Richard J. Lazarus

Academic Appointment and Employment History

• Summer Law Faculty, University of Malta's Foundation for International Studies, Consortium for Innovative Legal Educatio (2012 - 2012)
  Two-week course co-taught with the Chief Justice of the United States
  Malta, Malta
• Howard J. and Katherine W. Aibel Professor of Law, Harvard Law School (2011 - Present)
  Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
• Summer Law Faculty, University of Florence School of Law, Penn State The Dickinson School of Law Study Abroad (2011 - 2011)
  Summer two-week course co-taught with the Chief Justice of the United States
  Florence, Italy
• Executive Director, National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill & Future of Offshore Drilling (2010 - 2011)
  Presidential Commission investigating the root causes of the oil spill
  Washington, District of Columbia, United States
• Justice William J. Brennan Jr. Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center (2010 - 2011)
  Georgetown, District of Columbia, United States
• Austin Wakeman Scott Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School (2010 - 2010)
  Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
• Stanley Legro Visiting Professor of Law, University of San Diego Law School (2009 - 2011)
  Spring short-term, intensive course
  San Diego, California, United States
• Summer Law Faculty, Galway University, New England School of Law’s 2009 Summer Program on International and Comparative (2009 - 2009)
  Two-week course co-taught with the Chief Justice of the United States
  Galway, Ireland
• Visiting Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law (2009 - 2009)
  Los Angeles, California, United States
• Austin Wakeman Scott Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School (2008 - 2009)
  Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
• Summer Law Faculty, University of Innsbruck, St. Mary’s School of Law Institute on World Legal Problems (2008 - 2008)
  Two-week course co-taught with the Chief Justice of the United States
  Innsbruck, Austria
• Summer Law Faculty, Juridicum Vienna, Penn State The Dickinson School of Law Study Abroad (2007 - 2007)
  Two-week course co-taught with the Chief Justice of the United States
  Vienna, Austria
• Visiting Professor of Law, Columbia University School of Law (2006 - 2006)
  New York, New York, United States
• Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School (2002 - 2002)
  Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
• Visiting Lecturer, University of Tehran (2001 - 2001)
  Tehran, Iran
• Founder & Faculty Co-Director, Georgetown University Supreme Court Institute (1999 - 2011)
  Provides, inter alia, moot court practice sessions for counsel in approximately 95 percent of Supreme Court cases
  Georgetown, District of Columbia, United States
• Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1999 - 2000)
  Washington, District of Columbia, United States
• Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center (1996 - 2010)
  Georgetown, District of Columbia, United States
• Professor of Law, Washington University School of Law (1992 - 1996)
  St. Louis, Missouri, United States
• Office of the President-Elect Transition Team, U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division (1992 - 1992)
  Washington, District of Columbia, United States
• Visiting Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law (1991 - 1991)
  Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Visiting Professor of Law, University of Texas School of Law (1991 - 1991)
  Austin, Texas, United States
• Associate Professor, Washington University School of Law (1989 - 1992)
  St. Louis, Missouri, United States
• Professorial Lecturer in Law, George Washington University National Law Center (1988 - 1988)
  Taught class in natural resources law
  Washington, District of Columbia, United States
• Assistant to the Solicitor General, U.S. Department of Justice (1986 - 1989)
  Representation of the United States before the Supreme Court.
  Washington, District of Columbia, United States
• Assistant Professor Law, Indiana University (Bloomington) (1983 - 1985)
  Bloomington, Indiana, United States
• Attorney, Policy, Legislation & Special Litigation, Land & Natural Resources Division, U.S. Dept. of Justice (1979 - 1983)
  Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Bar Admissions

• Supreme Court Bar
• Massachusetts Bar
• Missouri Bar
• District of Columbia Bar

Board Memberships

• Member, Environmental Defense Fund Board of Directors (2011 - Present)
  United States
• Member, Analysis Group Board of Directors (2011 - Present)
• Member, Analysis Group Board of Directors (2007 - 2010)
• Member, U.S. EPA National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (2005 - 2006)
• Member, Georgetown Environmental Law & Policy Institute Advisory Board (1999 - 2011)
• Member, U.S. EPA Title VI of the Civil Rights Act Implementation Advisory Committee (1998 - 1999)
• Member, U.S. Environmental Protection Environmental Justice Asssessment Group (1998 - 1999)
• Chair, American Association of Law Schools Section on Natural Resources Law (1997 - 1998)
• Vice-Chair, American Association of Law Schools Section on Natural Resources Law (1996 - 1997)
• Member, Harvard Environmental Law Review Advisory Board (1995 - Present)
• Member, Environmental Law Institute Environmental Law Reporter Advisory Committee (1995 - Present)
• Member, Word Wildlife Fund National Council (1995 - 2000)
• Member, U.S. EPA National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (1994 - 1997)
• Member, Litigation Review Committee, Environmental Defense Fund Board of Directors (1992 - Present)
• Vice-Chair, American Bar Association Section on Water Law (1992 - 1993)
  United States

Education History

• J.D. (cum laude) Harvard Law School, 1979
• B.A. Economics University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, 1976
• B.S. Chemistry University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, 1976

Honors and Awards

• Distinguished Achievement in Environmental Law (Awards)
  American Bar Association, 2011
• Frank Flegal Teaching Award (Awards)
  Georgetown University Law Center, faculty peer review award based on faculty & student survey, 2002
• Teacher of the Year (Awards)
  Washington University School of Law