Daniel C. Esty, M.A., J.D.
Founder, Environmental Law Clinic
Director, Center for Environmental Law and Policy
Director, Center for Business & Environment at Yale
Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy,
School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Yale Law School
Professor Esty founded the Yale Environmental Law Clinic. He is the author or editor of nine books and numerous articles on environmental policy issues and the relationships between environment and corporate strategy, competitiveness, trade, globalization, governance, and development. His most recent book, Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value and Build Competitive Advantage, argues that pollution control and natural resource management have become critical elements of marketplace success and explains how leading-edge companies have folded environmental thinking into their core business strategies.
Prior to taking up his current position at Yale, Professor Esty was a Senior Fellow at the Institute for International Economics (1993-94), served in a variety of senior positions in the US Environmental Protection Agency (1989-93), and practiced law in Washington, DC (1986-89). Professor Esty spent the 2000-01 academic year as a Visiting Professor at INSEAD, the European business school in Fontainebleau, France.
Green to Gold has won numerous awards including Soundview Executive Book Summary "Best Business Book of 2007," ForeWord Magazine "Book of the Year" and Academy of Management 2007 Terry Book Award finalist. In 2002, Professor Esty received the American Bar Association Award for Distinguished Achievement in Environmental Law and Policy for “pioneering a data-driven approach to environmental decision making” and developing the global Environmental Sustainability Index.
Professor Esty has advised companies across the world on energy, environment, and sustainability issues and serves as the Chairman of Esty Environmental Partners (www.EstyEP.com), a corporate environmental strategy group with offices in Boston and Washington as well as New Haven. He sits on the Board of Directors of Washington DC based Resources for the Future and the Connecticut Fund for the Environment. He served four years as an elected Planning and Zoning Commissioner in his hometown of Cheshire, Connecticut.
Dale Bryk, M.A., J.D.
Director, Environmental Law Clinic
Lecturer in Environmental Law, School of Forestry &
Environmental Studies, Law School
Dale Bryk has been the Director of the Yale Environmental Clinic since January 2002. She is also a Senior Attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council. Dale heads up the organization's state climate policy work and recently helped negotiate the landmark global warming pact among northeast governors, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Her expertise is in the area of state energy and climate policy, including electric restructuring and utility regulation, energy efficiency and renewable energy programs, greenhouse gas emission registries and regulation, emissions trading, green building, and smart growth. Dale joined NRDC in 1997, prior to which she practiced corporate law at Davis Polk and Wardwell in New York. Dale has a J.D. from Harvard Law School, a Masters Degree in international law and policy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a B.A. from Colgate University.
Katherine Kennedy, J.D., A.B.
Director, Environmental Law Clinic
Clinical Visiting Lecturer in Law
Katherine Kennedy is a Clinical Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and Special Deputy Attorney General for Environmental Protection in the Office of the New York State Attorney General. Ms. Kennedy is responsible for the management, supervision, and direction of the New York State Attorney General’s Office Environmental Protection Bureau. Prior to her time at the New York Attorney General’s office she was a senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council and an Adjunct Professor at Fordham University School of Law.
Ysella Edyvean
Outreach Coordinator, B.A.
Ysella Edyvean is the Outreach Coordinator for the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy. Prior to coming to Yale, Ysella obtained her B.A. (Honors) in Environmental Management at Leeds University, England. Ysella enjoys camping, swing dancing and cooking.
Marge Camera, R.N., A.A.S.
Senior Administrative Assistant, Yale Law School
Marge has been at Yale for 22 years and has been Dan Esty’s assistant for 15 of those years. She is also Dale Bryk’s assistant and therefore coordinates some of the administrative aspects of the Environmental Law Clinic. Marge handles financial matters, reimbursements and travel arrangements. A native New Yorker (Brooklyn) and former Registered Nurse, Marge decided to switch careers and enjoys the work that she is now doing. She loves to spend free time with her three grandchildren but also enjoys old movies, Jeopardy, Broadway, the New York Football Giants and the New York Mets.
Julia Lisztwan, B.A., J.D. Candidate
Teaching Assistant, Environmental Law Clinic
Julia Lisztwan is a second-year Yale Law student, originally from northern Alberta, Canada. Julia graduated from the University of Alberta in 2008, B.A. Economics Honors. In her Honors research, she studied the impacts of trade liberalization on environmental regulation. Her focus at Yale continues to be on ecosystem vitality and market interaction. This past summer, she interned at the Sustainable Prosperity Institute, examining the relationship between competitiveness and environmental performance.