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Faculty Profile
Kirsten H. Engel
Academic Title: Professor of Law
E-mail:  Kirsten H. Engel
Office Number: 269
Office Phone: (520) 621-5444
Office Fax: (520) 621-9140
Courses Taught:
Property Environmental Law Administrative Law International Environmental Law Economics Law and Environmental Workshop
SSRN Published Papers
Education
Northwestern University School of Law, J.D. (1986) American Association of University Women Fellow; Leopold Schepp Foundation Fellow
Brown University, B.A. (1983) magna cum laude
Admitted to Practice
Massachusetts
District of Columbia (inactive)
Illinois (inactive)
Personal Work Experience
Professor of Law, James E. Rogers College of Law, 2005 - present
Senior Counsel, Public Protection Bureau, Massachusetts Office of Attorney General, Boston, Mass., 2001 - 2004
Acting Chief, Environmental Protection Division, Massachusetts Office of Attorney General, Boston, Mass., 2000 - 2001
Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, Fall 1999
Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Vanderbilt School of Law, Spring 1998
Visiting Scholar, Boalt Hall, University of California School of Law, Berkeley, Spring 1996
Associate Professor of Law, Tulane Law School, New Orleans, La., 1992 - 2000
Adjunct Professor, Universiy of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore, Md., Spring 1992
Staff Attorney, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Washington, D.C., 1990 - 1992
Staff Attorney, Office of General Counsel, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., 1987 - 1990
Judicial Clerk, Hon. Myron H. Bright, Senior Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, Fargo, N.D., 1986 - 1987
Representative Publications
State Governance: Leadership on Climate Change, in Agenda for a Sustainable America 441 (John C. Dernbach ed., 2009) (co-author, with Marc L. Miller).
Micro-Motives for State and Local Climate Initiatives, 2 Harv. L. & Pol'y Rev. 119 (2008) (co-author, with Barak Y. Orbach).
Adaptive Federalism: The Case Against Reallocating Environmental Regulatory Authority, 92 Minn. L. Rev. 1796 (2008) (co-author, with David E. Adelman).
Harmonizing Regulatory and Litigation Approaches to Climate Change Mitigation: Incorporating Tradable Emissions Offsets into Common Law Remedies, 155 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1563 (2007).
State Environmental Standard-Setting: Is There a "Race " and Is It "to-the-Bottom"?, 48 Hastings L.J. 271 (1997).
Complete List of Publications
Presentations
Speaker, Climate Change Litigation (Conf. on California and the Future of Environmental Law & Policy, Univ. Cal. Berkeley, California Center for Environmental Law & Policy, Apr. 10-11, 2008). 
Speaker, Conference on Green Buildings: Promises and Pitfalls (Univ. Florida School of Law, Seventh Annual Richard E. Nelson Symposium, Feb. 15, 2008). 
Speaker, Getting to Climate Change Regulation: The Potential and the Limitations of Common Law Liability Actions (Symposium on Liability for Global Warming: Law, Economics & Science, Univ. Pa., Nov. 16 - 17, 2006). 
Speaker, Dynamic Federalism and Complexity Theory (Conf. on Federalism In the Overlapping Territory - A Collaboration of the American Constitution Society, the Center for Progressive Reform & the Duke Program in Public Law, Duke Law School, Nov. 10 - 11, 2006). 
Complete List of Presentations
Public Service
Member, Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano's Climate Change Advisory Group 2005 - present
Board of Directors, Tulance Environmental Law Clinic, Tulane Law School 2001 - present

Institutional Service
Faculty Advisor, Environmental Law Society, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law 2007 - present
Pace Environmental Moot Court Advisor, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law 2007 - present
Co-Director, Program on Economics, Law and Environment (with Dean Lueck), University of Arizona 2006 - present
Faculty Member, Institute for the Study of Planet Earth, University of Arizona
Awards
Sumter Marks Award for Scholarship, Tulane Law School  2000
   
       
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