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MICHAEL BURGER

Executive Director

Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

Columbia Law School

435 West 116th

St.

New York, NY 10027

Email: michael.burger@law.columbia.edu

Phone: (212) 854-2372

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Columbia Law School

Executive Director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

Research Scholar and Lecturer-in-Law January 2015-present

Direct climate change-related research, advocacy and education programs in diverse areas,

including domestic and international climate law, environmental law, natural resources law, energy

law, human rights law, and sustainable development.

Roger Williams University School of Law July 2010-January 2015

Associate Professor of Law

Taught upper-level courses in Environmental Law, Administrative Law, and Law & Literature.

Directed Environmental and Land Use Law Clinical Externship Program.

New York University School of Law June 2007-May 2010

Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering

Taught first-year law students course designed to provide sophisticated and in-depth attention to

interactive, fact-sensitive and interpretive work fundamental to professional law practice. Includes

modules on legal research, legal writing, client counseling, contract negotiation, mediation and oral

advocacy.

APPELLATE ADVOCACY

Submission in Support of Petitioners, Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines Case No.

CHR-NU-2016-0001 (Petition Requesting an Investigation of the Responsibility of the Carbon Majors

for Human Rights Violations or Threats of Violations Resulting from the Impacts of Climate Change).

Counsel of Record, Brief of Carbon Capture and Storage Scientists s as Amici Curiae in Support of

Respondent Environmental Protection Agency, North Dakota v. EPA, et al., (D.C. Cir., No. 15-1381 et

al.).

Counsel of Record, Brief of the United State Conference of Mayors and Other Local Governments

as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondent Environmental Protection Agency, West Virginia v. EPA, et

al., (D.C. Cir., No. 15-363 et al.).

Counsel of Record, Brief of the National Organization of Counties, National League of Cities,

United State Conference of Mayors, International City/County Management Association, and

International Municipal Lawyers Association as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents, American

Trucking Association v. City of Los Angeles, et al., 11-798 (reported at 133 S.Ct. 2096 (2013)).

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LAW PRACTICE EXPERIENCE

Office of the Corporation Counsel, Environmental Law Division Sept. 2003-June 2007

Assistant Corporation Counsel

Represented and counseled the New York City Mayor’s office and City agencies in litigation,

administrative proceedings, legislation and policy-making pertaining to matters under federal, state and

local environmental laws.

Earthjustice May 2002-August 2002

Law Clerk, International Program

Researched and wrote memoranda and motions on international and domestic legal issues at the

intersections of human rights and environmental law, and international trade and environmental law.

Columbia Law School Environmental Law Clinic Sept. 2001-May 2002

Student Clinician

Researched and wrote memoranda and motions on issues including citizen enforcement of federal

right-to-know statutes, clean air and environmental justice, open space in New Jersey, and wetlands

conservation in the New York/New Jersey Harbor.

World Federalist Movement Sept. 2001-May 2002

Research Intern, International NGO Task Group on Legal and Institutional Matters

Researched dispute settlement and enforcement mechanisms in international environmental

governance. Drafted paper that formed core of new program’s mission and website.

PROFESSIONAL WRITING AND EDITING EXPERIENCE

Freelance Writer and Editor April 2001-May 2002

GothamGazette.com: Contributed bi-monthly environmental column and occasional features to

New York City political news website funded by the Citizens Union and New York Times

Foundations.

SavvyVoter.org: Conceived, assigned and edited overview articles on New York City political

issues for non-profit election website funded by the Soros and Earth Pledge Foundations.

Other: Wrote on environmental and cultural issues for print and online publications.

SiteSherpa, LLP Aug. 2000-April 2001

Writer/Editor

Investigated and reviewed more than 500 websites for navigational web browser “meta-guide.”

Specialized in environment, news, media, law, government, religion and film sites.

American Lawyer Media, Inc. Nov. 1999-Aug. 2000

Reporter

Wrote news pieces and feature articles for national magazines covering legal affairs and the

business of law.

