Lisa Heinzerling
Professor of Law
A.B., Princeton; J.D., Chicago
Areas of Expertise:
Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Torts
Lisa Heinzerling is Professor of Law at Georgetown University. Her specialties include environmental and natural resources law, administrative law, the economics of regulation, and food...
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Lisa Heinzerling is Professor of Law at Georgetown University. Her specialties include environmental and natural resources law, administrative law, the economics of regulation, and food and drug law. From January 2009 to July 2009, Heinzerling served as Senior Climate Policy Counsel to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and then, from July 2009 to December 2010, she served as Associate Administrator of EPA’s Office of Policy. In 2008, she served as a member of President Obama’s EPA transition team.
Professor Heinzerling has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, Vermont Law School, and Yale Law School. She lectures frequently on environmental law and other topics both in the U.S. and around the world. She has published several books, including a leading casebook (with Zygmunt Plater and others) on environmental law, a cutting-edge casebook (with Mark Tushnet) aimed at introducing first-year law students to the regulatory and administrative state, and a widely cited critique of the use of cost-benefit analysis in environmental policy (Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing, co-authored with Frank Ackerman). Peer environmental law professors have four times voted her work among the top ten articles of the year. In 2002, she received the faculty teaching award at Georgetown Law. The Yale Environmental Law Association and Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy recently gave her their inaugural award for innovative and inspiring scholarship in environmental law.
After finishing law school, where she served as editor-in-chief of the University of Chicago Law Review, Professor Heinzerling clerked for Judge Richard A. Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., of the U.S. Supreme Court. She was a Skadden Fellow at Business & Professional People for the Public Interest, in Chicago, and for three years practiced environmental law in the Massachusetts Attorney General's office.
While at Georgetown, Professor Heinzerling has continued to litigate cases in environmental law. Most prominently, she served as lead author of the winning briefs in Massachusetts v. EPA, in which the Supreme Court held that the Clean Air Act gives EPA the authority to regulate greenhouse gases. A 2009 survey of over 400 environmental lawyers and law professors ranked this case as the most significant case in all of environmental law.
Recent Scholarship
Forthcoming Works and Works in Progress
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
- Lisa Heinzerling, Climate Change at EPA, 64 Fla. L. Rev. 1-13 (2012). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- Lisa Heinzerling & Frank Ackerman, The $1.75 Trillion Lie, 1 Mich. J. Envt'l & Admin. L. 127-158 (2012). [WWW]
- Lisa Heinzerling, Environment, Justice, and Transparency: One Year in, a Reinvigorated Environmental Protection Agency, 19 N.Y.U. Envtl. L.J. 1-13 (2011). [HEIN] [L] [W]
All Scholarship 2000 - Present
Forthcoming Works and Works in Progress
Books
- Lisa Heinzerling & Mark V. Tushnet, The Regulatory and Administrative State: Materials, Cases, Comments (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2006). [BOOK]
- Lisa Heinzerling & Frank Ackerman, Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing (New York: New Press pbk. ed. 2005).
- Environmental Law & Policy: Nature, Law, and Society (Lisa Heinzerling, Zygmunt J.B. Plater, Robert H. Adams, William Goldfarb & Robert L. Graham eds., New York: Aspen Publishers 3d ed. 2004).
