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Prof. Richard J. Lazarus
Prof. Richard J. Lazarus - Harvard Law School, J.D.; University of Illinois, B.S. (chemistry), B.A. (economics). Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he also is the Director of Georgetown’s Supreme Court Institute. He previously worked for the U.S. Justice Department, in both the Environmental and Natural Resources Division and in the Solicitor General's Office, where he was Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States. Prof. Lazarus has represented the United States, state and local governments, and environmental groups in the U.S. Supreme Court in 37 cases, including Norfolk & Western Ry. Co. v. Ayers, 538 U.S. 135 (2003); Suitum v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, 520 U.S. 725 (1997); City of Chicago v. Environmental Defense Fund, 511 U.S. 328 (1994); Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council, 505 U.S. 1003 (2002); and California v. F.E.R.C., 495 U.S. 490 (1990). He litigated the first Superfund (CERCLA) liability case on behalf of the federal government in the early 1980s and has since been involved in many of the significant environmental law cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Prof. Lazarus is the author of THE MAKING OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (University of Chicago, 2004), more than 30 book chapters and law review articles in the area of environmental and natural resources law (in such journals as the MINNESOTA LAW REVIEW, UCLA LAW REVIEW, WILLIAM & MARY LAW REVIEW HARVARD ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REVIEW, and GEORGETOWN LAW JOURNAL), and serves on several national advisory boards, including the advisory boards of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the World Wildlife Fund, and the Environmental Defense Fund. He teaches Environmental Law; Natural Resources Law; Federal Hazardous Waste Regulation; Torts, and Supreme Court Advocacy.