2011-12 Faculty and Staff

Jody Freeman

Professor Freeman teaches Administrative Law, Environmental Law, and Natural Resources Law. Her scholarship in administrative law focuses generally on public-private collaboration in governance. Her work in this field encompasses governance theory, dispute resolution, regulatory innovation, and privatization. Her work in environmental law focuses on questions of institutional design, including governance institutions and regulatory tools. Learn more »

Richard J. Lazarus


Richard Lazarus is the Howard J. and Katherine W. Aibel Professor of Law Harvard University, where he teaches environmental law, natural resources Law, Supreme Court advocacy, and torts. Professor Lazarus has represented the United States, state and local governments, and environmental groups in the United States Supreme Court in 40 cases and has presented oral argument in 13 of those cases. His primary areas of legal scholarship are environmental and natural resources law, with particular emphasis on constitutional law and the Supreme Court. Learn more »

Wendy B. Jacobs 

Wendy Jacobs is a Clinical Professor and Director of the Environmental Law and Policy Clinic. Her work has covered the gamut of compliance counseling, handling of complex permit applications and their related hearings and appeals, preparation of comments on federal and state rule makings, drafting of legislation, regulations and ordinances, administrative trials and appeals, litigation, negotiation and drafting of contracts, environmental due diligence and audits, and development of corporate risk management and environmental protection policies and manuals. Learn more »

Cass R. Sunstein

(on leave)

Mr. Sunstein has testified before congressional committees on many subjects, and he has been involved in constitution-making and law reform activities in a number of nations, including Ukraine, Poland, China, South Africa, and Russia.

Joseph William Singer

Professor Singer teaches property law and conflict of laws. His scholarly work in property focuses on the social functions of property and the effect of property law on social relations. He also does research and writes extensively about federal Indian law, including the contours of tribal sovereignty and land claims, and is a co-editor of the 2005 edition of Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law (Nell Newton et al. eds.) (LexisNexis 2005). Learn more »

Matthew Stephenson

Assistant Professor Matthew Stephenson teaches administrative law and environmental law. His research focuses primarily on the application of positive political theory to the study of public law and regulatory institutions. Learn more »

Tyler Giannini

Tyler Giannini is the Clinical Director of Harvard Law School's Human Rights Program, and a Lecturer on Law at the Law School. He teaches clinical seminars on Human Rights and the Environment as well as Business and Human Rights. While at the Clinic, Tyler has investigated harms associated with large dams, mining and other resource extraction. He has conducted research missions in numerous countries, including Cambodia, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, Thailand, and Cambodia. Learn more »

Shaun Goho

Shaun Goho is a clinical instructor and staff attorney in the Environmental Law and Policy Clinic. Shaun worked for three years in the Washington, DC, office of O'Melveny & Myers, with a practice largely focused on securities litigation, and for three years in the Seattle office of Earthjustice, where he litigated a variety of environmental cases in state and federal court, with an emphasis on Endangered Species Act and water rights issues. Learn more »

Nicole Rinke

Nicole Rinke is a clinical instructor and staff attorney in the Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic. Ms. Rinke graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law in 2001 where she was a Research Assistant for Professor Joseph Sax and received a Certificate in Environmental Law.  Following graduation, Ms. Rinke clerked for the Nevada Supreme Court. She then went on to start a non-profit public interest practice representing Native American tribes and community and environmental groups concerned with the adverse environmental impacts of hardrock mining in Nevada. Ms. Rinke then went on to serve as Assistant General Counsel, and later General Counsel, for the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. Ms. Rinke also previously taught Environmental Law at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Kathy Curley

Kathy Curley is the program administrator for the Environmental Law Program.  Kathy has worked at the program since 2006.  She holds a BS in Public Finance from University of Massachusetts.  Kathy has been a faculty assistant to numerous professors throughout her career at Harvard Law School.