Professor Richard J. Lazarus - Georgetown University Law Center

Biographical Information

Richard Lazarus is a Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Supreme Court Institute at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches Environmental Law, Natural Resources Law, Torts, and Supreme Court Advocacy. He has a B.S. from the University of Illinois in Chemistry and a B.A. in Economics, and his law degree is from Harvard.

Docket Capture at the High Court, 119 YALE L.J. ONLINE __ (forthcoming 2009)
The National Environmental Policy Act in the U.S. Supreme Court: A Reappraisal and A Peek Behind the Curtains (forthcoming)
Federal Preemption or State Prerogative: California in the Face of National Climate Policy – An Introduction, 1 San Diego J. Energy & Climate Change L __ (forthcoming Fall 2009)
Super Wicked Problems and Climate Change: Restraining the Present to Liberate the Future, 94 Cornell L. Rev. 1153 (June 2009)
Advocacy Matters Before and Within the U.S. Supreme Court: Transforming the Court by Transforming the Bar, 90 Geo. L. J. 1487 (2008)
Environmental Law after Katrina: Reforming Environmental Law by Reforming Environmental Lawmaking, 81 Tulane L. Rev. 1019 (2007)
Congressional Descent: The Demise of Deliberative Democracy in Environmental Law, 94 Geo. L.J. 619 (2006)
The Measure of a Justice: The Faltering of the Property Rights Movement Within the U.S. Supreme Court, 57 Hastings L.J. 759 (2006)
Human Nature, the Laws of Nature, and the Nature of Environmental Law, 24 Va. Envt’l L.J. 231 (2005)

A Huge Green Win in the 2nd Circuit, 26 Envtl L. Forum 12 (November/December 2009)
Environmentalists Lose Every Case, 26 Envtl L. Forum 12 (September/October 2009)
Judging Appointee’s Green Record, 26 Envtl L. Forum 12 (July/August 2009)

Counsel of Record for Environmental Respondent Riverkeeper, Entergy Corp. v. Riverkeeper, No. 07-588 (decided April 1, 2009).
Co-Counsel for Petitioners, Massachusetts v. U.S. Envt'l Prot. Agency, 549 U.S. 497 (2007) (jurisdictional stage only)
Counsel of Record for Respondents American River and Friends of the Presumpscot River, S.D. Warren v. Maine Department of Environmental Protection, 547 U.S. 370 (2006)

Yale Law School Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic Conference, Important Questions of Federal Law – Assessing the Supreme Court’s Case Selection Press, held in Washington, D.C. on September 18, 2009
First World Congress of Environmental History, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 7, 2009: The National Environmental Policy Act before the United States Supreme Court: A Reappraisal and a Peek Behind the Curtains
Vermont Law School, Faculty Lecture Series, April 2009: Environmental Law in the Roberts Court
Tulane Law School, April 2009: Environmental Law Summit: Environmental Law Before the Supreme Court: October Term 2008