The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University will welcome five environmental scholars and practitioners as Haub Visiting Scholars in the coming academic years. The new scholars are Sam Bookman, Monika Ehrman, Marianne Engelman-Lado, Douglas Kysar, and Jim Salzman. Their participation will include guest lectures, collaboration with faculty, and engagement with students in the Environmental Law Program.
Funding for these visiting positions comes from a gift by the Haub family. The initiative is intended to support work at the intersection of environmental science, informatics, technology, and policy development.
Katrina Fischer Kuh, Faculty Director of the Environmental Law Program and Haub Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law at Pace University, said: “The Haub Visiting Scholars program is a transformative opportunity for both the Scholars and the Pace Haub Law community. Each of these visiting scholars brings not only a unique depth of knowledge in their respective fields, but also a practical viewpoint and understanding of pressing environmental challenges and the need for innovative solutions. Each Haub Visiting Scholar will enrich classroom discussions, foster new research collaborations, and inspire the next generation of environmental leaders.”
Sam Bookman will join as a Visiting Assistant Professor during Fall 2025. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard’s Project on the Foundations of Private Law and serves as Senior Staff Attorney in the Environment Program at the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice. At Pace Haub Law, he will teach courses on Climate Change Law and Constitutional Law. Bookman will also contribute to building the Pace New York Environmental Rights Repository to help implement environmental rights added to New York’s Constitution in 2022. He is scheduled to participate with Pace representatives at COP30 in Belem, Brazil.
Monika U. Ehrman will visit during Fall 2025 as well. She holds positions as Professor of Law at SMU Dedman School of Law and Professor (by courtesy) in Civil and Environmental Engineering at SMU Lyle School of Engineering in Dallas. Her expertise covers natural resources law, energy law, mining law, property law, and related policies. Ehrman leads a multi-year research grant funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation focused on clean energy transitions affecting Native American communities (https://sloan.org/grant-detail/9561). While at Pace Haub Law she will lecture in classes, take part in faculty workshops including the third annual Sustainable Business Workshop, moderate panels such as those at WCA Sustainable Business Profit and Purpose Conference.
Marianne Engelman-Lado joins as a visiting scholar for 2025-2026. She recently became Research Scholar and Director of an Environmental Justice Initiative at NYU School of Law after serving in several senior roles during the Biden Administration—including Deputy General Counsel for Environmental Initiatives within EPA’s Office of General Counsel—and leading environmental justice clinics at Yale and Vermont law schools.
Douglas Kysar will be present during Spring 2026 semester as Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law at Yale where he directs programs on environment and animal law. His teaching background includes torts law; climate change; products liability; risk regulation; animal law; along with prior appointments or visiting professorships across multiple institutions globally (including Cornell University). Kysar is slated to deliver Pace’s Lloyd K. Garrison Lecture on Environmental Law in April 2026.
James Salzman arrives as a scholar during Fall 2026 semester while holding joint appointments as Donald Bren Distinguished Professor between UCLA School of Law and UC Santa Barbara’s Bren School for Environmental Science & Management (https://www.law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/james-salzman). Salzman’s published work covers drinking water policy design through market-based ecosystem services approaches—he has written thirteen books translated into ten languages with over 115,000 article downloads—and he regularly appears as commentator or lecturer internationally.
According to program details released by Pace University officials: each scholar’s engagement includes lectureships across undergraduate or graduate levels; panel moderation; workshop participation; supporting key institutional initiatives such as legal repositories or annual colloquia.
