Douglas Kysar

Douglas Kysar is Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His teaching and research areas include torts, international environmental law, and risk regulation. He received his B.A. summa cum laude from Indiana University in 1995 and his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1998 where he served on the student board of advisors.  He has published several articles on a wide array of environmental law topics and has most recently published a casebook, The Torts Process, with James A. Henderson, Jr., Richard N. Pearson & John A. Siliciano. His forthcoming book, Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental Law and the Search for Objectivity, is under contract with Yale University Press and explores limitations of the turn toward risk assessment, cost-benefit analysis, and other elite knowledge structures in the determination of environmental law and policy.

Education
B.A., Indiana, 1995
J.D., Harvard, 1998

Courses Taught:
Constitutions and the Environment
[The] Law of Climate Change
Torts I

Curriculum Vitae