Fellows

Joseph A. Siegel teaches Environmental Dispute Resolution at Hofstra Law School and climate change and resilience at Haub School of Law at Pace University. He is an environmental conflict resolution consultant, facilitator and mediator. In addition, Joe manages the Environmental Collaboration and Conflict Resolution program in the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s New York regional office, serving as an impartial third-party on climate change and a wide variety of other environmental matters, and co-chairs the office’s Climate Change Workgroup.  He is also a member of both Mediators Beyond Borders International’s (MBBI’s) Climate Change Team, leading the group’s Education & Outreach Subcommittee, and the UN Multilateral Working Group. 

Joe co-chaired the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee and the Climate Change, Sustainable Development and Ecosystems Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section of Environment and Energy Resources. He was a Founding Advisor to the Kheel Center on the Resolution of Environmental Interest Disputes at Pace Law School, a member of the Advisory Group to the United Nations Environment Programme and Permanent Court of Arbitration on Environmental Dispute Resolution and Dispute Avoidance, and led workshops in Central and South America on de-escalation of environmental conflict.