{"id":191,"date":"2012-10-17T13:59:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T17:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/?page_id=191"},"modified":"2014-09-11T12:29:38","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T16:29:38","slug":"faculty-staff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/about\/faculty-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Faculty & Staff<\/strong><\/h1>\n

\"\"<\/a>Jody Freeman<\/a><\/h2>\n

Professor Freeman is the Archibald Cox Professor at Harvard Law School and is a leading expecting on administrative law and environmental law and teaches courses on energy and climate law . She is the founding director of Harvard Law School’s Environmental Law and Policy Program, and she served as Counselor for Energy and Climate Change in the Obama White House in 2009-2010. Freeman also advised the National Commission on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.Her most recent book, Global Climate Change and U.S. Law<\/em> (edited with Mike Gerrard)\u00a0will be published by the American Bar Association in April\u00a02014. She is the author of numerous articles on regulation, governance and congressional delegation, including (with Jim Rossi)\u00a0Agency Coordination in Shared Regulatory Space<\/em>, published in the Harvard Law Review, and of\u00a0Old Statutes, New Problems<\/em>\u00a0(forthcoming with David Spence).\u00a0Learn more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Richard J. Lazarus\u2028<\/a><\/h2>\n

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.\u00a0Learn more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Wendy B. Jacobs<\/a><\/h2>\n

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.\u00a0Learn more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Shaun A. Goho<\/a><\/h2>\n

Shaun Goho is a Senior Clinical Instructor and Staff Attorney in the Environmental Law and Policy Clinic.\u00a0 He teaches a clinical seminar on public interest environmental litigation.\u00a0 Before coming to HLS, Shaun worked in the Northwest office of Earthjustice, here he litigated a variety of environmental cases in state and federal court, with an emphasis on Endangered Species Act and water rights issues, and in the Washington, DC, office of O’Melveny & Myers, with a practice largely focused on securities litigation.\u00a0Learn more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Kate Konschnik<\/h2>\n

Kate Konschnik is Policy Director of the Environmental Law Program.\u00a0 Kate served as
\nChief Environmental Counsel to Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), directing the
\n<\/a>Senator\u2019s subcommittee on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee for three years.\u00a0 Prior to this, Kate spent seven years as a Trial Attorney at the Environmental Enforcement Section of the United States Department of Justice, litigating environmental cases in federal court on behalf of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.\u00a0 Kate was a member of the Clean Air Act New Source Review Power Plants litigation team, and represented the Environmental Enforcement Section in drafting Clean Air Act policy proposals for the incoming Obama Administration.\u00a0Learn more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"Aladdine Joroff<\/h2>\n

Aladdine Joroff is a Clinical Instructor and Staff Attorney in the Environmental Law & Policy Clinic. \u00a0Prior to joining Harvard Law School, Aladdine practiced environmental and land use law in the Boston offices of Beveridge & Diamond and Goodwin Procter, where her work included permitting, operating and regulatory compliance counseling, policy development advocacy and associated litigation in state and federal courts. \u00a0She has worked with clients in the private, public and nonprofit arenas with a focus on energy sector participants. \u00a0Aladdine received her J.D.,\u00a0cum laude<\/em>, from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law and her M.S. and B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n

\"\"Ari Peskoe<\/h2>\n

Ari Peskoe joined Harvard Law School\u2019s Environmental Policy Initiative as an Energy Fellow in January 2014.\u00a0 He has written extensively about electricity regulation, on issues ranging from electric vehicles to Constitutional challenges to states\u2019 energy laws.\u00a0 Prior to the Policy Initiative, Ari was an associate at a law firm in Washington, D.C. where he litigated before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission about the 2000-2001 Western Energy Crisis.\u00a0 Before that, Ari was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana and spent two years trying to bring the 2012 Olympic Games to New York City. \u00a0He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2011 and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2003 with degrees in electrical engineering and business.<\/p>\n

\"\"Kathy Curley<\/h2>\n

Kathy Curley is the program administrator for the Environmental Law Program. \u00a0Kathy has worked at the program since 2006. \u00a0She holds a B.S. in Public Finance from University of Massachusetts. \u00a0Kathy has been a faculty assistant to numerous professors throughout her career at Harvard Law School.<\/p>\n

Jacqueline Calahong<\/h2>\n

Jacqueline Calahong is a staff assistant for the Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic. \u00a0Jacqueline has worked at the Tufts University Center for Children, Ceres, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. \u00a0She holds a B.A. in political science from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from the Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Molly Cohen<\/h2>\n

Molly Cohen is the Environmental Law Program student fellow. \u00a0She is a third-year student at HLS. \u00a0She hails from the Boston area, and graduated Brown University in 2009 \u00a0with a degree in geophysics.<\/p>\n

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Affiliated Faculty<\/strong><\/h1>\n

\"\"<\/a>Cass R. Sunstein<\/a><\/h2>\n

Professor Cass R. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley Professor at Harvard Law School. He is a leading legal scholar in areas of constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, and behavioral economics. From 2009 to 2012, Sunstein served as the Administrator of the White House Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) under President Obama. From 2013 to 2014, he serves as a member of the President’s\u00a0Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies.Sunstein is also the director of the law school’s program on behavioral economics and public policy. He writes widely on topics ranging from behavioral economics to environmental law. He is the author of many books, including, most recently, “On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread.” He co-wrote “Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness,” with the economist Richard Thaler.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Joseph William Singer<\/a><\/h2>\n

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).\u00a0Learn more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Matthew Stephenson<\/a><\/h2>\n

Professor 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.\u00a0Learn more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Jacob E. Gersen<\/a><\/h2>\n

Jacob E. Gersen is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Director of the Food Law Lab at Petrie-Flom, which supports academic research on the legal treatment of food in society.\u00a0His main areas of research and teaching are food law, administrative law, environmental law, torts, and constitutional theory. \u00a0He teaches a course on food law and legislation and regulation.\u00a0Learn more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Tyler Giannini<\/a><\/h2>\n

Tyler Giannini is the Clinical Director of\u00a0Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program<\/a>, and a Clinical Professor 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.\u00a0Learn more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

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