Environmental Law Scholar and Lewis & Clark Professor, Lisa Benjamin, Selected to Receive 2022-2023 Pace | Haub Environmental Law Distinguished Junior Scholar Award

The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University has announced that Professor Lisa Benjamin has been selected to receive the 2022-2023 Pace | Haub Environmental Law Distinguished Junior Scholar Award. According to the Pace University website. “the Haub Environmental Law Distinguished Junior Scholar Award is presented annually to an emerging junior environmental law professor who exhibits scholarly excellence and promise at an early stage in his/her career. The Haub Environmental Law Faculty solicits nominations from law professors throughout the country and selects a recipient from that pool of nominations. The award recipient is invited to present his/her recent scholarship to the Haub Law community.”

The article goes on to expand on Professor Benjamin’s achievements, stating she “is a widely published scholar and has written a book and several articles and book chapters on non-state actors and climate risk, as well as energy and climate justice in developing countries, including small island developing states. Her book is titled “Companies and Climate Change: Theory and Law in the United Kingdom,” and her scholarship has been published in Transnational Environmental Law, Loyola Law Review, Utah Law Review, among many others. She is also the Vice Chair of the UNFCCC Compliance Committee (Facilitative Branch), a Director of Verde PDX (an environmental justice NGO), co-Chair of the Climate Accountability working group of the Climate Social Science Network, and a member of the Expert Peer Review Group in the Race to Zero campaign (a UN-backed global campaign to rally leadership and support from businesses, cities, regions, investors for a healthy, resilient, zero carbon recovery). Previously, she was the legal advisor to The Bahamas during the UNFCCC Paris Agreement negotiations.”

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