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ProfessorRichard L. Revesz
Born	(1958-05-09) May 9, 1958 (age 66) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Princeton University (A.B.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.S.) Yale Law School (J.D.)
Occupation	Director
Employer	American Law Institute
Known for	Dean of NYU Law School Environmental Law
Title	Lawrence King Professor of Law Dean Emeritus Director, Institute for Policy Integrity
Spouse	Vicki Been
Children	2

Richard L. Revesz (born May 9, 1958) is the director of the American Law Institute and the Lawrence King Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law. He served as the Dean of the New York University School of Law from 2002 to 2013. He is one of the nation's leading experts on environmental law, regulatory law, and policy.

Early life and education

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Richard Revesz graduated summa cum laude with a B.S.E. in civil engineering from Princeton University in 1979 after completing a 140-page long senior thesis titled "Energy or Environment? The Tradeoff between Automobile Emissions and Fuel Economy." He then received an M.S. in civil engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He continued his studies at Yale Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of Yale Law Journal, and received a J.D. in 1983. Upon graduation, he clerked first for chief judge Wilfred Feinberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and then clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, where he met his wife, Vicki Been who was also clerking at the Supreme Court, for Justice Harry Blackmun.

Career

Early career

Revesz began his academic career in 1985, joining the faculty of NYU Law School as an assistant professor. By 1990, he was a full professor of law, teaching environmental and administrative law. In 2001, he was named Lawrence King professor of law and, a year later, he succeeded John Sexton as dean. He stepped down as dean after 11 years in May 2013. Revesz also has been a visiting professor at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, and the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.

NYU School of Law Dean

Revesz served as dean at NYU Law School between 2002 and 2013. Under his tenure, NYU raised over $500 million and attracted 46 new faculty members, including fellow Argentine-American academic Samuel Issacharoff. While dean, Revesz presided over various free-speech controversies: His actions included criticizing but not disciplining a student who asked Justice Antonin Scalia about his private sex life and defending the right of Singaporean jurist Thio Li-ann to express controversial views about criminalizing consensual sexual acts between men.

American Law Institute Director

In 2014, Revesz was appointed to serve as the Director of the American Law Institute. He oversees the institute's publication of Restatements of the Law, Principles of the Law, model acts, and other proposals for law reform.

Institute for Policy Integrity Director

In 2008, Revesz and Michael Livermore co-founded the Institute for Policy Integrity, a NYU Law-affiliated advocacy organization and think tank dedicated to improving the quality of governmental decision-making. Revesz directs the institute, which advocates for the use of cost-benefit analysis in designing regulations on energy and climate issues, consumer protection, and public health. Its resource tracking the outcomes of legal challenges to Trump administration policy changes has been cited by The New York Times, The Washington Post. The Wall Street Journal, and several other publications.

Scholarship

Revesz has published numerous books and articles in major law reviews and journals, focusing on federalism and environmental regulation, the design of liability rules for environmental protection and the role of cost-benefit analysis in shaping administrative and environmental regulation. His most recent book, Reviving Rationality: Saving Cost-Benefit Analysis for the Sake of the Environment and Our Health, which he co-authored with Livermore, argues that the Trump administration has destabilized the bipartisan consensus that federal agencies must base their decisions on evidence, expertise, and analysis, and explores how future administrations can restore cost-benefit analysis.

He has served as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Environmental Economics Advisory Committee of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Science Advisory Board, among other organizations. In 1994 and 2007, he received the American Bar Association award for best article or book on administrative law and regulatory practice.

Personal life

Richard Revesz lives with his wife, Vicki Been, and their two children in New York City.

Select bibliography

• Reviving Rationality: Saving Cost-Benefit Analysis for the Sake of the Environment and Our Health with Michael Livermore. (2020).
• Retaking Rationality: How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health with Michael Livermore. (2008).
• Environmental Law and Policy. (2008).
• Grandfathering and Environmental Regulation: The Law and Economics of New Source Review with Jonathan Nash. 101 Northwestern University Law Review 1677 (2007).
• Centralized Oversight of the Regulatory State, with Nicholas Bagley. 106 Columbia Law Review 1260 (2006).
• Anti-Regulation Under the Guise of Rational Regulation: The Bush Administration's Approaches to Valuing Human Lives in Environmental Cost-Benefit Analyses, with Laura Lowenstein. 34 Environmental Law Reporter 10,954 (2004).
• Foundations of Environmental Law and Policy. 2nd Ed.(2000).
• Federalism and Interstate Environmental Externalities, 144 U. Pa. L. Rev. 2341 (1996) cited by the Supreme Court in EPA v. EME Homer City Generation, 572 U. S. ____ (2014).

References

1. "Richard L. Revesz - Biography | NYU School of Law". its.law.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
2. American Law Institute - Staff - Executive Office
3. "Obama's Climate Authority Came Straight From Congress", U.S. News & World Report, April 10, 2014
4. Revesz, Richard L. (1979). "Energy or Environment? The Tradeoff between Automobile Emissions and Fuel Economy". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
5. Yale Law Journal#Notable alumni
6. ^ "Vicki L. Been Wed to Richard Revesz", The New York Times 11/6/1989.
7. "Richard Revesz Named Dean of NYU School of Law", New York University, 3/1/2002.
8. "Portrait of a deal". 2013. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
9. "Scalia's gay adventures in New York City". 8 February 2016.
10. "Statement from Dean Richard L. Revesz of the New York University School of Law". July 22, 2009.
11. "Richard Revesz named next director of the American Law Institute". NYU Law News. 27 January 2014. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
12. "How the Institute Works | American Law Institute". ali.org. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
13. "About Us | Institute for Policy Integrity". policyintegrity.org. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
14. "Election and Supreme Court Fight Will Decide Trump's Environmental Legacy". 2020-09-23.
15. "Here's how federal agencies can write more effective regulations — and win regulatory battles in court". June 17, 2019. {{cite news}}: Text "https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/17/heres-how-federal-agencies-can-write-more-effective-regulations-win-regulatory-battles-court/" ignored (help)
16. "Trump Administration Pushes to Deregulate With Less Enforcement". June 23, 2019. {{cite news}}: Text "https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-pushes-to-deregulate-with-less-enforcement-11561291201" ignored (help)
17. "Roundup: Trump-Era Agency Policy in the Courts | Institute for Policy Integrity". policyintegrity.org. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
18. "Reviving Rationality | Oxford University Press". global.oup.com. Retrieved 2020-12-08.

External links

• NYU School of Law Faculty Page
• Institute for Policy Integrity Home Page
• Environmental Law and Policy - Foundation Press

• American lawyers
• Argentine emigrants to the United States
• Law school deans
• Yale Law School alumni
• Princeton University alumni
• Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States
• 1958 births
• Living people
• People from Buenos Aires
• Deans of New York University School of Law
• Princeton School of Public and International Affairs alumni