Robert R.M. Verchick

Robert R.M. Verchick holds the Gauthier ~ St. Martin Eminent Scholar Chair in Environmental Law and is Faculty Director of the Center for Environmental Law and Land Use at Loyola University, New Orleans.  He has served on CPR’s board of directors since 2004. 

Professor Verchick writes and teaches in the areas of environmental policy, environmental justice, and disaster law. He is a graduate of Stanford University and of Harvard Law School. He taught for eleven years on the law faculty of the University of Missouri at Kansas City and has taught as a visiting professor at several schools, including Beijing University, Aarhus University in Denmark, and Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.

Professor Verchick has provided legal advice to community organizations in Missouri, Kansas, and in the state of Washington. He has represented environmental interests in friend-of-the-court briefs in important cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and the federal appellate courts, including Kelo v. City of New London and Fort Gratiot v. Michigan Dep’t of Natural Resources. Before entering academia, Professor Verchick practiced law with Riddell, Williams, Bullitt & Walkinshaw (now Riddell Williams P.S.) in Seattle, where he represented a number of local governments, and private parties suing local governments, in disputes related to environmental and constitutional law.

Professor Verchick’s work has appeared in many venues, including the California Law Review, the Southern California Law Review, the Harvard Environmental Law Review, and the Stanford Environmental Law Journal. Professor Verchick is the co-author of Feminist Legal Theory (NYU Press 2006) (with Nancy Levit) and the author of an upcoming book on disaster and environmental law, to be published by Harvard University Press.

Robert R.M. Verchick
Loyola University New Orleans
New Orleans, LA
504.861.5472  
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