Steven P. Solow

Adjunct Professor Steven Solow is a former Co-Director of the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic (1992–1994). Before coming to Haub Law he was a prosecutor with the New York State Organized Crime Task Force. After leaving the law school, he was an assistant chief and then chief of the Department of Justice’s Environmental Crimes Section until 2000. In 1997, while working at the Department of Justice, he started the Washington, D.C., Externship Program, and has taught the seminar portion of the class ever since. From 2000 to 2002 he was Co-Director of the Environmental Law Clinic at the University of Maryland School of Law.

Professor Solow is currently a principal at Solow PLLC where his practice focuses on business crimes, internal investigations, corporate compliance programs and environmental civil and criminal litigation. He is also Managing Director for Global Compliance and Corporate Culture at Affiliated Monitors, Inc. Previously, Professor Solow was a partner with Baker Botts LLC, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, and Hunton & Williams LLP. He served as the reporter for the ABA Criminal Justice Standards on Prosecutorial Investigations, and has authored numerous articles and book chapters. He was a recipient of the Burton Award for Distinguished Legal Writing. He is a member of the International Association of Independent Corporate Monitors, and from 2017 to 2022 he served as the Court Appointed Monitor over Carnival Cruise lines, following the company’s conviction for environmental crimes in 2016. Since 2004 he has served as pro bono counsel to the Mines Advisory Group in the U.S., an international NGO that removes land mines and unexploded ordnance around the world. Previously, Professor Solow was a law clerk to the Hon. Harold L. Murphy of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

• BA, Brown University
• JD, New York University

• Externship: Environmental in Washington, D.C. LAW 895

Environmental: environmental enforcement, civil and criminal, as well as government policy issues related to environmental protection and enforcement involving DOJ, EPA, Interior, the US Coast Guard (marine and vessel pollution)