Richard Lazarus

“Judge Pillard’s apparent invocation of the kind of tougher Article III standards often promoted by business interests to seek to persuade courts to deny environmentalists Article III standing is, to say the least, ironic,” Harvard Law School environmental law professor Richard Lazarus said.

In 2004, professor Richard Lazarus, then director of the Supreme Court Institute at Georgetown University Law Center, published a law review article discussing “the emergence of a new elite Supreme Court [b]ar and the resulting transformation of the [c]ourt, its plenary docket, and its rulings.”