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Page 1: Pace Law School Environmental Law Program 2015-16

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@PaceEnviroLaw

2015-16 Leadership Report

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SEPTEMBER 18: Future Environmental Law Professors Workshop with keynote speaker Douglas Kysar (Yale)

SEPTEMBER 30: Distinguished Junior Scholar Presentation by Sarah Light (University of Pennsylvania)

OCTOBER 13: Gilbert & Sarah Kerlin Lecture on Environmental Law by US Senator Richard Blumenthal

OCTOBER 22: Pace Environmental Author-in-Residence Lecture by New York Times bestselling author Paul Greenberg

DECEMBER 11: Land Use & Sustainable Development Law Conference: Reflecting on the Past, Planning for the Future: 100 Years of Zoning

JANUARY 27: Pace-NRDC Food Law Initiative Kickoff with Margot Pollans (Pace)

FEBRUARY 18: The Jeffrey G. Miller Pace National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition

APRIL 6: Lloyd K. Garrison Lecture on Environmental Law by Michael Gerrard (Columbia)

APRIL 22: Second Annual Earth Day Jam featuring student-faculty band, The Recess Appointments

2015-16 Calendar of Events

Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic students and faculty on the nearby Hudson River

Cover photo by Tim Nauman(Manhattan skyline from Eagle Street Rooftop Farm, Brooklyn)

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Degree Programs

JD with Certificate in Environmental Law

LLM in Environmental Law

LLM in Environmental Law, Energy and Climate Change Specialization

LLM in Environmental Law, Land Use and Sustainable Development Specialization

LLM in Environmental Law, Global Specialization

Joint Degree Programs

JD/Master of Environmental Management with Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

JD/Master of Science in Environmental Policy with Bard Center for Environmental Policy

JD/LLM in Environmental Law

JD/MBA with Pace University

JD/MEP with Pace University

JD/MPA with Pace University

Located in one of the most exciting metropolitan regions on the planet and a stone’s throw from the birthplace of environmental law, the Pace Environmental Law Program has been dedicated to educating highly qualified, forward-thinking envi-ronmental lawyers since 1978. Over the years, our program has earned a world-class reputation, and its faculty, alumni and students have been a consistent point of pride. Nearly 1,500 graduates are active in practically every facet of environmental law and related areas. They live in almost every state in the U.S. and over thirty different countries. Our dedi-cated faculty have been pioneers in developing and implementing environmental law, and they continue to serve as local, national, and international leaders in the field.

Decades from the founding of our program, we find ourselves at an exciting time in the ever expand-ing and ever more important study and practice of environmental law. In the past year, Pace has fo-cused on reconceptualizing environmental law, even holding a law review symposium on the topic. Our students are exposed to everything from the core to the cutting-edge in our dozens of specialized environ-mental law courses, externships, and Environmental Litigation Clinic. They help to shape and grow the field while gaining real world skills in our on-cam-pus Energy & Climate Center, Land Use Law Center for Sustainable Development, Global Center for Environmental Legal Studies, and Brazil American Institute for Law and Environment as well as our newest Food Law Initiative. We are proud to provide a legal education that spans the breadth and depth of subject areas and practices encompassed by the evolving field of environmental law.

Jason J. Czarnezki

Gilbert and Sarah Kerlin Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law

Executive Director of Environmental Law Programs

Message from the Executive Director

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Pace Law School and the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law have signed a first-of-its-kind, inter-law school memorandum of understanding in March 2015 that presents unprecedented opportunities for collaboration between the two nationally-ranked environmental programs. Through the Maryland-Pace Environmental Law Alliance, Pace and Maryland faculty collaborate on teaching and scholarship. Law students from both schools have access to courses, professors, and environmental networks in both the New York and Washington, DC metropolitan areas and can spend a semester visiting the partner institution.

The Pace-NRDC Food Law Initiative was launched in 2015 to address the legal needs of farmers, food entrepreneurs, and others in the greater New York City region. Led by Professor Margot Pollans, the joint initiative between Pace and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) will host workshops for students, academics, practicing lawyers, and food system professionals on cutting edge food law issues. These workshops will focus on practical concerns and transactional legal problems that farmers, small businesses, NGO operators, and the attorneys serving these parties face on a regular basis. The Initiative will also host an annual lecture to raise the profile of food law as a unique and important academic discipline and legal practice area.

