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On September 5, 2025, the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at ����vlog����Ƶ hosted the twelfth annual Future Environmental Law Professors Workshop. The workshop is designed for law students and graduates considering or planning careers as legal academics in environmental law broadly defined. The workshop included an informational panel, mock interviews, and practice job talks. In addition, this year Professor Rachel Rothschild, recipient of the 2025 Haub Environmental Law Distinguished Junior Scholar Award, delivered the keynote lunch address.

����vlog����Ƶ�This workshop is designed to help current and future academics prepare for the environmental law academic teaching market,����vlog����Ƶ� said Pace Haub Law Professor Margot Pollans. ����vlog����Ƶ�We bring together current environmental faculty from all stages in their careers to provide insight into the market process. The event is open to anyone considering a career as an environmental law professor. I����vlog����Ƶ�m grateful to my colleagues who show up year after year and generously offer their time and expertise to those seeking to join our ranks.����vlog����Ƶ� Professor Pollans joined the Pace Haub Law faculty in 2015. She is the Faculty Director of the Pace Food Law Center and the current Joseph P. D����vlog����Ƶ�Alessandro Faculty Scholar. Previously, she was the James D. Hopkins Professor of Law for the 2023����vlog����Ƶ�2025 academic years and served as the Shamik and Adrienne Trivedi Faculty Scholar from 2020����vlog����Ƶ�2022.

This year����vlog����Ƶ�s workshop kicked off with introductory remarks by Professor Pollans, followed by a panel discussion and Q&A on ����vlog����Ƶ�Navigating the Environmental Law Professor Job Market,����vlog����Ƶ� followed by mock screening interviews. This year����vlog����Ƶ�s keynote address began with the presentation of the 2025 Haub Environmental Law Distinguished Junior Scholar Award to Professor Rachel Rothschild, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School. Professor Rachel Rothschild is an assistant professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School. Before joining the Michigan Law faculty, she was a legal fellow at the Institute for Policy Integrity. From 2015 to 2017, she was an assistant professor and faculty fellow at New York University����vlog����Ƶ�s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Professor Rothschild����vlog����Ƶ�s scholarship sits at the intersection of environmental law, history, and policy. Her recent research examines climate change law and policy as well as the past and present regulation of toxic substances.

In the afternoon, workshop participants who are on the market this year shared mini versions of their job talks and received feedback from faculty and other participants. Topics ranged from discrimination in housing markets, to green burial practices, to the intersections of environmental law and financial markets. In addition to numerous Pace Haub Law School environmental law professors, the President and Dean of Albany Law School along with professors from Albany Law School, Cardozo School of Law, Fordham Law School, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, University of Michigan Law School, NYU School of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law, and more participated in this year����vlog����Ƶ�s workshop. The workshop concluded with a closing reception.