Michael Gerrard

Sen. Michael B. Gerrard is Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Law School, where he teaches courses on environmental and energy law and founded and directs the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. He is a former Chair of the Faculty of Columbia’s Earth Institute and currently holds a joint appointment to the Columbia Climate School. Before joining the Columbia faculty in 2009, he practiced environmental law in New York City full time from 1979 to 2008, most recently as partner in charge of the New York office of a large law firm. He formerly chaired the American Bar Association’s Section of Environment, Energy and Resources. Gerrard is author or editor of fourteen books. The most recent are Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States (with John Dernbach 2019) and Global Climate Change and U.S. Law (with Jody Freeman and Michael Burger, 3rd ed. 2023).