Wendy Jacobs

Clinical Professor of Law

Director, Environmental Law and Policy Clinic

Research Interests

• Environmental Law
• Administrative Law
• Liability Regimes for Carbon Capture and Sequestration in the U.S. and China
• Policies and Technologies for the Reduction of Air and Water Pollution
• Financial and Other Incentives for Development of Renewable Power Sources
• Quantification and Reduction of Environmental Risks
• Due Diligence and Distribution of Environmental Liabilities in Corporate Transactions
• Development of Contaminated Properties (brownfields)
• Enactment of Pollution Reduction Laws in Europe (REACH, WEEI, and ROHS)

Education

• University of Massachusetts (Amherst) B.A. 1978
• Harvard Law School J.D. 1981

Appointments

• Director, Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, 2007
• Lecturer on Law, 2007
• Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, 2008
• Clinical Professor of Law, 2010