Author Archives: Kim Wright

How the law (and Harvard lawyers) helped save the bald eagle

On the 250th anniversary of American independence, Harvard Law’s Andrew Mergen explains how a national symbol went from ‘bad bird’ to comeback icon.

A Department Untethered: The Erosion of DOJ Settlement Norms and Implications for Environmental Law

Analysis of recent departures from DOJ norms and the use of litigation and settlement as tools for advancing policy objectives.

EPA’s power plant repeal could leave some rules in place

With Big Decisions Ahead, the Supreme Court Collides With a Testy Trump

CleanLaw — The Student Environmental Law Experience at HLS: Research, Clinics, and Community 

Professors Jody Freeman and Richard Lazarus talk to HLS students about their work with EELP and the clinic and what life at HLS is really like.

An Endangered Species Act Exemption Reveals Distrust of Process, Congress, and Courts

A short article by Andrew Mergen and Erika Kranz in the Yale Journal on Regulation and ABA Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice blog.

‘Citizens need to make this democracy work’

Commemorating 250 years, Harvard Law School professors discuss the conditions of American debate and democracy.

CleanLaw — The ‘God Squad’s’ Unprecedented National Security Exemption

What will the decision to exempt all oil and gas activities in the Gulf of Mexico from the Endangered Species Act look like?

When National Security Meets Endangered Species: Uncharted Legal Territory in the Gulf of Mexico

The Trump administration plans to invoke never-before-used ESA national security exemption.

With Disputed Legal Maneuver, Trump Tries to Set Policy Without Legislation

“This is a departure from what people have thought about executive authority on the right and the left for a long time,” Mr. Mergen said. “And it’s these little things that actually is a death by a thousand cuts to the institution.”