Environmental Law Faculty and Staff

Pace Law School’s full-time environmental faculty, center and clinic directors and administrators are leaders in their fields both nationally and internationally. Our adjunct professors are practicing lawyers who are experts in their areas of instruction.

As a student-centered law school, Pace provides students with abundant opportunities to interact with our outstanding faculty in our many courses, in our award-winning environmental law clinic, and in our centers’ exciting research projects.

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PROGRAM ADMINISTRATORS

Lin Harmon
Professor, Assistant Dean and Director, Environmental Law Programs
BA, The College of Idaho
JD, Lewis & Clark Law School

Laura Jensen
Assistant Director, Environmental Law Programs
BA, Fordham University
JD, LLM Pace University School of Law

Leslie Crincoli
Senior Program Coordinator, Environmental Law Programs
BA, University of Mary Washington

CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEGAL STUDIES

Nicholas A. Robinson
Co-Director, Environmental Legal Studies and Gilbert and Sarah Kerlin Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law
BA, Brown University
JD, Columbia University School of Law

Richard L. Ottinger
Dean Emeritus, Co-Director of Environmental Legal Studies; and Faculty Supervisor of the Pace Energy and Climate Center
BA, Cornell University
LLB, Harvard University School of Law

DIRECTORS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTERS AND CLINICS

John R. Nolon
Counsel and Faculty Liaison of the Land Use Law Center and Professor of Law
BA, University of Nebraska
JD, University of Michigan School of Law

Franz Litz
Professor and Executive Director, Pace Energy and Climate Center
BA, Union College
JD, Boston College Law School

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Co-Director of the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic and Professor of Environmental Law
AB, Harvard University
JD, University of Virginia
LLM, Pace University School of Law

Karl S. Coplan
Co-Director of the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic and Professor of Law
BA, Middlebury College
JD, Columbia University School of Law

Daniel E. Estrin
Supervising Attorney of the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic and Adjunct Professor of Law
BA, State University of New York at Plattsburgh
JD, Pace University School of Law

Jessica A. Bacher
Managing Director of the Land Use Law Center and Adjunct Professor of Law
BA, University of Flordia
JD, Pace University School of Law

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW FULL-TIME FACULTY

David N. Cassuto
Professor of Law and Director, Brazil-American Institute for Law and Environment (BAILE)
BA, Wesleyan University
MA, Indiana University
PhD, Indiana University
JD, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law

Jeffrey G. Miller
Professor of Law
BA, Princeton University
LLB, Harvard University School of Law

Ann Powers
Associate Professor of Law
BA, Indiana University
JD, Georgetown University School of Law

Elizabeth Burleson
Associate Professor of Law
BA, Colby College
JD, University of Connecticut
LLM, London School of Economics

VISITING FACULTY

Leslie Carothers
Scholar-in-Residence
BA, Smith College
LLB, Harvard Law School
LLM, George Washington University

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ADJUNCT FACULTY

Stan Alpert, Partner, Constantine Cannon
Hazardous Waste

Carol A. Casazza Herman, Casazza Herman LLC
Climate Change and Corporate Practice

Seth A. Davis, Elias Group
Environmental Commercial Transactions

Adeeb Fadil, Senior Counsel, Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett LLP
International Human Rights & the Environment

Robert J. Goldstein, Professor, United States Military Academy, West Point
Conservation Law

Carrie E. Hilpert, Attorney, Shamberg, Marwell & Hollis PC
Land Use Law

Megan Joplin, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (Region II)
Environmental Externship - New York

Jeff LeJava, Land Use Law Center
Environmental Dispute Resolution

John G. Nevius, Shareholder, Anderson Kill & Olick PC
Climate and Insurance

Hon. Delissa A. Ridgway, U.S. Court of International Trade
Disaster Law & Emergency Preparedness

Kathy Robb, Partner, Hunton & Williams LLP
Internation Human Rights & the Environment

Joel H. Sachs, Principal Member, Keane & Beane PC
Legal Management of Urban Environments

Paula Schauwecker, Principal, Beveridge & Diamond PC
Environmental Litigation & Toxic Torts

Joseph A. Siegel, Senior Attorney, US Environmental Protection Agency
Climate Change Seminar, Climate Adaptive Management

Steven P. Solow, Partner and Chair of the Environmental Litigation Practice, Katten, Muchin, Rosenman LLP
Environmental Externship-Washington, DC

Hon. Robert A. Spolzino, Partner, Wilson Elser
NEPA/SEQRA

Robert Van Lierop, Of Counsel, Cowan, DaBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard
UN Environmental Diplomacy Program

Stacy Wallach
Sustainable Development in the Practice of Real Estate Law

Phil Weinberg, Professor Emeritus, St. John's University School of Law
Environmental Law Survey