EDUCATION

Columbia University School of Law, New York, NY, Juris Doctor, May 2003

Honors: Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, 2001-2003

Charles Evans Hughes Fellow, Human Rights Internship Program

Journals: Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, Articles Editor

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Brown University, Providence, RI, Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, May 1996

Honors: Ratcliffe Hicks Premium for Excellence in Coursework in English and English Languages

Undergraduate Teaching and Research Assistant Fellowship, Environmental Literature

Thesis: “Walking Through Lincoln Woods: Ethical Explorations in a Literary Landscape,” on file

with the university.

New York University, Graduate School of Arts and Science, New York, NY, Master of Fine Arts-

Creative Writing (Fiction), May 2009

Thesis: “The Law of Takings, A Novel,” on file with the university (E.L. Doctorow, advisor).

BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

CLIMATE CHANGE AND PUBLIC HEALTH LAW (Michael Burger and Justin Gundlach, eds., Cambridge

University Press, forthcoming 2017-18)

COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH SECTION 115 OF THE CLEAN AIR ACT: LAW AND POLICY

RATIONALES (Michael Burger, ed., Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming 2018-19)

“Materials Consumption and Solid Waste: Legal Developments for a Circular Economy,” LEGAL

PATHWAYS TO DEEP DECARBONIZATION (Michael B. Gerrard and John C. Dernbach, eds., forthcoming

2018)

“Research Governance,” co-authored with Justin Gundlach, Climate Law Fellow, Sabin Center for

Climate Change Law, CLIMATE ENGINEERING AND THE LAW: REGULATION AND LIABILITY FOR SOLAR

RADIATION MANAGEMENT AND CARBON DIOXIDE REMOVAL (Michael B. Gerrard and Tracy Hester,

eds., forthcoming 2017)

“Sustainable Utopias and Climate Change Apocalypse,” RETHINKING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TO

MEET THE CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGE,” (Keith Hirokawa and Jessica Owley, eds., Environmental

Law Institute (ELI) Press) (2015).

“The Last, Last Frontier,” ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND CONTRASTING IDEAS OF NATURE: A

CONSTRUCTIVIST APPROACH (Keith Hirokawa, ed., Cambridge University Press) (2014).

“Charlottesville, Other Cities, Restore Their Watersheds,” in CITIES AND NATURE, A HANDBOOK FOR

RENEWAL (Roger L. Kemp, ed., McFarland & Company, Inc., 2006); originally published as “A

Watershed Moment: A New Environmental Movement is Born,” The Next American City, Issue 4, Oct.

2004, at 10.

LAW JOURNAL ARTICLES AND PUBLISHED REPORTS

The Status of Climate Change Litigation: A Global Review, UN Environment (co-authored with Justin

Gundlach) (April 2017).

A Carbon Fee as Mitigation for Fossil Fuel Extraction on Federal Lands, 42 COLUM. J. ENVTL. L. 295

(2017).

Downstream and Upstream Emissions Analysis: The Proper Scope of NEPA Review, 41 HARV. ENVTL.

L. REV. 109 (co-authored with Jessica Wentz) (2017).

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Legal Pathways to Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions under Section 115 of the Clean Air Act, 28

GEO. ENVTL. L. REV. 359 (coordinating lead author, with Ann E. Carlson (UCLA), Michael B. Gerrard

(Columbia), Jayni Foley Hein (NYU), Jason A. Schwartz (NYU), Keith J. Benes (Columbia/SIPA)) (2016).

Climate Change and Human Rights, United Nations Environment Program (co-authored with Jessica

Wentz) (Dec. 2015).

Designing a Climate Change Displacement Coordination Facility: Key Issues for COP21, Sabin

Center for Climate Change Law Briefing Note (Sept. 2015).

Narratives in Conflict: Alaska Natives and Offshore Drilling in the Arctic, 2014 NORDIC ENVTL. L. J.

77 (invited symposium essay) (2014).

The (Re)Federalization of Fracking Regulation, 2013 MICH. ST. L. REV. 1483 (2014).

Fracking and Federalism Choice, 161 U. PA. L. REV. ONLINE 150 (2013),

http://www.pennlawreview.com/responses/2-2013/Burger.pdf.

Recovering from the Recovery Narrative: On Glocalism, Green Jobs and Cyborg Civilization, 46

AKRON L. REV. 912 (2013) (invited symposium essay).

Environmental Law/Environmental Literature, 39 ECOLOGY L. Q. 1 (2013).

