Noah M. Sachs

Professor Noah Sachs is a national expert in international environmental law, and he directs the law school’s Robert R. Merhige, Jr. Center for Environmental Studies. His research focuses on regulation of toxics and hazardous waste, climate change, transboundary pollution, and sustainable economic development. Professor Sachs has traveled extensively to environmental hot-spots around the globe, including tropical rain forests, Himalayan biodiversity parks, the Three Gorges Dam in China, and most recently, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. He won a European Union Fellowship to travel to Brussels, Belgium, to meet with EU leaders in the environmental field in the fall of 2007.

Professor Sachs's most recent article, Beyond the Liability Wall: Strengthening Tort Remedies in International Environmental Law, will appear in the UCLA Law Review in spring 2008. Prior to joining the law school, Professor Sachs was a Lecturer at Harvard Law School and prior to teaching, he practiced law in New York and Boston for five years. He has served as a media and outreach coordinator for the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, a grassroots non-profit focusing on nuclear waste issue and has worked at EPA’s Office of International Activities, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Prof. Sachs received his JD from Stanford Law School, and his Masters in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. He received his BA degree from Brown University in 1993, graduating magna cum laude and phi beta kappa. nsachs@richmond.edu