Kirsten Engel

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• Northwestern University School of Law, J.D. (1986) American Association of University Women Fellow; Leopold Schepp Foundation Fellow
• Brown University, B.A. (1983) magna cum laude

• Massachusetts
• District of Columbia (inactive)
• Illinois (inactive)

• Professor of Law, James E. Rogers College of Law, 2005 - present
• Senior Counsel, Public Protection Bureau, Massachusetts Office of Attorney General, Boston, Mass., 2001 - 2004
• Acting Chief, Environmental Protection Division, Massachusetts Office of Attorney General, Boston, Mass., 2000 - 2001
• Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, Fall 1999
• Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Vanderbilt School of Law, Spring 1998
• Visiting Scholar, Boalt Hall, University of California School of Law, Berkeley, Spring 1996
• Associate Professor of Law, Tulane Law School, New Orleans, La., 1992 - 2000
• Adjunct Professor, Universiy of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore, Md., Spring 1992
• Staff Attorney, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Washington, D.C., 1990 - 1992
• Staff Attorney, Office of General Counsel, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., 1987 - 1990
• Judicial Clerk, Hon. Myron H. Bright, Senior Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, Fargo, N.D., 1986 - 1987

• State Governance: Leadership on Climate Change, in Agenda for a Sustainable America 441 (John C. Dernbach ed., 2009) (co-author, with Marc L. Miller).
• Micro-Motives for State and Local Climate Initiatives, 2 Harv. L. & Pol'y Rev. 119 (2008) (co-author, with Barak Y. Orbach).
• Adaptive Federalism: The Case Against Reallocating Environmental Regulatory Authority, 92 Minn. L. Rev. 1796 (2008) (co-author, with David E. Adelman).
• Harmonizing Regulatory and Litigation Approaches to Climate Change Mitigation: Incorporating Tradable Emissions Offsets into Common Law Remedies, 155 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1563 (2007).
• State Environmental Standard-Setting: Is There a "Race " and Is It "to-the-Bottom"?, 48 Hastings L.J. 271 (1997).