Preston hall on the Elisabeth Haub School of Law campus in White Plains NY

Haub Environmental Law Distinguished Junior Scholar Award

The Haub Environmental Law Distinguished Junior Scholar Award is presented annually to an emerging junior environmental law professor who exhibits scholarly excellence and promise at an early stage in his/her career. Haub Law invites the award recipient to present his/her recent scholarship to the Haub community. The Haub Environmental Law Faculty solicits nominations from law professors throughout the country and selects a recipient from that pool of nominations.

Nominations are due by November 30 of each year and can be directed to Professor Jason J. Czarnezki.

Past Award Recipients

Lisa Benjamin, Associate Professor of Law, Lewis and Clark Law School

Lisa Benjamin

Associate Professor of Law, Lewis and Clark Law School
October 2023
EVs as EJ?

Vanessa Casado Pérez, Associate Professor of Law, Texas A&M School of Law

Vanessa Casado Pérez

Associate Professor of Law and Dean’s Research Chair, Texas A&M School of Law
March, 2022
Should Water Flow Down Wall Street?

Sharmila L. Murthy, Senior Counsel, White House Council on Environmental Quality

Sharmila Murthy

Associate Professor and Director of Faculty Scholarship and Research, Suffolk University Law School
January, 2021

Shelley Welton, Associate Professor, University of South Carolina School of Law

Shelley Welton 

Associate Professor, University of South Carolina School of Law
November 12, 2020
Rethinking Grid Governance for the Climate Change Era

Cliff Villa, Associate Professor of Law, University of New Mexico

Cliff Villa 

Associate Professor of Law, University of New Mexico
April 24, 2019
Environmental Justice: Reflections and Renewal

Sharon Jacobs, Associate Professor of Law, University of Colorado School of Law

Sharon Jacobs

Associate Professor of Law, University of Colorado School of Law
September 12, 2018

Michael A. Livermore, Associate Professor of Law The University of Virginia School of Law

Michael A. Livermore

Associate Professor of Law, The University of Virginia School of Law
September 14, 2016
The Perils of Experimentation

Sarah Light, Assistant Professor, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Sarah Light

Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
September 30, 2015
Arctic Drilling and Wrongful Benefit

Michael Pappas, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law

Michael Pappas

Assistant Professor of Law
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
September 24, 2014
Distributive Fairness, Equal Protection, and Takings

Sarah Schindler, Associate Professor of Law, University of Maine School of Law

Sarah Schindler

Associate Professor of Law, University of Maine School of Law
September 25, 2013
Banning Lawns