Jason J. Czarnezki Pace is excited to welcome Professor Jason Czarnezki to our faculty. Jason comes to us from Vermont Law School, where he served as faculty director of the U.S.-China Partnership for Environmental Law and as a faculty fellow in its Center for Agriculture and Food Systems. He has served as a Fulbright Scholar at Sun Yatsen University in Guangzhou, China, and a Visiting Fellow at the Uppsala University Faculty of Law in Sweden. At Pace, Jason will serve as the Gilbert and Sarah Kerlin Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law – a title originally bestowed upon Professor Nicholas Robinson.
Preservation Law. She is a board member of the Jay Heritage Center, which is dedicated to preserving this National Historic Landmark and adjacent marshlands using geothermal energy and green management practices. It features educational programs in American History, Social Justice, Landscape Conservation and Environmental Stewardship.
Shelley Welton began teaching our Eco-markets and Trading course on non-regulatory, marketbased approaches to solving environmental problems. She is the Deputy Director of Columbia Law School’s Center for Climate Change Law and the Earth Institute Climate Law Fellow. Amy Mehta (LLM ’10) joined the Pace adjunct faculty this summer to teach two courses in the Environmental Summer Program: “Introduction to International Environmental Law” and “Introduction to Environmental Issues at the United Nations.” Both courses brought students to the UN on field trips and received rave reviews!
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Comings and Goings in the Environmental Law Program
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Elizabeth Burleson Our friend and colleague, Elizabeth Burleson, has stepped down from her professorship to attend to family matters and launch a new environmental research initiative. We miss Betsy’s cheerful smile in New Staff Preston Hall and send our best The Pace Energy and Climate wishes to her in her new endeavors. Center recently brought on Jordan New Adjuncts Gerow (JD ’13) as an Energy and Megan Joplin (JD ’04) has joined Climate Change Policy Advisor and Pace Law’s extensive experiential Nick Martin as an Energy Policy Shelby D. Green and clinical program to supervise Associate. Andrea Cerbin (JD ’12) CELS is delighted students in the regular year joined the Center last fall as an to welcome Environmental Externship, in Energy and Climate Change Policy Professor Shelby which students intern with federal Advisor and Staff Attorney. Green, long-time and state environmental agencies Pace real estate law and other organizations. She is professor, into the environmental law fold. Shelby now an Assistant Regional Attorney at the Department of Environmental teaches our summer and semester Conservation, Region II. courses in Historic and Cultural
Pace offers the only environmental law SJD in the nation; graduates of the program are prepared for academic teaching and scholarship careers. Pace Law School
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