The Pace Environmental Law Program and the Land Use Law Center collaborate closely with the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (FES). Pace Law and Yale FES students may apply to receive a dual JD/master’s degree in Environmental Management (MEM), Science (MESc) or Forestry (MF or MFS) in four years. Through the Land Use Collaborative, students and staff from Pace and FES promote sustainable land use policies by helping to support and train local land use leaders. Future plans between the Pace Environmental Program and Yale FES include inaugurating workshops migrating between Connecticut and New York that focus on the intersection of science and the law.

A Networking Environment: Collaborations and Partnerships

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If you are lucky enough to be a student in one of the classes she teaches or even one of her family and friends for whom she has created a wedding cake (a once-a-year hobby), you know that Professor Margot Pollans’ passion for food law runs deep. Pace’s newest faculty member, she recently moved from Los Angeles to Harlem with dog Ernie to help build the Environmental Law Program’s food and agriculture law components. “I am very excited to join Pace’s environmental faculty,” she says. “It is a privilege to work with a group of faculty and students with a deep commitment to environmental law and an extraordinary breadth of knowledge and experience in the area. Pace is one of a handful of law schools in the country with such an extensive environmental program. I am lucky to be here.”

Margot’s work focuses on environmental regulation of food production. “Agriculture poses serious environmental threats, but it has been mostly exempt from traditional environmental law,” she explains. “Figuring out how to adapt and revise environmental regulation to establish effective controls for agricultural resource use and pollution is essential. There has been some work at Pace on this issue already (the Clinic has sued some of agriculture’s worst actors), but I hope to push this aspect of the curriculum further and give students more opportunities to engage with food and agriculture issues.”

Of all the work she has planned for Pace, Margot is most excited about the Pace-NRDC Food Law Initiative, which she will lead. “Food is the next frontier of environmental law. There is a critical need to ensure the ongoing viability of the food supply and the health of populations and ecosystems affected by food production. At the same time, there is a serious need to protect consumers, to ensure equal access to safe, affordable, and nutritious food. Lawyers provide an important service in these efforts; they help clients navigate permitting and zoning systems, comply with food safety laws, and advocate for much-needed legal changes. The goal of this initiative is to make sure that there are enough well-trained lawyers out there to do this important work.”

Margot is currently co-authoring a food law casebook with Jacob Gersen (Harvard) and Michael Roberts (UCLA).

Margot J. PollansAssistant Professor of Law

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The award-winning Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic incorporates students into a thriving environmental law prac-tice representing public interest groups.

Recently the Clinic has:

• Sued Frasure Creek Mining in Kentucky alleging that the mountaintop removal company is again falsifying reports and violating the limitations in its clean water permits.

• Petitioned to save a prehistoric fish—the endangered Atlantic Sturgeon—from harm resulting from construction to replace the Tappan Zee Bridge over the Hudson River.

• Challenged New York’s attempt to utilize $511 million from its Clean Water Act State Revolving Fund to finance components of Tappan Zee Bridge construction activities.

The Land Use Law Center fos-ters the development of sustain-able communities by promoting innovative land use strategies and dispute resolution techniques.

Center projects and news:

• The Center joined the NY-Sun PV Trainers Network, part of an initiative to increase solar electric systems across New York State by reducing installation costs. The Center is creating resources and workshops on strategies and best practices for develop-ing a clear, comprehensive, and enforceable solar regulatory framework.

• Founder Prof. John Nolon au-thored a new book, “Protecting the Environment Through Land Use Law: Standing Ground,” which looks at the historical struggle between land devel-opment and natural resource conservation.

• Executive Director Prof. Jessica Bacher (JD ’03) was appointed Chair of the Land Use Committee for the ABA’s Section on State and Local Government Law.

Hitting the Ground RunningClinics, Centers, and Experiential Learning

Pace Environmental Faculty Books

John Cronin & Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., The Riverkeepers: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim

Our Environment as a Basic Human Right (1997).

