Columbia Law School
June 12-13, 2025 (via Zoom)
This 13th Annual Sabin Colloquium will allow junior environmental law scholars to present early-stage work and receive constructive feedback from a panel of senior scholars and from each other.
Eligible applicants are pre-tenure professors, fellows, visiting assistant professors, and other junior scholars in similar academic positions. Papers on environmental law, energy law, natural resources law or water law are eligible. No junior scholar may participate in the Colloquium more than twice.
The panel will select the proposals for discussion based on the degree of innovation they exhibit, the extent to which they point toward practical solutions to environmental problems, and whether, based on the scholarly and analytical quality of the proposals, they are likely to lead to high-quality work products.
To enter, please submit a cover letter, an outline or concept paper of 5 -15 double-spaced pages, and a C.V. to sabincolloquium@law.columbia.edu by March 15. If an article has already been drafted, please just submit a summary of no more than 15 pages. Footnotes are not expected. Articles that have already been accepted for publication are not eligible. This event is for early-stage work that can still be significantly shaped by the discussion at the Colloquium.
Authors of selected papers will be notified by April 15. All Colloquium participants will be expected to participate in the full program the afternoons (ET) of June 12 and 13 and to read and comment on each others’ proposals. In view of the desire to practice what we preach by keeping our carbon footprints low (as well as the continuing uncertainty over COVID-19), the Colloquium will be conducted virtually via Zoom.
The senior scholars who will be judging this year’s competition and participating in the workshop are:
Maxine Burkett — University of Hawaii Law School
Michael Gerrard — Columbia Law School
Richard Lazarus — Harvard Law School
Hari Osofsky — Northwestern Law School
Justin Pidot — University of Arizona Law School
Tiffany is the Communications Associate at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.
