Michael Gerrard
{{Short description|American legal scholar}}
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}}Michael Burr Gerrard{{Cite news |date=1976-08-30 |title=Barbara Seuling Wed to M. B. Gerrard |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/08/30/archives/barbara-seuling-wed-to-mb-gerrard.html |access-date=2022-05-26 |issn=0362-4331}} is an American legal scholar. He is the Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Law School.
Biography
Gerrard was born in New York City, where his parents were graduate students at Columbia University, and grew up in Charleston, West Virginia.{{Cite web |title=An Environmental Lawyer's Fraught Quest for Legal Tools to Hold Back the Seas |url=https://www.amacad.org/publication/environmental-lawyers-fraught-quest-legal-tools-hold-back-seas |access-date=2022-04-01 |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |date=22 September 2020 |language=en}} His father, Nathan L. Gerrard, was a professor of sociology at the University of Charleston, and his mother, Louise B. Gerrard, was the executive director of the West Virginia Council on Aging.{{Cite news |date=1971-12-02 |title=TALKS ON ELDERLY ROILED BY DISPUTE |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/02/archives/talks-on-elderly-roiled-by-dispute-flemming-is-challenged-on.html |access-date=2022-05-26 |issn=0362-4331}}
He received his B.A. from Columbia in 1972, followed by a J.D. from the New York University School of Law in 1978 as a Root-Tilden Scholar.{{Cite web |title=Michael Gerrard |url=https://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty/michael-gerrard |access-date=2022-04-01 |website=www.law.columbia.edu |language=en}}
From 1979 to 2008, he was a lawyer at Arnold & Porter and served as the partner in charge of its New York City office.{{Cite web |title=Michael Gerrard, Veteran Arnold & Porter Environmental Attorney, Named Head of New York Office {{!}} News |url=https://www.arnoldporter.com/en/perspectives/news/2007/03/michael-gerrard-veteran-arnold--porter-environme__ |access-date=2022-04-01 |website=Arnold & Porter |language=en}} He was known for his environmental practice before departing the partnership to join the faculty of Columbia Law School.{{Cite web |date=2012-01-05 |title=Lawyer Limelight: Michael Gerrard |url=https://www.lawdragon.com/lawyer-limelights/2012-01-05-michael-gerrard |access-date=2022-04-01 |website=Lawdragon |language=en}} His specialty includes environmental law, regulation, and climate change policy.{{Cite web |date=2017-04-19 |title=The Carbon Brief Interview: Michael Gerrard |url=https://www.carbonbrief.org/carbon-brief-interview-michael-gerrard |access-date=2022-04-01 |website=Carbon Brief |language=en}}
Gerrard founded and directed the law school's Center for Climate Change Law.{{Cite web |title=UN Climate Report Expected to Drive U.S. Regulation, Litigation |url=https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/un-climate-report-expected-to-drive-u-s-regulation-litigation |access-date=2022-04-01 |website=news.bloomberglaw.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Climate change is increasingly going to court |url=https://fortune.com/2021/06/23/when-climate-change-goes-to-court/ |access-date=2022-04-01 |website=Fortune |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Michael Gerrard Leads New Center for Climate Change Law |url=https://www.law.columbia.edu/news/archive/michael-gerrard-leads-new-center-climate-change-law |access-date=2022-04-01 |website=www.law.columbia.edu |language=en}} He also chaired the faculty of The Earth Institute from 2015 to 2018.{{Cite web |title=Professor Michael Gerrard - Staff Profiles - Columbia Climate School |url=https://people.climate.columbia.edu/users/profile/michael-gerrard |access-date=2022-04-01 |website=people.climate.columbia.edu |language=en}}
He is the author of Global Climate Change and U.S. Law, co-edited with Harvard Law School professor Jody Freeman.