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Professor Jason J. Czarnezki holds the Gilbert and Sarah Kerlin Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law Chair and is Associate Dean of Environmental Law Programs and Strategic Initiatives at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at �̾�����Ƶ.

Prior to joining the Haub Law faculty in 2013, Professor Czarnezki was formerly Professor of Law in the Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law School and director of the U.S.-China Partnership for Environmental Law. He has also held academic appointments at Marquette University Law School and DePaul University College of Law, and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He also served as a J. William Fulbright Scholar at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. Professor Czarnezki was formerly Honorary Research Associate at Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute (UK), Visiting Fellow at Uppsala Universitet Faculty of Law (Sweden), and Fellow at the University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway. For 2020, Professor Czarnezki was named, by the Swedish National Research Council, the Olof Palme Visiting Professor at Stockholm University.

Professor Czarnezki has presented his work on natural resources law, environmentalism, food policy, sustainable public procurement, private environmental governance, and global climate policy at universities, public interest organizations, government institutions, and conferences throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Previously, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable D. Brock Hornby of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine and as a law clerk for the Bureau of Legal Services at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. His articles have been published in the law journals of Boston College, Boston University, Stanford University, University of Chicago, University of Colorado, University of Maryland, and University of Virginia. His books include Everyday Environmentalism: Law, Nature and Individual Behavior (2011) and Food, Agriculture and Environmental Law (2013). Professor Czarnezki received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Chicago and his PhD in Environmental Law from Uppsala University in Sweden.

• BA, University of Chicago
• JD, University of Chicago Law School
• PhD, Uppsala University

• Natural Resources Law LAW 917
• Sustainable Business and the Environment LAW 993
• Property LAW 634
• Environmental Law Seminar: Current Challenges LAW 797R

View all of Professor Czarnezki’s publications on , or download his CV (PDF).

Books:

• Green Public Procurement: Legal Instruments for Promoting Environmental Interests in the United States and European Union (Uppsala University 2019)
• Everyday Environmentalism: Law, Nature & Individual Behavior (Environmental Law Institute Press /Island Press 2011)
• Food, Agriculture, Environmental Law (Environmental Law Institute Press 2013) (with Mary Jane Angelo and William S. Eubanks)

Book Chapters:

• “Eco-Labelling” in Oxford Handbook on Comparative Environmental Law (Oxford University Press 2019) (with Margot Pollans and Sarah Main)
• “President Trump, The New Chicago School, & The Future of Environmental Law and Scholarship” in Perspectives on Environmental Scholarship (Cambridge University Press 2018)(with Sarah Schindler)

Selected Articles:

• Disclosure, Greenwashing & The Future of ESG Litigation, 81 Wash. & Lee. L. Rev. 545 (2024) (co-author with Barbara Ballan)
• Teaching Sustainable Business Law & The Role of ESG Lawyers (with Joshua Ulan Galperin and Brianna Grimes) (work in progress to be submitted for publication in February 2023)
• Sustainable Business Law? The Key Role of Corporate Governance and Finance, 51 Environmental Law 991 (2022) (with Colin Myers),
• Crafting Next Generation Eco-Label Policy in Environmental Law, 48 Environmental Law 409 (2018) (with Katrina Fischer Kuh & K. Ingemar Jönsson)
• The Neoliberal Turn in Environmental Regulation, 2016 Utah Law Review 1 (2016) (with Katherine Fiedler)
• New York City Rules! Regulatory Models for Environmental and Public Health, 66 Hastings Law Journal 1621 (2015)

• Olof Palme Visiting Professor, Stockholm University, funded by the Swedish National Research Council, 2020
• Honorary Research Associate, Oxford University Environmental Change Institute, 2015-2019
• Uppsala University Faculty of Law (Sweden) Visiting Fellow, 2011-2019
• J. William Fulbright Scholar, Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou, China), 2009-2010
• The University of Chicago College Honor Scholar (Full-Tuition Merit Scholarship), 1996-2000
• Blue Moon Fund
• Formas
• National Science Foundation (Research Experiences for Undergraduates)
• National Science Foundation (“Curriculum and Community Enterprise for the Restoration of New York Harbor in New York City Public Schools”)
• National Science Foundation (“Integrating Computational Science with Environmental Sciences Associated with Habitat Restoration and Education in New York Harbor”)
• Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet)
• Uppsala Forum on Democracy, Peace and Justice
• U.S. Agency for International Development
• U.S Department of State - Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL Programs)

• Richard Ottinger Outstanding Service Award, 2018
• Recipient of Outstanding Leadership Award, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Bureau of Legal Services, 2008
• Recipient of The D. Francis Bustin Prize for “Outstanding Paper which makes a Valuable and Important Contribution to the Improvement and Betterment of the Processes of Government,” 2003
• Stockholm Academic Forum and Stockholm Dual Career Network Global Member Award for promoting the “message of the cruciality of internationalism and a truly multicultural society."

Environmental Law and Policy, Natural Resources Law and Policy, Food Systems Law and Policy, Comparative, Global, and International Environmental Law (U.S./China/Europe), Regulation of Individual Behavior, Informational Labeling and Regulation/Eco-Labeling, Administrative Law, Sustainable/Green Procurement Law (U.S./EU), Private Environmental Governance, Life Cycle Assessment and Costing, Sustainable Business Law and Strategies/ESG Criteria