John R. Nolon, Well Grounded: Using Local Land

Use Authority to Achieve Smart Growth (2001).

John R. Nolon & Hooper Brooks, Open Ground:

Effective Local Strategies for Protecting Natural

Resources (2003).

John R. Nolon, New Ground: The Advent of Local

Environmental Law (2003).

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The Pace Energy and Climate Center’s mission is to protect the earth’s environment by transform-ing the ways society supplies and consumes energy.

Center projects and news:

• The Center and Pace interns participated in the legal process for New York’s groundbreaking Reforming the Energy Vision (REV), drafting comments and maintaining a database tracking solar bills, regulations, and pro-ceedings. Recent Center alumni have been hired by energy-re-lated government agencies, the NYS Public Service Commission, and firms such as Couch White.

• The Center worked with leg-islators and stakeholders to promote community energy by advocating for demonstration projects, creating a microgrid toolkit, and building a region-al sustainability dataset. The Center also helps local commu-nities navigate the legislation, codes, and standards to build a microgrid.

A member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the Global Center for Environmental Legal Studies engages in innovative projects addressing global environmental challenges.

Center projects and news:

• The Center hosted His Excellency Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, at the conferral of the 2014 Elizabeth Haub Award for Environmental Diplomacy where he made re-marks on the post-2015 sustain-able development goals.

• Prof. Ann Powers represent-ed the International Council of Environmental Law at the UN, attending negotiations on an agreement to protect high seas resources under the Law of the Sea Convention and the post-2015 sustainable development goals.

• Prof. Nicholas Robinson pub-lished “Legal Redress of Transboundary Air Pollution Through Environmental Cooperation” in Transboundary Pollution - Evolving Issues of International Law & Policy (Edward Elgar 2015).

Adrian J. Bradbrook & Richard L. Ottinger, Energy

Law and Sustainable Development (2003).

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Crimes Against Nature

(2004).

John R. Nolon, Patricia E. Salkin & Robert R. Wright,

Land Use in a Nutshell (2006).

John R. Nolon, Losing Ground: A Nation on Edge

(2007).

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Hosted by Pace Law School and run by its students, The Jeffrey G. Miller Pace National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition is the premier envi-ronmental moot court competition and draws hundreds of compet-itors and judges to campus each year.

2015 NELMCC updates:

• Over 400 students, advisors, attorneys, and judges participat-ed in the 2015 NELMCC, which dealt with the public trust doc-trine and the regulation of solid waste and agricultural pollution.

• Out of 62 teams, the University of Mississippi emerged vic-torious, edging out finalists Vermont Law and University of Montana Law in a closely-con-tested final round.

Housed jointly at Pace and the Getulio Vargas Foundation School of Law in Rio de Janeiro, the Brazil American Institute for Law and Environment (BAILE) advanc-es environmental protection and sustainable development in the US and Brazil.

Institute projects and news:

• In April, students in the Brazil Comparative Environmental Law course joined BAILE profes-sors in Rio de Janeiro and Ilha Grande to explore water allo-cation and other environmental challenges in Brazil.

• BAILE hosted thirty judges from Parana, Brazil for a one week summer course at Pace’s NYC campus in July 2015.

• Prof. David Cassuto visited law schools in Brazil and Spain to teach courses on environmental and animal law.

Hitting the Ground RunningClinics, Centers, and Experiential Learning

Taimie L. Bryant, Rebecca J. Huss & David N. Cassuto, Animal Law and the Courts:

A Reader (2008).

Jeffrey G. Miller, Ann Powers & Nancy Long Elder, Introduction to

Environmental Law: Cases and Materials on Water

Pollution Control (2008).

Jason J. Czarnezki, Everyday Environmentalism: Law,

Nature & Individual Behavior (2011).

John R. Nolon & Patricia E. Salkin, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Law in a Nutshell (2012).

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The United Nations Environmental Diplomacy Practicum – a program unique to Pace – places students in internships with Permanent Missions to the United Nations for small island developing states.

Recent Practicum highlights:

• Students interned at the UN Missions of Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Papua New Guinea, and Marshall Islands, among others.

