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E. Donald Elliott

E. Donald Elliot


    E. Donald Elliott is is the Florence Rogatz Professor (Adjunct) of Law at Yale Law School. He is a leading academic scholar, as well as practitioner, in the fields of administrative and environmental law. Elliott is “one of the most well-known, well-regarded environmental law professors in the nation,” according to John Cruden, former President of the Environmental Law Institute and Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice during the Obama administration. Elliott has been on the Yale Law faculty since 1981 and currently teaches courses in environmental law, conservative legal theory, energy law, administrative law and civil procedure. For 2013 through 2020, he was co-chair of Environmental Practice Group at Covington & Burling LLP, in Washington D.C. From 2003 until he joined Covington in 2013, he was a partner in Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, chairing the firm’s worldwide Environment, Health and Safety Department.