Post-Doctoral Global Fellow
New Zealand, United States
sb10344@nyu.edu
Sam Bookman is a Postdoctoral Global Fellow. His SJD dissertation, submitted at Harvard Law School, focuses on how environmental challenges such as climate change alter our existing conceptions of constitutional law, and particularly constitutional rights. His research adopts a mix of doctrinal, comparative, and empirical methods. His research at NYU will focus on the implementation and impact of rights-based climate litigation. He is particularly interested in the use of environmental rights-based claims by social movements.
Sam was previously a Graduate Fellow at Harvard's Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, and an Adjunct Professor in climate law at Boston College. He is active in international environmental law practice, serving as Senior Staff Attorney at the Cyrus R. Vance Center for international justice, where he has advocated for clients before international courts and tribunals. Sam started his legal career as a Judge's Clerk to the Chief District Court Judge of New Zealand. Sam's work has been published or is forthcoming in the Modern Law Review, Utah Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, the German Law Journal, and the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. After his fellowship at NYU, Sam will return to Harvard Law School as a postdoctoral fellow in the Project on the Foundations of Private Law.
Center Affiliation: Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy and Land Use Law
Research Project: Climate Litigation: What Happens When You Win?