Richard Lazarus

Richard Lazarus is a Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches Environmental Law, Natural Resources Law, Torts, and Supreme Court Advocacy. His primary areas of legal scholarship are environmental and natural resources law, with particular emphasis on constitutional law and the Supreme Court. He also is the Faculty Director of the Supreme Court Institute, which sponsors academic courses and workshops on the Supreme Court and provides practice moot court arguments for counsel in approximately two-thirds of the cases before the court.

Richard has represented the United States, state and local governments, and environmental groups in the U.S. Supreme Court in 37 cases and presented oral argument in 12 of those cases. He also has published two books—The Making of Environmental Law (U. Chicago 2004), and Environmental Law Stories (Aspen Press), co-edited with O. Houck—and won faculty teaching awards at Georgetown University and Washington University.

Richard previously has taught at the Harvard University, Indiana University, Northwestern University, University of Texas, and Washington University schools of law. In addition, he worked for the U.S. Department of Justice in the Environment and Natural Resources Division and the Solicitor General's Office, where he was Assistant to the Solicitor General.

Richard has a B.S. from the University of Illinois in Chemistry and a B.A. in economics. His law degree is from Harvard University.