2007-08 Environmental Law Faculty and Staff
A team of professors, assistant professors, visiting professors, lecturers and fellows contributes to the School's environmental law offerings.
Jody Freeman faculty website
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 the Director of the Environmental Law and Policy Clinic. Ms. Jacobs will teach the Clinical Seminar in Spring 2007, 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 cases. For the past 17 years, she has been 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.
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 forthcoming 2005 edition of Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law (LexisNexis, forthcoming, 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.
John Leshy 
faculty website
Visiting Professor John D. Leshy will teach Federal Public Land and Resources Law and Water Law in the Fall.
J.B. Ruhl faculty website
Visiting Professor J.B. Ruhl will teach Land Use Law and Policy of Ecosystem Services in the Spring.
Roger Ballentinefaculty website
Lecturer on Law Roger Ballentine will teach The Law of Climate Change in the Winter.
Tyler Giannini faculty website
Lecturer on Law will teach the seminar Human Rights and the Environment in the Fall2006 and an advocacy workshop Human Rights and the Environment in the Spring 2007.
Meghan Morris
Meghan Morris is this year's Environmental Law Fellow.
Currently a third-year student at Harvard Law School.
Meghan is also finishing her master's degree at the Fletcher School,
with a concentration in International Environment and Resource Policy. Meghan is the Co-President of the HLS Advocates for Human Rights and one of the Editors-in-Chief of Unbound. She holds a B.S. in Policy Analysis and Management from Cornell University. Meghan has worked for EarthRights International, Schonbrun DeSiimone Seplow Harris & Hoffman, and the Kallari cooperative in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Meghan is currently working on a comparative study of intellectual property law and institutions related to plant genetic resources used in food agriculture in the United States, Cuba, and India. She will assist with the development of Harvard Law School's growing environmental law program