Rate My Professor Katrina Kuh

Katrina Fischer Kuh serves as the Haub Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law and Faculty Director of the Environmental Law Program at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, a position she has held since joining the faculty in 2017. She previously served as Professor of Law and Associate Dean of Intellectual Life at Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University from 2007 to 2017, where she chaired the Curriculum Committee and participated in the Dean Search Committee. Earlier, Kuh practiced environmental and litigation law as an associate at Arnold & Porter LLP in New York from 2004 to 2007. Her judicial clerkships include service with Judge Diana G. Motz on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (2003-2004) and Judge Charles S. Haight on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (2002-2003). She also advised on natural resource policy in the U.S. Senate and worked as a research and teaching assistant at Yale Law School. Kuh earned her J.D. from Yale Law School in 2002, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law and Policy Review, and her B.A. in History summa cum laude from Yale College in 1997, receiving the Charles Garside Award and Howard Roberts Lamar Prize.

Her scholarship centers on environmental law, climate change mitigation and adaptation, judicial engagement in climate litigation, eco-labeling policy, environmental privacy, and informational regulation. Notable publications include "The Legitimacy of Judicial Climate Engagement" (2020), "Scientific Gerrymandering & Bifurcation" (2021, with Megan Edwards and Frederick A. McDonald), "Environmental Privacy" (2015), "Crafting Next Generation Eco-Label Policy" (2018, with Jason J. Czarnezki and K. Ingemar Jonsson), and contributions to "Democracy in a Hotter Time: Climate Change and Democratic Transformation" (forthcoming 2024, with James R. May) and "Environmental Law, Disrupted by COVID-19" (2021, multi-author). Kuh has been recognized with the Ottinger Award (2019-2020) at Pace University and the Stegner Center Young Scholar award (2013). She chairs task forces, such as the New York State Bar Association's on environmental aspects of the NYS Constitution, and frequently presents at academic workshops, law schools, and international conferences on climate justice and policy.