Michael Harris is Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Environmental Law Clinic at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. He received a B.A. in Environmental and Political Studies from Pitzer College in Claremont, California, a M.S.L. from Vermont Law School, and a J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California-Berkeley, where he was an Executive Editor for the Ecology Law Quarterly. Before coming to Denver, Professor Harris was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Vermont Law School, where he taught Air Pollution Law & Policy and Administrative Law. Professor Harris’ career has focused exclusively on the practice of environmental law, much of it working directly on litigation to protect public health and natural resources. He has worked as a Senior Deputy District Counsel for the South Coast Air Quality Management District in Los Angeles, as an Associate Environmental Counsel for the Los Angeles Unified School District, and as a Project Attorney with Earthjustice in Denver, Colorado. Professor Harris has also published on legal issues associated with environmental litigation. His latest piece is entitled Environmental Deliberative Democracy and the Search for Administrative Legitimacy: A Legal Positivism Approach, 44 U. Mich. J.L. Reform (forthcoming 2010).

Please read my weekly blog on the High Country News Green Justice Report

Featured Publications

• Environmental Deliberative Democracy and the Search for Administrative Legitimacy: A Legal Positivism Approach, University of Michigan J. of Law Reform, March 2010
• A Culture of Failure, High Country News’ A Just West blog (2010)
• EJ for Earth Day, High Country News blog (April 20, 2010)
• Open Space Justice, High Country News blog (March 29, 2010).
• Standing in the Way of Judicial Review: Use of The Deliberative Process Privilege in APA Case, 53 Saint Louis L.J. 349 (2009)