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 […]
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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 […]
Note: The views reflected in the post are those of the author and the author alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Sabin Center or anyone at the Sabin Center. At a colloquium co-sponsored at Columbia Law School by the Ira M. Millstein Center […]
As the physical and economic harms of climate change accumulate, corporate managers have faced increasing pressure to reduce their companies’ greenhouse gas emissions and adapt their businesses to climate-related risks. In parallel, civil society organizations and activist investors have increasingly sought to compel private sector action on climate change, while […]
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 […]
Cities have a unique and significant role to play in responding to climate change. Many are already doing so by adopting legal and policy tools to encourage the use of smart surfaces—a group of technologies and design strategies that mitigate the effects of climate change in urban environments, especially extreme […]
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 […]