Michael Burger

Michael Burger is an Associate Professor at Roger Williams University School of Law. His scholarship on environmental federalism has thus far addressed emerging regulatory responses to hydraulic fracturing, offshore wind and local climate change initiatives. Recently, he represented a coalition of local government association as amici in the Supreme Court case (italics) American Trucking Associations v. City of Los Angeles. In addition, his cross-disciplinary scholarship on the intersections of environmental law and environmental literature addresses the role of stories, rhetoric and narrative in environmental litigation. Recent articles have appeared or are forthcoming in the University of Akron Law Review, the University of Cincinnati Law Review, the University of Hawaii Law Review, Ecology Law Quarterly and other journals and books. Prior to joining the faculty at RWU, he was assistant acting Professor of Lawyering at New York University School of Law, and an assistant corporation counsel in the Office of the Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, where he worked on issues ranging from global warming to the protection of the City's drinking water supply to the renovation of Washington Square Park. He is a graduate of Columbia Law School.