Editors

• Author: Michael B. Gerrard/John C. Dernbach
• Pages: 38-38

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Editors

Michael B. Gerra rd is the Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice at

Columbia Law School, where he teaches courses on environmental and energy law,

and founded and directs the Sabin Center for Climate Cha nge Law. He is also a

member and former Chair of the Faculty of Columbia’s Earth Institute. Before

joining the Columbia faculty in Januar y 2009, Gerrard was a Partner in the law

rm of Arnold & Porter in New York City; he is now Senior Counsel to the rm.

He practiced environmental law in New York City full time from 1979 to 2008.

He was the 2004-2005 chair of the American Bar Associat ion’s Section of Environ-

ment, Energy and Resources. He has also chaired the Executive Committee of the

New York City Bar Association and the Environmental Law Section of the New

York State Bar Association.

Since 1986, Gerrard has written an environmental law column for the New York

Law Journal. He is author or editor of 13 books, two of which were named Best Law Book of the Year by the Association

of American Publishers: Environmental Law Practice Guide (12 volumes, 1992) and Brownelds Law and Practice (four

volumes, 1998). Among his other books are Global Climate Change and U.S . Law (with Jody Freeman) (2d ed. 2014); Law

of Clean Energy (2011); and Climate Engineering and the Law: Regulation and Liability for Solar Radiation Management

and Carbon Dioxide Removal (with Tracy Hester 2018). He received his B.A. from Columbia University and his J.D. from

New York University Law School.

John C. Dernbach is the Commonwealth Professor of Environmental L aw and

Sustainability at Widener University Commonwealth Law School in Harrisburg,

Pennsylvania, and Director of its Environmental Law and Sustainability Center.

Professor Dernbach has written on sustainable development, climate change, and

other topics in more than 50 articles for law reviews a nd peer-reviewed journals, and

has authored, coauthored, or contributed chapters to more than 20 books. He is the

editor (with James R. May) of Shale Gas and the Future of Energ y: Law and Policy

for Sustainability (Edwa rd Elgar 2016), the principal author of Acting as if Tomorrow

Matters: Accelerating the Transition to Sustainability (ELI Press 2012), and the editor

of Agenda for a Sustainable America (ELI Press 20 09) and Stumbling Toward Sustain-

ability (ELI Press 2002).

Professor Dernbach coauthored a successful am icus brief to the U.S. Supreme

Court on behalf of 18 prominent climate scientists in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency. His scholarship

and advocacy helped persuade the Pennsylvan ia Supreme Court in landmark decisions in 2013 and 2017 to reinvigorate

the Environmental Rights A mendment to the state constitution. He was a member of the National Research Council

Committee that, in Sustainability and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (2011), made recommendations on how

to institutionalize sustainability at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Before taking h is teaching position at

Widener Commonwealth, Professor Dernbach worked in a variety of positions at the Pennsylvania Department of Envi-

ronmental Protection, and served most recently as the agency’s Policy Director. He is also the coauthor of a widely used

and inuential legal w riting text, rst published in 1981, that is now in a sixth edition and considered a classic in the eld.

He is a graduate of University of Michigan Law School and University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.