Environmental and Land Use

Clayton Gillette’s scholarship concentrates on contracts, commercial law, and local government law. He has authored casebooks and textbooks on local government law, payment systems, and sales law. Last year, Yale University Press published his book titled Local Redistribution and Local Democracy. Gillette’s articles include studies of long-term contracts, the political economy of international sales law, standard form contracts, and relations between localities and their neighbors. He has recently supervised students working on the State Budget Crisis Task Force headed by Paul Volcker and Richard Ravitch, and has consulted in litigation and arbitrations on subjects ranging from Agent Orange products liability to defaults on municipal bonds. Before joining the NYU School of Law faculty in 2000, he was the Perre Bowen Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. He earned his J.D. from the University of Michigan and a B.A. from Amherst College. After law school, he clerked for Judge J. Edward Lumbard of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and was associated with the law firm of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.

Roderick Hills teaches and writes in a variety of public law areas: constitutional law, local government law, land use regulation, jurisdiction and conflicts of law, and education law. His interest in these topics springs from their common focus on the problems and promise of decentralization. Hills’s recent work has focused on the virtues and vices of decentralization in federal control of nonfederal corruption, the states’ regulation of local government, and the use of federalism to defuse controversies over culture and religion. Hills has been a cooperating counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union, filing briefs in cases challenging denial of domestic-partner benefits to same-sex couples (National Pride at Work Inc. v. Granholm), exclusion of prison inmates from the protections of state antidiscrimination law (Mason v. Granholm), denial of rights to challenge prison guards’ visitation by family members for prison inmates (Bazzetta v. McGinnis), and discrimination against recently arrived indigent migrants in public assistance (Saenz v. Roe). Hills holds bachelor’s and law degrees from Yale University. He served as a law clerk for Judge Patrick Higginbotham of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and previously taught at the University of Michigan Law School.

Robert Howse received his B.A. in philosophy and political science with high distinction, as well as an LL.B. with honors, from the University of Toronto, where he was co-editor-in-chief of the Faculty of Law Review. He also holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. Howse has been a visiting professor at, among other institutions, Harvard Law School, Tel Aviv University, and the University of Paris 1 (Pantheon-Sorbonne). His books include The Regulation of International Trade (with Michael Trebilcock; fourth edition, forthcoming 2012) and The WTO System: Law, Politics, and Legitimacy (2007). He is also co-translator and principal author of the interpretative commentary, Alexandre Kojeve, Outline of a Phenomenology of Right (2000), and of various articles on the political thought of Kojeve, Leo Strauss, and Carl Schmitt. He has been a frequent consultant or adviser to government agencies and international organizations such as the OECD, UNCTAD, and the Inter-American Development Bank. He has also been a consultant to the investor’s counsel in a number of investor-state arbitrations. Howse is a contributor to the American Law Institute project on WTO law and serves on the editorial advisory boards of the European Journal of International Law, Transnational Legal Theory, and Legal Issues of Economic Integration. He coordinates the Investment Law Forum at NYU School of Law and is co-founder of the New York City Working Group on International Economic Law.

Benedict Kingsbury’s broad, theoretically grounded approach to international law closely integrates work in legal theory, political theory, and history. With NYU colleague Richard Stewart, he initiated and directs the Global Administrative Law Research Project, a pioneering approach to issues of accountability and participation in global governance. They launched the Global Administrative Law Network, and together with Andrew Hurrell edit the Law and Global Governance book series for Oxford University Press. Kingsbury has directed the Law School’s Institute for International Law and Justice since its founding in 2002. Kingsbury has written on a range of international law topics, from trade-environment disputes and the United Nations to interstate arbitration, investor-state arbitration, and the proliferation of international tribunals. He has edited Governance by Indicators, which was published in 2012, and books on Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) and Alberico Gentili (1552-1608). He has also worked extensively on issues involving indigenous peoples. After completing his LL.B. with first-class honors at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand in 1981, Kingsbury was a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford. In 1984, he graduated at the top of his class in the M.Phil. program in international relations at Oxford. He subsequently completed a D.Phil. in law at Oxford University and has taught at Oxford, Duke University School of Law, Harvard Law School, the University of Tokyo, and the University of Paris 1.

Richard Revesz is one of the nation’s leading voices in the fields of environmental and regulatory law and policy. His work focuses on the use of cost-benefit analysis in administrative regulation, federalism and environmental regulation, design of liability regimes for environmental protection, and positive political economy analysis of environmental regulation. His most recent book, Retaking Rationality: How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health (with Michael Livermore ’06, 2008), contends that the economic analysis of law can be used to support a more protective approach to environmental and health policy. In 2008, Revesz co-founded the Institute for Policy Integrity (IPI) at NYU School of Law to advocate for regulatory reform before courts, legislatures, and agencies, and to contribute original scholarly research in the environmental and health-and-safety areas. Revesz received a B.S. summa cum laude from Princeton University, an M.S. in civil engineering from MIT, and a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. After judicial clerkships with Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court, Revesz joined the NYU School of Law faculty in 1985 and was named dean in 2002. Revesz is a trustee of the American Museum of Natural History; a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Administrative Conference of the United States, and the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Richard Stewart is recognized as one of the world’s leading scholars in environmental and administrative law. Prior to joining the faculty, Stewart served as Byrne Professor of Administrative Law at Harvard Law School and as a member of the faculty of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He has served as assistant attorney general in charge of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and chairman of the Environmental Defense Fund. Stewart directs, with NYU School of Law Professor Benedict Kingsbury, a major project on global administrative law that examines and advances mechanisms of transparency, participation, reason giving, and review to meet accountability gaps in global regulatory institutions. Stewart also directs the NYU Climate Finance Project, which addresses new legal and regulatory institutions and tools for international transfers of public and private investment resources to developing countries. The project has published a pioneering book on the subject and held workshops and training sessions at the Copenhagen and Cancún climate meetings. It is currently developing a proposal for a Global Climate Finance Registry to promote accountability and effectiveness in global climate finance. He recently published a major book on U.S. nuclear waste law regulation and policy. Stewart also works on environmental law reform projects in China and other developing countries through the International Environmental Law Clinic and Guarini Center projects.