2014-15 Leadership Report
2014-15 Calendar of Events Pace Environmental Law Distinguished Junior Scholar Presentation by Michael Pappas, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
SEPTEMBER 24:
Future Environmental Law Professors Workshop at Pace Law School with Keynote Address by Richard Lazarus, Howard and Katherine Aibel Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
SEPTEMBER 26:
15th Annual Gilbert & Sarah Kerlin Lecture on Environmental Law by Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence Antonio A. Oposa, Jr.
OCTOBER 1:
Distinguished Environmental Law Lecture by Ambassador Sun Guoxiang, Consul General of the People’s Republic of China in New York
OCTOBER 22:
Distinguished Environmental Law Lecture by Wang Xi, Professor of Law, Associate Dean of the School of Law and Director of the Environment and Resources Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
NOVEMBER 3:
13th Annual Land Use & Sustainable Development Law Conference: Transitioning Communities
DECEMBER 5:
Jeffrey G. Miller Pace National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition
FEBRUARY 19-21:
Pace Environmental Law Review Symposium: ReConceptualizing the Future of Environmental Law
MARCH 20:
APRIL 1: 20th
Annual Lloyd K. Garrison Lecture on Environmental Law by Robin Kundis Craig, William H. Leary Professor of Law, University of Utah College of Law
View of New York City from nearby Hudson River
Abstract Cartography by Geraldine Lau
Message
from the Executive Director
Degree Programs
For almost four decades, Pace Law School has provided an internationally acclaimed environmental legal
JD with Certificate in Environmental Law LLM in Environmental Law LLM in Environmental Law, Climate Change Specialization LLM in Environmental Law, Land Use and Sustainable Development Specialization LLM in Environmental Law, Global Specialization
education. Our dedicated faculty have been pioneers in developing and implementing environmental law and continue to serve as national and world leaders in the field. Our alumni are at work in law firms, government agencies, corporations, nonprofit organizations, law schools, and universities across the country and around the world. Our students choose from more than 40 environmental law courses and unparalleled prospects to
Joint Degree Programs
develop into highly qualified environmental lawyers. They research cutting-edge areas of the law through
JD/Master of Environmental Management with Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
our on-campus Global Center for Environmental
JD/Master of Science in Environmental Policy with Bard Center for Environmental Policy
Law Center for Sustainable Development, and Brazil
JD/MBA with Pace University JD/MPA with Pace University JD/LLM in Environmental Law
Legal Studies, Energy & Climate Center, Land Use American Institute for Law and Environment. They cultivate hands-on litigation and advocacy skills in our Environmental Litigation Clinic and local, national, and international externships. Our top-ranked environmental law program is located in the footprint of New York City and a short train trip from Washington, DC, providing our students with easy access to outstanding networking and practice opportunities.
Jason J. Czarnezki Gilbert and Sarah Kerlin Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law Executive Director of Environmental Law Programs
Hands-On Learning Environment Clinics, Centers, and Real-World Training
The award-winning, pioneering Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic incorporates students into a thriving environmental law practice representing public interest groups.
The Land Use Law Center (LULC) fosters the development of sustainable communities through the promotion of innovative land use strategies and dispute resolution techniques.
Clinic cases:
Center projects and news:
• Catskill Mountain Chapter of Trout Unlimited v. US Environmental Protection Agency (representing 12 NGOs in a battle over the Water Transfers Rule in the Second Circuit).
• With Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, created a land use clinic tackling pressing issues such as regulation of hydraulic fracturing.
• Raritan Baykeeper v. City of New York (fighting for environmental justice and public parkland in Brooklyn). • Gabrielli v. Town of New Paltz (helping New York State municipalities to protect wetlands).
• LULC founder Professor John Nolon received Honorary Membership Award for exemplary service to local government from The International City/ County Management Association, its highest award to a person outside city management. • ABA’s Section on State and Local Government Law awarded the Jefferson B. Fordham Award to LULC Executive Director Professor Jessica Bacher (JD ’03) for groundbreaking work on distressed property remediation, hydraulic fracturing, renewable energy, and sea level rise adaptation.
