Michael Burr Gerrard is an American legal scholar. He is the Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice at

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Biography

Gerrard was born in

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, where his parents were graduate students at

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, and grew up in

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. His father, Nathan L. Gerrard, was a professor of sociology at the

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, and his mother, Louise B. Gerrard, was the executive director of the West Virginia Council on Aging. He received his B.A. from Columbia in 1972, followed by a J.D. from the

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in 1978 as a Root-Tilden Scholar. From 1979 to 2008, he was a lawyer at

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and served as the partner in charge of its

office. He was known for his environmental practice before departing the partnership to join the faculty of Columbia Law School. His specialty includes environmental law, regulation, and climate change policy. Gerrard founded and directed the law school's Center for Climate Change Law. He also chaired the faculty of

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from 2015 to 2018. He is the author of ''Global Climate Change and U.S. Law,'' co-edited with

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professor

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References

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