Harvard Law School – Faculty Disclosures re: Related Outside Interests and Activities

Name: Richard Lazarus
Institution: HLS
Title (HLS): Tenured Professor
Visibility:Public

Client/Interest

Role/Interest

Matter

Issue

Dates

Environmental Defense Fund, Board of Trustees

Board

05/11-ongoing

Geertson Seed Farm/Supreme Court representation

Counsel

Whether federal agency complied with National Environmental Policy Act

01/2009-06/2009

Natural Resources Defense Council/Supreme Court Representation

Counsel

Representing NRDC in case during both jurisdictional nad merits stages before US Supreme Court

Applicability of federal Clean Water Act to municipal stormwater systems

01/2012-ongoing

Riverkeeper/Supreme Court Representation

Counsel

Representing Riverkeeper in Supreme Court case on the merits, including drafting of merits brief and presenting oral argument

Whether federal agency regulations violated Clean Water Act

06/08-04/09

Analysis Group/Board of Directors

Board

04/2007-ongoing

National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling

Gov't Official

Presidential Commission charged with investigating the root causes of the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill and recommending reforms to minimize the likelihood of future spills and the mitigation of their consequences

06/10-03/11

Munich Re/Lecture

Talk or publication

Delivered lecture on tort liability in aftermath of 2010 Gulf oil spill

10/11-10/11