Professor Jody Freeman

Professor of Law

Office:	Hauser 412
Assistant:	Kathleen Curley 617/495-3097
Phone:	(617) 496-4121
Email:	freeman@law.harvard.edu

Professor Freeman teaches Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Legislation and Regulation, and Natural Resources Law, and is Director of the Harvard Law School Environmental Law Program. Her scholarship in administrative law focuses on public-private collaboration in governance, regulatory innovation, negotiated approaches to regulation, and privatization. Her work in environmental law centers on the design of governance institutions, regulatory tools and decision making procedures; most recently, she is working on climate related institutional design. She authored an amicus brief, on behalf of Madeleine Albright, in MA v. EPA, the global warming case decided by the Supreme Court this year. MA v. EPA. Her analysis of the case appears in a new article, MA v. EPA: From Politics to Expertise, to be published in the Supreme Court Review this year. She recently published an article explaining how state efforts to address climate change can influence federal regulatory strategies (in Penn L. Rev. with DeShazo). Timing and Form of Federal Regulation: The Case of Climate Change. Her 2006 book, Moving to Markets in Environmental Regulation, is a collection of essays by leading legal scholars and economists analyzing how well market mechanisms of environmental regulation have performed compared to prescriptive regulation. Freeman co-authors a leading casebook in environmental law, now in it's seventh edition, and recently agreed to join the 6th edition of a leading administrative law casebook. She is also conducting an empirical study for the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives (subcommittee on administrative law) on trends in judicial review of agency rulemaking. To see an interview with Professor Freeman on environmental law and climate change, go here: http://av.law.ucla.edu/uclaw/Scully-World-large.wmv. To see Professor Freeman's remarks at a recent Forum on California's Climate Legislation, go here (remarks begin approx. 1/3 into the webcast): http://fiesta.bren.ucsb.edu/~kolstad/events/ClimateForum/webcast.htm.

Professor Freeman’s recent works include Modular Environmental Regulation (with Farber), which was selected as one of the top ten environmental law articles of 2006 by the Journal of Land Use and Enviromental Law, and Public Agencies as Lobbyists (with DeShazo). In 2004, her article on congressional oversight of the Endangered Species Act, The Congressional Competition to Control Delegated Power (with DeShazo) was selected as one of the top 10 articles of the year by the Land Use and Environmental Law Review. In 2001, Professor Freeman’s article, The Private Role in Public Governance, received the annual scholarship award from the American Bar Association's Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice for the single best article in the nation on administrative law. Freeman’s other articles include The Contracting State, Regulatory Negotiation and the Legitimacy Benefit (with Langbein), and Collaborative Governance in the Administrative State.

Prior to joining HLS, Professor Freeman taught for 10 years at UCLA where in 2004 she received the law school's Rutter Award for excellence in teaching, and in 2001 was voted Professor of the Year.

Professor Freeman has testified in Congress and before state commissions on administrative law and environmental matters (Hoover Commission and Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law). She has served as Vice-Chair of the ABA Administrative Law Section sub-committees on Dispute Resolution as well as the subcommittee on Environmental Law and Natural Resources. In 2006, she chaired the Executive Committee on Administrative Law for the Association of American Law Schools. Professor Freeman consults on administrative law and environmental law issues, and lectures widely both in the U.S. and abroad. Her writings have been translated into several languages; a collection of her papers will be published in China in 2007.