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 Chettiar
Inimai M. Chettiar joined the Institute for Policy Integrity as a Legal Fellow in August 2008. From 2003 to 2008, Ms. Chettiar was a Litigation Associate at the New York office of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, where she lead litigation teams in complex securities investigations while also pursuing groundbreaking pro-bono work challenging government warrantless wiretapping, supporting the constitutionality of federal voting rights bills, and enforcing the Geneva Convention rights of non-citizen defendants in U.S. courts. After law school, Ms. Chettiar served as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Lawrence M. McKenna at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Ms. Chettiar graduated cum laude from the University of Chicago Law School in 2003, where she was Comments Editor for The University of Chicago Law Review. She received her B.A. cum laude from Georgetown University in 1998. From 1998 to 2000, Ms. Chettiar worked in the Honors Program of the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division's Appellate Section in Washington, D.C. Ms. Chettiar is the author of "Contraceptive Coverage Laws: Eliminating Gender Discrimination or Infringing on Religious Liberties?" published in the University of Chicago Law Review.
Jason Schwartz
Mr. Schwartz is proud to join IPI as a legal fellow, focusing on energy, climate change, and state-based policies. After graduating magna cum laude from NYU Law School, Mr. Schwartz worked as an associate in the Washington D.C. offices of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP. As a member of Pillsbury’s public policy and life science practice groups, Mr. 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, Mr. Schwartz had the great privilege of serving as a legal intern to the Environmental Defense Fund, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Mr. Schwartz 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.
Mr. Holladay will join 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.
Research Associates
Kevin Cromar
Maron Greenleaf
Justin M. Gundlach
Yoo Soo Ho
Annie Jhun
Allison Westfahl Kong
Gonzalo Moyano
Junyeon Park
Kristina Portner
Stephanie Tatham