Summer Public Interest Fellowships
Each Richmond Law student is guaranteed one summer of funding for a public service or government sector job. Here are just a few examples of recent student placements in the environmental law field.
- Appalachian Trail Conservancy
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation
- Environmental Council on the States
- Southern Environmental Law Center
- Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry
- Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
Recent Scholarship
Prof. Stokes, Renewable Energy Federalism, 106 Minnesota L. Rev. (July 2022)
Prof. Eisen, Advanced Introduction to Law and Renewable Energy, Edward Elgar Publishing (July 2021).
Prof. Stokes, On Greenlining: Renewing the Charge, Sabin Colloquium on Innovative Environmental Law Scholarship (May 2021).
Prof. Sachs, Argument analysis: The trail, the pipeline and a journey to the center of the earth, SCOTUSblog (2020).
Prof. Sachs, The Paris Agreement in the 2020s: Breakdown or Breakup, Ecology Law Quarterly (2019).
Prof. Sachs, Regulation of Toxic Substances and Hazardous Waste, Foundation Press (3d edition 2018) (w/Applegate, Laitos, Gabba).
Prof. Eisen, The New(Clear?) Electricity Federalism: Federal Preemption of States' "Zero Emissions Credit" Programs, Ecol. L. Q. Currents (2018).
Prof. Sachs, Environmental Law Practice, Carolina Academic Press (4th Ed., 2018) (w/Anderson, Hirsch, Tormey).
Prof. Eisen, Free Trade in Electric Power, Utah L. Rev. 49 (2018).
In the News
Prof. Sachs, The Regulatory Review, Nov. 2021: Toxic Floods Create Pressing Regulatory Needs
Prof. Sachs, Morning Wave, Nov. 2019: Paris Climate Agreement and US withdrawal
Prof. Sachs, Energywire, Oct. 2019: What to watch in the Appalachian Trail pipeline fight
Prof. Sachs, Bay Journal, Aug. 2019: Shoreline industry poses hazards as sea level, floods increase
Prof. Eisen, Law360, Feb. 2019: Pa. Nuke Bailout Bill Fuels Political Fight With Gas Sector
Prof. Sachs, Bay Journal, Mar. 2019: New Report on Climate-Driven 'Toxic Flood' Threats in Virginia
Prof. Eisen, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Feb. 2019: UR professor is energy law scholar
Presentations
Prof. Eisen, "Climate Change in the Courts," Hot Topics Summer Lecture Series, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, Vermont (July 2019)
Prof. Eisen, "Community Solar Across the Nation: Preliminary Lessons from Ongoing Projects," Energy Law Clinic, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, Vermont (July 2019).
Prof. Eisen, "Clean Energy Justice: Charting An Emerging Agenda," Hot Topics Summer Lecture Series, Vermont Law School, South Royalton, Vermont (July 2019).
Prof. Sachs, "U.S. Climate Policy and Private Equity," Responsible Investment Forum (March 2018).
Prof. Sachs, "SJ295 and Regulatory Rollback," Virginia Conservation Network General Assembly Preview (Dec. 2017).
Courses Taught
Prof. Eisen
- Energy Law
- Law of Clean & Renewable Energy
- Environmental Law
- Environmental Law & Policy (Undergraduate Environmental Studies Program)
- Law of Climate Change
- Environmental and Energy Law in China
- Property
Prof. Sachs
- Torts
- Environmental Law
- International Environmental Law
- Environmental Lawyering
Prof. Stokes
- Property
- Environmental Law
- Environmental Justice