Leslie Carothers, President of the Environmental Law Institute, announced the appointment of Scott Schang as Vice President for Publications and Associates Programs.
The new Vice President will direct the publication of the Environmental Law Reporter® (ELR), a continuously updated information service and journal; ELI’s two policy journals, National Wetlands Newsletter®, and the Environmental Forum® and the ELI press, a publisher of books by ELI and non-ELI authors. Mr. Schang will also direct ELI’s educational programs for professional associate members from law firms, government, business and trade organizations, non-governmental organizations, and academia. The Vice President also directs ELI’s Center for Business Environmental Strategy.
Since June, 2003, Mr. Schang has been a senior attorney in the Research and Policy Division of ELI, serving as Co-Director of the Africa Program. He has also played a major role in the Endangered Environmental Laws Program led by Jay Austin, most recently co-authoring the article "The Rise (and Fall?) of Fundamentalist Federalism" in the September/October issue of the Environmental Forum.
Before joining ELI, Mr. Schang was in private law practice, first with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and next as a senior associate at Latham & Watkins. There he counseled clients on complex U.S. and international environmental matters, including regulatory issues, data compensation, due diligence, and financial transactions with environmental aspects. His clients included major corporations, banks, multilateral lending institutions, and trade associations.
He serves on several Boards of Directors, including the Institute for Conservation Leadership and the Sign of Jonah Clinic and was co-recipient of the first National Ally for Justice Award given by the Human Rights Campaign. He is a graduate of Yale University with a major in environmental science and English and Georgetown University Law School where he was Criminal Procedure Project Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal.