We welcome Luisa Colón, who recently joined the Sabin Center as Assistant Director of Operations. She will work with the leadership team to design and manage systems supporting projects, budgets, and resources. Her work focuses on strengthening organizational infrastructure and facilitating partnerships among researchers, practitioners, and students. Previously, Luisa […]
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Andrew Kieffer joined the Sabin Center in September 2025 as a Fellow with the Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative, which uses legal research and engagement to support siting utility- and community-scale renewable energy facilities and associated transmission and storage equipment. His work focuses on identifying legal pathways to challenge land-use and […]
Andrew Kieffer joined the Sabin Center in September 2025 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative, which uses legal research and engagement to support siting utility- and community-scale renewable energy facilities and associated transmission and storage equipment. His work focuses on identifying legal pathways to challenge […]
Today, the Sabin Center published its 2024-2025 annual report, highlighting its groundbreaking work over the last year to develop legal tools to combat the climate crisis and advance climate change. In 2024-2025, we expanded our work and impact, both domestically in the United States and globally. We added to our […]
We are proud to welcome Andy Fitch, who joined the Sabin Center as a Climate Finance and Regulation Fellow in April 2025. His work covers intersections of ESG and antitrust law with sustainability and climate-resiliency goals. He focuses on regulatory and policy responses to climate-related financial risk at the federal […]
Ivonne Norman joins our team at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law as the Legal Network Manager of the Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative (RELDI). Her work will focus on advancing wind and solar projects across the nation by facilitating legal representation to landowners, community groups and public interest […]
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 […]
Olivia Guarna joins our team at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law as the new Climate Justice Fellow. Her work will focus on environmental justice and equity considerations in climate change law and policy, such as energy insecurity or the cumulative burdens of land use and siting decisions. Olivia graduated […]