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2018-2019 Leadership Report Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University
Upcoming
2018 - 2019 Calendar of Events
9/12
Environmental Law Program Orientation
9/12
Environmental Law Distinguished Junior Scholar Presentation by Professor Sharon Jacobs, Colorado Law
9/14
Future Environmental Law Professors Workshop
9/24
Ceremony Presenting the Elisabeth Haub Award for Environmental Law and Diplomacy
10/24 Kerlin Lecture on Environmental Law by Professor Robin Bell,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
2/21
2019 Jeffrey G. Miller National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition
4/26
Annual Earth Day Jam
TBD
Annual Lloyd K. Garrison Lecture on Environmental Law
[left] Faculty-student band, the Recess Appointments, at the Annual Earth Day Jam [right] View from Governors Island Ferry after visiting Billion Oyster Project
Degree Programs
Joint Degree Programs
JD with Certificate in Environmental Law
JD/MEM with Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
JD with Concentration in Land Use and Real Estate Law LLM in Environmental Law LLM, Energy and Climate Change Specialization LLM, Land Use and Sustainable Development Specialization
JD/MS in Environmental Policy with Bard Center for Environmental Policy JD/LLM in Environmental Law JD/MBA with Pace University JD/MEP with Pace University
LLM, Global Environmental Law Specialization
JD/MPA with Pace University
SJD in Environmental Law
JD/MA with Sarah Lawrence College
Message
from the Associate Dean of Environmental Law Programs
Every year I write this message to document what we did well over the last year and provide thoughts on what we might focus on in the next. Since 1978, Pace Environmental Law at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law has provided students unparalleled opportunities to develop the skills necessary for great environmental lawyers. Our students learn from nationally and internationally recognized experts in the fields of water pollution prevention, sustainable development, food policy, renewable energy, human rights and global environmental law. Our faculty continue to produce amazing scholarship and serve as public intellectuals in areas as diverse as zoning and solar energy development, wind energy and national security, life cycle costing and green procurement, eco-label policy in environmental law, legal adaptations to climate change, productivity and risk management regarding the new farm bill, and globalization and the environment. This will not change. However, as Pace Environmental Law celebrates its 40th year, we must do more. Millions of Syrians have been forcibly displaced by a war that was likely hastened by climate change, at a time when nations are increasingly turning their backs on refugees. The United States has announced its intent to withdraw from the Paris Agreement and half of Americans do not believe that global warming will pose a serious threat in their lifetime, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. The current administration has also aggressively rolled back federal environmental regulations and protections. As is often the case, the impact of these measures will fall hardest on those with the fewest resources. Environmental degradation in the United States disproportionately affects low-income communities and communities of color. Flint, Michigan still has lead in its water but the State of Michigan no longer provides free bottled water in this city, America’s poorest, where 45% of residents live below the poverty line. Closer to home, asthma rates in Bronx County and East Harlem are 21 times higher than asthma rates in affluent parts of New York City. While Pace Environmental Law will strengthen our existing core programs and research areas, my hope is that over the next year our faculty and students will engage in more dialogue and action around issues of environmental and social justice, and that we will use our legal skills to defend the environment, improve public health, and stand in solidarity with communities in need. I look forward to taking these important steps with you.
Jason J. Czarnezki
Kerlin Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law; Executive Director & Associate Dean, Environmental Law Programs BA, University of Chicago; JD, University of Chicago. Specializes in natural resources, environmental regulation, ecolabeling, and green public procurement.
Pace Environmental Law’s new logo is a topographical depiction of Storm King Mountain and commemorates one of the pivotal court decisions in the field of environmental law. In 1963, Consolidated Edison announced plans to build the world’s largest pumped storage hydroelectric plant into the face of Storm King Mountain, just 40 miles north of Pace Law. A group of citizens concerned about preserving this scenic and historic site formed the Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference and sued the Federal Power Commission, for granting ConEd a license for the power plant. After a lengthy court battle, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals held that Scenic Hudson had standing to sue based on injuries to interests related to the conservation of natural resources, and the preservation of natural beauty and historic sites. This case marked the beginning of the grassroots environmental movement in the U.S.
