The Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program (ENRLP) of Stanford Law School and the Climate and Energy Policy Program (CEPP) of Stanford’s Woods Institute for the Environment invite applications for a Wildfire Policy Legal Fellow. The Fellow will join the thriving community in the Stanford Law School, reporting to the ENRLP Director, and will work primarily with the leaders of CEPP at the Woods Institute within the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.
This full-time fellowship is crafted for early-career attorneys with a strong interest in wildfire policy design and implementation and the important interactions with decarbonization and climate resilience policy. It offers a hands-on opportunity to apply your legal skills and expertise to address urgent and intensifying wildfire policy challenges in California and the western US. This work will build on and deepen partnerships with policy stakeholders and Stanford’s long track record of engagement on wildfire policy in both Sacramento and Washington, D.C.
The Fellow will lead legal and policy analysis to support constructive solutions to (1) Particulate Matter (PM) management reform under the Clean Air Act, (2) the development of a quantitative planning process for wildfire risk reduction in California, transforming the current suppression-oriented wildfire management approach towards a focus on protecting public health through quantified risk reduction, and (3) managing the electricity rate impacts of wildfire-related grid investments. The fellow will play a key role in a team including data scientists, additional lawyers, and experts in developing policy solutions.
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