Ari Peskoe

Ari Peskoe
Lecturer on Law
2020-2021
Environmental and Energy Law Program
6 Everett Street, Suite 4133
617-495-4425
Biography
Ari Peskoe is the Director of the Electricity Law Initiative at the Harvard Law School Environmental and Energy Law Program. He has written extensively about electricity regulation, on issues ranging from Constitutional challenges to states’ energy laws to federal regulation of distributed energy resources. Prior to the Environmental and Energy Law Program, Ari was an associate at a law firm in Washington, D.C. where he litigated before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission about the Western Energy Crisis. Before that, Ari was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana and spent two years trying to bring the 2012 Olympics to New York. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with degrees in electrical engineering and business.
Education History
- B.S. Electrical Engineering; Business University of Pennsylvania, 2003
- J.D. Harvard Law School, 2011
Current Courses
- Creating Electricity in the U.S.: Exploring the Tradeoffs, Fall 2020
- State Energy Law, Spring 2021

Environmental and Energy Law Program
6 Everett Street, Suite 4133
617-495-4425