- Lisa Heinzerling & Frank Ackerman, Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing (New York: New Press 2004). [BOOK]
- Lisa Heinzerling & Frank Ackerman, Pricing the Priceless: Cost-Benefit Analysis of Environmental Protection (Wash., D.C.: Georgetown Environmental Law & Policy Institute 2002). [BOOK]
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
- Lisa Heinzerling, Climate Change at EPA, 64 Fla. L. Rev. 1-13 (2012). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- Lisa Heinzerling & Frank Ackerman, The $1.75 Trillion Lie, 1 Mich. J. Envt'l & Admin. L. 127-158 (2012). [WWW]
- Lisa Heinzerling, Environment, Justice, and Transparency: One Year in, a Reinvigorated Environmental Protection Agency, 19 N.Y.U. Envtl. L.J. 1-13 (2011). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- Lisa Heinzerling, New Directions in Environmental Law: A Climate of Possibility, 35 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 263-273 (2011). [HEIN] [L] [W] [WWW]
- Lisa Heinzerling, Violent Science, 87 Tex. L. Rev. 623-638 (2009) (reviewing Thomas O. McGarity & Wendy E. Wagner, Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research (2008)). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- Lisa Heinzerling, Climate Change in the Supreme Court, 38 Envtl. L. 1-18 (2008). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
- Lisa Heinzerling, Climate Change, Human Health, and the Post-Cautionary Principle, 96 Geo. L.J. 445-460 (2008). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
- Lisa Heinzerling, Commentary, A Climate Agenda for the New President, 107 Mich. L. Rev. (First Impressions) 58-62 (2008). [L] [WWW]
- Lisa Heinzerling, Climate, Preemption, and the Executive Branches, 50 Ariz. L. Rev. 925-934 (2008). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- Lisa Heinzerling, Thrower Keynote Address: The Role of Science in Massachusetts v. EPA, 58 Emory L.J. 411-422 (2008). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- Lisa Heinzerling, Climate Change and the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.F. L. Rev. 111-153 (2007). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
- Lisa Heinzerling & Frank Ackerman, Law and Economics for a Warming World, 1 Harv. L. & Pol'y Rev. 331-362 (2007). [HEIN] [W] [WWW]
- Lisa Heinzerling, Supreme Court Reviews: Massachusetts v. EPA, 22 J. Envtl. L. & Litig. 301-311 (2007). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- Lisa Heinzerling & Frank Ackerman, Wasting Away in Paretoville: A Reply to Cass Sunstein, 1 Harv. L. & Pol'y Rev. 363-370 (2007). [HEIN] [W] [WWW]
- Lisa Heinzerling, The Accidental Environmentalist: Judge Posner on Catastrophic Thinking, 94 Geo. L.J. 833-857 (2006) (reviewing Richard Posner, Catastrophe: Risk and Response (2004)). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
- Lisa Heinzerling, Doubting Daubert, 14 J.L. & Pol'y 65-83 (2006). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
- Lisa Heinzerling, Knowing Killing and Environmental Law, 14 N.Y.U. Envtl. L.J. 521-534 (2006). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
- Lisa Heinzerling, Statutory Interpretation in the Era of OIRA, 33 Fordham Urb. L.J. 1097-1117 (2006). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
- Lisa Heinzerling, Frank Ackerman & Rachel Massey, Applying Cost-Benefit to Past Decisions: Was Environmental Protection Ever a Good Idea?, 57 Admin. L. Rev. 155-192 (2005). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
- Lisa Heinzerling, Risking It All, 57 Ala. L. Rev. 103-117 (2005). [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
- Lisa Heinzerling & Rena I. Steinzor, A Perfect Storm: Mercury and the Bush Administration, 34 Envtl. L. Rep. (Envtl. Law Inst.) 10297-10313 (2004). [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
- Lisa Heinzerling & Rena I. Steinzor, A Perfect Storm: Mercury and the Bush Administration, Part II, 34 Envtl. L. Rep. (Envtl. Law Inst.) 10485-10496 (2004). [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
- Lisa Heinzerling, Minnesota Wild, 87 Minn. L. Rev. 1139-1143 (2003). [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
- Lisa Heinzerling, Terrorism, Toxics, and Tort, 9 Widener L. Symp. J. 545-548 (2003). [HEIN] [W]
- Lisa Heinzerling & Frank Ackerman, Pricing the Priceless: Cost-Benefit Analysis of Environmental Protection, 150 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1553-1584 (2002). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- Lisa Heinzerling, Five-Hundred Life-Saving Interventions and Their Misuse in the Debate Over Regulatory Reform, 13 Risk 151-175 (2002). [HEIN] [W]
- Lisa Heinzerling & Frank Ackerman, The Humbugs of the Anti-Regulatory Movement, 87 Cornell L. Rev. 648-670 (2002). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- Lisa Heinzerling, Markets for Arsenic, 90 Geo. L.J. 2311-2339 (2002). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- Lisa Heinzerling, The Clean Air Act and the Constitution, 20 St. Louis U. Pub. L. Rev. 121-151 (2001). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- Lisa Heinzerling, The Temporal Dimension in Environmental Law, 31 Envtl. L. Rep. (Envtl. Law Inst.) 11055-11072 (2001).
- Lisa Heinzerling & Cameron Powers Hoffman, Tortious Toxics, 26 Wm. & Mary Envtl. L. & Pol'y Rev. 67-91 (2001). [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
- Lisa Heinzerling, Pragmatists and Environmentalists, 113 Harv. L. Rev. 1421-1447 (2000) (reviewing Daniel A. Farber, Eco-Pragmatism: Making Sensible Environmental Decisions in an Uncertain World (1999)). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- Lisa Heinzerling, The Rights of Statistical People, 24 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 189-207 (2000). [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
Book Chapters and Collected Works
- Lisa Heinzerling, Climate Change, Human Health, and the Post-Cautionary Principle, in Economic Thought and U.S. Climate Change Policy 197-212 (David M. Driesen ed., Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press 2010). [BOOK]
- Lisa Heinzerling, Climate Change, Human Health, and the Post-Cautionary Principle, in The Ethics of Public Health 205-220 (Michael Freeman ed., Farnham, Eng.: Ashgate 2010). [BOOK]
- Lisa Heinzerling, Why Care About the Polar Bear?: Economic Analysis of Natural Resources Law and Policy, in The Evolution of Natural Resources Law and Policy 53-76 (Lawrence J. MacDonnell & Sarah F. Bates eds., Chicago: American Bar Association 2010). [BOOK]
- Lisa Heinzerling, Cost-Benefit Analysis and Fundamental Rights, in State and Market in a Globalized World: Transatlantic Perspectives 183-201 (Detlef Junker, Wilfried Mausbach & Martin Thunert eds., Heidelberg, Ger.: Winter Publications 2009).
- Lisa Heinzerling, Frank Ackerman & Rachel I. Massey, Wrong in Retrospect: Cost-Benefit Analysis of Past Successes, in Frontiers in Ecological Economic Theory and Application (Jon D. Erickson & John M. Gowdy eds., Williston, Vt.: Edward Elgar 2007).
- Lisa Heinzerling, The Environment, Entry, in The Oxford Handbook of Legal Studies 701-724 (Mark V. Tushnet & Peter Cane eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press 2003). [BOOK]
U.S. Supreme Court Briefs
- Brief of Consumers Union of United States, Inc., as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioners, Riegel & Riegel v. Medtronic, Inc., No. 06-179 (U.S. Aug. 27, 2007). [W] [Gtown Law]
Congressional Testimony
- Regulation Nation: The Obama Administration's Regulatory Expansion vs. Jobs and Economic Recovery: Hearing Before the H. Comm. on the Judiciary, 112th Cong., Sept. 20, 2012 (Statement of Lisa Heinzerling) (CIS-No.: Pending). [WWW]
- Massachusetts v. U.S. EPA, Part II: Implications of the Supreme Court Decision: Hearing Before the H. Select Comm. on Energy Independence & Global Warming, 110th Cong., Mar. 13, 2008 (Statement of Lisa Heinzerling) (CIS-No.: 2011-H961-32). [Gtown Law]
- Strengths and Weaknesses of Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions Using Existing Clean Air Act Authorities: Hearing Before the Subcomm. on Energy & Air Quality of the H. Comm. on Energy & Commerce., 110th Cong., Apr. 10, 2008 (Statement of Lisa Heinzerling) (CIS-No.: 2010-H361-2). [WWW]
- Testimony Before the H. Subcomm. on Env't & Hazardous Materials of the H. Comm. on Energy & Commerce, Hearing on POPs, PIC, & LRTAP: The Role of the U.S. in Draft Legislation to Implement These Int'l Conventions, 108th Cong., Jul. 13, 2004 (Statement of Lisa Heinzerling) (CIS-No.: 2004-H361-69.2). [Gtown Law]
- Testimony Before the H. Comm. on Gov't Reform, Hearing on the Paperwork & Regulatory Improvements Act of 2003 (H.R. 2432), 108th Cong., July 22, 2003 (Statement of Lisa Heinzerling) (CIS-No.: 2003-H401-12.2). [Gtown Law]
- Testimony Before the H. Subcomm. on Energy Policy, Natural Res., & Regulatory Affairs, of the H. Comm. on Gov't Reform, Hearing on Regulatory Accounting, 108th Cong., Mar. 11, 2003 (Statement of Lisa Heinzerling) (CIS-No.: 2003-H401-74.2). [Gtown Law]
- Regulatory Accounting: Costs and Benefits of Federal Regulations: Testimony Before the H. Subcomm. on Energy Policy, Natural Res. & Regulatory Affairs, of the H. Comm. on Gov't Reform, Hearing on Regulatory Accounting, 107th Cong., Mar. 12, 2002 (Statement of Lisa Heinzerling) (CIS-No.: 2003-H401-32). [Gtown Law]
Selected Contributions to Other Publications
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