Towards Engaged Scholarship, 33 PACE L. REV. 821 (2013) (contribution to group-authored article

edited by John Nolon).

“The Story with Sustainability,” in Rethinking Sustainability to Meet the Climate Change Challenge,

43 ENV. L. REP. 10342, 10356-57 (April 2013) (contribution to collection of essays by participants in

Environmental Law Collaborative 2012 workshop).

Property Law and American Empire, 34 U. HAWAII L. REV. 471 (2012) (co-authored with Paul

Frymer, Associate Professor, Princeton University).

Consistency Conflicts and Federalism Choice: Marine Spatial Planning Beyond the Territorial Sea, 41

ENV. L. REP. 10602 (July 2011).

Intrapersonal Intelligence as a Lawyering Skill: Introducing Values Systems into the Environmental

Law Syllabus, 2 PACE ENVTL. L. REV. ONLINE COMPANION 1 (2011).

“It’s Not Easy Being Green”: Local Initiatives, Preemption Problems and the Market Participant

Exception, 78 U. CIN. L. REV. 835 (2010).

Empowering Local Autonomy and Encouraging Innovation in Climate Change Governance: The Case

for a Layered Regime, 39 ENV. L. REP. 11161 (Dec. 2009).

Bipolar and Polycentric Approaches to Human Rights and the Environment, 28 COLUM. J. ENVTL. L.

371 (2003).

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Ecology and the Jewish Spirit: Where Nature and the Sacred Meet, edited and with Introduction by

Ellen Bernstein; Book Review, 26 ECOL. L. Q. 126 (1999).

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS & APPEARANCES

NATURAL RESOURCES LAW TEACHERS INSTITUTE, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Teaching

Comparative Climate Change Law, Banff, Alberta, June 2017 (panel chair).

DEEP DECARBONIZATION: THE LEGAL AND TECHNICAL FRAMEWORK, Environmental Law Institute,

Legal Frameworks for Deep Decarbonization, Washington, D.C., May 2017.

USING GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND HAZARD MITIGATION,

Columbia Law School and Environmental Law Institute, Introductory Remarks, New York, NY, April

2017 (panel chair).

CONFERENCE AT THE SORBONNE, University of the Sorbonne School of Law, Global Climate Change

Litigation, Paris, France, April 2017.

ANNUAL RETREAT, Human Rights Watch, Climate Change and Human Rights, New York, NY, April

2017.

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS FORUM: ENGAGING AND IMPLEMENTING THE 2030 SUSTAINABLE

DEVELOPMENT AGENDA, Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Climate Change and the Sustainable

Development Goals, Taipei, Taiwan, March 2017.

COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ANNUAL CLIMATE LAW SYMPOSIUM, Columbia Law

School, A Carbon Fee as Mitigation for Fossil Fuel Extraction on Federal Lands, New York, NY,

March 2017.

CLIMATE RISK: A COORDINATED APPROACH TO CLIMATE FINANCE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT,

World Bank Law, Justice and Development Week, Washington, D.C., Dec. 2016 (panel chair and

moderator).

THE ROLE OF CLIMATE LITIGATION IN A POST-PARIS WORLD, Climate Law and Governance Initiative,

Global Climate Change Litigation: An Overview, Marrakech, Morocco, Nov. 2016.

WHAT ROLE FOR NHRIS IN THE PROCESS OF MONITORING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS AND

COMMITMENTS UNDER THE PARIS AGREEMENT ON CLIMATE CHANGE, National Human Rights Council

of Morocco, Climate Change and Human Rights, Marrakech, Morocco, Nov. 2016.

OHCHR EXPERT ROUNDTABLE ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN RIGHTS, Office of the High

Commissioner of Human Rights, A Roadmap for Understanding Climate Change and Human Rights,

Geneva, Switzerland, Oct. 2016.

CLIMATE LEGISLATION WORKSHOP, Legal Response Initiative and Climate and Development

Knowledge Network, National Climate Change Legislation: A Brief Typology, London, England, Sept.

2016.

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LEGISLATING THE PARIS AGREEMENT: A PANEL DISCUSSION, Legal Response Initiative and Climate and

Development Knowledge Network, National Climate Change Legislation and the Role of Courts,

London, England, Sept. 2016.

