Professor Jason J. Czarnezki holds the Gilbert and Sarah Kerlin Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law Chair and is Associate Dean of Environmental Law Programs and Strategic Initiatives at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University.
Prior to joining the Haub Law faculty in 2013, Professor Czarnezki was formerly Professor of Law in the Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law School and director of the U.S.-China Partnership for Environmental Law. He has also held academic appointments at Marquette University Law School and DePaul University College of Law, and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He also served as a J. William Fulbright Scholar at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. Professor Czarnezki was formerly Honorary Research Associate at Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute (UK), Visiting Fellow at Uppsala Universitet Faculty of Law (Sweden), and Fellow at the University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway. For 2020, Professor Czarnezki was named, by the Swedish National Research Council, the Olof Palme Visiting Professor at Stockholm University.
Professor Czarnezki has presented his work on natural resources law, environmentalism, food policy, sustainable public procurement, private environmental governance, and global climate policy at universities, public interest organizations, government institutions, and conferences throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Previously, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable D. Brock Hornby of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine and as a law clerk for the Bureau of Legal Services at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. His articles have been published in the law journals of Boston College, Boston University, Stanford University, University of Chicago, University of Colorado, University of Maryland, and University of Virginia. His books include Everyday Environmentalism: Law, Nature and Individual Behavior (2011) and Food, Agriculture and Environmental Law (2013). Professor Czarnezki received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Chicago and his PhD in Environmental Law from Uppsala University in Sweden.
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Environmental Law and Policy, Natural Resources Law and Policy, Food Systems Law and Policy, Comparative, Global, and International Environmental Law (U.S./China/Europe), Regulation of Individual Behavior, Informational Labeling and Regulation/Eco-Labeling, Administrative Law, Sustainable/Green Procurement Law (U.S./EU), Private Environmental Governance, Life Cycle Assessment and Costing, Sustainable Business Law and Strategies/ESG Criteria
Haub Environmental Law Professor Jason Czarnezki examines the rare "dubitante" opinion in a recent feature in The National Law Journal, titled “When in Doubt: What's a Dubitante Opinion, and Why Do Judges Write Them?”
The Regulatory Review reports scholars, Law Professors Jason J. Czarnezki and Joshua Ulan Galperin, and Brianna M. Grimes ’24, recently debated the market impacts of ESG regulations.
Associate Dean of Environmental Law Programs and Strategic Initiatives Jason Czarnezki speaks to USNews.com about considerations for pursuing a career in environmental law.