2006-07 Environmental Law Faculty and Staff
A team of professors, assistant professors, visiting professors, lecturers and fellows contributes to the School's environmental law offerings.
Jody Freeman faculty website
Professor Freeman teaches Administrative Law, Environmental Law, and Natural Resources Law. Her scholarship in administrative law focuses generally on public-private collaboration in governance. Her work in this field encompasses governance theory, dispute resolution, regulatory innovation, and privatization. Her work in environmental law focuses on questions of institutional design, including governance institutions and regulatory tools. Her most recent articles concern the mechanisms by which Congress oversees power delegated to environmental agencies, and the effect of inter-agency lobbying on executive branch decision making. Freeman is currently working on two forthcoming books. The first, with Charles Kolstad, evaluates the relative advantages of market mechanisms of environmental regulation over traditional command and control measures. The second, with Martha Minow, explores the implications for American governance of widespread private contracting for public services. Professor Freeman also co-authors a leading casebook in environmental law.
Joseph Singer faculty website
Professor Singer teaches property law and conflict of laws. His scholarly work in property focuses on the social functions of property and the effect of property law on social relations. He is the author of a casebook and treatise on property law, Property Law: Rules, Policies, and Practices (Aspen, 3d ed. 2002) and Introduction to Property (Aspen, 2d ed. 2005), as well as books and articles on property theory, including Entitlement: The Paradoxes of Property (Yale, 2000) and The Edges of the Field (Beacon, 2000). He also does research and writes extensively about federal Indian law, including the contours of tribal sovereignty and land claims, and is a co-editor of the forthcoming 2005 edition of Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law (LexisNexis, forthcoming, 2005).
Matthew Stephenson faculty website
Assistant Professor Matthew Stephenson teaches administrative law and environmental law. His research focuses primarily on the application of positive political theory to the study of public law and regulatory institutions. His published papers have dealt with such topics as the role of administrative agencies in regulating citizen suits under environmental laws and other statutes; the factors that influence the allocation of power between agencies and courts; and the political factors that affect the ability of courts to act as an effective check on the legislature and executive. His current research addresses how judicial review affects the strategies administrative agencies use to address complex regulatory problems in environmental policy and elsewhere.
David Hunter faculty website
Visiting Professor David Hunter will teach International Environmental Law and a seminar: Contemporary International and Comparative Environmental Law Research in the Spring.
David Spence faculty website
Visiting Professor David Spence will teach Law and Energy and a reading group TBD in the Spring.
Gerald Torres faculty website
Visiting Professor Gerald Torres will teach Federal Indian Law in the Fall 2006.
James Ryan faculty website
Vistiting Professor Ryan will teach Land Use Law in the Fall 2006.
Tyler Giannini faculty website
Lecture on law will teach the seminar Human Rights and the Environment in the Fall2006 and an advocacy workshop Human Rights and the Environment in the Spring 2007.
Miriam Seifter
Miriam Seifter is this year's Environmental Law Fellow. Currently a third-year student at Harvard Law School, Miriam is the President of the Environmental Law Society and Articles Editor of the Harvard Law Review. She holds a B.A. in Environmental Engineering from Yale University and a M.Sc. in Nature, Society, and Environmental Policy from the University of Oxford. Previously, Miriam has worked in the White House Office of Environmental Initiatives and for Trustees for Alaska. She will assist with the development of Harvard Law School's growing environmental law program.