Richard Lazarus (law professor)
Richard J. Lazarus is an American legal scholar who is the Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.{{cite web
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Early life and education
Lazarus graduated from University High School in Urbana, Illinois. He holds a B.S. in chemistry and a B.A. in economics from the University of Illinois (1976) and a J.D. from Harvard Law School (1979). Prior to his arrival at Georgetown in 1996, Lazarus taught at the Law School at Washington University in St. Louis (1989–1996) and the Indiana University Maurer School of Law (1983–1985) and worked in the Solicitor General's Office (1986–1989) and the Land and Natural Resources Division of the United States Department of Justice (1979–1983).
Career
Lazarus was the Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center,{{cite web
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where he focused his teaching and scholarship on environmental law, natural resources law, constitutional law, Supreme Court Advocacy, torts, property, and administrative law. He was Faculty Director of the Supreme Court Institute, which provides moot court sessions for counsel in more than 90 percent of Supreme Court cases.{{cite web
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He was also the Stanley Legro Professor of Environmental Law at the University of San Diego, School of Law.{{Cite web |url=http://www.sandiego.edu/law/academics/faculty/bio.php?id=749 |title=USD: Law: Academics: Faculty Biography: Richard Lazarus |access-date=2010-06-14 |archive-date=2010-05-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100529111922/http://www.sandiego.edu/law/academics/faculty/bio.php?id=749 |url-status=live }} He was appointed Executive Director of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling in June 2010.{{cite web
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Since 2011, he has been the Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
In November 2020, Lazarus was named a volunteer member of the Joe Biden presidential transition Agency Review Team to support transition efforts related to the United States Department of Justice.{{cite web |title=Agency Review Teams |url=https://buildbackbetter.com/the-transition/agency-review-teams/ |website=President-Elect Joe Biden |access-date=10 November 2020 |archive-date=28 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220828180800/https://www.whitehouse.gov/ |url-status=live }}
Selected works
- {{cite book|title=Environmental Law Stories|last=Lazarus|first=Richard|author2=Houck, Oliver |year=2005|publisher=Foundation Press|location=New York|isbn=978-1-58778-728-7}}
- {{cite book|title=The Making of Environmental Law|last=Lazarus|first=Richard|year=2004|publisher=University of Chicago Press|location=Chicago|isbn=978-0-226-47037-5|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/makingo_laz_2004_00_4888}}
- Lazarus, Richard (2021). The Rule of Five: Making Climate History at the Supreme Court. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press. ISBN 978-0674260436.
- {{Cite book |last=Lazarus |first=Richard J. |title=The making of environmental law |date=2023 |publisher=The University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-69545-7 |edition=Second |location=Chicago London}}
References
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External links
- {{C-SPAN|80925}}
- {{Cite news |last=Ben Kieffer |title=How environmental law took shape. Interview on 4-17-2025 |url=https://www.iowapublicradio.org/podcast/river-to-river/2025-04-23/how-environmental-law-took-shape |access-date=2025-04-24 |language=en}}
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