• Ambassadors Palitha Kohona (Sri Lanka), Ahmed Sareer (Maldives), and Ali’ioaiga Feturi Elisaia (Samoa) guest lectured in the weekly seminar.

• Ambassador Narinder Kakar, Permanent Observer to the UN for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (the old-est, largest international environ-mental organization), and Prof. Victor Tafur (SJD ’06) co-taught the course.

The Washington, DC and New York Environmental Externship Programs give students the chance to gain crucial skills and knowledge while studying with experienced, dedicated practicing professors.

Recent program placements:

• Washington: Animal Welfare Institute; Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; National Association of Local Government Environmental Professionals; Sierra Club; US Department of Justice (Environment and Natural Resources Division); US EPA (various offices); and the White House Council on Environmental Quality

• New York: Earthjustice; Environmental Defense Fund; US EPA (Region 2); NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission; New York Environmental Law & Justice Project; New York State Department of Environmental Conservation; Super Law Group; and Waterkeeper Alliance

Mary Jane Angelo, Jason J. Czarnezki & William S. Eubanks II, Food, Agriculture, and

Environmental Law (2013).

Richard L. Ottinger, Renewable Energy Law and Development: Case Study

Analysis (2013).

John R. Nolon, Protecting the Environment Through Land Use Law: Standing

Ground (2014).

Nicholas A. Robinson, Wang Xi, Lin Harmon & Sarah

Wegmueller, Dictionary of Environmental and Climate

Change Law (2014).

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Environmental Law Faculty

BARBARA L. ATWELL Associate Professor of LawBA, Smith; JD, Columbia. Previously clerked for Judge Nathaniel Jones on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit and practiced at Arnold & Porter. Teaches Bioethics and Medical Malpractice, Intro to Health Law, and Public Health Law.

JESSICA A. BACHER Executive Director, Land Use Law Center; Adjunct Professor of LawBS, University of Florida; JD, Pace. Provides assistance to municipalities on land use, distressed property remediation, transit-oriented devel-opment, and sea level rise. Teaches Land Use Law, Advanced Land Use Law, and Sustainable Development Law.

DAVID N. CASSUTO Professor of Law; Director, Brazil-American Institute for Law & EnvironmentBA, Wesleyan; MA, Indiana University; PhD, Indiana University; JD, Berkeley. Former professor of English litera-ture. Specializes in animal law, water law, and comparative law. Visiting professor of environmental law at the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil and Williams College.

KARL S. COPLAN Professor of Law; Co-Director, Pace Environmental Litigation ClinicBA, Middlebury; JD, Columbia. Expert on constitutional and environmental law. Clerked for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Warren E. Burger. Has litigated many successful public interest environmental lawsuits with the Environmental Litigation Clinic.

JASON J. CZARNEZKI Kerlin Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law; Executive Director, Environmental Law ProgramsBA, University of Chicago; JD, Univer-sity of Chicago. Specializes in natural resources, environmental regulation, and food law. Previously director of US-China Partnership for Environ-mental Law, Fulbright Scholar in China, and Visiting Fellow in Sweden.

E. MELANIE DUPUIS Professor of Environmental Studies and ScienceBA, Radcliffe; PhD, Cornell. Joined Pace from UC Santa Cruz to chair the Department of Environmental Studies and Science. Specializes in and teaches food systems and agriculture.

DANIEL E. ESTRIN Supervising Attorney, Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic; Adjunct Professor of LawBA, SUNY Plattsburgh; JD, Pace. Pre-viously Special Counsel to Kennedy & Madonna LLP, focusing on represent-ing public interest groups in suits against operators of factory farms.

SHELBY D. GREEN Associate Professor of LawBS, Towson; JD, Georgetown. Spe-cializes in real estate and property law. Teaches Historic Preservation Law. Sits on the board of the Jay Her-itage Center – an important historic preservation site in New York.

ALEXANDER K. A. GREENAWALT Professor of LawBA, Princeton; MA, Yale; JD, Colum-bia. Came to Pace from the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, where his practice focused on international disputes. Teaches international and administrative law and researches international humanitarian law.

