Richard Revesz
Richard Revesz, Dean Emeritus, NYU School of Law
Richard Revesz is the Dean Emeritus of New York University School of Law and the Lawrence King Professor of Law. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Princeton University and holds a M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a J.D. from Yale Law. 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. Prior to joining the NYU Law faculty, Dean Revesz served as Law Clerk to Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the Supreme Court of the United States.