U.S. COAL IN THE 21ST

CENTURY: MARKETS, BANKRUPTCY, FINANCE AND LAW, Columbia Law School,

Recent Developments in Coal Markets: Natural Gas, Renewables, Regulation and Global Supply &

Demand (panel moderator and conference organizer), Sept. 2016.

HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT: A PANEL DISCUSSION, International Bar Association Annual

Conference, Human Rights and the Environment: An Overview, Washington, D.C., Sept. 2016.

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON FIDUCIARY DUTY AND SUSTAINABLE INVESTING, World Resources

Institute and the Ford Foundation, Fiduciary Duty and Climate Risk, New York, NY, June 2016.

KEY ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN U.S. EPA REGION 2, Columbia Law School, Climate and Air Pollution

(panel moderator), June 2016.

NORTH AMERICAN CARBON PRICE ROUNDTABLE - BEYOND PARIS: THE ROAD TOWARD A NORTH

AMERICAN CARBON PRICE, The Aspen Institute Energy and Environment Program, The Potential Role

of Section 115 of the Clean Air Act in a North American Climate Price Agreement, May 2016.

SO YOU WANT A LOW CARBON FUTURE? HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT OUR ENERGY

ECONOMY!, American Association for the Advancement of Science, The Potential Role of Section 115

of the Clean Air Act in the Transition to a Low Carbon Economy, May 2016.

THE NEW YORK STATE POWER DIALOG, Albany Law School, Taking Climate Action Under Section

115 of the Clean Air Act, April 2016.

OPPORTUNITIES TO RAISE PUBLIC AWARENESS ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE

NEED FOR ACTION, New York State Bar Association, March 31, 2016 (panel moderator).

OCEAN AND COASTAL LAW CAPSTONE SEMINAR, University of Florida Levin School of Law, Local

Opposition to Fossil Fuel Export Facilities: Implications for Environmental Assessment and Coastal

Consistency Review, March 2016.

SOLVING NEW ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES: LEGAL INNOVATION IN A PARTISAN TIME, Georgetown

Environmental Law Review Symposium, Georgetown University Law Center, Legal Pathways to

Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions under Section 115 of the Clean Air Act, Feb. 2016 (keynote

address).

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY STANDING COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION, CLIMATE

CHANGE WORK GROUP ROUNDTABLE, New York NY, Dec. 2015.

CURIOUS ABOUT THE CLEAN POWER PLAN? A PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE EPA’S RECENT PLAN TO

LOWER AMERICA’S EMISSIONS, Cardozo Law School, Nov. 2015.

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT LAW & POLICY BRIEF: ALL EYES ON PARIS: THE GLOBAL AGREEMENT ON

CLIMATE CHANGE, American University Washington School of Law, Litigation over Loss and

Damage, Nov. 2015.

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CLIMATE CHANGE, THE CLEAN POWER PLAN AND THE PARIS AGREEMENT: WHAT’S AT STAKE, Lecture,

St. John’s University Law School, Nov. 2015.

PUBLIC HEALTH LAW AND CLIMATE CHANGE, American Public Health Association Annual Meeting,

Chicago, IL, Environmental Law and Climate Change: An Overview, Nov. 2015.

THE SOCIAL DYNAMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, Side Event to the 21st Conference of the Parties to the

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Universite Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne,

Climate Justice, Oct. 2015.

SUSTAINABILITY, HEALTH AND NUTRITION IN THE FACE OF CLIMATE CHANGE, High Level Side Event to

the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit, World Food Program et al., New York, NY,

Sept. 2015 (panel moderator).

NATIONAL WORKSHOP ON DISASTER AND CLIMATE CHANGE LAW, a project of the United Nations

Development Program, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Disaster

Law Program and the Government of Laos, Vientiane, Laos, Integrating Disaster Risk Management

and Climate Change in Lao PDR, July 2015.

EPA’S CLEAN POWER PLAN: WILL IT WORK AND WILL IT BE UPHELD?, Environmental and Energy

Study Institute (EESI) Briefing, Washington D.C., The Supreme Court and the Clean Power Plan,

April 2015.

