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 […]
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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 […]
This month, Ashwin Murthy joins the Sabin Center as a Negative Emissions Fellow. His work focuses on the legal frameworks governing ocean-based carbon dioxide removal, at both the national and international levels. Ashwin graduated from Columbia Law School in 2024 with an LL.M. Prior to studying at Columbia, Ashwin worked […]
Vincent Nolette joins our team at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law as the Equitable Cities Climate Law Fellow. His work will support the Center’s Cities Climate Law Initiative and include research on city-level law and policy at the intersection of climate and racial wealth equity. Before joining the […]
Chloe Field joined the Sabin Center as a Legal Fellow to contribute to the Center’s work addressing climate risk and resilience in the financial sector. Working with the Initiative on Climate Risk and Resilience Law she will focus on federal and state regulatory efforts to address climate-related financial risks. She received […]
Today, Emma Shumway joins the Sabin Center as a Climate Justice Fellow. Her work focuses on the environmental justice and equity implications of developments in climate change law and policy at the national, state, and local levels. Emma graduated from Columbia Law School in 2023, where she was a Ruth […]
Dan has joined the Sabin Center as a Smart Surfaces Fellow, as part of our Cities Climate Law Initiative. His work will focus on facilitating the adoption of reflective roofs and pavements, porous pavements, green roofs, solar PV and more at the metropolitan and community level. Before joining the center […]