Pace Environmental Law Program Timeline 1988 1978 Pace Environmental Law Program founded
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Pace Global Center for Environmental Legal Studies joins International Union for the Conservation of Nature
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1989
Pace Environmental Law Review founded
Pace National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition inaugurated
The Pace Energy and Climate Center’s mission is to protect the earth’s environment by transforming the ways society supplies and consumes energy. Center projects and news: • Professor Karl R. Rabago (LLM ’90 ) joined the Center as its named Executive Director, bringing over 25 years’ of experience in energy and carbon markets to Pace. • Secured nearly $500,000 in grant revenue to support its energy policy, clean energy, and climate leadership in New York and the Northeast, including several important grant renewals from the Energy Foundation for its continued work on energy efficiency, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, renewable energy, and intelligent energy management systems and policies.
A member of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, the Global Center for Environmental Legal Studies engages in innovative projects addressing global environmental challenges. Center projects and publications: • Pace contingent of faculty, students, and alumni presented at the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Colloquium in Tarragona, Spain. • Dean Emeritus Richard Ottinger, Pian Pian Wang (LLM ’13), and Kristen Motel (JD ’15), Options for Adaptation to Climate Change (forthcoming; presented at the Asia-Pacific Center for Environmental Law Workshop on Adaptation to Climate Change: ASEAN and the Comparative Experiences). • Professor Nicholas Robinson, Evolved Norms: A Canon for the Anthropocene in RULE OF LAW FOR NATURE (Christina Voigt, ed., Cambridge Univ. Press 2013) (first legal essay on sociobiology and environmental law).
1995 President’s Council on Sustainable Development designates Land Use Law Center’s Hudson River Advisory Board for Sustainable Development as a national model David Sive, a founder of environmental law, delivers first annual Lloyd K. Garrison Lecture on Environmental Law
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2000 Professor Carol Rose (Yale) gives first annual Kerlin Lecture on Environmental Law
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1996 Professor Joe Sax (Berkeley) delivers Garrison Lecture
Hands-On Learning Environment Clinics, Centers, and Real-World Training
The Jeffrey G. Miller Pace National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition is the premier environmental moot court competition. It is run by Pace students and draws hundreds of competitors and judges to campus each February.
Housed jointly at Pace and the Getulio Vargas Foundation School of Law in Rio de Janeiro, the Brazil American Institute for Law and Environment (BAILE) advances environmental protection and sustainable development in the US and Brazil.
2014 NELMCC updates:
Institute projects and news:
• Over 400 students, advisors, attorneys and judges participated in the 2014 NELMCC, now named in honor of its founder, Professor Jeffrey G. Miller.
• In April, students in the Brazil Comparative Environmental Law course joined BAILE professors in Rio de Janeiro and Ilha Grande to explore water allocation and other environmental challenges in Brazil.
• Out of 75 teams, the University of Mississippi emerged victorious, edging out finalists Louisiana State University and The University of Utah in a closely-contested final round.
• Will hold one-week training for Brazilian federal judges focusing on environmental criminal law and hazardous waste in May 2015. • With the Pace Energy and Climate Center, will launch an energy law summer program aimed at Brazilian lawyers, law students, and others who work in the field in July 2015.
Pace Environmental Law Program Timeline 2005
2009
Pace Environmental Law Program receives the American Bar Association Award for Distinguished Achievement in Environmental Law and Policy
Dean Emeritus Richard Ottinger receives Environmental Quality Award from US EPA, its highest award presented to the public
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2006 Pace hosts the International Union for the Conservation of Nature Academy of Environmental Law Colloquium
The United Nations Environmental Diplomacy Practicum – a program unique to Pace – places students in internships with Permanent Missions to the United Nations for small island developing states. Recent practicum highlights: • Ambassadors Eduardo Ulibarri of Costa Rica and Ronald Jumeau of Seychelles met with Practicum students in May to discuss biodiversity, eco-tourism, and climate change. • Ambassador Narinder Kakar, Representative to the United Nations for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (the oldest and largest international environmental organization), co-taught the practicum seminar alongside Professor Ann Powers and now oversees the practicum with Victor Tafur (Pace SJD).