LAURA JENSEN Director, Environmental Law Programs; Adjunct Professor of LawBA, Fordham; JD, Pace; LLM, Pace. Previously served as the Graduate Research Fellow for Pace’s Global Center for Environmental Legal Stud-ies. Researches and teaches on state and regional responses to climate change.

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ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR. Professor of Law; Co-Director, Pace Environmental Litigation ClinicAB, Harvard; JD, University of Virginia; LLM, Pace. President of Waterkeeper Alliance. Serves as Chief Prosecuting Attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper Fund and Senior Attor-ney for NRDC’s Estuary Enforcement Project.

MICHELLE LAND Director, Pace Academy for Applied Environmental StudiesBS, University of Guelph; JD, Pace. Specializes in environmental law and policy, wildlife biology, inter-disciplinary education, and campus sustainability. Leads the Environ-mental Consortium of Colleges & Universities.

JEFFREY G. MILLER Professor Emeritus of LawBA, Princeton; LLB, Harvard. Joined the faculty in 1987 after heading the US EPA’s national enforcement program and beginning the agency’s hazardous waste enforcement pro-gram.

JOHN R. NOLON Distiguished Professor of Law; Founder, Land Use Law CenterBA, University of Nebraska; JD, University of Michigan. Expert on land use, property, and sustainable development law. Co-author of “Land Use and Sustainable Development Law: Cases and Materials” among other texts.

RICHARD L. OTTINGER Dean Emeritus; Co-Director, Global Center for Environmental Legal Studies; Founder, Faculty Supervisor, Pace Energy and Climate CenterBA, Cornell; LLB, Harvard. Previously a US Congressman (chaired Energy Conservation & Power Subcommit-tee) and a founding member of the Peace Corps. Chairs the Energy and Climate Group, IUCN Commission on Environmental Law.

MARGOT J. POLLANS Assistant Professor of LawBA, Columbia; JD, NYU; LLM, Georgetown. Previously clerked for Judge David Tatel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit and was the Resnick Program for Food Law and Policy Teaching Fellow at the UCLA. Teaches and researches on environmental law, food law, and administrative law.

ANN POWERS Professor Emerita of LawBA, Indiana University; JD, George-town. Specializes in ocean and coast-al law and international environmental law. Previously vice president and general counsel at Chesapeake Bay Foundation and a senior trial attorney in the US Department of Justice’s Environmental Enforcement Section.

KARL R. RÁBAGO Professor of Law; Executive Director, Pace Energy and Climate CenterBS, Texas A&M; JD, University of Tex-as; LLM, US Army Judge Advocate General’s School; LLM, Pace. Has decades of experience in energy and climate policy markets. Held leading roles at the Texas Public Utility Com-mission; US Department of Energy; Austin Energy; AES Corp.; and the Rocky Mountain Institute.

NICHOLAS A. ROBINSON University Professor for the Environ-ment; Co-Director, Global Center for Environmental Legal StudiesBA, Brown; JD, Columbia. Has devel-oped the field of environmental law since 1969. Served as legal advisor, White House Council on Environ-mental Quality; general counsel, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation; and legal advisor and chairman, Commission on Environ-mental Law, IUCN.

ALYSSA ROSEN Environmental Law Librarian; Adjunct Professor of LawBA, Vassar; JD, NYU; MLS, Rutgers; MFA, Goddard College. Specializ-es in environmental legal research. Practiced law for seven years before becoming and English teacher and law librarian.

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2014-15 Events

15th Annual Gilbert & Sarah Kerlin Lecture on

Environmental Law: “Shooting Stars and Dancing Fish” by

Antonio Oposa Jr.

Pace Environmental Law Distinguished

Junior Scholar Presentation:

“Distributive Fairness, Equal Protection, and Takings” by Professor

Michael Pappas

Visiting Fellow Lecture: “IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report: When Will Climate Change Become Dangerous?” by Dr. Michael Oppenheimer

13th Annual Land Use & Sustainable

Development Law Conference:

Transitioning Communities

featuring NYC Parks Commissioner, Mitchell Silver

Pace Environmental Law Review Symposium: Reconceptualizing the Future of Environmental Law

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27th Annual Jeffrey G. Miller Pace National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition

20th Annual Lloyd K. Garrison Lecture on Environmental

Law: “Learning to Live with the

Trickster: Narrating Climate Change and the Value of

Resilience Thinking” by Professor Robin

Kundis Craig

2015 SALDF New York Animal Law Symposium

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Quick! Connect the dots between a vineyard at Ground Zero, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the New York Times bestseller list, and the Pace Environmental Law Program. This is quite a challenge unless you are familiar with Paul Greenberg, the first Author-in-Residence at the Pace Environmental Law Program. In this role, Paul will collaborate with Pace environmental faculty and lecture to students, bringing his unique perspective on environmental issues to the program.

