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Frank J. Guarini Center on Environmental and Land Use Law

The Frank J. Guarini Center on Environmental and Land Use Law was established in 1991.  It is directed by Professor Richard Stewart and is named for the Hon. Frank J. Guarini ’50 (L.L.M.’55).

The Center was the first of three related initiatives that NYU took to make the Law School the leading national law school for the study of environmental and land use law.  Together with The Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy - directed by Professor Vicki Been of NYU Law and Associate Professor Ingrid Gould Ellen of NYU’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service - and the newly established Institute for Policy Integrity - directed by Dean Richard Revesz and former Center fellow Michael Livermore - the Center works to advance scholarly inquiry and writing, enhance legal training, and develop and implement innovative solutions to environmental protection and land use problems at the national, regional, and global levels.

In addition to promoting legal research and problem-solving by faculty, the Center funds summer internships for law students interested in practicing environmental and land use law at NGOs and government agencies in the US and abroad.  Faculty associated with the Center also hire law students as research assistants.  In addition, the Center offers paid fellowships to recent law graduates who are interested in pursuing academic careers.

The Center sponsors conferences on cutting-edge topics in environmental law.  Its most recent conference was the Breaking the Logjam symposium, which was sponsored by the Center, the NYU Environmental Law Journal, and New York Law School.  Held in March 2008, it featured over 40 environmental law experts from academia, environmental groups, business, and government discussing how the next Administration and Congress should reform the major federal environmental laws.

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