Environmental Law Administration and Faculty

Pace Law School’s full-time environmental faculty, center and clinic directors and administrators are leaders in the field both nationally and internationally.  Our adjunct professors are practicing lawyers who are experts in their area of instruction. 

As a student-centered law school, Pace provides students with abundant opportunities to interact with our outstanding faculty in our many courses, in our award-winning environmental law clinic, and in the centers’ exciting research projects.

Lin Harmon Professor, Assistant Dean and Director, Environmental Law Programs BA, The College of Idaho JD, Lewis & Clark Law School

CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEGAL STUDIES

	Nicholas A. Robinson  Co-Director, Environmental Legal Studies and Gilbert and Sarah Kerlin Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law BA, Brown University JD, Columbia University School of Law
	Dean Emeritus Richard L. Ottinger Co-Director of Environmental Legal Studies; and Faculty Supervisor of the Pace Energy and Climate Center BA, Cornell University LLB, Harvard University School of Law

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTERS AND CLINICS DIRECTORS

	John R. Nolon Counsel and Faculty Liaison of the Land Use Law Center and Professor of Law  BA, University of Nebraska JD, University of Michigan School of Law
	Franz Litz Executive Director, Pace Energy and Climate Center BA, Union College JD, Boston College Law School
	Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Co-Director of the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic and Professor of Environmental Law AB, Harvard University JD, University of Virginia LLM, Pace University School of Law
	Karl S. Coplan Co-Director of the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic and Associate Professor of Law BA, Middlebury College JD, Columbia University School of Law
	Daniel E. Estrin (Environmental Litigation Clinic) Supervising Attorney of the Environmental Litigation Clinic and Adjunct Professor of Law BA, State University of New York at Plattsburgh JD, Pace University School of Law

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW FULL-TIME FACULTY

	David N. Cassuto Professor of Law and Director, Brazil-American Institute for Law and Environment (BAILE) BA, Wesleyan University MA, Indiana University PhD, Indiana University JD, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
	Jeffrey G. Miller Professor of Law BA, Princeton University LLB, Harvard University School of Law
	Ann Powers Associate Professor of Law BA, Indiana University JD, Georgetown University School of Law
	Elizabeth Burleson Associate Professor of Law JD, University of Connecticut LLM, London School of Economics

VISITING FACULTY

	Leslie Carothers Scholar-in-Residence BA, Smith College LLB, Harvard Law School LLM, George Washington University
	Leslie Stein Scholar-in-Residence BA, State University of New York (Buffalo) LLB, Osgoode Hall Law School LLM, Osgoode Hall Law School

CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEGAL STUDIES RESEARCH FELLOWS

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ADJUNCT FACULTY

John P. Cahill, Counsel, Chadbourne & Parke LLP
Disaster Law and Emergency Preparedness

Seth A. Davis, Partner and Chair of the Environmental Law Department, Huber Lawrence & Abell
Environmental Commercial Transactions

Gail M. Hintz, Assistant Regional Attorney, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (Region II)
Environmental Externship - New York

John Nevius, Shareholder, Anderson Kill & Olick, PC
Climate and Insurance

Christopher Rizzo, Associate, Carter Ledyard and Milburn LLP
State and Regional Climate Initiatives

Joel H. Sachs, Partner, Keane & Beane, PC
Legal Management of Urban Environments

Joseph A. Siegel, Senior Attorney, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Climate Change Seminar, Climate Adaptive Management

Steven P. Solow, Partner and Chair of the Environmental Litigation Practice, Katten, Muchin, Rosenman LLP
Environmental Externship-Washington, DC

Hon. Robert A. Spolzino, Partner, Wilson Elser
NEPA/SEQRA

Robert Van Lierop, Of Counsel, Cowan, DaBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard
U.N. Environmental Diplomacy Program

Marla Wieder, Assistant Regional Counsel, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region II
Hazardous Waste