The Washington, DC and New York Environmental Externship Programs give students the chance to gain crucial skills and knowledge while studying with experienced, dedicated practicing professors. Recent program placements: • Washington: Animal Welfare Institute; Beveridge & Diamond, PC; Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; Sierra Club; US Department of Justice (Environment and Natural Resources Division); US EPA (various offices); and the White House Council on Environmental Quality. • New York: Earthjustice; Environmental Defense Fund; US EPA (Region 2); New York Environmental Law & Justice Project; New York State Department of Environmental Conservation; and Super Law Group.
2013 2010 US EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson delivers Pace commencement address
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Pace’s National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition receives the American Bar Association Award for Distinguished Achievement in Environmental Law and Policy
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2011 Leslie Carothers, former president of the Environmental Law Institute, joins Pace as Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence
Environmental Law Faculty NADIA B. AHMAD Visiting Assistant Professor of Law BA, UC, Berkeley; JD, University of Florida, Levin College of Law; LLM, University of Denver, Sturm College of Law. Energy and natural resources attorney with professional experience in Florida and Colorado. Will teach the oil and gas portions of Natural Resources Law and a seminar on energy law and the environment.
JESSICA A. BACHER Executive Director, Land Use Law Center for Sustainable Development; Adjunct Professor of Law BS, University of Florida; JD, Pace Law School. Provides strategic assistance to local municipalities relating to land use practice, distressed property remediation, transit-oriented development, and sea level rise. Teaches Land Use Law, Advanced Land Use Law, and Sustainable Development Law.
DAVID N. CASSUTO Professor of Law; Director, Brazil-American Institute for Law & Environment BA, Wesleyan University; MA, Indiana University; PhD, Indiana University; JD, UC, Berkeley. Former professor of English literature. Specializes in animal law, water law, and comparative law. Visiting professor of environmental law at the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil and Williams College.
KARL S. COPLAN Professor of Law; Co-Director, Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic BA, Middlebury College; JD, Columbia Law School. Expert on constitutional and environmental law. Clerked for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Warren E. Burger. Has litigated many successful public interest environmental lawsuits with the Clinic.
JASON J. CZARNEZKI Kerlin Distinguished Professor of Law; Executive Director of Environmental Programs BA, University of Chicago; JD, University of Chicago. Specializes in natural resources, environmental regulation, and food law. Previously director of US-China Partnership for Environmental Law, Fulbright Scholar in China, and Visiting Fellow in Sweden.
DANIEL E. ESTRIN Supervising Attorney, Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic; Adjunct Professor of Law BA, SUNY Plattsburgh; JD, Pace Law School. Previously Special Counsel to Kennedy & Madonna, LLP, focusing on representing public interest groups in suits against operators of factory farms.
SHELBY D. GREEN Associate Professor of Law BS, Towson State University; JD, Georgetown University Law Center. Specializes in real estate and property law. Previously worked at what is now Nixon Peabody. Teaches Historic Preservation Law. Sits on the board of the Jay Heritage Center – an important historic preservation site in New York.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR. Professor of Law; Co-Director, Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic AB, Harvard University; JD, University of Virginia School of Law; LLM, Pace Law School. Chairman of the Board of Waterkeeper Alliance. Serves as Chief Prosecuting Attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper Fund and Senior Attorney for NRDC’s Estuary Enforcement Project.
JEFFREY G. MILLER Emeritus Professor of Law BA, Princeton University; LLB, Harvard Law School. Joined the faculty in 1987 after heading the US EPA’s national enforcement program and beginning the agency’s hazardous waste enforcement program.
JOHN R. NOLON Professor of Law; Founder, Counsel, Land Use Law Center for Sustainable Development BA, University of Nebraska; JD, University of Michigan Law School. Expert on land use, property, and sustainable development law. Co-author of “Land Use and Sustainable Development Law: Cases and Materials” among other texts.