Welcome
to Katrina Fischer Kuh Haub Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law
Professor Kuh joined Pace Environmental Law this year as the first Haub Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law. Funding for the Haub Professor of Environmental Law was made possible by a generous gift from the Haub family. Professor Kuh’s cutting-edge scholarship focuses on climate change, sustainability, and second generation environmental challenges. After receiving her law degree from Yale Law School, Professor Kuh clerked for Judge Charles S. Haight of the District Court for the Southern District of New York and Judge Diana Gribbon Motz of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. She also worked in the environmental and litigation practice groups at Arnold & Porter LLP, served as an advisor on natural resource policy in the U.S. Senate, and was the Associate Dean of Intellectual Life and Professor of Law at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University. Professor Kuh stated: “I’m humbled and excited to join one of the country’s most respected and innovative environmental law programs. Pace faculty, alumni and students have long been at the forefront of developing law and policy to protect the environment and promote sustainability. I look forward to contributing to this important work and thank the Haub family for the opportunity.” Her contributions thus far have been significant, which include giving the 18th Annual Gilbert & Sarah Kerlin Lecture on Environmental Law on the counter-majoritarian difficulty and the role of courts in an environmental democracy; helping organize this year’s Pace Environmental Law Review Symposium; and coaching two Haub Scholars as well as judging at the Fourth Tony Oposa Intergenerational Moot Court, co-sponsored by the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law.
Barbara L. Atwell
Associate Professor of Law BA, Smith; JD, Columbia. Specializes in Bioethics and Medical Malpractice, Health Law, and Public Health Law.
Jessica A. Bacher
Executive Director, Land Use Law Center; Adjunct Professor of Law BS, University of Florida; JD, Pace. Provides assistance to municipalities on land use, distressed property remediation, transit-oriented development, and sea level rise. Specializes in Land Use Law, Advanced Land Use Law, and Sustainable Development Law.
Coalitions University of Oxford Oxford, England
Martinelli Advogados Sao Paulo, Brazil
University of Strathclyde Glasgow, Scotland
Pace Environmental Law Review Symposium
Pace Environmental Law Review and the K.G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea (JCLOS) at UiT The Arctic University of Norway hosted the 2018 Pace Environmental Law Review Symposium “Climate Change, Coasts, and Precaution.� Presenters discussed the shortcomings of existing legal and policy regimes as well as alternative regulatory tools to use to address these issues. The key note address was delivered by Michael Puma, Director of the Center for Climate Systems Research at NASA GISS, Fellow at the Center of Climate and Life at Columbia University, and 2018 Haub Visiting Scholar. Pace Law and our JCLOS colleagues visited Governors Island and the NYC harbor to learn about resiliency efforts and environmental education in the post-Hurricane Sandy metropolis. We toured the Harbor School, a public high school in NYC where students can specialize in aquaculture, underwater engineering, boat building, boat operation, or biology research. Students help implement the Billion Oyster Project, an ecosystem restoration and education project aimed at restoring one billion live oysters to New York Harbor while engaging students throughout NYC in restoration based STEM education programs. Pace Environmental Law helped develop curriculum for this Project. Environmental Graduate Research Fellows Program
New Mexico United States
Newfoundland Canada
Pace Environmental Law is pleased to welcome four graduate research fellows to its staff and LLM program: Michael Cavanaugh (Environmental Law Fellow), Siyi Shen (Global Environmental Law Fellow), Christian Harned (Equitable Access to Sustainable Energy Fellow), and Anastasia Reardon (Land Use and Sustainable Development Law Fellow). Each fellow works part-time in one of our programs or centers while earning an LLM in Environmental Law. Past fellows have gone on to work at Riverkeeper, NRDC, AIG, Connecticut Fund for the Environment, the IUCN, and law firms. Applications for 2019-20 will open in January 2019. Please keep an eye on our website for more information.
Jonathan Brown
Director, Food and Beverage Clinic; Adjunct Professor of Law BA, UPenn; JD, NYU. Specializes in food and beverage law and agricultural law.
David N. Cassuto
Professor of Law; Director, BrazilAmerican Institute for Law & Environment BA, Wesleyan; MA, Indiana University; PhD, Indiana University; JD, Berkeley. Specializes in animal, water, and comparative law.
Skills The Pace-NRDC Food Law Initiative is a collaboration between Pace’s Environmental Law Program and the Natural Resources Defense Council. It seeks to grow the legal capacity for our regional food system by training lawyers and law students and providing direct pro bono legal services. Highlights • The Food Law Initiative, led by Professor Margot Pollans, participated in the Farm Bill Law Enterprise (FBLE), a consortium of 6 law schools working toward a farm bill that reflects the needs of society, including economic opportunity and stability, public health and nutrition, public resources stewardship, and fair access and equal protection. Professor Pollans and students contributed research and recommendations on Farm Bill conservation programs. • The Food Law Initiative’s third annual event, cohosted by NRDC and GrowNYC, featured a discussion on food sovereignty and the right to food by Smita Narula, Distinguished Lecturer at Hunter College and Interim Executive Director of Roosevelt House’s Human Rights Institute. • The Food Law Initiative was featured on Civil Eats, a widely-read online food and agriculture news magazine, and Professor Jonathan Brown was recognized as one of the “40 under 40” rising stars in New York City food policy by the New York City Food Policy Center at Hunter College. Professor Margot Pollans was honored in 2017.
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Clinics, Centers, and Experiential Learning The Land Use Law Center, celebrating its 25th Anniversary, fosters the development of sustainable communities by promoting innovative land use strategies and dispute resolution techniques. Projects and news • The Center held its 16th annual Alfred B. DelBello Land Use and Sustainable Development Conference Reimagining the Role of Local Governments on December 7, 2017. The event focused on ways in which local governments are overcoming challenges and finding solutions that target new ways to plan, regulate, and design communities. With more than 250 attorneys, business professionals, and local leaders in attendance to learn about national, regional, and local innovations, challenges and best practices, the day kicked off with a keynote address by Geoff Anderson, President and CEO of Smart Growth America. • On April 26, 2018, the Center held its annual Housing Summit, “Novel Strategies for Novel Times”. Presenters examined the critical importance of workforce housing to the continued economic prosperity of the region and discussed working with local governments, and through the courts, to bolster its production. • In June 2018, the center co-hosted the Future of the Automobile and Smart Parking Solutions summit which focused on the future of the automobile and mobility and their impacts on land use and project planning; parking structures, design and automation; and smart parking alternatives.
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Karl S. Coplan
Professor of Law; Co-Director, Environmental Litigation Clinic BA, Middlebury; JD, Columbia. Expert on constitutional and environmental law. Has litigated many successful public interest environmental lawsuits with the Environmental Litigation Clinic.
E. Melanie DuPuis
Chair and Professor of Environmental Studies & Science BA, Radcliffe; PhD, Cornell. Chair of Department of Environmental Studies and Science. Specializes in food systems and agriculture.
Students represent public interest groups as part of our award-winning, pioneering Environmental Litigation Clinic. Notable events • Riverkeeper et al. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: In June 2017, the clinic filed a lawsuit against EPA on behalf of Riverkeeper, Waterkeeper Alliance, NRDC and other environmental groups, challenging EPA’s failure to promulgate water quality standards for New York. The lawsuit asks the Court to compel EPA to fulfil its statutory obligation to protect the health of New Yorkers who recreate on these waters. • Friends of Wickers Creek Archeological Site v. The Landing on the Water at Dobbs Ferry Homeowners Assoc, Inc.: The Clinic filed a complaint on behalf of the Friends of Wickers Creek Archeological Site (FOWCAS), a small group in Dobbs Ferry, New York devoted to protecting an important Native American site. A real estate developer locked a gate providing access to a portion of the site, which is protected by a conservation easement that allows members of the public to visit and walk along the site. • Global Companies, LLC v. NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation: The Clinic was instrumental in securing a victory against a giant petrochemical terminal in Albany, NY. The Clinic initially filed a lawsuit in 2014 on behalf of Riverkeeper and Waterkeeper challenging the failure of Global Companies to conduct a thorough environmental review of a permit modification that would have allowed the terminal to bring in heavy crude oil, heat it on site, and load it onto barges on the Hudson River. The Clinic also intervened in support of the NYSDEC in a lawsuit by Global that sought to force approval of the permit necessary for the project. Global has now formally abandoned its heavy crude project based, in part, on the work of the Clinic.
