The Westchester & Fairfield County Business Journals speaks with Haub Law Associate Dean and Professor Jason J. Czarnezki on the relationship between the Trump Administration and business and the potential impact on climate policy.
Jason J. Czarnezki
Biography
Professor Jason J. Czarnezki holds the Gilbert and Sarah Kerlin Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law Chair and is Associate Dean of Environmental Law Programs and Strategic Initiatives at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at 91视频.
Prior to joining the Haub Law faculty in 2013, Professor Czarnezki was formerly Professor of Law in the Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law School and director of the U.S.-China Partnership for Environmental Law. He has also held academic appointments at Marquette University Law School and DePaul University College of Law, and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He also served as a J. William Fulbright Scholar at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. Professor Czarnezki was formerly Honorary Research Associate at Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute (UK), Visiting Fellow at Uppsala Universitet Faculty of Law (Sweden), and Fellow at the University of Troms酶 - The Arctic University of Norway. For 2020, Professor Czarnezki was named, by the Swedish National Research Council, the Olof Palme Visiting Professor at Stockholm University.
Professor Czarnezki has presented his work on natural resources law, environmentalism, food policy, sustainable public procurement, private environmental governance, and global climate policy at universities, public interest organizations, government institutions, and conferences throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Previously, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable D. Brock Hornby of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine and as a law clerk for the Bureau of Legal Services at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. His articles have been published in the law journals of Boston College, Boston University, Stanford University, University of Chicago, University of Colorado, University of Maryland, and University of Virginia. His books include Everyday Environmentalism: Law, Nature and Individual Behavior (2011) and Food, Agriculture and Environmental Law (2013). Professor Czarnezki received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Chicago and his PhD in Environmental Law from Uppsala University in Sweden.
Education
- BA, University of Chicago
- JD, University of Chicago Law School
- PhD, Uppsala University
Selected Publications
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Books:
- Green Public Procurement: Legal Instruments for Promoting Environmental Interests in the United States and European Union (Uppsala University 2019)
- Everyday Environmentalism: Law, Nature & Individual Behavior (Environmental Law Institute Press /Island Press 2011)
- Food, Agriculture, Environmental Law (Environmental Law Institute Press 2013) (with Mary Jane Angelo and William S. Eubanks)
Book Chapters:
- 鈥淓co-Labelling鈥 in Oxford Handbook on Comparative Environmental Law (Oxford University Press 2019) (with Margot Pollans and Sarah Main)
- 鈥淧resident Trump, The New Chicago School, & The Future of Environmental Law and Scholarship鈥 in Perspectives on Environmental Scholarship (Cambridge University Press 2018)(with Sarah Schindler)
Selected Articles:
- Disclosure, Greenwashing & The Future of ESG Litigation, 81 Wash. & Lee. L. Rev. 545 (2024) (co-author with Barbara Ballan)
- Teaching Sustainable Business Law & The Role of ESG Lawyers (with Joshua Ulan Galperin and Brianna Grimes) (work in progress to be submitted for publication in February 2023)
- Sustainable Business Law? The Key Role of Corporate Governance and Finance, 51 Environmental Law 991 (2022) (with Colin Myers),
- Crafting Next Generation Eco-Label Policy in Environmental Law, 48 Environmental Law 409 (2018) (with Katrina Fischer Kuh & K. Ingemar J枚nsson)
- The Neoliberal Turn in Environmental Regulation, 2016 Utah Law Review 1 (2016) (with Katherine Fiedler)
- New York City Rules! Regulatory Models for Environmental and Public Health, 66 Hastings Law Journal 1621 (2015)
Fellowships, Grants, Scholarships
- Olof Palme Visiting Professor, Stockholm University, funded by the Swedish National Research Council, 2020
- Honorary Research Associate, Oxford University Environmental Change Institute, 2015-2019
- Uppsala University Faculty of Law (Sweden) Visiting Fellow, 2011-2019
- J. William Fulbright Scholar, Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou, China), 2009-2010
- The University of Chicago College Honor Scholar (Full-Tuition Merit Scholarship), 1996-2000
- Blue Moon Fund
- Formas
- National Science Foundation (Research Experiences for Undergraduates)
- National Science Foundation (鈥淐urriculum and Community Enterprise for the Restoration of New York Harbor in New York City Public Schools鈥)
- National Science Foundation (鈥淚ntegrating Computational Science with Environmental Sciences Associated with Habitat Restoration and Education in New York Harbor鈥)
- Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsr氓det)
- Uppsala Forum on Democracy, Peace and Justice
- U.S. Agency for International Development
- U.S Department of State - Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL Programs)
Honors & Awards
- Richard Ottinger Outstanding Service Award, 2018
- Recipient of Outstanding Leadership Award, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Bureau of Legal Services, 2008
- Recipient of The D. Francis Bustin Prize for 鈥淥utstanding Paper which makes a Valuable and Important Contribution to the Improvement and Betterment of the Processes of Government,鈥 2003
- Stockholm Academic Forum and Stockholm Dual Career Network Global Member Award for promoting the 鈥渕essage of the cruciality of internationalism and a truly multicultural society."
Areas of Interest
Environmental Law and Policy, Natural Resources Law and Policy, Food Systems Law and Policy, Comparative, Global, and International Environmental Law (U.S./China/Europe), Regulation of Individual Behavior, Informational Labeling and Regulation/Eco-Labeling, Administrative Law, Sustainable/Green Procurement Law (U.S./EU), Private Environmental Governance, Life Cycle Assessment and Costing, Sustainable Business Law and Strategies/ESG Criteria
Related News and Stories
Haub Environmental Law Professor Jason Czarnezki examines the rare "dubitante" opinion in a recent feature in The National Law Journal, titled 鈥淲hen in Doubt: What's a Dubitante Opinion, and Why Do Judges Write Them?鈥
The Regulatory Review reports scholars, Law Professors Jason J. Czarnezki and Joshua Ulan Galperin, and Brianna M. Grimes 鈥24, recently debated the market impacts of ESG regulations.