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Saturday, April 23, 2011
Environment - "Richard J. Lazarus appointed Professor of Law at Harvard"
From the news release:
Richard J. Lazarus ’79, one of the nation’s foremost experts on environmental law and also a leading practitioner in the U.S. Supreme Court, will join the Harvard Law School faculty this summer as a tenured Professor of Law. * * *Announcing the appointment of Lazarus to the Harvard Law School faculty, Dean Martha Minow said: "I am thrilled to welcome back to the HLS our alum, Richard Lazarus. Preeminent scholar-practitioner of environmental law, superb Supreme Court advocate, and consummate teacher and mentor. Richard is an all-star. It is fantastic that he will bring his enormous talents and wisdom to this community, where students, faculty, and staff eagerly await his arrival.”
Said Lazarus: “I am thrilled to be returning to Harvard Law School and looking forward to working with Professor Jody Freeman and Professors Cass Sunstein and Wendy Jacobs to build upon the fabulous environmental law program Harvard already enjoys and to fulfill our shared ambition to establish the best environmental law program in the nation,” said Lazarus. “No less exciting, however, is the tremendous opportunity to work closely with HLS students.”
Lazarus joined the Georgetown faculty in 1996, and in addition to his current chair he also held the John Carroll Research Professorship of Law there. He received Georgetown’s 2002 Frank Flegal Teaching Award, a faculty peer award based on a survey of faculty and students. Prior to joining the faculty at Georgetown, he was a member of the faculty at Indiana University Bloomington and at Washington University, where law students honored him with their “best teacher” award. * * *
Lazarus’s 2004 publication, The Making of Environmental Law (University of Chicago Press), is widely hailed as the definitive history of the emergence and evolution of modern environmental law in the United States. His most recent written work, as principal author, was Deep Water – The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling – Report to the President of the United States (2011).
Posted by Marcia Oddi on April 23, 2011 10:48 AM
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