rofessor Hari M. Osofsky joined the faculty in 2010 as an associate professor with tenure at the Law School as well as an adjunct associate professor of geography and the associate director of law, geography, and environment with the Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences. She is also a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography at the University of Oregon.

She completed her B.A. in philosophy and environmental studies at Yale College in 1993 and her J.D. at Yale Law School in 1998. She was book reviews editor on the Yale Law Journal, editor-in-chief of the first issue of Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal, and played a leadership role in the Lowenstein Human Rights project and clinic. At graduation, she was awarded the Khosla Memorial Fund Prize for engagement in advancing the values of human dignity in the international arena and the Felix S. Cohen Prize for the best student paper relating to legal philosophy.

She clerked for Judge Dorothy W. Nelson of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, Calif., in 1998-99, served as a Fellow at the Center for Law in the Public Interest in 1999-2001, and was a Yale-China Legal Education Fellow and visiting scholar at Sun Yat-sen University School of Law in 2001-02. In 2002-03, she began her academic career, as a visiting assistant professor at Vermont Law School and an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School. She then served as an assistant professor and director of the Center for International and Comparative Law at Whittier Law School in 2003–06, a visiting assistant professor and then assistant professor at the University of Oregon School of Law in 2005-08, and an associate professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law in 2008-10.

Professor Osofsky’s scholarship brings an interdisciplinary law and geography perspective to climate change governance questions. Her articles have been published in a variety of legal and environmental journals, including the Alabama Law Review, Climate Law, Chicago Journal of International Law, Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, Michigan Journal of International Law, Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy, Stanford Environmental Law Journal, Stanford Journal of International Law, Villanova Law Review, Virginia Journal of International Law, Washington University Law Quarterly, and Yale Journal of International Law. Her publications have won the Daniel B. Luten Award for the best paper by a professional geographer from the Energy and Environment Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers and have twice been runner-up for inclusion in the annual compilation of top land use and environmental law articles by Land Use and Environment Law Review. Her co-edited book Adjudicating Climate Change: State, National, and International Approaches was published by Cambridge University Press in 2009, and her co-authored casebook Climate Change Law and Policy is scheduled for release by Aspen Publishers in 2011.

Professor Osofsky’s advocacy work has included assisting with Earthjustice’s annual submissions on environmental rights to the U.N. Human Rights Commission and with the Inuit Circumpolar Conference’s petition on climate change to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. She has supervised student coursework on climate change litigation at the Western Environmental Law Center and the Southern Environmental Law Center. Her new Law School class, Environmental Justice and the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, made a submission to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling for its consideration in preparation of its report.

She is a member of the Climate Legacy Initiative’s Consultants Working Group, the International Law Association’s Committee on the Legal Principles of Climate Change, the American Association of Law Schools’ Section on International Law and Section on Property Executive Committees, the Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation’s National Advisory Board, and the Board of Governors of the Society of American Law Teachers. She also is the inaugural treasurer of the Association for Law, Property, and Society and served as co-chair of the American Society of International Law’s 2010 annual meeting.

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