Jody Freeman

Professor Freeman is the Archibald Cox Professor at Harvard Law School (HLS) and a leading expert on administrative law and environmental law. She is the founding director of the Environmental & Energy Law Program and established the Law School’s Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic. Jody served as counselor for Energy and Climate Change in the Obama White House from 2009-2010 and worked with the Biden transition team on its climate action plan. A new edition of her landmark book Global Climate Change and U.S. Law (edited with Mike Gerrard and Mike Burger) was published in January 2023. She serves on the climate advisory board of Norges Bank Investment Management, which manages the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund, to help implement and refine the fund’s climate action plan to drive positive change. Jody formerly served on the Electric Power Research Institute board and as an independent director of ConocoPhillips. She is part of three university-wide climate research clusters sponsored by Harvard’s Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability to accelerate climate solutions: corporate net-zero commitments, methane reduction, and strengthening communities for the energy transition. Jody teaches courses at HLS in administrative law, climate and energy law, legislation and regulation, and environmental law.