麥可.傑拉德(Michael B. Gerrard)是哥倫比亞大學法學院的應用專業安德魯.薩賓講席教授，教授環境法、氣候變化法以及能源監管等課程。他還是哥倫比亞大學薩賓氣候變化法律中心主任與哥倫比亞大學地球研究所所長。1979-2008年期間，傑拉德教授在紐約進行法律實踐工作，最近的職位是Arnold & Porter LLP律師事務所的合伙人，主管紐約辦公室的各項事宜。教授的實踐經驗豐富，曾負責過聯邦法院、州法院和行政法院的案件審理與上訴工作，還處理過大量交易與發展項目中與環境有關的事務，並向私營和公共部門的許多客戶提供過合規性建議。
Michael B. Gerrard, Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Law School, teaches courses on environmental law, climate change law, and energy regulation, and is director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. He is also Chair of the Faculty of Columbia University’s Earth Institute. From 1979 through 2008 he practiced environmental law in New York, most recently as partner in charge of the New York office of Arnold& Porter LLP. His practice involved trying numerous cases and arguing many appeals in federal and state courts and administrative tribunals, handling the environmental aspects of numerous transactions and development projects, and providing regulatory compliance advice to a wide variety of clients in the private and public sectors.
Named the leading environmental lawyerin New York, or tied for first, by Chambers USA
註：該獎項反映了律師在過去12個月內所取得的傑出成就，包括出色的工作，顯著的戰略增長和卓越的客戶服務。
Note: The awards reflect notable achievements over the past 12 months including outstanding work, impressive strategic growth and excellence in client service.
After 9/11, as an environmental guide hired by Silverstein Properties to help rebuild the towers
As a Lawyer helped stop the building of a Donald Trump luxury golf course where pesticides threatened to contaminate nearby drinking water
As an author or editor of seven books, including Global Climate Change and U.S. Law, hisbooks were named 「Best Law Book of the Year」 by the Association of American Publishers
Environmental Law Practice Guide: State and Federal Law (General Editor), Matthew Bender & Co., 1992,twelve volumes; supplemented three times per year (named best law book of 1992 by Association of American Publishers)
關於哥倫比亞大學薩賓氣候變化法律中心
Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
使命宣言 Mission Statement
薩賓(Sabin)中心的核心使命是發展和傳播法律技術以應對氣候變化，並培養下一代的業內領軍律師。
The core mission of the Sabin Center is to develop and promulgate legal techniques to address climate change, and to train the next generation of lawyers who willbe leaders in the field.
編譯：赫曦
責編：慎之
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