Tackling climate change through law, policy
Since it was founded in 2006 by Professor Jody Freeman, LL.M. ’91, S.J.D. ’95, Harvard Law School’s (HLS) Environmental Law and Policy Program (ELP) has become the leader in its field, with renowned faculty, innovative courses, a lauded clinical program that gives students hands-on training in real cases, and the program’s new Policy Initiative, which provides nonpartisan legal analysis and policy advice to federal and state agencies. In the spirit of Harvard President Drew Faust’s recent focus on addressing the problem of climate change, HLS interviewed Freeman, who served in the Obama administration as counselor for energy and climate change and is co-author of a forthcoming book on global climate change and U.S. law. In a question-and-answer session, she discussed the range of ways in which HLS scholars and students are engaged in confronting climate change. HLS: Your course on energy and climate law and policy is widely viewed as innovative....