Richard J. Lazarus

Austin Wakeman Scott Visiting Professor of Law

Research Interests

• Environmental Law
• Natural Resources Law
• Global Climate Change and Institutional Design
• Supreme Court Advocacy

Appointments

• Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Additional Information

Visiting Professor Lazarus will teach Environmental Law in Theory and Application in the Winter Term 2010.

Representative Publications

• "Ulysses, the Sirens of Politics, and Climate Change: Binding the Present to Liberate the Future," 94 Cornell L. Rev. (June 2009 (forthcoming))
• "Advocacy Matters Before and Within the Supreme Court: Transforming the Court by Tranforming the Bar," 96 Geo. L. J. 1487 (2008)
• "Congressional Dissent: The Demise of Deliberative Democracy in Environmental Law," 94 Geo. L. J. 619 (2006)
• The Making of Environmental Law (University of Chicago Press, 2004)
• "Restoring What's Environmental About Environmental Law in the Supreme Court," 47 U.C.L.A. L. Rev. 703 (2000)