Jody Freeman

Jody Freeman

Jody Freeman (born 1964) is the Archibald Cox Professor at Harvard Law School and a leading expert on administrative law and environmental law. She served as Counselor for Energy and Climate Change in the Obama White House in 2009–2010. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American College of Environmental Lawyers, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Freeman served as Counselor for Energy and Climate Change in the Obama White House in 2009–2010. Freeman is a leading scholar of both administrative law and environmental law, and has written extensively about climate change, environmental regulation and executive power. She is also known for her early work on "collaborative governance," which helped to establish a field focused on public-private approaches to regulatory problems. She has served as a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States, an expert body that advises the federal government on how to improve the regulatory and administrative process. Freeman is widely published in leading American law reviews and was named the second-most cited scholar in public law across the nation. She and Michael Gerrard published Climate Change and U.S. Law in 2015, and she has produced two other significant books: Moving to Markets in Environmental Regulation, Lessons after Twenty Years of Experience (2006, with economist Charles Kolstad) and Government by Contract: Outsourcing and American Democracy (2009, with Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow). Freeman also co-authors a leading administrative law casebook. Her work has been published in several languages; a volume of her administrative law articles was published in Chinese in 2010. In 2006, Freeman authored an amicus brief on behalf of former United

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