The four fulltime faculty at the Center—Professors Vicki Been, Richard Stewart, and Katrina Wyman, along with Dean Richard Revesz—are national and international leaders in their fields, as are the visiting and adjunct faculty. Between them, they have published dozen of books and hundreds of articles, many of which have been reprinted in the annual “best of” environmental and land use scholarship volume published by the Land Use and Environment Law Review. These scholars also are actively involved in law reform efforts on a wide variety of current policy issues, from climate change to “smart growth” in cities.
Faculty |
Fellows & Staff |
| Richard Stewart Center Director University Professor; John Edward Sexton Professor of Law |
Paul Francis Distinguished Senior Fellow |
| Katrina Wyman Director, Environmental Law LL.M Program Professor of Law |
Jonathan Schrag Senior Fellow in Energy |
| Nat Keohane Vice President, Environmental Defense Fund Adjunct Professor of Law |
Bryce Rudyk Executive Director Adjunct Professor of Law |
| Michael Oppenheimer Visiting Professor of Law |
Laetitia De Marez Fellow in Climate Finance |
| Vicki Been Faculty Director, Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy Elihu Root Professor of Law |
Gonzalo Moyano Non-resident Fellow in Climate Finance |
| Richard Revesz Dean; Lawrence King Professor of Law |
Zaina Shahnawaz Research Associate in Climate |
| Dale Jamieson Affiliated Professor of Law |
Matt Jacobs Research Assistant in Energy |
Vicki Been '83
Elihu Root Professor of Law
Vicki Been has long been a forward-thinking scholar on the intersection of land use and environmental law. She is the coauthor of one of the nation’s most relied-upon land use casebooks, and she is the director of the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy.
Been took a leading role in producing the center's 2008 edition of The State of New York City's Housing and Neighborhoods and contributed a chapter on Lucas vs. the Green Machine to the second edition of Property Stories (Foundation Press). She has also co-authored several articles this year, including "31 Flavors of Inclusionary Zoning: Comparing Policies from San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and Suburban Boston," forthcoming in the Journal of the American Planning Association, "The High Cost of Segregation: Exploring Racial Disparities in High Cost Lending," in the Fordham Urban Law Journal, "Tenants: Innocent Victims of the Foreclosure Crisis," in the Albany Government Law Review, and "Neighborhood Effects of Concentrated Mortgage Foreclosures," in the Journal of Housing Economics.
Been also gave numerous presentations on land use law and policy, including specific issues in the New York area, at the Municipal Art Society of New York, the New York City Council, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the State Senate Office of Urban Policy and Planning, and other venues. She gave additional presentations at the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania.
Dale Jamieson
Affiliated Professor of Law
Dale Jamieson recently co-edited a book, Climate Ethics: Essential Readings, which will be published by Oxford University Press this fall. His article "The Post-Kyoto Climate: A Gloomy Forecast" appeared in the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, and he has a number of papers forthcoming, including "Climate Change, Responsibility, and Justice," in Science and Engineering Ethics, and "A Life Worth Living," in All Time: Our Obligation to the Future (edited by K. Moore and M. Nelson). This fall, he hopes to complete a new book, tentatively titled The Moral and Political Challenge of Climate Change.
Jamieson delivered the Inaugural Lecture at the Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics at the University of Southern California, the Hugh O. La Bounty Lecture at the California State Polytechnic University at Pomona, and "A Different Shade of Green: Race, Place and Environmental Justice" at Princeton University, as well as keynote addresses at the Conference on Energy and Responsibility at the University of Tennessee. He lectured in Chile, Brazil, Australia, and France as well as in Moscow at a summer course on environmental ethics for Russian university professors. Jamieson also found time to sit for an interview for the online resource Big Think, and appeared on Fox News discussing geoengineering. He was honored to be one of the few living ethicists to be the subject of an entry in J. Callicott and R. Frodeman's Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy.
Nat Keohane
Adjunct Professor of Law
Nat Keohane, director of economic policy and analysis at EDF, is actively involved in climate policy at both the domestic and international levels. In April, Keohane testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on the expected costs of legislation to cap and reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. In June, he appeared before that committee's Energy and the Environment Subcommittee to discuss the allocation of emission allowances under a cap-and-trade program. In July, he testified on the same subject before the Senate Finance Committee. Keohane has participated in a number of expert workshops and panels on key issues such as the design of cap-and-trade programs and the regulation of carbon markets. He also presented a paper at the NYU climate finance conference in Abu Dhabi in May.
Keohane attended the international climate negotiations in Bonn as part of the EDF delegation. He was also one of roughly 100 experts from around the world invited to participate in the Scoping Meeting for the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which took place in Venice in July.
Three of his papers appeared in economics journals this past spring, including the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and the Journal of Economic Management and Strategy. Finally, the two-volume Economics of Environmental Law, which Keohane co-edited with Richard Brooks and Douglas Kysar of Yale Law School, was recently published by Edward Elgar.
