2008-09 Environmental Law Faculty and Staff

Jody Freeman faculty website (on leave 2009-2010)
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. Her most recent articles concern the mechanisms by which Congress oversees power delegated to environmental agencies, and the effect of inter-agency lobbying on executive branch decision making. Freeman is currently working on two forthcoming books. The first, with Charles Kolstad, evaluates the relative advantages of market mechanisms of environmental regulation over traditional command and control measures. The second, with Martha Minow, explores the implications for American governance of widespread private contracting for public services. Professor Freeman also co-authors a leading casebook in environmental law. She recently authored an amicus brief, on behalf of Madeleine Albright, in MA v. EPA, the global warming case to be heard by the Supreme Court this year MA v. EPA, Nature Article.

Wendy Jacobs faculty website
Wendy Jacobs is a Clinical Professor and Director of the Environmental Law and Policy Clinic. Ms. Jacobs will teach the Clinical Seminar in Spring 2009, Practicing Environmental Law: Skills, Methods and Controversies. She graduated from HLS in 1981 and first worked as an appellate lawyer and special litigator for the US Deparment of Justice in the Environment Divison. She then did a brief stint with a law firm in Seattle working on First Amendment and commercial litigation, followed by 18 years as a partner in the Boston law firm Foley Hoag working almost exclusively on environmental matters, involving nearly all of the myriad federal and state environmental laws, government agencies, non-profit organizatons, and a host of interesting private sector clients. 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 rulemakings, 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.

Cass R. Sunstein  website (on leave 2009-2010)
Professor Sunstein graduated in 1975 from Harvard College and in 1978 from Harvard Law School magna cum laude. After graduation, he clerked for Justice Benjamin Kaplan of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court. He worked as an attorney-advisor in the Office of the Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice. 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. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Mr. Sunstein has been Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia, visiting professor of law at Harvard, vice-chair of the ABA Committee on Separation of Powers and Governmental Organizations, chair of the Administrative Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools, a member of the ABA Committee on the future of the FTC, and a member of the President's Advisory Committee on the Public Service Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters.

Joseph Singer faculty website
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 is the author of a casebook and treatise on property law, Property Law: Rules, Policies, and Practices (Aspen, 3d ed. 2002) and Introduction to Property (Aspen, 2d ed. 2005), as well as books and articles on property theory, including Entitlement: The Paradoxes of Property (Yale, 2000) and The Edges of the Field (Beacon, 2000). 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).

Matthew Stephenson faculty website
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. His published papers have dealt with such topics as the role of administrative agencies in regulating citizen suits under environmental laws and other statutes; the factors that influence the allocation of power between agencies and courts; and the political factors that affect the ability of courts to act as an effective check on the legislature and executive. His current research addresses how judicial review affects the strategies administrative agencies use to address complex regulatory problems in environmental policy and elsewhere.

Richard Lazarus faculty website
Visiting Professor Lazarus will teach Environmental Law in Theory and Application for the Winter Term 2010. Professor Lazarus teaches environmental law, natural resources law, Supreme Court advocacy, and torts at Georgetown University Law Center. He also serves as the Faculty Director of the Supreme Court Institute.

Jedidah Purdy faculty website
Professor Purdy has been appointed Visiting Professor of Law for the Spring Term 2010.  Professor Purdy will teach Natural Resources Law and Policy and the seminar Sources of Environmental Law.  Professor Purdy is from Duke University School of Law

Michael Vandenbergh faculty website  
Professor Vandenbergh has been appointed Visiting Professor of Law for the Fall Term 2009.  Professor Vandenbergh will Climate Change Justice and Environmental Law.  Professor Vandenbergh is from Vanderbilt University Law School.

 Tyler Giannini faculty website
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. Prior to coming to Harvard in 2004, Tyler was co-director of Earth Rights International (ERI), an organization at the fore front of efforts to link human rights and environmental protection. As a founder of ERI, Giannini spent a decade in Thailand conducting fact-finding efforts on human rights abuses in Burmaand ground breaking corporate accountability litigation. In particular, Giannini was co-counsel in the landmark Doev. Unocal litigation. The case sought to hold the corporation accountable for abuses surrounding the Yadana gas pipeline project in Burma, and was settled in early 2005. Giannini holds graduate degrees in law and foreign policy from the University of Virginia, where he was a member of the law review. He is a member of the Virginia State Bar, and has co-authored several major publications including Total Denial Continues: Earth Rights Abuses along the Yadana and Yetagun Pipelines in Burma (2002) and Earth Rights: Linking the Quests for Human Rights and Environmental Protection (1999).

Shaun Goho
Shaun Goho is a clinical instructor and staff attorney in the Environmental Law and Policy Clinic. Mr. Goho graduated from HLS in 2001, where he was Developments Editor of the Harvard Law Review. Following graduation, he clerked for Judge Reginald C. Lindsay in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. He then 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. In addition, he has Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Biology from McGill University and worked for a year as a research assistant for Professor Amanda Vincent and her marine conservation organization, Project Seahorse.

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.