joel b. eisen

Biography — 2008

Professor Joel B. Eisen joined the University of Richmond School of Law faculty in 1993.  He teaches introductory and advanced environmental law courses, including Environmental Law, Energy Law, and the first-year Property course. He also teaches the Environmental Law and Policy course to undergraduate students in the University of Richmond’s Environmental Studies program.

Professor Eisen has published extensively in law periodicals, periodicals for general consumption, and books and treatises. He is a co-author of the leading law and business school text on energy law, Energy, Economics and the Environment, the 2006 edition of which has been adopted in over 40 energy law and policy courses.  He is also the author of noted law review articles and book chapters on “brownfields” (reuse of abandoned or underutilized sites where contamination is feared).

Prior to coming to Richmond, Professor Eisen was a staff counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Science, Space, and Technology Committee.  From 1985 to 1987, he was a litigation associate at the San Francisco firm of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen.

Professor Eisen is a graduate of the Stanford Law School, from which he received his J.D. degree in 1985, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he received his Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering (Urban Transportation Planning and Policy concentration) in 1981.

He is married to Tamar Schwartz Eisen and lives in Glen Allen, Virginia.  His primary avocation is constructing crossword puzzles; he has had puzzles published in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Wall Street Journal.

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