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Shelby D. Green
Alexander K. A. Greenawalt
BS, Towson; JD, Georgetown. Specializes in real estate and property law.
BA, Princeton; MA, Yale; JD, Columbia. Teaches international and administrative law. Researches international humanitarian law.
Associate Professor of Law
Professor of Law
The Energy and Climate Center’s mission is to protect the earth’s environment by transforming the ways society supplies and consumes energy. Projects and news • Pace Energy and Climate Center served as an expert consultant and witness in utility transformation proceedings in several jurisdictions, including New York, Maryland, and Rhode Island. The Center served as an expert witness in utility regulatory proceedings across the U.S. and filed written public testimony as well as testified before several public service commissions. • The Center continued building upon its three decades of public interest advocacy in electric and gas utility rate cases, with expert witness testimony in the 2017 National Grid (Niagara Mohawk) and Central Hudson Gas and Electric rate cases. The Center scored several significant wins, including a commitment from the utilities to develop a Benefit-Cost Analysis framework for evaluating the environmental and social externalities of natural gas, and a commitment from Central Hudson to reduce its fixed customer charge—the first such reduction in New York since the state embarked on its utility transformation process. • The Center worked with Earthjustice in New York to evaluate and submit public comments on Consolidated Edison’s proposal for a suite of natural gas efficiency, demand response, and pipeline infrastructure build-out programs. The Center’s advocacy with Earthjustice is part of a broader effort to achieve a managed decapitalization of the natural gas system in New York, and to align New York’s natural gas policies and programs with the state’s climate change goals. • The Center also partnered with Earthjustice to serve as an expert consultant in Maryland’s utility transformation proceeding on behalf of four non-profit environmental and consumer advocacy organizations and two partners. The Center filed public comments across several dockets, served on a number of working groups, and gave presentations at hearings before the Maryland Public Service Commission. The Center contributed to developing a suite of programs to expand electric vehicle (“EV”) charging infrastructure in Maryland, specifically with providing EV and mobility resource access to underserved and low-income communities.
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Jill Gross
Katrina Fischer Kuh
AB, Cornell; JD, Harvard. Specializes in dispute resolution, ethics, and securities law.
BA & JD, Yale. Specializes in climate change and sustainability. Co-editor of The Law of Adaptation to Climate Change: United States and International Aspects.
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; Professor of Law
Haub Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law
The Jeffrey G. Miller National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition, hosted by Pace Law and run by its students, draws hundreds of competitors and judges to this premier environmental moot court each year.
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. News
2018 Highlights • In February, over 300 students, advisors, attorneys and judges participated in the 30th Annual Competition, which addressed the Clean Water Act and the Administrative Procedure Act as they apply to permit renewal requirements for a coal-fired steam electric power plant. • Judge Malachy E. Mannion, U.S. District Court Middle District of Pennsylvania, Judge John M. Rogers, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Judge Aaron Avila, U.S. Environmental Appeals Board, and Judge Henry F. Floyd and Judge Stephanie D. Thacker, both from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, served as the final round judges. • Of 57 participating teams, Baylor Law School took first place, edging out finalists from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law and Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert College of Law.
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• Professors Katrina Fischer Kuh and Nicholas Robinson coached two of our Haub Scholars, who participated in the Fourth Tony Oposa Intergenerational Moot Court in Caen, France on June 5, 2018. The Moot Court was co-sponsored by the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law and was premised on a hypothetical UN General Assembly resolution on issues involving whether the precautionary principle supports the adoption of climate geoengineering techniques in light of the perils of climate change; and as climate geoengineering develops, what impacts to and input from indigenous populations should be considered. • Faculty and students presented papers at the 16th Annual IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Colloquium hosted by the University of Strathclyde and the Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance in Glasgow, Scotland. As co-Secretariat to the Academy, Associate Director of Environmental Law Programs Jessica Steinberg Albin chaired the first Key Note Plenary. The Colloquium explored whether environmental law and governance are transforming, and if so, to what extent are the issues of risk, innovation and resilience the heart of such transformation.
