Policy issues and potential
policy and legal remedies
Dr. Nicholas A. Robinson
presentation materials not
available |
About Dr. Nicholas Robinson
Prof. Nicholas A. Robinson has specialized in environmental law
since his appointment in 1970 to serve on the Legal Advisory Committee
to the President’s Council on Environmental Quality. He founded
the environmental legal studies program at Pace University School
of Law in 1978, after practicing environmental law in New York City
and clerking for federal Judge Morris E. Lasker. He is currently
holds the senior position in environmental law internationally,
having been elected by the World Conservation Congress as Chair
of the Commission on Environmental Law of the International Union
for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). In
1992 the l’Université Libre de Bruxelles conferred
on him the Elizabeth Haub Prize In Environmental Law. He has taught
at the Law Faculty of the National University of Singapore and at
University College (London), and has lectured by invitation at over
universities across Europe, Canada, South America, China and S.E.
Asia, Australia, Southern Africa, and elsewhere. He is author or
editor of 2 treatises, seven books, and over 150 articles; his two
treatises have been translated and published in Russian and Chinese.
Among his civic contributions within New York, he served as General
Counsel and Deputy Commission of the State’s Department of
Environmental Conservation, chaired and organized the Greenway Heritage
Conservancy for the Hudson River Valley, and chaired and organized
the Freshwater Wetlands Appeals Board. He is the draftsman of New
York’s Tidal Wetland Act and Wild Birds Law. From 1974-92,
he served under five presidents as a US delegate to the environmental
law negotiations between the USA and USSR, and later served as an
expert on Russian environmental law to the United Nations, the Food
& Agricultural Organization, the World Bank and others. He currently
serves as IUCN’s Legal Advisor and is Legal Advisor to IUCN’s
Observer Mission to the United Nations; he previously practiced
environmental law internationally with law firms in London and New
York. He has served by election as the Chairman of the Board for
the World Environment Center and the International Vice President
of the Sierra Club, and has chaired environmental law committees
for many bar associations. He is a graduate of Brown University
(A.B., 1967, Phi Beta Kappa) and Columbia University School of Law
(J.D., 1970, cum laude), and was an International Fellow at the
Council on Foreign Relations (1977). Pace University invested him
as its James Hopkins Professor of Law (1990-91) and with the Gilbert
& Sarah Kerlin Chair in Environmental Law in 1999.
|
