The Endangered Environmental Laws Program draws upon a distinguished group of advisors from the nation’s top environmental attorneys and scholars. The Program advisors include:
Michael Bean, Attorney, Chair, Wildlife Program, Environmental Defense. Mr. Bean is a nationally recognized leader in efforts to promote wildlife conservation. His book, The Evolution of Wildlife Law, is the leading text on wildlife conservation law in the United States. He served as Director of Wildlife Program at ELI from 1976-77, and is a former member of the ELI Board of Directors.
Kenneth Berlin, Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Mr. Berlin heads the firm’s East Coast environmental practice. He has been involved in a wide range of environmental issues since 1979, when he was a Section Chief in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Mr. Berlin is a former Chair of the ELI Board of Directors.
Jamie Colburn, Assistant Professor, Western New England College School of Law. Professor Colburn’s scholarship focuses on environmental law and policy. Before teaching, he served as Assistant Regional Counsel for the EPA, where he authored The RCRA Civil Penalty Policy of 1990. His current research involves strategies for wildlife habitat restoration in New England and new forms of governmental organization. He is also the Chair of the Constitutional Law Task Force for the ABA’s Section on Environment, Energy, and Resources.
Robin Kundis Craig, Attorneys’ Title Insurance Fund Professor of Law, Florida State University College of Law. Professor Craig focuses on the Clean Water Act, ocean and coastal law, and the intersection of environmental and constitutional law. In 2005, she was appointed to the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on the Clean Water Act. She also serves as Chair of the ABA’s Section on Environment, Energy, and Resources’ Marine Resources Committee.
John Davidson, Legal Director, Constitutional Law Foundation. Professor Davidson currently teaches Constitutional Law for the Political Science Department at the University of Oregon. A leading scholar in constitutional law and intergenerational justice, his currently focuses on the topic of intergenerational justice as a constitutional principle.
David Hayes, Partner, Latham & Watkins. Mr. Hayes chairs the firm’s Environmental, Land & Resources Department, where he leads more than 100 lawyers who work on environmental, energy, and natural resources matters throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. As Deputy Secretary of the Interior during the second term of the Clinton Administration, he was the second highest-ranking official at the Department. Mr. Hayes is a former Chair of the ELI Board of Directors.
James Hecker, Environmental Enforcement Director, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice. Mr. Hecker litigates citizen suits under federal environmental statutes, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act, Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act, Surface Mining Act, Endangered Species Act, and Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.
Douglas Kendall, Attorney, Founder and Executive Director of Community Rights Counsel, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Virginia Graduate Planning Program, where he teaches a course on legal issues in land-use planning. Mr. Kendall has represented local government clients before the U.S. Supreme Court and in state and federal appellate courts.
John Kostyack, Senior Counsel, National Wildlife Federation. Mr. Kostyack manages the Federation’s Wildlife Conservation Program, a nationwide effort to protect and restore endangered species and other imperiled wildlife. An expert on the Endangered Species Act, he regularly advocates on biodiversity conservation issues before Congress, the courts, federal agencies, the media, and at conferences and workshops.
Richard Lazarus, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center. Professor Lazarus is a leading scholar on constitutional issues in environmental law. He has represented the United States, states, local governments, and environmental groups in approximately 30 cases before the Supreme Court.
Bill Snape, Chairman of the Board of the Endangered Species Coalition. Mr. Snape is also a lawyer in private practice. From 1994-2004, he served as Vice President and Chief Counsel for Defenders of Wildlife, where he worked to strengthen endangered species protection.
Donald Stever, Partner, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson & Graham LLP. Previously, Mr. Stever served as the head of environmental practice at Dewey Ballantine LLP. He is also a former Section Chief in the Department of Justice, where he was responsible for pollution and hazardous waste litigation. Mr. Stever is a former Chair of the ELI Board of Directors.
Glenn Sugameli, Senior Judicial Counsel, Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund. Mr. Sugameli’s legal career has embraced litigation—with over three dozen reported decisions—and policy, including grassroots, media, coalition, and direct work on energy policy, property rights, and takings. At Earthjustice, he directs the Judging the Environment project, addressing federal judicial selection issues.
Cass Sunstein, Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence, Law School and Department of Political Science, University of Chicago. One of the nation’s most prolific and innovative constitutional theorists, Professor Sunstein is the author of many books and articles.
Seth Waxman, Partner, WilmerHale. Mr. Waxman served as the 41st Solicitor General of the United States and has held several other senior positions in the U.S. government, including Acting Attorney General. He has argued more than 30 cases in the Supreme Court, and has tried and argued dozens of other high-profile civil and criminal cases in federal and state courts across the country.
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