Organizers of the Project

Breaking the Logjam is a joint project of New York Law School, NYU School of Law and NYU’s Environmental Law Journal.

The project leaders are:

 

David Schoenbrod

David Schoenbrod is a professor at New York Law School and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. As a staff attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) during the 1970's, Schoenbrod was a leader in the campaigns to get lead out of gasoline, reduce air pollution in Puerto Rico, and combat automotive pollution in New York City. His work on environmental justice began earlier as director of community development at the anti-poverty organization that Senator Robert Kennedy established in Bedford-Stuyvesant. His writings on environmental law and regulation appear in books, scholarly journals, and newspapers.

Richard B. Stewart

Richard Stewart has taught and written on environmental and administrative law for 35 years, first at Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School of Government and, since 1992, at NYU where he heads the Center on Environmental and Land Use Law. During 1989-91 he served President George H. W. Bush as Assistant Attorney General for Environment and Natural Resources, U.S. Department of Justice, where he led the prosecution of Exxon for the Exxon Valdez oil spill and played a central role in the development of the 1992 Rio Climate Change Convention. He is a longtime trustee of the Environmental Defense Fund, serving as its Chairman from 1981 to 1983. He has written extensively on economic incentives for environmental protection and federalism issues in environmental policy.

Katrina Wyman

Katrina Wyman was born and raised in Canada and moved to the U.S. five years ago to teach at NYU.  She is particularly interested in the use of property rights and market mechanisms for addressing environmental problems and has extensively studied the use of emissions trading and individual fishing quotas in different countries.  Before studying law in Canada, she was a policy analyst in the Ontario government for several years.  She teaches Natural Resources Law and Policy, the Practice of Public Interest Environmental Law, property and torts.

 

Other members of the project team are:

Carol A. Casazza Herman

As Vice President, Environment, Health and Safety, and Assistant General Counsel of Pfizer Inc., Carol led Pfizer's worldwide EHS program.  In that capacity, she managed a multi-discplinary team of technical, legal and medical professionals who supported the development, manufacture, and marketing of medicines in the areas of EHS compliance assurance, operational support, and stakeholder interactions.  Prior to that, she headed up Pfizer’s EHS Legal Practice Group and has counseled Pfizer on local, national and international legal issues in the context of business transactions, regulatory compliance, and policy advocacy.  Carol has served the U.S. EPA as both an Assistant Regional Counsel and Environmental Scientist in Region 2 (New York).  She is a member of the board of directors of several environmental not-for-profits and is a Visiting Fellow at the Environmental Law Institute.  She participates in Breaking the Logjam as Project Counsel.

Katherine Schoonover

Katherine Schoonover, Director of Communications for the Breaking the Logjam project, is an alumna of NYU School of Law who practiced corporate and securities law for many years, eventually becoming one of the first women to be made a partner at the New York firm of Shea & Gould.  She left the practice of law to raise a family and pursue her interest in historic preservation.  She is presently planning to return to the practice of law in the environmental field.  She is a trustee and the Secretary and Treasurer of The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation.

Deborah Paulus-Jagric

Deborah Paulus-Jagric, J.D., is the educational services reference librarian at NYU School of Law. She has a special interest in Clean Air Act issues and maintains an electronic research guide on international approaches to climate change on GlobaLex, published by the Hauser Global Law School Program.

Basilio I. Valdehuesa

Basilio Valdehuesa is an administrative officer at NYU School of Law, assisting Professor Richard Stewart at the Center for Environmental and Land Use Law and the Hauser Global Law School Program. He recently completed a master's program at NYU studying the relationship between the private sector and developing economies.

Rachel Jones

Rachel Jones works in administrative services at the NYU School of Law, assisting Katrina Wyman and several other professors.  She holds a Master's Degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Texas, Austin.

Gemma Jacobs

Gemma Jacobs is the assistant to Professor David Schoenbrod and other professors at New York Law School. She graduated from Adelphi University in Business.