Insights Fall 2022

Climate Change

Is Climate Change a National Emergency?

Professor Nevitt joined Emory Law School in 2022. He researches environmental law, with an emphasis on climate change’s role in destabilizing numerous areas of law, and its security implications. Nevitt previously taught at Syracuse University College of Law and the US Naval Academy. He was Sharswood Fellow, Lecturer-in-Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. His articles have appeared or are forthcoming in the Washington University Law Review, Boston College Law Review, Georgia Law Review, UC Davis Law Review, Yale Journal of Regulation, and Harvard Environmental Law Review, among others. He frequently writes for Just Security, Lawfare, and The Regulatory Review, and is a member of the Truman National Security Project. Nevitt’s recent research at U. Penn’s Kleinman Center addressed legal issues associated with climate adaptation and managed retreat. Before academia, Nevitt was a tactical jet aviator and Navy JAG attorney who earned the rank of commander and flew over 1,000 flight hours and accumulated more than 290 carrier-arrested landings. His military awards include the Air Medal and four Meritorious Service Medals. In the JAG Corps, Nevitt served as an environmental, criminal defense, and ethics attorney, and was the senior legal advisor for the US investigation into the Iranian detention of US sailors in Farsi Island, Iran.

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