Sattar, Anjali Lohani, and Don Kriens).
Border Carbon Adjustment and International Trade: A Literature Review, OECD Trade and Environment Working Papers (2013) (with Ada Ignaciuk).
China in Africa: What the Policy of Nonintervention Adds to the Western Development Dilemma. 26 Praxis: The Fletcher Journal of Human Security 5 (2012).
The Role of Statutory and Local Rules in Allocating Water Between Commercial Estates and Small- scale Irrigators in an African River Catchment, 38 Water SA 115 (2012) (with Hans Komakech and Pieter Van der Zaag).
Tracer Studies of Sheetflow in the Florida Everglades, 36 Geophysical Research Letters 9 (2009) (with David Ho, Vic Engel, Evan Variano, and Paul Schmieder).
Pesticide Risk Indicators: Unidentified Inert Ingredients Compromise Their Integrity and Utility, 45 Environmental Management 834 (2009) (with Michael Surgan and Caroline Cox).
CLERKSHIP
Judge Jane Kelly, Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, Cedar Rapids, IA 2014-2015
EXPERIENCE
Institute for Policy Integrity, New York University School of Law New York, NY Legal Fellow 2017-present
The Earth Institute, Columbia University New York, NY Adjunct Associate Research Scientist 2017-present Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2015-2017
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, LLP New York, NY Summer Associate 2013
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Paris, France Stagiare and Consultant 2012-2013
U. S. Department Of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division Washington, D.C. Law Clerk January 2013
Water Security Initiative at Harvard University Cambridge, MA Research Fellow 2011-2013
Delft Technical University/ UNESCO-IHE Delft, The Netherlands Fulbright Fellow 2008-2009
ONLINE WRITING
Posts on the Earth Institute’s State of the Planet: Rural America’s Drinking Water Crisis: No Help From Trump Budget, June 13, 2017 Columbia Water Center Submits Comments to the SEC, September 30, 2016 Rules Would Require More Environmental Risk Disclosure in Mining, August 10, 2016 Shareholder Litigation Puts Spotlight on Environmental Risk, July 11, 2016 New Rules to Hold Mining Industry Accountable for Cleanups, May 31, 2016 Project Calculates the Cost of Social Conflict, April 18, 2016 When Environmental Oversight Takes a Back Seat, April 15, 2016
PRESENTATIONS
Externalities and the Common Owner - National Business Law Scholars Conference, Athens, GA, June 2018 - Academy of Legal Studies in Law and Business Conference, Portland, OR, August 2018 (finalist for best paper) - NYU Law and Economics Workshop, New York, NY, November 2018 - Association of American Law Schools, Environmental Works in Progress, January 2019 - Society for Environmental Law and Economics Conference, Santiago, Chile, March 2019
Panelist, Facing the Challenge: Regulating Innovation, Institute for International Law and Justice, NYU Law, Feb. 6, 2018.
Moderator, Opportunities and Limits to Water Pollution Regulation, World Water Week, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2017.
Panelist, Enabling Global Prosperity: A Case Study of Gold in the Amazon, Manhattan School of Business, April 5, 2017.
Panelist, Socio-Economic Rights in (Times of) Crisis, Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University, March 29, 2017.
Can Investor Disclosure Help Mitigate Water-Related Risks? A Look at the Impact of Both Voluntary and Mandatory Reporting in the Extractives Industry, presentation at World Mining Congress in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 2016.
Workshop: The Law and Science of Challenging Environmental Impact Assessments, Columbia University, September 15, 2015, Organizer. Discussant on the role of citizen science in EIA accountability.
The Indus Basin, Water & Federalism Conference, Radcliffe, Harvard University. April 20, 2012.
A Diagnostic Study on Relations Between Climate of Typhoon, ITCZ, and Warm Pool of Tropical Pacific. Presentation at International Conference on Tropical Cyclones, Nanjing, China. July 2007.
LITIGATION AND PUBLIC COMMENTS
Comments of the Institute for Policy Integrity on Proposed Delay of Standards of Performance for Wood Heaters, EPA-HQ-OAR-2018-0195, January 2019.
Comments on New York State Energy Storage Roadmap submitted to New York State Public Service Commission, Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law, September 2018.
Brief of Amicus Curiae, Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law in Bauer v. Devos – D.C. District Court, 2018.
Comments of the Institute for Policy Integrity on Religious Exemption Rule and Contraception, Docket Nos. TD–9827, CMS-9940-IFC, December 2017.
Brief of Amicus Curiae, Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law in Bauer v. Devos – D.C. District Court, 2017.
Brief of Amicus Curiae, Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law in Air Alliance Houston v. Environmental Protection Agency – D.C. District Court, 2017.
Comments of the Institute for Policy Integrity on Delay of Department of Labor’s Fiduciary Rule, RIN 1210-AB82, September 2017.
Comments of Columbia University’s Earth Institute concerning SEC Proposed Rule: Modernization of Property Disclosures for Mining Registrants, File No. S7-10-16, September 26, 2016.
FILMS
The Big Empty (2017). A 10-minute documentary short on drinking water infrastructure in rural Texas. Screened at America’s Water conference at Columbia University, March 2017, available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IvQaChO2lM (with Tom Rosenberg).
Water Work, (2014). A 10-minute documentary short on access to water in rural India. Screened at the Harvard Law Documentary Film Festival, April 2014, available: https://vimeo.com/97355519.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Earth Institute Cross-Cutting Initiatives Grant for Citizen Science Collaboration (2016-2017) Certificate for performing more than 1,000 hours of pro bono service at Harvard Law School (2014) NSF fellowship for modeling typhoon formation at Ocean University of China (2006)
AFFILIATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS
Admitted to the New York Bar Admitted to the California Bar (inactive) Member, Academy of Legal Studies in Business Young Scientist Committee Member, World Water Week, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017
Member, New York City Environmental Law Leadership Institute, Class of 2017 Member, American Bar Association, Section of Environment, Energy, & Resources Editorial Staff Member, Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy 2012-2013