Zygmunt Jan Broel Plater

Visiting Lecturer, Bard Center for Environmental Policy

Academic Program Affiliation(s): Bard Center for Environmental Policy (Visiting Lecturer)

Biography:

A.B., Princeton University; J.D., Yale University; LL.M., S.J.D., University of Michigan. Professor, Boston College Law School. Member of the bar of the District of Columbia and Tennessee, and teaches and writes in the fields of environmental law, property and land use law, and administrative process, with further interests in comparative international law and public interest litigation. He has taught on seven law faculties; has been a consultant on environmental and land use law issues in Ethiopia, Costa Rica, Colombia, Nepal, and Japan; and has worked on national endangered species legislation and litigation in the USA -- most notoriously six years spent litigating the case of the endangered snail darter fish vs. TVA’s Tellico Dam in federal district court, appeals court, and in the Supreme Court, and through extended administrative and congressional hearings. Also served as chair of the State of Alaska’s Oil Spill Commission legal research task force responding to the Exxon-Valdez disaster and as a legal consultant in many environmental law cases. Author of many law review articles and the widely-adopted environmental law course book Environmental Law and Policy: Nature, Law, and Society (3d edition 2004 from Aspen Publishing). In 2000 won Boston College Law School’s Faculty Excellence Award by vote of the graduating senior class, and in 2005 was awarded the 2005 David Brower Lifetime Achievement Award at the 23d International Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, Eugene Oregon.

Contact:

Phone: 845-758-7073
Department: Bard Center for Environmental Policy