Sam Bookman has been appointed as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University for the Fall 2025 semester. He will also serve as a Haub Visiting Scholar during his time at the law school. Bookman is set to teach courses in Climate Change Law and Constitutional Law.
Currently, Bookman holds a postdoctoral fellowship with 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, which operates under the New York City Bar Association. In this capacity, he advises clients before courts and tribunals and manages complex legal research across jurisdictions. His teaching experience includes positions at NYU, Boston College, and the University of Melbourne, and he has worked with international clients such as United Nations officers and agencies.
“Professor Bookman’s research, scholarship, and teaching brings a unique approach in the areas of climate law, litigation, social movements, and all aspects of environmental rights,” said Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University Dean Horace E. Anderson Jr. “He is an active scholar and brings not only an academic lens to the classroom, but also a practical one, having advised and represented clients before both national and international courts and tribunals. Pace Haub Law is excited for him to bring his expertise to both our classrooms and community.”
Bookman’s scholarly work appears in several law journals including Utah Law Review, Modern Law Review, Environmental Law, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Nature Sustainability, with forthcoming articles in University of Colorado Law Review and German Law Journal. His research has been cited by bodies such as the International Court of Justice and Supreme Court of Pakistan. Bookman completed his SJD at Harvard Law School in 2025.
“I am thrilled to be joining Haub Law as a Visiting Assistant Professor and a Haub Visiting Scholar this fall,” said Professor Bookman. “I am passionate about continuously learning, researching, and teaching, specifically areas that relate to environmental law, constitutional law, and their intersection. The Pace Haub Law Environmental Law Program is comprised of the top faculty, students, and alumni. I look forward to learning from this community and sharing my research.”
As part of his responsibilities as a Haub Visiting Scholar—a position funded by a gift from the Haub family—Bookman will collaborate with faculty members, guest lecture classes, and engage closely with students within the Environmental Law Program.
Katrina Fischer Kuh—Faculty Director of the Environmental Law Program—highlighted Bookman’s role in supporting initiatives like the Pace New York Environmental Rights Repository: “Professor Bookman is a leading scholar on environmental rights and we’re excited to have his expertise as we build the Pace New York Environmental Rights Repository, which seeks to support application of the environmental rights added to the New York State Constitution in 2022,” shared Faculty Director of the Environmental Law Program and Haub Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, Katrina Fischer Kuh.
The repository serves advocates seeking information on Article I section 19 by providing legislative history documents; case briefs; materials about public context during amendment adoption; as well as relevant legal scholarship.
