Professor of Law, J.S.D., Columbia University; J.D.,
Northeastern University; B.A., Manhattanville College.
Professor Lyndon teaches Environmental Law, International
Environmental Law and related courses. She is the Chair of
the Committee on International Environmental Law of the Association
of the Bar of the City of New York. Before joining the law
faculty at St. John’s, Professor Lyndon practiced broadcasting,
telecommunications and environmental law. She received her
J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law and her J.S.D. from
Columbia University, where in 1985 she was the Julius Silver Fellow
in Law, Science & Technology.
Professor Lyndon’s areas of interest include science and law, the
relationship between intellectual property and environmental law,
and the development of ecological, public health and human rights
perspectives in the law. Her writing has concentrated on the
production and availability of health, environmental and safety
information and the effects of trade secrecy and proprietary claims
on the effectiveness of regulation.
Professor Lyndon practiced communications law from 1974 until
1979. First, as General Counsel to the New Jersey Coalition
for Fair Broadcasting, she conducted litigation before the Federal
Communications Commission, challenging the VHF channel allocations
for the Northeast; she also developed a federal legislative
initiative to move a channel to New Jersey and negotiated
agreements on coverage of New Jersey by New York and Philadelphia
broadcasters. Later she was corporate counsel to New Jersey
Bell Telephone Company and AT&T. She represented the
operating company in rate cases before the state utility
commission; in the federal antitrust challenge to the structure of
the Bell System, she worked on AT&T's defense to the charge of
predatory innovation in the development of the long distance
microwave system.
From 1979 until 1985 Professor Lyndon was an Assistant Attorney
General for the State of New York. In that capacity she
headed a group of attorneys working on acid rain, toxic air
pollution and a wide range of other environmental problems.
She litigated at all levels of the state and federal courts and
presented testimony before state and federal legislative committees
on behalf of New York and the National Association of the Attorneys
General.
In addition to her committee work with the Association of the Bar
of the City of New York, Professor Lyndon is active in the New York
State Bar Association and Law & Society. She is also a
member scholar of the Center for Progressive Reform.