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Katrina Fischer Kuh, Professor of Law at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law

Katrina Fischer Kuh

Haub Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law
Class of 2013 Faculty Scholar
Elisabeth Haub School of Law
Environmental Law

Katrina Fischer Kuh

White Plains
Preston Hall, 221 |
By Appointment Only
Faculty Assistant
Lorraine Rubich

Biography

Katrina Fischer Kuh joined the Elisabeth Haub School of Law faculty as the Haub Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law in 2017. She was previously on the faculty at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, where she was a Professor of Law and served as an Associate Dean of Intellectual Life. Professor Kuh鈥檚 scholarship focuses on climate change and sustainability, and she has taught Environmental Law, International Environmental Law, Global Climate Change and U.S. Law, Administrative Law, and Torts. She is the co-editor of The Law of Adaptation to Climate Change: United States and International Aspects and Climate Change Law: An Introduction.

Before entering academia, Professor Kuh worked in the environmental and litigation practice groups in the New York office of Arnold & Porter LLP and served as an advisor on natural resource policy in the U.S. Senate. She received her undergraduate and law degrees from Yale and served as a law clerk to Judge Charles S. Haight of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and Judge Diana Gribbon Motz of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Education

  • BA, Yale College (summa cum laude)
  • JD, Yale Law School

Selected Publications

View all of Professor Kuh鈥 publications on , or download her CV (PDF).

  • Eco-Necrotourism and Public Land Management: Last Chance Tourism, Ecological Grief, and the World鈥檚 Disappearing Natural Wonders, 51 Fla. St. L. Rev. 133 (2024) (co-author with Robin Craig)
  • 鈥淐an the Constitution Save the Planet?鈥 in Democracy in a Hotter Time (D. Orr ed.) (forthcoming 2023) (with James R. May)
  • 鈥淧erformative Justice,鈥 in Adapting to a 4掳 World (K. Kuh & S. Roesler eds.) (forthcoming 2023)
  • Informational Regulation, the Environment, and the Public, 105 Marq. L. Rev. 603 (2022)
  • 鈥淭he International Climate Change Treaty Regime, Litigating Government (In)Action on Climate Change鈥; and 鈥淟egal and Policy Levers to Prompt Action by Private Climate Change Actors,鈥 in Introduction to Climate Change Law (2021)
  • , 29 N.Y.U. Envtl. L.J. 171 (2021) (with Megan Edwards & Frederick A. McDonald)
  • 鈥淧rofessional Responsibility and the Corporate Hoodwink: Using the Climate Disinformation Campaign to Examine the Ethical Responsibilities of Attorneys When Corporate Clients Mislead the Public to Avoid Government Regulation,鈥 in Environmental Law Disrupted (K. Hirokawa & J. Owley, eds.) (2021) (with Lissa Griffin)
  • , 46 Ecology L.Q. 731 (2020)
  • , 48 Envtl L 409 (2018) (with Jason J. Czarnezki & K. Ingemar Jonsson)
  • 鈥淎gnostic Adaptation,鈥 in A Response to the IPCC Fifth Assessment, 45 ELR 10027 (2015) & Contemporary Issues in Climate Change Law & Policy: Essays Inspired by the IPCC (Robin Kundis Craig & Stephen R. Miller, eds. 2016).
  • , 2015 Utah L. Rev. 1 (2015).
  • , 65 Vand. L. Rev. 1565 (2012)
  • , 61 Duke L.J. 1111 (2012)
  • , 35 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 155 (2011)

Honors & Awards

  • Ottinger Award 2019鈥2020
  • Stegner Center Young Scholar 2013
  • Undergraduate: Charles Garside Award, Howard Roberts Lamar Prize

Areas of Interest

Climate Change, Sustainability, Eco-labeling, Constitutional Environmental Rights

Related News and Stories

In the Media

无码专区's Haub Environmental Law Professor Katrina Fischer Kuh spoke with News 12 about Trump鈥檚 plans to withdraw proposed PFAS limitations, also known as 鈥渇orever chemicals鈥 found in water, food packaging and other products. Professor Kuh cautions, 鈥渄on鈥檛 panic,鈥 saying it鈥檚 possible there could be a reconsideration.

Press Release

The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at 无码专区 is proud to announce the appointment of an accomplished leadership team to continue to guide its top ranked Environmental Law Program into the future. Haub Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law, Katrina Fischer Kuh, will serve as Faculty Director of the Environmental Law Program. Achinthi C. Vithanage, Professor of Law for Designated Service in Environmental Law and Associate Director of Environmental Law Programs, will assume the role of Executive Director of the Environmental Law Program. Additionally, Josh Galperin, Associate Professor of Law, will take on the role of Faculty Director of the Sustainable Business Law Hub.

In the Media

Haub Law Professor Katrina Fischer Kuh provides legal insights to energynews about President Trump鈥檚 announcement to block new wind energy projects during his term.