Michael Oppenheimer
Visiting Professor of Law
Michael Oppenheimer is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University. He is also Director of the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy (STEP) at the Woodrow Wilson School and Faculty Associate of the Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences Program, Princeton Environmental Institute, and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.
Oppenheimer serves as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Alternative Liquid Transportation Fuels, part of a larger project, America's Energy Future. He was interviewed on ABC News in March about the psychology and science of global warming, and footage was shown of his testimony to the Senate in 1988 when he foreshadowed many of the calls to action heard today. Oppenheimer co-wrote a report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on how even relatively low temperature rises could have more harmful effects than previously thought, and also co-authored an article on the effect of global warming on invasive plant species in the U.S. and the unprecedented ecological restoration opportunities this offers.
He recently headed the steering committee that organized a special trip to Svalbard, an archipelago in the Norwegian Arctic, sponsored by Lindblad Expeditions, the National Geographic Society, and the Aspen Institute. The trip aimed to expose decision makers and other influential participants to direct evidence of the rapid changes in the Arctic environment caused by global warming. Oppenheimer is the guest co-curator of a new exhibit, Climate Change: the Threat to Life and a New Energy Future, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He also presented a paper at the NYU climate finance conference in Abu Dhabi.
Richard Revesz
Dean; Lawrence King Professor of Law
Dean Richard Revesz's work on federalism and environmental regulation, the valuation of human life and the use of cost-benefit analysis, and the design of liability rules for environmental protection has set the agenda for environmental law scholars for the past decade. His activities in public policy and law reform efforts include serving as a member of the Environmental Economics Advisory Committee of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board and writing amicus briefs filed in environmental and administrative law cases pending before the Supreme Court.
In September 2008, Dean Richard Revesz was appointed to the National Research Council's Committee on Health, Environmental, and Other External Costs and Benefits of Energy Production and Consumption to study the costs and benefits of U.S. energy production and use for parties not directly involved in energy decisions. The committee will deliver a report to the president and Congress next summer to better inform national energy policy.
In December, Revesz gave a keynote address in Boston at the annual meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis. In his talk, "Eliminating Anti-Regulatory Biases," he discussed the challenges awaiting the Obama administration in utilizing cost-benefit analysis in the administrative execution of its policies.
Revesz, faculty director of the Institute for Policy Integrity, and Michael Livermore '06, the Institute's executive director, are authors of Retaking Rationality: How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health, published by Oxford University Press. They have also co-authored several articles and op-eds for BusinessWeek and Forbes.com.
Richard B. Stewart
University Professor; John Edward Sexton Professor of Law
A leading scholar in environmental and administrative law, Richard Stewart, director of the Center and chair of the Hauser Global Law School Program, has published eight books and 75 articles. He is a former Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and former chairman of the Environmental Defense Fund.
Richard Stewart spent much of the last year leading the Breaking the Logjam Project and organizing the NYU climate finance conference in Abu Dhabi. He also presented papers on global administrative law at major international administrative law conferences held in Rio de Janeiro and Monterrey, Mexico, and at a symposium held by NYU and Tsinghua Law School in Beijing. Stewart co-leads NYU's program on global administrative law, and researches and develops proposals to promote greater accountability and responsiveness in decision making by global bodies such as the WTO and the IMF through procedures of transparency, participation, reason-giving, and review. Stewart also conducted a workshop in Bogotá on environmental law and global governance with the faculty of Los Andes Law School and representatives of Columbian environmental advocacy groups.
The American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources (SEER) has recognized Stewart's contributions to environmental law by selecting him for the 2009 ABA SEER Annual Award for Environmental Stewardship. The award will be presented at the Section's annual meeting on September 25.
During the past year, Stewart published an article on "GMO Trade Regulation and Developing Countries" in Acta Juridica, the faculty law journal of the University of Cape Town, and on "U.S. Nuclear Waste Law and Policy: Fixing a Bankrupt System" in the NYU Environmental Law Journal. He also published several book chapters on global administrative law and on the choice of regulatory tools in international environmental law.
Katrina M. Wyman
Professor of Law
Katrina Wyman focuses her research on the use of innovative tools such as markets and private property rights for managing an array of natural resources, such as air, fisheries, and land. She has published articles examining why the U.S. was the first country to implement large-scale markets in air pollution, and why it has been slow to introduce private property-like instruments known as individual transferable quotas to manage marine fisheries.
Katrina Wyman used the book The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird by Bruce Barcott as the backbone of the Public Interest Environmental Law Practice seminar, a class that allows CELUL fellows to share their summer internship experiences. Barcott, as well as numerous lawyers and officials involved in the book's true story, participated in the course to give students a holistic view of the many facets of practicing environmental law. Wyman also taught Natural Resources Law and International Environmental Law, and co-taught the Global Environmental Governance seminar with Michael Oppenheimer at NYU and Princeton.
Wyman published an article in the Cornell Law Review on whether property scholars should embrace virtue ethics as a normative guide for land use regulation, and also contributed a piece on the Endangered Species Act to the NYU Environmental Law Journal for the Breaking the Logjam project.