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Michelle Land
Clinical Associate Professor, Dyson College of Arts & Sciences BS, University of Guelph; JD, Pace. Specializes in environmental law and policy, wildlife biology, interdisciplinary education, and campus sustainability. Leads the Environmental Consortium of Colleges & Universities.
Jeffrey G. Miller
Professor Emeritus of Law BA, Princeton; LLB, Harvard. Joined the faculty in 1987 after heading the US EPA’s national enforcement program and beginning the agency’s hazardous waste enforcement program.
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. News • Professor David Cassuto was selected as an FGV Fellow for 2018 and spent the Spring 2018 semester at the Getulio Vargas Foundation School of Law as a Visiting Scholar. He taught classes on environmental regulaton and water law. • On March 2, 2018, professors Nick Robinson and David Cassuto, and Director of Graduate Programs Cecilia Frain joined Pace Law alumni in Brazil at the first Environmental Law Alumni Colloquium in Sao Paulo hosted by Martinelli Advogados.
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Jennie Nolon Blanchard
Senior Staff Attorney, Land Use Law Center; Adjunct Professor of Law BS, Cornell; JD/MEM, Pace/ Yale. Focuses on the growth of urban centers, working closely with cities to address obstacles to redevelopment and sustainability.
The United Nations Environmental Diplomacy Practicum – a program unique to Pace Law – places students in internships with Permanent Missions to the United Nations. Recent highlights • The Practicum placed student interns at the UN Missions of Sri Lanka, Costa Rica, Papua New Guinea, and Dominican Republic, as well as with the Permanent Observer Mission of IUCN. During the seminar component, students discussed the issues, negotiations, and paradigm shifts that unfolded through the Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals and the subsequent negotiations on the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, widely regarded as a sea change in how the UN conducts multilateral diplomacy. • On April 26, 2018, Dr. Pamela S. Chasek, Chair of the Government and Politics Department at Manhattan College and the co-founder and executive editor of the Earth Negotiations Bulletin, a reporting service on United Nations environment and development negotiations, gave a guest lecture to students in the Practicum during which she discussed Transforming Multilateral Diplomacy: The Inside Story of the Sustainable Development Goals.
John R. Nolon
Professor of Law; Founder, Land Use Law Center BA, University of Nebraska; JD, University of Michigan. Expert on land use, property, and sustainable development law.
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 placements • Washington: U.S. Department of Justice (Land Acquisitions Unit; Environment and Natural Resources Division); U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (various offices); U.S. Coast Guard; U.S. Department of Energy; Animal Welfare Institute; and Sierra Club • New York: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Region 2); NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission; NYC Department of Environmental Protection; New York Environmental Law & Justice Project; New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (Region 2); Super Law Group; Waterkeeper Alliance; Earthjustice; and NRDC
Future Environmental Law Professors Workshop Held every fall, the Future Environmental Law Professors Workshop brings visiting assistant professors, fellows, researchers, law clerks, practitioners and others together to learn about the environmental law teaching market. The Workshop covers a wide array of subtopics within the field (from animal law to energy law), as well as the history and development of the field of environmental law. It is designed to give advice, inside perspectives, and feedback on the environmental law hiring process, as well as provide opportunities for mock interviews and job talk presentations. Participants have gone on to secure tenure track teaching positions around the country. Heading into its fifth year, the Workshop has hosted keynote speakers who are accomplished scholars in their field. Our inaugural keynote speaker, Professor Richard Lazarus (Harvard), discussed “Environmental Law Scholarship: Challenges and Opportunities.” Our second keynote speaker, Professor Douglas Kysar (Yale), discussed “Making a Contribution in Environmental Law.” Our third keynote speaker, Professor Pat Parenteau (Vermont), discussed “Nature Deficit Disorder: A Reply to the Eco-Pragmatists.” Our fourth keynote speaker, Dean Hari Osofsky (Penn State) discussed “Pathways Forward for Cross-Cutting Environmental Law Scholarship.” We look forward to another insightful Workshop and keynote address by Katrina M. Wyman (NYU) this coming year.
