Michael Burger is the Executive Director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, and a Senior Research Scholar and Lecuter-in-Law at Columbia Law School. His research and advocacy focus on legal strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote climate change adaptation through pollution control, resource management, land use planning and climate finance. He is the editor of Global Climate Change and U.S. Law, 3d Ed. (2023); Combating Climate Change with Section 115 of the Clean Air Act: Law and Policy Rationales (2020); and Climate Change, Public Health and the Law (2018). He also is of counsel at the boutique environmental law firm Sher Edling LLP. He is a regular speaker at conferences and events, and a regular source for media. He is a regent at the American College of Environmental Lawyers, and services on the Advisory Board at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society. He is a graduate of Columbia Law School and of Brown University, and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Creative Writing program at NYU.
