Distinguished Speakers

Richard Revesz

Dean Emeritus, NYU School of Law
AnBryce Professor of Law
Director, Institute for Policy Integrity
J.D., Yale Law School
M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.S.E., summa cum laude, Princeton University

Richard L. Revesz, the AnBryce Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus at New York University School of Law, is one of the nation’s leading voices in the fields of environmental and regulatory law and policy. 

Richard has published 10 books and approximately 80 articles in major law reviews and journals, advocating for protective and rational climate change and environmental policies and examining the institutional contexts in which regulatory policy is made. Since January 2023, he has been on a public service leave, serving as the administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, which is part of the White House Office of Management and Budget.

As dean of NYU Law School from 2002 to 2013, Richard increased the size of the full-time faculty by more than 30 percent, recruiting 46 new full-time professors and building the leading faculty groups in many significant areas of law. He raised a record-breaking $550 million to support the Law School’s core initiatives and used a significant portion of these resources to enhance the Law School’s commitment to equality and inclusion and public interest law. Richard designed and launched the AnBryce Scholarship Program, which gives full-tuition scholarships and other significant institutional support to students from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds who are the first in their families to attend professional school. 

Born in Argentina, Richard learned English as a second language and immigrated to the U.S. at age 17. He graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University, earned a Master's in Environmental Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and received a law degree from Yale Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. Following clerkships with Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court, Richard joined the NYU Law School faculty in 1985. He has been a visiting professor at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, and the Graduate Institute for International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.