Todd Ommen
Supervising Attorney, Environmental Litigation Clinic; Adjunct Professor of Law BA, Tulane; JD, Villanova. Joined Pace in 2016 after serving as Assistant Attorney General for New York State.
Richard L. Ottinger
Dean Emeritus; Co-Director, Global Center for Environmental Legal Studies; Founder, Faculty Supervisor, Energy & Climate Center BA, Cornell; LLB, Harvard. Previously a US Congressman (chaired Energy Conservation & Power Subcommittee) and a Peace Corps founder. Chairs the Energy and Climate Group, IUCN Commission on Environmental Law.
Awards
ABA Section of Environment, Energy and Resources 2017 Award for Distinguished Achievement in Environmental Law
Dean Emeritus Richard Ottinger received the ABA’s Section of Environment, Energy and Resources Award for Distinguished Achievement in Environmental Law on August 13, 2017 for his leadership in environmental policy. Co-Director of the Global Center for Environmental Legal Studies and founder of the Pace Energy and Climate Center (PECC), Ottinger is a trailblazer whose work on behalf of the environment spans more than fifty years. As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Ottinger helped craft seminal legislation to protect the environment, including the 1974 Public Utilities Regulatory Policy Act, which required electric utilities to purchase all renewable energy at their avoided cost and was the precursor for electric utility competition. Ottinger’s work with PECC, the principal research institute for the NY Public Service Commission, looks to the role of utilities in accommodating distributed energy and renewables while protecting ratepayers.
Theodore Gordon Flyfishers Founders Fund Society Award Professor Karl Coplan received the 2017 Theodore Gordon Flyfishers Founders Fund Society Award during TGF’s annual Founders Fund Society Reception on November 6, 2017, in honor of his years of exemplary service in the field of environmental law and conservation. Professor Coplan has directed or co-directed the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic since 1994 and brought numerous lawsuits enforcing the Clean Water Act on behalf of groups including TGF and Riverkeeper.
Margot Pollans
Assistant Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Pace-NRDC Food Law Initiative BA, Columbia; JD, NYU; LLM, Georgetown. Previously Teaching Fellow at UCLA’s Resnick Program for Food Law and Policy. Focuses on environmental, food, agriculture, and administrative law.
Ann Powers
Professor Emerita of Law BA, Indiana University; JD, Georgetown. Specializes in ocean and coastal law and international environmental law.
Nicholas A. Robinson Award for Distinguished Environmental Achievement The Pace Environmental Law Alumni Association awarded the 2018 Nicholas A. Robinson Award for Distinguished Environmental Achievement to Laura Jensen, an Associate Attorney at Eaton Peabody and the former Associate Director of the Environmental Law Programs. Laura exemplifies Professor Robinson’s legacy—she managed the Environmental Law Program for five years, maintained strong connections between Pace students and alumni, supported NELMCC for five successful years, and worked with faculty and staff to implement Pace Environmental Law’s strategic plan. She continues to maintain strong connections with the Law School faculty, staff, and students. The Nicholas A. Robinson Award is awarded each year to an alumna/ us of Pace Law School who has made significant contributions to our natural environment. The award is given in honor of Nicholas A. Robinson, University Professor on the Environment and Gilbert, Sarah Kerlin Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law Emeritus, and founder of the Environmental Law Programs, whose commitment to and achievements in the field of environmental law are a source of inspiration for those dedicated to the betterment of our environment.
Elisabeth Haub Awards for Environmental Law and Diplomacy Minister Reinhard Josef Krapp was selected as the 2017 Laureate in recognition of his extraordinary service in international environmental policy, international climate policy and sustainable development. He was instrumental in drafting, gaining support for, and negotiating the UN resolution on “Tackling illicit trafficking in wildlife,” which was adopted by the UN General Assembly on July 30, 2015. Professor Stephen McCaffrey was selected as the 2018 Laureate in recognition of his lifetime of service in the development of international environmental law and as special rapporteur of the International Law Commission. His work on international watercourses resulted in the world’s first treaty open to all countries to protect the ecology of international rivers and lakes. This prestigious Award was established in 1997 by the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, in cooperation with the Haub Family, to honor the legacy of Elisabeth Haub (1899-1977), a noted philanthropist and advocate for strong laws for the conservation of nature. The Award was established to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the United Nations Stockholm Conference and the 5th anniversary of the United Nations Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit.
