Richard Revesz

Richard Revesz, Dean Emeritus, NYU School of Law

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. 

Dean Revesz 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.

Dean Revesz’ scholarly work has been influential in the fields of environmental and regulatory law and policy. His article “Rehabilitating Interstate Competition” received the American Bar Association’s Section on Administrative Law’s 1994 award for most distinguished article or book. He is the author of the casebook Environmental Law and Policy and the co-author of Retaking Rationality: How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health.

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, Dean Revesz 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.

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.