Nina Mendelson

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Area of Professor Mendelson teaches environmental and administrative law, as well as legislation and statutory interpretation. Her scholarship focuses on administrative process, especially in the environmental regulatory setting.

Prior to teaching, Professor Mendelson served for several years as an attorney in the Department of Justice Environment & Natural Resources Division, litigating and negotiating environmental legislative issues. Professor Mendelson also practiced environmental law with a private firm in Seattle, where she did extensive pro bono litigation, including on behalf of community and environmental groups. She was a law clerk to Judges Pierre Leval and John Walker, Jr., now both of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Her recent publications include: Regulatory Beneficiaries and Informal Agency Policy Making, 92 Cornell L. Rev. __ (forthcoming, 2007); Some Legal Reforms to Increase Contractor Accountability. Outsourcing the Government Conference Working Papers. Ann Arbor, Mich.: 2005; Chevron and Preemption, 102 Mich. L. Rev. 737 (2004); Agency Burrowing: Entrenching Policies and Personnel Before a New President Arrives, 78 N.Y.U.L. Rev. 557 (2003); A Control-Based Approach to Shareholder Liability for Corporate Torts, 102 Colum. L. Rev. 1203 (2002).

Professor Mendelson graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College and received her JD from the Yale Law School, where she was articles editor of the Law Journal.

Nina Mendelson
University of Michigan Law School
Ann Arbor, MI
734.936.5071
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