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Amy Sinden
Fellow since 2021
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
Region 3 DE, DC, MD, PA, VA, WV and 7 federally recognized tribes
ACOEL Committees
Environmental Law Topic
Amy Sinden teaches in the areas of environmental, climate, and natural resources law. She is also a member scholar at the Center for Progressive Reform and a fellow in the American College of Environmental Lawyers. She has received various awards and accolades for her writings critiquing the over-use of economic theory in environmental law and exploring the application of human rights norms to environmental conflicts, which have appeared in a variety of outlets, including the Iowa Law Review, the Harvard Environmental Law Review, and The American Prospect and have twice been selected for the Land Use and Environmental Law Review’s annual compilation of the five best environmental law articles of the year. Prof. Sinden received her B.A. from Swarthmore College and her J.D. summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Before joining the Temple faculty in 2001, she practiced law for 10 years, including representing citizens’ groups in clean water and endangered species litigation with Earthjustice and PennFuture.
Degrees
- Swarthmore College, BA
- University of Pennsylvania, JD
Admissions
- Pennsylvania
Court Admissions
US Supreme CourtProfessional Societies and Organizations
- ACOEL
- Center for Progressive Reform
Other Environmental Career Experience
- Earthjustice
- Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future
Representative Publications (not including ACOEL Blogs)
- The Misleading Success of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Policy, 13 Mich. J. Envtl. & Admin. L. 253 (2024) (with David E. Adelman)
- All the Tools in the Toolbox: A Plea for Flexibility and Open Minds in Assessing the Costs and Benefits of Climate Rules, 39 YALE J. ON REGULATION 908 (2022)
- The Cost-Benefit Boomerang, THE AMERICAN PROSPECT (July 25, 2019)
- The Problem of Unquantified Benefits, 49 ENVTL. L. 73 (2019), selected for republication in Volume 51 of the LAND USE AND ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REVIEW as one of the four best environmental law articles of the year in 2020
Illustrative Projects
Rising Floodwaters, Rising Risks: Navigating the Chemical Threat of Climate Driven Disasters in Pennsylvania, Center for Progressive Reform (April 2024)(with co-authors, Katlyn Schmitt & Marcha Isabelle Chaudry)Citations of Major Published Cases
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