People
Richard L. Revesz, Faculty Director
Richard L. Revesz is Dean and Lawrence King Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. He graduated summa cum laude in Civil Engineering and Public Affairs from Princeton University, received an M.S. in Civil Engineering from MIT, and was awarded his J.D. by Yale Law School, where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal. Following judicial clerkships with Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the Supreme Court of the United States, Dean Revesz joined the NYU Law faculty in 1985, received tenure in 1990, and was appointed dean in 2002. He has published more than 50 articles and books on environmental and administrative law. His work on issues of federalism and environmental regulation, the valuation of human life and the use of cost-benefit analysis, and the design of liability rules for environmental protection has set the agenda for environmental law scholars for the past decade. He is a Trustee of the American Museum of Natural History, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dean Revesz's faculty profile
Michael A. Livermore, Executive Director
Michael A. Livermore is the Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Integrity. He is the author, along with Richard L. Revesz, of Retaking Rationality: How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health (Oxford University Press, 2008). Livermore has been a postdoctoral fellow at NYU’s Law Center for Environmental and Land Use Law and has served as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Harry T. Edwards at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Between 1995 and 2002, Livermore worked for the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) where he was a leading voice of the state’s environmental community. Livermore graduated magna cum laude from New York University School of Law, where he was a managing editor of the NYU Law Review. He has published several pieces of legal scholarship on topics including environmental regulation and international food safety standards. Michael Livermore's CV.
Edna Ishayik, Communications Director
Edna Ishayik is the Communications Director at IPI. Prior to joining IPI, Ishayik worked in electoral politics for eight years. Working on campaigns up and down the ballot and all over the Northeast, she has served in a variety of roles: fundraising, field operations, and campaign management. In January 2006, she became the Deputy Political Director for Eliot Spitzer's gubernatorial campaign. Most recently, she worked as the Executive Director of the New York State Democratic Party. Ishayik earned her B.A. in Philosophy from Douglass College at Rutgers University, where she was an Eagleton Institute of Politics Undergraduate Fellow as well as a scholar at the Institute of Women's Leadership. Her article, "Women in Public Office: Legislators-at-large for American Women" is slated to be published later this year as part of an anthology entitled Young Women's Leadership for Social Change.
Fellows
Inimai M. Chettiar joined IPI as a Legal Fellow in 2008. She is involved in several policy, litigation, and scholarship projects focusing on environmental and public health--particularly women's and worker health. From 2003 to 2008, Chettiar was a litigation associate at the New York office of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, where she represented corporate and individual clients in varied litigations at the state, federal, trial, and appellate level. At Debevoise, she also served as pro-bono counsel to pursue groundbreaking litigation and legislation strengthening federal voting rights, civil liberties, and human rights. Chettiar also served as a judicial clerk for the Hon. Lawrence M. McKenna at the U.S. District Court for Southern District of N.Y. From 1998 to 2000, she worked in the Honors Program of the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division’s Appellate Section in Washington, D.C. She holds a B.A. cum laude (1998) from Georgetown University and a J.D. cum laude (2003) from the University of Chicago School of Law, where she was Comments Editor for The University of Chicago Law Review. She has published scholarship on constitutional law and reproductive rights.
J. Scott Holladay joined IPI in August 2009 as an economics fellow. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Colorado, where his dissertation focused on the environmental impacts of international trade. He has studied the economics of government policy for the past eight years. Before graduate school he served as a research assistant at the Institute for International Economics in Washington D.C. studying the economic impacts of international trade policy. Holladay has also worked with the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the Homeland Security Institute.
David Mehretu is a legal fellow at the Institute for Policy Integrity. Mehretu’s area of research concerns public policy in developing contexts. He is also actively involved in IPI’s fundraising efforts. Prior to joining the Institute in April 2009, Mehretu served as a law clerk in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California to the Honorable Judge Saundra B. Armstrong and as a litigation associate at Cooley Godward Kronish. Mehretu graduated in 2006 from New York University School of Law. Prior to law school, Mehretu worked in affordable housing development.
Gonzalo Moyano joined IPI as a Development Fellow in August 2009. He is recent graduate of NYU Law’s Master of Laws (LLM) program and also holds a LLB from the University of Chile School of Law, where he is a faculty member on leave. He has been a teaching assistant for a master program on urban development at the Architecture School of the Catholic University of Chile. He is the author of several articles regarding zoning, environmental assessment, transport infrastructure, and conservation of natural resources. At IPI, Moyano’s work will focus on capacity-building projects for in Latin America.
Junyeon Park graduated the Law School in May 2009. At the Law School, she was a research associate of IPI and senior articles editor of Journal of International Law and Politics. A graduate of Seoul National University, Korea, Jun had worked as a Foreign Service officerat the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Korea before coming to the Law School. At IPI, she has researched on issues including policy implications of cost-benefit analysis in foreign governments and international organizations. She will work at Kelley Drye & Warren beginning in January, 2010.
Julissa Reynoso served as a part-time Legal Fellow at the Institute from August 2008 through July 2009. Through July 2009, Reynoso also practiced law at the law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, focusing on international arbitration and antitrust law. Reynoso was a fellow at Columbia Law School in 2005, and in 2006 served as Deputy Director of the Office of Accountability at the New York City Department of Education. Reynoso has published widely in both Spanish and English on a range of issues including regulatory reform, community organizing, housing reform, immigration policy, and Latin American politics for both popular press and academic journals. Julissa holds a B.A. from Harvard University in Government, a Masters in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge in the U.K., and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law. After Law School, Julissa clerked for the Honorable Laura Taylor Swain at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Jason A Schwartz graduated magna cum laude from New York University School of Law. After law school, he worked as an associate in the Washington D.C. office of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP. As a member of Pillsbury’s public policy and life science practice groups, Schwartz provided strategic counsel to municipalities and foreign governments in their pursuit of appropriations, favorable international trade policies, and homeland security assistance from the federal government. He also advised public and private clients on current legislative initiatives, concentrating on energy and environmental policies, and on disaster, terrorism, and biosafety-preparedness. During his time in law school, Schwartz served as a legal intern to the Environmental Defense Fund, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He was an articles editor for the NYU Environmental Law Journal and has published several pieces of legal scholarship on climate change, biodiversity, and the regulation of bioscience research and development. At IPI, Schwartz’s research interests extend to energy, climate change, and state-based policies.
IPI is currently hiring for Legal Fellow positions for the 2010-2012 academic years. Read more.
Visiting Scholars
Hong Lan joined IPI in early 2009 as a visiting economics scholar. Lan received her Ph.D. in Economic Management in 2002 from the School of Agriculture and Forest Management, Northwest Agriculture and Forest University (China) and then completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Environment and Natural Resources Economics School, Renmin University of China. Lan has been a consultant for the World Bank, an advisor for United Nations Environmental Program, and a visiting professor at Columbia University. Her research focuses on environmental management issues which she studies from an economics perspective employing game theory, finance, and cost-benefit analysis analytical tools.
Research Associates
IPI is currently hiring Research Associates for the 2009-2010 academic year. Read more.