Julie E. Steiner

Assistant Professor of Law

EDUCATION

B.A., Syracuse University
J.D., Boston University School of Law

COURSES TAUGHT

Adv. Environmental Law Seminar
Environmental Law: Pollution Control
Land Use Planning
Torts
Toxic Torts

CONTACT INFORMATION

Email: jsteiner@law.wne.edu
Phone: 413-782-1428
Office: 220

GENERAL INFORMATION

Professor Steiner's research focuses on environmental enforcement theory and policy reform. She graduated from Boston University School of Law, where she was an Edward F. Hennessey Distinguished Scholar and a Paul J. Liacos Scholar, and she was a Visiting Student of International and Comparative Law at Oxford University, St. Catherine’s College. Upon graduation, she clerked for the Honorable Peter W. Kilborn of the Massachusetts Land Court, and practiced Environmental and Land Use law for over a decade at Dewey Ballantine LLP (currently Dewey & LeBoeuf, LLP) and at K&L Gates, LLP in New York City. Prior to joining Western New England University, she was on the faculty at St. John’s University School of Law.

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

Julie E. Steiner, Should "Substitute" Private Attorneys General Enforce Public Environmental Actions? Balancing the Costs and Benefits of the Contingency Fee Environmental Special Counsel Arrangement, 51 SANTA CLARA L. REV. 853 (2011). SSRN Digital Commons

Julie E. Steiner, The Illegality of Contingency-Fee Arrangements When Prosecuting Public Natural Resource Damage Claims and the Need for Legislative Reform, 32 WM. & MARY ENVTL. L. & POL'Y REV. 169 (2007). SSRN Digital Commons