Karl R. Rábago
Professor of Law; Executive Director, Energy & Climate Center BS, Texas A&M; JD, University of Texas; LLM, US Army Judge Advocate General’s School; LLM, Pace. Specializes in energy and climate policy markets.
Nicholas A. Robinson
University Professor for the Environment; Co-Director, Global Center for Environmental Legal Studies BA, Brown; JD, Columbia. Has developed the field of environmental law since 1969. 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.
Recap
2017-2018 Events
18th Annual Gilbert & Sarah Kerlin Lecture on Environmental Law: “Against the Will of the People for the Good of Humankind: The Counter-Majoritarian Difficulty and the Role of Courts in an Environmental Democracy” by Katrina Fischer Kuh, Elisabeth Haub Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law 6th Annual Land Use & Sustainable Development Law Conference: The Economics and Equity of Sustainable Development on “Reimagining the Role of Local Governments” 30th Annual Jeffrey G. Miller Pace National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition The Right to Food in the U.S. with Professor Smita Narula, Distinguished Lecturer and Interim Director of the Human Rights Program at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College and former legal advisor to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food 23rd Annual Lloyd K. Garrison Lecture on Environmental Law: “De-risking the global food system in a changing climate,” by Michael Puma, 2018 Haub Visiting Scholar, Director for the Center of Climate Systems at NASA GISS
2018 Pace Environmental Law Review Symposium “Climate Change, Coasts, and Precaution” sponsored by Pace Environmental Law and the K.G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea at UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Deborah Heller
Darren Rosenblum
BS, Pace University; MA, John Jay College of Criminal Justice; JD, Pace Law; MLS, St. John’s University. Specializes in environmental legal research.
BA, UPenn; JD, UPenn; MIA, Columbia. Directs the international law programs at Pace. Teaches and researches in the areas of corporate, international, and comparative law.
Environmental Law Librarian
Professor of Law
Curriculum Administrative Law Advanced International Environmental Law Advanced Land Use and Sustainable Development Law: Practice Advanced Land Use and Sustainable Development Law: Theory Advanced Research Skills for Environmental Law Agriculture Law and the Environment Animal Law Clean Air Act Climate Adaptation and the Law Climate Change and Corporate Practice Climate Change and Insurance Law Climate Change Law Comparative Environmental Law Comparative Environmental Law – Brazil Field Course Conservation Law Current Challenges in Environmental Law Disaster Law and Emergency Preparedness Energy Law Environmental and Toxic Torts Environmental Commercial Transactions Environmental Dispute Resolution Environmental Justice Environmental Litigation Clinic Environmental Litigation Seminar
Jessica Steinberg Albin
Associate Director, Environmental Law Programs; Adjunct Professor of Law BA, College of William and Mary; MS, Bard College; JD Pace Law. Previously Assistant Attorney for NYSDEC handling matters involving marine resources, the Brownfield Cleanup Program, and the State Superfund.
Internationally Acclaimed Legal Education
Environmental Skills and Practice: Clean Water Act Environmental Survey Externship – D.C. Environmental Law Externship – NYS Environmental Law Food and Beverage Law Clinic Food and Beverage Law Seminar Food Systems Law Guided Research Hazardous Waste Historic Preservation Human Rights and Environment International Environmental Law Land Use Law Legislative and Regulatory Process Mass Torts Natural Resources Law Nonprofit Organizations Ocean and Coastal Law Pace Environmental Law Review Editorship Public Health Law Science for Environmental Lawyers Sustainable Business and the Environment Sustainable Development Law Survey United Nations Environmental Diplomacy Practicum Water Rights Law
Tiffany Zezula
Deputy Director, Land Use Law Center; Adjunct Professor of Law BS, Tulane; JD, Pace Law. Primary trainer of local officials, environmentalists, and planners for the Center. Coordinates the national Land Use Leadership Alliance Training Program.
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