Richard Burleson Stewart (1940-2023) served on the Harvard Law School faculty from 1971 to 1991. He was an Assistant Professor of Law 1971-1975; Professor of Law 1975-1984; Associate Dean of the Faculty of Law 1984-1986; and Byrne Professor of Administrative Law 1984-1991. He served as Director of the Law and Government Program 1987-1989.
Research: Corporations, administrative law, environmental law, torts, food law and policy.
Education: Yale College A.B. 1961; University of Oxford M.A. 1963; Harvard Law School LL.B. 1966.
Selected Scholarship / Representative Publications: “Environmental Law and Policy: Readings, Materials, and Notes” (first edition with Stewart as co-author, 1978); “Administrative Law and Regulatory Policy” (co-author, first published 1979); “Fuel Cycle to Nowhere: U.S. Law and Policy on Nuclear Waste” (co-author, 2011).
Noteworthy Appointments: Chair, Environmental Defense Fund, 1980-1983; Assistant Attorney General, Land and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, 1989-1991; University Professor and John Edward Sexton Professor of Law, New York University Law School.