FRACKING AND THE LAW: THE FRONTLINES, THE FUTURE, AND CONNECTICUT, University of

Connecticut School of Law Center for Energy and Environmental Law, Hartford, CT, Visions of the

Road Forward: Hydraulic Fracturing and a Sustainable Future (panel moderator and presenter), April

2015.

THE C2ES BUSINESS RESILIENCE WORKSHOP, Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, Washington

D.C., Requirements for the Consideration and Disclosure of Climate Risk under NEPA, March 2015.

PRIVATE PROPERTY, CLIMATE INFORMATION DISCLOSURE, AND THE ROLES OF INSURANCE AND

GOVERNMENT, University of North Carolina School of Law Center for Law, Environment, Adaptation

and Resources, March 2015.

ROUNDTABLE FOR PRACTITIONERS ON THE LEGAL ISSUES AROUND GREEN BONDS, Climate Bonds

Initiative, New York NY, February 2015.

FIDUCIARY DUTY IN SUPPORT OF RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENT: LEGAL MEETING, Initiative for

Responsible Investment, Hauser Institute for Civil Society, Harvard University, January 2015.

STANFORD LITERARY LAB PROJECT WORKSHOP, Stanford University, What the Supreme Court Talks

About When It Talks About Environmental Law, September 2014.

MARINE AFFAIRS INSTITUTE ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION SERIES, Roger Williams University School of

Law, Clusters, Competition and Consequences: Law and Development on Norway’s Arctic Frontier,

November 2013.

EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES IN THE NORTH: WHAT ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND INDIGENOUS

PEOPLES’ RIGHTS?, Faculty of Law, University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway,

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Competing Narratives off the North Slope: Drilling, Preservation and Spill Preparedness in Alaska’s

Arctic Waters, November 2013.

SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON FEDERALISM AND ENERGY IN THE UNITED STATES, Northwestern

Law School, Scale and Scope in the Regulation of the Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing, November

2013.

NATURAL RESOURCES LAW TEACHERS INSTITUTE, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation,

Flagstaff, AZ, Assault Litigation, May 2013.

HOW SHOULD HYDRAULIC FRACKING BE REGULATED?, Columbia Law School, Fracking and

Federalism Choice, April 2013.

SHIFTING SEAS: THE LAW’S RESPONSE TO CHANGING OCEAN CONDITIONS, Roger Williams University

School of Law, 9th

Marine Law Symposium, Panel Moderator: The Emerging Arctic, November 2012.

THE NEXT GENERATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL & NATURAL RESOURCES LAW: WHAT HAS CHANGED IN

40 YEARS AND WHAT NEEDS TO CHANGE AS A RESULT, University of Akron School of Law,

Recovering from the Recovery Narrative: On Glocalism, Green Jobs and Cyborg Civilization,

September 2012. FIRST ENVIRONMENTAL LAW COLLABORATIVE ROUNDTABLE, Environmental Law Collaborative, The

Story of Sustainability, July 2012.

ENVIRONMENT, CULTURE, AND PLACE IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING NORTH, University of Alaska-

Southeast, Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Off-Year Symposium, The

Arctic Imagination, Climate Change, and the Evolution of Environmental and Maritime Law on the

Earth’s Frozen Frontier, June 2012.

SYMPOSIUM ON ENGAGED SCHOLARSHIP, Pace University School of Law, May 2012.

THIRD BIENNIAL LITERATURE AND LAW CONFERENCE, John Jay College of Criminal Justice,

Environmental Law, the Environmental Imagination, and the Idea of Justice, March 2012.

PUBLIC INTEREST ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CONFERENCE, University of Oregon School of Law,

Narrative, Rhetoric, and Environmental Advocacy, March 2012.

SYMPOSIUM ON LEGAL CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR OFFSHORE WIND AND HYDROKINETIC

ENERGY DEVELOPMENT IN THE NORTHEAST, Pace University School of Law, Federalism,

Experimentation, and Offshore Wind, March 2012 (invited presentation).

COLLOQUIUM ON ENVIRONMENTAL SCHOLARSHIP, Vermont Law School, Wolf Myths and Climate

Stories: Case Studies in Environmental Law & Literature, Sept. 2011.

LAW AND SOCIETY ASSOCIATION, Annual Meeting, American Law of Conquest and Empire at the

Jurisdictional Borderlines, June 2011.

PRACTICALLY GROUNDED – BEST PRACTICES FOR SKILL BUILDING IN TEACHING LAND USE,

ENVIRONMENTAL, AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT LAW, Albany Law School and Pace University

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School of Law, Intrapersonal Intelligence as a Lawyering Skill: Integrating Students’ Values into

Doctrinal Analysis of Environmental Law & Policy, May 2011.

BLOWOUT: THE LEGAL LEGACY OF THE DEEPWATER HORIZON CATASTROPHE, Roger Williams

University School of Law Symposium, Panel Moderator: Origin of a Disaster, April 2010.

TAKING STOCK: THE MAGNUSON-STEVENS ACT REVISITED, Roger Williams University School of Law,

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Annual Marine Law Symposium, Panel Moderator: The Magnuson-Stevens Act and Other

Management Schemes, Nov. 2010.

TOURO LAW CENTER FACULTY COLLOQUIUM, “It’s Not Easy Being Green”: Local Initiatives,

Preemption Problems and the Market Participant Exception, February 2010.

BLOG POSTS & SELECTED ENVIRONMENTAL WRITING The Zinke Trump Attack on National Monuments is Motivated by Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Law

Blog, June 20, 2017.

Republican Senators’ Argument for Withdrawal from the Paris Agreement Wrong on Section 115 of

the Clean Air Act, Climate Law Blog, May 26, 2017.

To Withdraw from Paris or Not to Withdraw from Paris: Thinking Through Some of the Legal

Implications, Climate Law Blog, May 4, 2017.

The Battle Against Trump’s Assault on Climate Is Moving to the Courts, YaleEnvironment360, May

2, 2017.

Another Illegal Executive Order -- This Time National Monuments Are Under Attack, Take Care

Blog, April 28, 2017.

OIRA Guidance Solidifies Legal Problems Inherent in Trump’s Deregulation Order, Climate Law

Blog, April 14, 2017 (with Jessica Wentz).

A Blow in the Fight Against Climate Change: EPA Withdraws Oil and Gas Information Request,

Climate Law Blog, March 10, 2017 (with Romany Webb).

Trump’s Executive Order on Regulatory Costs is Not Only Arbitrary; It is Also Against the Law,

Climate Law Blog, Feb. 1, 2017 (with Jessica Wentz).

Human Rights Safeguards for the UNFCCC’s New Climate Finance Tool, Climate Law Blog, Oct. 11,

2016 (with Jessica Wentz).

Effective Action = Reasonable Interpretation: The Need to Protect US Cities and Communities from

Climate Change Impacts Supports the Legality of the Clean Power Plan, ACSBlog, Sept. 27, 2016.

CEQ Issues Final Guidance on Climate Change and NEPA with Two Key Changes from 2014 Draft,

Climate Law Blog, Aug. 3, 2016 (with Jessica Wentz).

Upstream and Downstream Emissions: Understanding the D.C. Circuit Decisions Upholding FERC’s

Environmental Analysis for LNG Export Terminals, Climate Law Blog, July 27, 2016.

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Offshore Drilling Plan: Sabin Center Asks BOEM to Consider Downstream GHG Emissions, Social

Cost of Carbon, and Consistency with Federal Climate Goals, Climate Law Blog, May 4, 2016 (with

Jessica Wentz).

Cities Across the U.S. Support Clean Power Plan in Amicus Brief, Climate Law Blog, April 1, 2016

(with Justin Gundlach).

New Legal Analysis Shows How Untapped Clean Air Act Provision Can Reduce Greenhouse Gas

Emissions, Climate Law Blog, Jan. 14, 2016.

Failure to Take Climate Action is Not Only Morally Wrong, It’s Illegal, Climate Law Blog, Nov. 30,

2015.

Towards an Integrated Approach to Disaster Risk Management and Climate Adaptation, Climate Law

Blog, Aug. 7, 2015.

The Arctic Litigation Season, Climate Law Blog, June 5, 2015.

Advocating for Action on Climate Displacement in the Context of Human Rights, Climate Law Blog,

May 4, 2015.

