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Michael Gerrard

Michael Burr Gerrard^[1] is an American legal scholar. He is the Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Law School.

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Gerrard was born in New York City, where his parents were graduate students at Columbia University, and grew up in Charleston, West Virginia.^[2] His father, Nathan L. Gerrard, was a professor of sociology at the University of Charleston, and his mother, Louise B. Gerrard, was the executive director of the West Virginia Council on Aging.^[1][3]

He received his B.A. from Columbia in 1972, followed by a J.D. from the New York University School of Law in 1978 as a Root-Tilden Scholar.^[4]

From 1979 to 2008, he was a lawyer at Arnold & Porter and served as the partner in charge of its New York City office.^[5] He was known for his environmental practice before departing the partnership to join the faculty of Columbia Law School.^[6] His specialty includes environmental law, regulation, and climate change policy.^[7]

Gerrard founded and directed the law school's Center for Climate Change Law.^[8][9][10] He also chaired the faculty of The Earth Institute from 2015 to 2018.^[11]

He is the author of Global Climate Change and U.S. Law, co-edited with Harvard Law School professor Jody Freeman.

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