Professor of Law and Director, Summer Program in Rome and
Director, LL.M. Program for Foreign Lawyers in American Law. AB,
University of Pennsylvania; JD, Columbia University
Professor Weinberg is the author of Environmental Law: Cases and
Materials (Revised 3d Ed.) (University Press of America 2006),
editor of Environmental Law and Regulation in New York (West 1996),
co-author of Environmental Impact Review in New York (LexisNexis,
2001 and annual updates) and Understanding Environmental Law
(2d Ed.) (LexisNexis 2007), and editor-in-chief of the
Macmillan Compendium: The Supreme Court (1999). He writes the
Annual Practice Commentaries for McKinney's New York Environmental
Conservation Law and has also published numerous articles on
environmental law and constitutional law, including his annual
contribution for many years to Syracuse Law Review's Survey of New
York Law.
Prior to joining the law faculty, Professor Weinberg practiced
for twenty years in the New York State Attorney General's Office
and was Assistant Attorney General in Charge of the Environmental
Protection Bureau. He has been actively involved in many
governmental studies and was Chair of the Freshwater Wetlands
Advisory Committee to the State Department of Environmental
Conservation and the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the
Metropolitan Transportation Authority. He serves on the Legal
Affairs Committee of the Municipal Art Society of New York and the
board of the New York City Environmental Law Leadership
Institute.
Professor Weinberg has chaired the New York State Bar
Association's Environmental Law Section; the Committees on
Environmental Law, International Environmental Law, and
Transportation Law of the Association of the Bar of the City of New
York, and the Environmental Law Section of the Association of
American Law Schools. He is a frequent lecturer on environmental
issues and has appeared on radio and television to discuss
Constitutional issues.