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Prof. Jody Freeman Esq.


Self Description

July 2010: "Professor Freeman is a leading scholar of administrative and environmental law, and the founding director of the Harvard Law School Environmental Law and Policy Program. Professor Freeman served in the White House as Counselor for Energy and Climate Change from 2009-10. In that role, she contributed to a variety of policy initiatives on energy and climate issues, including renewable energy, energy efficiency, greenhouse gas regulation, and the pursuit of comprehensive energy and climate legislation that would put a market-based cap on carbon emissions. She played a key role in the negotiation of the historic national auto agreement, which set the first ever greenhouse gas standards for cars and trucks.

Freeman’s major writings in environmental law include Climate Change and US Interests, 109 Columbia L. Rev. 1531 (2009) (with Guzman), Timing and Form of Federal Regulation: The Case of Climate Change, 155 U. Penn. L. Rev. 1499 (2007) (with DeShazo), and Modular Environmental Regulation, 54 Duke L. Rev. 795 (2005) (with Farber). She is the co-author of a leading casebook in environmental law, and has produced two other significant books: Moving to Markets in Environmental Regulation, Lessons after Twenty Years of Experience (Oxford University Press 2006, edited with Charles Kolstad) and Government by Contract: Outsourcing and American Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2009, edited with Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow). In 2006, Freeman authored an amicus brief on behalf of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. MA v. EPA. the global warming case decided by the Supreme Court in 2007. Her analysis of the implications of the case, MA v. EPA: From Politics to Expertise. (with HLS Professor Adrian Vermeule) appears in the 2007 Supreme Court Review.

Professor Freeman is also a prominent scholar of administrative law and regulation, and a leading thinker on collaborative and contractual approaches to governance. Her major works in administrative law include The Private Role in Public Governance 75 NYU L. Rev. 543 (2000) (for which she received the annual scholarship award from the American Bar Association's Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice for the single best article in the nation on administrative law), Extending Public Law Norms Through Privatization, 116 Harv. L. Rev.1285 (2003), The Contracting State, 28 FLA. St. U. L. Rev 155 (2001), Regulatory Negotiation and the Legitimacy Benefit, 9 NYU Env’l L. Rev. 60 (2001) (with Langbein), and Collaborative Governance in the Administrative State, 45 UCLA L. Rev 1 (1997). She has also written extensively on the dynamic between Congress and Executive agencies (The Congressional Competition to Control Delegated Power, 81 Tex. L. Rev. 1443 (2003)), and among agencies (Public Agencies as Lobbyists, 105 Colum. L. Rev. 2217 (2005)) (both with DeShazo). Her administrative law writings have been translated into several languages; a collection of her articles was published in China in 2009.

Professor Freeman consults on administrative law and environmental law matters, and lectures widely both in the U.S. and abroad. In 2007, she delivered invited lectures at the Shanghai People’s Congress and Beijing University and in 2008 delivered a public lecture on environmental law and ethics at Princeton University.

Freeman has testified in Congress and before state commissions on administrative law and environmental law issues. She has served as vice-chair of the ABA Administrative Law Section sub-committees on Dispute Resolution and Environmental Law and Natural Resources. In 2006, she chaired the Executive Committee on Administrative Law for the Association of American Law Schools.

Prior to joining HLS, Professor Freeman taught for 10 years at UCLA where in 2004 she received the law school's Rutter Award for excellence in teaching..."

http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/freeman/

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Relationships

RoleNameTypeLast Updated
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Harvard University Organization Jul 17, 2010
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA ) Organization Jul 17, 2010
Advisor/Consultant to (past or present) Carol M. Browner Person Jul 17, 2010
Cooperation (past or present) Prof. J. R. DeShazo Ph.D. Person Jul 17, 2010
Cooperation (past or present) Prof. Charles Kolstad Ph.D. Person Jul 17, 2010
Cooperation (past or present) Prof. Martha L. Minow Esq. Person Jul 17, 2010
Cooperation (past or present) Prof. Adrian Vermeule Esq. Person Jul 17, 2010

Articles and Resources

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Jun 30, 2010 The Good Driller Award

QUOTE: as long as we continue to drill for oil and mine for coal, we must do everything we can to make those industries safer. That includes not just tough, well-enforced regulations, economic liabilities and criminal penalties for companies that prove too dangerous, but also positive incentives and public rewards for those that put safety first.

 New York Times