Adjunct Professor of Law
A.B., Princeton; J.D., M.A., Ph.D., Stanford

Biography

A.B., Princeton; J.D., M.A., Ph.D., Stanford. Armin Rosencranz, a lawyer and political scientist, was recently a visiting professor of environmental policy and law at the University of Maryland. He comes from Stanford, where he taught a suite of environmental policy courses from 1995 to 2006. These interdisciplinary courses were sponsored by ten different departments, from history to biology. He is co-editor, with climate scientists Steve Schneider and Michael Mastrandrea, of Climate Change Science and Policy (forthcoming, 2009). He and Schneider co-taught a graduate-level climate policy course five times since 1998.

Before teaching at Stanford, Professor Rosencranz was president of Pacific Environment, an international environmental NGO that he founded in 1987.

Professor Rosencranz has had two Fulbright lectureships to India, where he taught one of India 's first courses on environmental law. His book, Environmental Law and Policy in India (2001), is widely used throughout India, where environmental law is a required law school subject.

At Stanford, Professor Rosencranz received three student-nominated teaching awards, including “ Teacher of the Year ” in 2005.