Professor Babcock served as general counsel to the National Audubon Society from 1987-91 and as deputy general counsel and Director of Audubon’s Public Lands and Water Program from 1981-87. Previously, she was a partner with Blum, Nash & Railsback, where she focused on energy and environmental issues, and an associate at LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae where she represented utilities in the nuclear licensing process. From 1977-79, she served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy and Minerals in the U.S. Department of the Interior. Professor Babcock has taught environmental and natural resources law as a visiting professor at Pace University Law School and as an adjunct at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Catholic University, and Antioch law schools. Professor Babcock was a member of the Standing Committee on Environmental Law of the American Bar Association, and served on the Clinton-Gore Transition Team.
Scholarship
Forthcoming Works - Journal Articles & Working Papers
Hope M. Babcock, The Current Role of the Environment in Reinforcing Acts of Domestic Terrorism: How Fear of a Climate Change Apocalypse May Strengthen Right Wing Hate Groups, Va. Envtl. L.J. (forthcoming).
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
Hope M. Babcock, Issuance of the Keystone XL Permit: Presidential Prerogative or Presidential “Chutzpah,” 81 Mont. L. Rev. 5-57 (2020).
Forthcoming Works - Book Chapters & Collected Works
Hope M. Babcock, Using the Public Trust Doctrine to Manage Property on the Moon, in The Cambridge Handbook of Commons Research Innovations (Sheila R. Foster & Chrystie Swiney eds., Cambridge University Press forthcoming).
"Land Bill’s Passage Signals GOP Shift on Conservation," coverage by U.S. News & World Report, February 13, 2019, quoting Professor Hope Babcock, Director of the Institute for Public Representation Environmental Law Clinic.