On the Merits: CTS Corporation v. Waldburger, No. 13-339, April 13, 2014 (Washington Legal

Foundation), available at www.wlf.org.

“Alaska Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell on the U.S. as an Arctic Nation,” Q&A in High Country News,

August 22, 2012.

“The battle over oil in the Arctic heats up,” Book Review of “The Eskimo and the Oil Man,” by Bob

Reiss, in The Providence Journal, May 20, 2012.

PRIMARY INVESTIGATOR/RESEARCHER

Alliance Joint Research Project (2017-18)

Small Scale Funding Agreement, UN Environment (2016-17)

Research Agreement, Vulcan Inc. (2016)

Small Scale Funding Agreement, United Nations Environment Program (2015)

AREAS OF RESEARCH

Climate Change Law, Environmental Law, Natural Resources Law, Administrative Law, Ocean &

Coastal Law, Law & Literature, Law & Humanities

AWARDS

First Annual Penny Pether Award for Law and Language Scholarship (2013)

International Municipal Lawyers Association Amicus Award (2013)

New York City Law Department Legal Rookie of the Year (2004)

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TEACHING AND SERVICE INITIATIVES

Stetson University School of Law Summer Study Abroad Program (2014)

Served as on-site program director for month-long summer study abroad program in the Hague,

Netherlands. Taught one-credit course on international trade, environment and human rights litigation.

Environmental and Land Use Law Clinical Externship (Roger Williams, 2013 - 2015)

Organized and established program for new experiential learning opportunity for students seeking

placements in government agencies and non-governmental organizations involved in environmental

and land use law and policy.

Sacred Natural Sites Law & Policy Project (Roger Williams, 2013-14)

Established partnership with Sacred Natural Sites Initiative and Natural Justice to develop website

providing law and policy resources for indigenous communities and other groups advocating for

biocultural rights and preservation. Offered opportunity to law students to participate in website

development through research and writing.

Environmental Law Collaborative

Co-founded new network of environmental, energy, and natural resources law professors seeking

to engage in the public discourse about emerging environmental ideas. Co-organized first workshop,

held in Chester, CT in June 2012. Helped facilitate publication of series of blog posts, group article,

and book on climate change and sustainability.

COURSES TAUGHT

Natural Resources Law (Spring 2016, Fall 2016)

Climate Change and the Future of Small Island States (Dec. 2015)

Administrative Law (2010-2015)

Environmental Law (2010-2015)

Environmental and Land Use Law Clinical Externship (2013-2015)

Advanced Topics in Environmental and Land Use Law (2013-2015)

Law & Literature (2010-2015)

Trade, Environment and Human Rights (2014)

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Member, Marine Affairs Institute Advisory Board, RWU School of Law (2010-2014)

Faculty Advisor, Environmental Law Society, RWU School of Law (2010-2014)

Faculty Advisor, Environmental Law Moot Court Team, RWU School of Law (2011-2014)

OTHER SERVICE

Chair, New York City Bar Association International Environmental Law Committee (2017 - present)

Member and Panel Chair, Natural Resources Law Teachers Institute Planning Committee (2016-2017)

Vice-Chair, American Bar Association Section on Energy, Environment and Resources, Constitutional

Law Committee (2011-2015)

Editor, American Bar Association Section on Energy, Environment and Resources, The Year in

Review, Constitutional Law Committee chapter (2011-2015)

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Fellow, American Bar Association Section on Energy, Environment and Resources Leadership

Development Program (2012-13)

Member, Rhode Island Food Policy Council Healthy Environment Working Group (2012-2013)

Affiliate, Sacred Natural Sites Initiative (2013-2014)

Contributing Editor, Environmental Law Prof blog (2013-2014)

Co-founder/Organizer, Environmental Law Collaborative

Member, Board of Directors, Longitude (a 501(c)(3) organization) (2011-2014)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Bar Admissions: State of New York (2004)

Court Admissions:

Supreme Court of the United States

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Professional Associations:

International Union for the Conservation of Nature, World Commission on Environmental Law

(Member)

American Association of Law Schools, Sections on Environmental Law, Natural Resources

Law, and Law and Humanities (Member)

American Bar Association, Section on Energy, Environment and Resources (Member and

former Vice-Chair)