Richard Lazarus

Exam Type: In Class A tort is a wrong. To commit a tort is to violate a duty owed to another not to injure her,…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In Class This course surveys federal environmental law and serves as a useful introduction both to environmental law’s particular complexities as…

Exam Type: In Class A tort is a wrong. To commit a tort is to violate a duty owed to another not to injure her,…

Classroom: Lewis 214 Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam In the fall of 2019, I offered a seminar “Environmental Law During and after the Trump…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course surveys federal environmental law and serves as a useful…

Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam ScheduleClass A tort is a wrong. To commit a tort is to violate a…

Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this seminar.  Exam: No Exam This seminar will explore the role of the United States Supreme Court in the…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam The threat of potentially catastrophic consequences from climate change due to increasing concentrations of greenhouse gas concentrations in the…

Richard Lazarus, The Supreme Court just upended environmental law at the worst possible moment, Wash. Post (June 30, 2022).

Robert Percival & Richard J. Lazarus, The U.S. Supreme Court and Environmental Law Update, Prac. Law., Apr. 2022, at 39.

Richard J. Lazarus & Libby Dimenstein, Stewart’s Paradoxes of Liberty, Integrity, and Fraternity: Sobering Lessons from Covid-19 for Environmental Law, 29 NYU Env’t L. J.

Caitlin McCarthy, John C. Cruden, John Elwood & Richard Lazarus, Dialogue: The Impact of Justice Kennedy and the Effect of His Retirement, 48 Env’t L.

Davina Pujari, John Cruden, Richard Lazarus & Sambhav Sankar, Breaking Precedent: SCOTUS in the Midst of a Pandemic, 50 Env’t L. Rep. 10787 (2020).

Richard J. Lazarus, Advocacy History in the Supreme Court, 2020 Sup. Ct. Rev. 423 (2021).

Richard J. Lazarus, The Super Wicked Problem of Donald Trump, 73 Vand. L. Rev. 1811 (2020).

Richard J. Lazarus, Seventy-Four Inches, 37 Env’t F., Mar.-Apr. 2020, at 24.

Richard Lazarus, Two Cases Counter Trend of Less Importance to Environmental Law, 36 Env’t F., Nov.-Dec. 2019, at 13.

Richard Lazarus, Analytics Reveal Key Trends and Themes in Environmental Litigation, 36 Env’t F., Sept.-Oct. 2019, at 13.

Richard J. Lazarus, The Rule of Five: Making Climate History at the Supreme Court (2020).

Richard Lazarus, EPA Loses in Court Again – but Outcome Didn’t Follow the Script, Env’t F., July-Aug. 2019, at 13.

Richard Lazarus, May Courts Review Congressional Review Act Compliance by Agencies?, Env’t F., May-June 2019, at 13.

Richard J. Lazarus & Sara Zdeb, Environmental Law & Politics, Insights on L. & Soc’y, Fall 2018, at 11.

Richard Lazarus, The Prospect for Boring Times Is Becoming Increasingly Attractive, Env’t F., Nov.-Dec. 2018, at 13.

Richard Lazarus, Kavanaugh’s Ascent Is Enormously Significant for Environmental Law, Env’t F., Jan.-Feb. 2019, at 13.

Richard Lazarus, Climate Litigation Has at Least for Now Dodged a Possibly Fatal Blow, Env’t F., Mar.-Apr. 2019, at 13.

Richard Lazarus, Kennedy’s Mark on Environmental Law Is Incalculable and Profound, Env’t F, Sept.-Oct. 2018, at 13.

Richard Lazarus, William O. Douglas’ Former Clerk Sitting on Key Climate Change Case, Env’t F., July-Aug. 2018, at 13.

Richard J. Lazarus, District Court to Decide Whether Antiquities Designations Are Final, Env’t F., May-June 2018, at 13.

Richard J. Lazarus, What Happens When a New White House Opposes Ongoing Litigation?, Env’t F., Jan.-Feb. 2017, at 13.

Richard J. Lazarus, A District Court Admonishes EPA; Will the White House Now Pile On?, Env’t F., Mar.-Apr. 2017, at 13.

Richard J. Lazarus, The Public Interest Bar Loses a True Giant in Citizen Jurisprudence, Env’t F., May-June 2017, at 15.

Richard J. Lazarus, Will Justice Gorsuch on Water Act Prove Different than Scalia Would?, Env’t F., July-Aug. 2017, at 15.

Richard J. Lazarus, A Big Blow Against the “Regulatory Takings” Economic Loss Argument, Env’t F., Sept.-Oct. 2017, at 15.

Richard J. Lazarus, The Dignity of the States Is Being Lost in Environmental Litigation, Env’t F., Nov.-Dec. 2017, at 13.

Richard J. Lazarus, Will 2018 Be the Year of the Bird? If So, Not Necessarily a Good One, Env’t F, Mar.-Apr. 2018, at 13.

Richard J. Lazarus, Justice Gorsuch Faces Case Where Neither Choice Entirely Satisfactory (Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, hearing of New York v. EPA), Env’t F.,…

Richard J. Lazarus, Advocacy Matters: Transforming the Court by Transforming the Bar, in Business and the Roberts Court (Jonathan H. Adler ed., 2016).

Lois J. Schiffer & Richard J. Lazarus, The Environment and Natural Resources Division of the United States Department of Justice: Planning for the Transition to…

Richard J. Lazarus, First Annual Climate & Energy Law Symposium: Federal Preemption of State Prerogative-California in the Face of National Climate Policy, 1 San Diego…

Richard J. Lazarus, Climate Change Law In and Over Time, 2 San Diego J. Climate & Energy L. 29 (2010)…

Richard J. Lazarus, Flexing Agency Muscle?, 48 Ga. L. Rev. 327 (2014).

Richard J. Lazarus, Environmental Law at the Crossroads: Back 25, Looking Forward 25, 2 Mich. J. Envtl. & Admin. L. 267 (2013).

Richard J. Lazarus, The Nature of Environmental Law and the U.S. Supreme Court, in Strategies for Environmental Success In An Uncertain Judicial Climate 9 (Michael…

Richard J. Lazarus, Environmental Law, in Encyclopedia of the United States Supreme Court (David S. Tanenhaus ed., 2008).

Environmental Law Stories (Richard J. Lazarus & Oliver Houck eds., 2005).

Richard J. Lazarus, Consider Requiring Cost-benefit Test? (pending Michigan v. EPA before the US Supreme Court) 32 Env’t F., Mar./Apr. 2015, at 12.

Richard J. Lazarus, California Dreamin’: Court is the Leader 32 32 Envt’l F., May/June 2015, at 14.