Durwood J. Zaelke is the
President and founder of the
Center for International Environmental Law
(CIEL). He is also an Adjunct Professor of Law,
Scholar-in-Residence, and Co-Director of the Research Program on
International and Comparative Environmental Law at The American
University Washington College of Law, where he teaches International
Environmental Law, International Environmental Dispute Resolution,
International Environmental Institutions and a Seminar on international
environmental issues. He also has taught in the University of
Nairobi/Widener summer program in Kenya and the Duke Law School/Free
University of Brussels program in Brussels. Professor Zaelke was
appointed Visiting Lecturer in Law at
Yale Law School in 1999, where he teaches International Environmental Law and Policy.
Professor Zaelke is the co-author of
International Environmental Law and Policy.
From 1980 to 1989 Professor Zaelke was with the Earth Justice Legal Defense Fund (formerly the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund), where he served as the Director of the International Program, as well as the Director of the Washington, D.C. and Alaska offices. From 1978 to 1980 he was a special Litigation Attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice in the Environment and Natural Resources Division, where his responsibilities included designing the federal government's initial hazardous waste enforcement strategy. From 1975 to 1978 he was a staff attorney with the Environmental Law Institute. Prior to that he was in private practice in Los Angeles. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1969, and from Duke Law School in 1972, where he was an Editor of the Duke Law Journal.
