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Rebecca Bratspies is a Professor of Law at the CUNY School of Law and the founding director of the CUNY Center for Urban Environmental Reform. Her scholarly research focuses the international dimensions of environmental regulation. She has published widely on questions of environmental democracy, food policy, and human rights. Professor Bratspies is a member-scholar with the Center for Progressive Reform, and the Environmental Law Collective. She has served as an appointed member of the ABA Standing Committee on Environmental Law, and as an advisor to the Consultative Group on Agricultural Research. She is the currently the Chair-Elect of American Association of Law Schools Section on the Environment,
Before entering academia, Professor Bratspies served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable C. Arlen Beam of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. As a Henry Luce Foundation Scholar, Professor Bratspies spent a year seconded to the Republic of China (Taiwan) Environmental Protection Administration. She has taught at the University of Idaho, Michigan State University and NYU. She holds a BA in Biology from Wesleyan University and a J.D. cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania.