Biography
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Jody Freeman
Visiting Professor
B.A. Stanford, 1985
LL.B. University of Toronto, 1989
LL.M. Harvard, 1991
S.J.D. Harvard, 1995
UCLA Law faculty 1995-2005
freeman@law.ucla.edu |
Professor Freeman is a leading scholar of administrative and environmental law, and the founding director of the Harvard Law School Environmental Law and Policy Program. Professor Freeman served in the White House as Counselor for Energy and Climate Change from 2009-2010. In that role, she contributed to a variety of policy initiatives on renewable energy, energy efficiency, greenhouse gas regulation and the pursuit of comprehensive legislation that would place a market-based cap on carbon. She played a key role in the negotiation of the historic national auto agreement, which set the first ever greenhouse gas standards for cars and trucks.
Professor Freeman’s major writings in environmental law include “Climate Change and US Interests,” 109 Columbia L. Rev. 1531 (2009) (with Guzman), “Timing and Form of Federal Regulation: The Case of Climate Change,” 155 U. Penn. L. Rev. 1499 (2007) (with DeShazo) and “Modular Environmental Regulation,” 54 Duke L. Rev. 795 (2005) (with Farber). She is the co-author of a leading casebook in environmental law and recently joined a leading administrative law casebook. She has produced two other significant books: Moving to Markets in Environmental Regulation, Lessons after Twenty Years of Experience (Oxford University Press 2006, edited with Charles Kolstad) and Government by Contract: Outsourcing and American Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2009, edited with Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow). In 2006, Professor Freeman authored an amicus brief on behalf of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, in MA v. EPA, the global warming case decided by the Supreme Court in 2007. Her analysis of the implications of the case, MA v. EPA: From Politics to Expertise (with Harvard Law School Professor Adrian Vermeule) appears in the 2007 Supreme Court Review.
Prior to joining Harvard Law School, Professor Freeman taught for 10 years at UCLA Law, where she co-founded the environmental law and policy program and in 2004 received the law school’s Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching.