Comparative Environmental Law and Regulation

Elizabeth Burleson

 

Professor Burleson holds an LL.M. in International Law from the London School of Economics and a J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law. She has taught Energy Law, International Environmental Law, Public International Law, UN Law, Human Rights and the Environment, International Law and China, Property Law, Water Law, and Environmental Law. Her research interests include energy law, international environmental law and human rights law. She has taught at the University of South Dakota School of Law and as a visiting professor at Florida State University College of Law and the University of Oregon School of Law. At Pace Law School Professor Burleson will teach Energy Law, Property Law, and Human Rights and the Environment. As a Fulbright Senior Specialist, she previously worked with the faculty of University of Montevideo to refine and implement a new curriculum for international law and taught a 20-hour intensive course on International Economic Law and the Environment.

 

Lin-Heng Lye

 

Lye Lin-Heng graduated in law from the University of Singapore, and holds Masters degrees in law from the University of London (King's College) and Harvard University. She is an Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore and is Deputy Director of the Law Faculty's Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL). She was Vice-Dean and Director of the Faculty's Graduate Programme from 1995-1998. She chairs the University's Inter-Faculty Programme Management Committee on the multi-faculty Masters in Environmental Management (MSc (Env Mgt)) programme hosted by the School of Design and Environment. She is a member of the Land Titles (Strata) Board, and was a former board member of the Housing Development Board and the Tenants' Compensation Board. She was a member of the Ministry of Environment's Committees on Environmental Education and on Waste Minimization and Resource Conservation in the Revised Singapore Green Plan 2012. She is a member of the Technical Committee on National Drinking Water Quality Standards, National Environment Agency, Ministry of Environment and Water Resources.

She is a member of the Board of Governors of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, and co-chair of its Teaching and Capacity-Building Committee. She is a resource person in capacity-building programs conducted by the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the Ministry of Environment, Singapore. She has presented papers at conferences worldwide including Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, China, Germany, Holland, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Korea, Macao, the South Pacific, United Kingdom and the United States. She teaches at the University of Sydney's Law School and is Visiting Associate Professor at Yale University's School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.

 

Nicholas A. Robinson

 

Professor Nicholas A. Robinson has developed environmental law since 1969, when he was named to the Legal Advisory Committee of the President’s Council on Environmental Quality. He has practiced environmental law in law firms for municipalities and as general counsel of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. He drafted New York’s wetlands and wild bird laws and was inaugurated as the first chairman of both the statutory Freshwater Wetlands Appeals Board and Greenway Heritage Conservancy for the Hudson River Valley. He has served as legal advisor and chairman of the Commission on Environmental Law of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, engaged in drafting treaties and counseling different countries on the preparation of their environmental laws. He founded Pace’s environmental law programs, edited the proceedings of the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and is the author of several books and numerous articles. He teaches a number of environmental law courses.

Professor Robinson served as the James D. Hopkins Professor of Law at Pace during the 1991–1993 academic years.

On March 2009, the Pace University Board of Trustees conferred the position of University Professor for the Environment on Nicholas A. Robinson for his significant contribution to scholarship in the field of environmental law, both in the United States and abroad.