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January 21, 2020 The Washington Post

The Energy 202: Youth Climate Lawsuit Dismissal Shows Challenge of Using Courts to Tackle Climate Change

Areas of Study: Climate, Environmental, and Energy Law
Topics: Ronald Mann

Featured Faculty: Ronald Mann Albert E. Cinelli Enterprise Professor of Law

January 17, 2020 The New York Times

Court Quashes Youth Climate Change Case Against Government

Areas of Study: Climate, Environmental, and Energy Law
Topics: Michael Gerrard

Featured Faculty: Michael Gerrard Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice

January 16, 2020 Bloomberg

Legal Scholars, White House Spar Over Environmental Permitting Bid

Areas of Study: Climate, Environmental, and Energy Law
Topics: Michael Gerrard

Featured Faculty: Michael Gerrard Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice

December 28, 2019 The New York Times

Science Under Attack: How Trump Is Sidelining Researchers and Their Work

Areas of Study: Climate, Environmental, and Energy Law
Topics: Michael Gerrard

Featured Faculty: Michael Gerrard Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice

December 20, 2019 The New York Times

In ‘Strongest’ Climate Ruling Yet, Dutch Court Orders Leaders to Take Action

Areas of Study: Climate, Environmental, and Energy Law
Topics: Michael Gerrard

Featured Faculty: Michael Gerrard Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice

December 18, 2019 The Root

Meet the Black Woman Who Is the Brains Behind the Green New Deal

Areas of Study: Climate, Environmental, and Energy Law; Social Justice and Human Rights
Topics: Kimberle W. Crenshaw

Featured Faculty: Kimberle W. Crenshaw Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law

December 13, 2019 The Nation

Exxon Won A Major Climate Change Lawsuit—But More Are Coming

Areas of Study: Constitutional Law; Climate, Environmental, and Energy Law

Featured Faculty: Michael Burger Senior Research Scholar

December 10, 2019 Boston Globe

New York Judge Rejects Lawsuit Against ExxonMobil

Areas of Study: Climate, Environmental, and Energy Law
Topics: Michael Gerrard

Featured Faculty: Michael Gerrard Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice

December 10, 2019 The New York Times

New York Loses Climate Change Fraud Case Against Exxon Mobil

Areas of Study: Climate, Environmental, and Energy Law
Topics: Merritt B. Fox

Featured Faculty: Merritt B. Fox Arthur Levitt Professor of Law

November 01, 2019

Lawyers are unleashing a flurry of lawsuits to step up the fight against climate change

Other Information: Columbia Law School professor Michael Gerrard launched the Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative, which is a brain trust and a litigation resource, in January 2019 in conjunction with Arnold & Porter, where he was a partner and is senior counsel. In 2009, Gerrard founded and is faculty director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia, which maintains an up-to-date public database that tracks all climate change case law worldwide.
Areas of Study: Climate, Environmental, and Energy Law
Topics: Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

Featured Faculty: Michael Gerrard Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice