Faculty - Nuno Lacasta
Nuno Lacasta is an Adjunct Professor at American University's Washington College
of Law where he teaches Comparative Environmental law and the European Union Environmental law.
Mr. Lacasta is European of Counsel for Center for International Environmental Law
and founder and Senior Fellow of EURONATURA-Centre for Environmental Law and
Sustainable Development, Portugal. He is also a Assistant Professor of International Environmental Law and
Policy at Aveiro University, Portugal and visiting lecturer on International
Climate Policy at Coimbra Universitys, School of Economics, Portugal.
Mr. Lacasta's research and advocacy interests include climate change, international waters, and environmental
policy of the European Union.
Between 1996-97 Mr. Lacasta was a Law Fellow at CIEL. He also worked for three years as an associate at the Lisbon based law firm of A. Rosa, R. Telles, Campilho & S. Cabral. He is currently an SJD candidate at the Georgetown University Law Center. He holds an LL.M. from the Washington College of Law, American University (1996), and a Bachelor of Laws from The University of Lisbon, School of Law (1993).
Professor Lacasta's bibliography is available on-line.