RICHARD L. OTTINGER Dean Emeritus; Co-Director, Pace Global Center for Environmental Legal Studies; Founder, Faculty Supervisor, Pace Energy and Climate Center BA, Cornell University; LLB, Harvard Law School. Sixteen years in the US Congress chairing Energy Conservation & Power Subcommittee; a founding staff member of the Peace Corps. Chairs the Energy and Climate Group, IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law.
ANN POWERS Emerita Professor of Law BA, Indiana University; JD, Georgetown University Law Center. Specializes in oceans and coastal law and international environmental law. Prior to entering academia, was vice president and general counsel at Chesapeake Bay Foundation and a senior trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Environmental Enforcement Section.
KARL R. RÁBAGO Professor of Law; Executive Director, Pace Energy and Climate Center BS, Texas A&M University; JD, University of Texas Law School; LLM, US Army Judge Advocate General’s School; LLM, Pace Law School. Has decades of experience in energy and climate policy markets. Held important roles at the Texas Public Utility Commission; US Department of Energy; Austin Energy; AES Corp.; and the Rocky Mountain Inst.
NICHOLAS A. ROBINSON University Professor for the Environment; Co-Director, Global Center for Environmental Legal Studies BA, Brown University; JD, Columbia Law School. Has developed the field of environmental law since 1969, having served as legal advisor, White House Council on Environmental Quality; general counsel, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation; and legal advisor and chairman, Commission on Environmental Law, IUCN.
TARYN L. RUCINSKI Environmental Law Librarian; Adjunct Professor of Law BA, The College of New Jersey; JD, Pace Law School; MLIS, St. John’s University. Legal research specialty areas include environmental, cultural heritage law, and legal history. Teaches Advanced Legal Research: Environmental Law. Has authored over a dozen articles, books and guides related to environmental law.
2013-14 Events 14th Annual Gilbert & Sarah Kerlin Lecture on Environmental Law: “New York City Rules! Regulatory Tools and the Environment” by Professor Jason J. Czarnezki
Pace Environmental Law Distinguished Junior Scholar Presentation: “Banning Lawns” by Professor Sarah Schindler
12th Annual Land Use & Sustainable Development Law Conference: Leading Communities Toward a Resilient Future
26th Annual Jeffrey G. Miller Pace National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition
19th Annual Lloyd K. Garrison Lecture on Environmental Law: “In Defense of Ecosystem Services” by Professor J.B. Ruhl
John Jay Lecture: “Stewardship of New York’s Cultural & Natural History” by Rose Harvey, Commissioner of NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
Who Owns the Waterfront? A panel discussion with Professor Jason Czarnezki, Daniel Estrin, Robert LaValva, Roland Lewis, and Tom McKnight
Environmental Law Curriculum Administrative Law
Environmental Litigation Clinic
Advanced Land Use and Sustainable Development Law: Practice
Environmental Litigation Seminar
Advanced Land Use and Sustainable Development Law: Theory Advanced Research Skills for Environmental Law Animal Law Clean Air Act Seminar Climate Adaptive Management Climate Change and Corporate Practice Climate Change and Insurance Law Climate Change Law Comparative Environmental Law Comparative Environmental Law—Brazil (field course)
Environmental Skills and Practice (Clean Water Act) Environmental Survey Externship - DC Environmental Law Externship - Environmental Law Guided Research Hazardous Waste Historic Preservation Seminar Human Rights and Environment International Environmental Law Land Use Law Legal Management of Urban Environments Mass Torts
Conservation Easements and Land Trusts
Natural Resources Law
Conservation Law
NEPA-SEQRA Seminar
Current Challenges in Environmental Law Seminar
Nonprofit Organizations
Disaster Law and Emergency Preparedness Eco-Markets and Trading Energy Law Environmental and Toxic Torts
Ocean and Coastal Law Seminar Pace Environmental Law Review Editorship Science for Environmental Lawyers State and Regional Climate Initiatives
Environmental Commercial Transactions
Sustainable Development in the Practice of Real Estate Law
Environmental Dispute Resolution Seminar
Sustainable Development Law Survey
Environmental Justice
United Nations Environmental Diplomacy Practicum
Environmental Law Compliance and Enforcement
Water Resources Law
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