Paul is best known as the author of the James Beard Award winning Four Fish and, more recently, American Catch. “Having written a little-read novel, it was a thrill to hit the New York Times’ bestseller list,” he says of his highly acclaimed works. “But probably the nicest thing has been the long tail that those books have had in academic settings.” Paul lives with his partner and son in lower Manhattan, very close to Ground Zero, where he proudly achieves “salad self-sufficiency” in summer months and produces the only wine grown and bottled at Ground Zero at his vineyard, Château Nul. In addition to his bestselling books, he is a regular contributor to the New York Times and has also written for National Geographic Magazine and Vogue among others. He lectures on seafood and the environment around the world.

It was his interest in education and his location in Downtown Manhattan that introduced Paul to Pace and its Environmental Law Program. He shares a neighborhood with Pace University’s Lower Manhattan campus and has built relationships with several Pace professors over the years. “It’s nice to see how Pace has grown and reclaimed and revitalized downtown post-9/11. I feel that the institution as a whole has a lot of energy.” He

became friends with Professor Jason Czarnezki, Executive Director of the Environmental Law Program, over five years ago. “We’ve had really intense and interesting conversations about environmental law and its different interpretation in different countries. In particular we’ve swapped information about Chinese food and water quality statutes including a trove of documents on FDA officers stationed in China that Jason acquired through a FOIA request.”

In addition to continuing his work with Pace professors, Paul looks forward to speaking with Pace Law students about environmental issues close to his heart, such as ocean and food law issues. “I come at these issues from the perspective of someone who loves the ocean and is deeply pained by its degradation,” he says. “There are many problems confronting the oceans today but perhaps the most acute is one highlighted recently by the New York Times’ fantastic series on the High Seas—that largely ungoverned swath of ocean that falls in the holes between national jurisdictions. Everything from slavery to illegal fishing runs rampant in these areas. And the US to this day has still not signed the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. How about we start there?”

Paul GreenbergPace Environmental Author-in-Residence

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Administrative Law

Advanced Land Use and Sustainable Development Law: Practice

Advanced Land Use and Sustainable Development Law: Theory

Advanced Research Skills for Environmental Law

Animal Law

Clean Air Act Seminar

Climate Adaptation and the Law

Climate Change and Corporate Practice

Climate Change and Insurance Law

Climate Change Law

Comparative Environmental Law

Comparative Environmental Law—Brazil (field course)

Conservation Law

Current Challenges in Environmental Law Seminar

Disaster Law and Emergency Preparedness

Eco-Markets and Trading

Energy Law

Environmental and Toxic Torts

Environmental Commercial Transactions

Environmental Dispute Resolution Seminar

Environmental Justice

Environmental Law Compliance and Enforcement

Environmental Litigation Clinic

Environmental Litigation Seminar

Environmental Skills and Practice (Clean Water Act)

Environmental Survey

Externship—DC Environmental Law

Externship—Environmental Law

Food Systems and Environmental Law

Guided Research

Hazardous Waste

Historic Preservation Seminar

Human Rights and Environment

International Environmental Law

Land Use Law

Legal Management of Urban Environments

Legislative and Regulatory Process

Mass Torts

Natural Resources Law

NEPA-SEQRA Seminar

Nonprofit Organizations

Ocean and Coastal Law Seminar

Pace Environmental Law Review Editorship

Public Health Law

Science for Environmental Lawyers

State and Regional Climate Initiatives

Sustainable Development Law Survey

United Nations Environmental Diplomacy Practicum

Water Resources Law

Environmental Law Curriculum

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