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Faculty > Hari Osofsky
Hari Osofsky is an assistant professor at the University of Oregon School of Law. She received her B.A. and J.D. from Yale University. She currently is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography at the University of Oregon and intends to advance to candidacy in 2008. After clerking for Judge Dorothy Nelson of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, she worked as a Fellow at Center for the Law in the Public Interest, with a focus on environmental justice advocacy. In 2001–02, she served as a Yale-China Legal Education Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Sun Yat-sen University School of Law, where she taught U.S. Civil Rights Law and helped the school launch its clinical legal education program. In 2003–04, she was a non-residential fellow with the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs and engaged in a project on international environmental rights. She has also taught at Loyola Law School–Los Angeles (adjunct), Vermont Law School (visiting assistant professor), and Whittier Law School (assistant professor), where she served as the inaugural director of its Center for International and Comparative Law.
Osofsky’s scholarship focuses on two overlapping areas: (1) climate change litigation and (2) law and geography. Her current writing projects on climate change litigation include several articles, a co-edited book forthcoming with Cambridge University Press, and a casebook complement on climate change and nuisance with Aspen Publishers. She also is working on a several articles and a monograph exploring the ways in which geographic perspectives on scale could contribute to legal approaches to cross-cutting problems like climate change and the War on Terror. Her articles have been published and are forthcoming in a variety of journals, including the Washington University Law Quarterly, Villanova Law Review, Chicago Journal of International Law, Stanford Environmental Law Journal, Stanford Journal of International Law, and Yale Journal of International Law. Her advocacy work has included assisting with Earthjustice’s annual submissions to the U.N. Human Rights Commission on environmental rights and with the Inuit Circumpolar Conference’s petition on climate change to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. She currently serves as an advisor to the Western Environmental Law Center (WELC) on climate change litigation.
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