Jason Czarnezki | Greenwashing and ESG Litigation

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In This Episode...

We conclude our series on lawyers working to prevent climate change. Professor Jason Czarnezki, the Elisabeth Haub School of Law, joins us to discuss his most recent article, Disclosure, Greenwashing & The Future of ESG Litigation in which he and co-author Barbara Ballan explain the laws and regulations that cover consumer and securities greenwashing litigation, how these forms of greenwashing litigation are evolving, and the synergistic relationships that does, and should, exist between these forms of litigation.

About Our Guest...

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 Pace University.

Prior to joining the Pace 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.

He 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.