Associate Professor of Law
E-mail: tai2@wisc.edu
Telephone: (608)890-1236
Office: Room 8104, Law School
Education:
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center
Ph.D., Tufts University
B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Teaching Areas:
Administrative Law
Environmental Law
Law and Science
Natural Resources Law
Recently Taught Courses
744 Administrative Law
815 Appellate Advocacy-Moot Court (other)
815 Appellate Advocacy II (moot board & coaches)
815 Appellate Advocacy II (moot court competitors)
815 Appellate Advocacy II (moot court-Heffernan)
815 Appellate Advocacy II (Pace Competition)
815 Appellate Advocacy II (Pace Competition)
848 Environmental Law
854 Clinical Program: Midwestern Environmental Advocates Externship
988 SP Environmental Law: Natural Resources Law
988 SP Environmental Law: Natural Resources
Biography
Stephanie Tai focuses her scholarly research on the interactions between environmental and health sciences and administrative law. She has written on the consideration of scientific studies and environmental justice concerns by administrative agencies, and is currently studying the role of scientific dialogues before the judicial system. She was an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown from 2002-2005 and a visiting professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law during the 2005-06 academic year. Her teaching interests include administrative law, environmental law, property, environmental justice, risk regulation, and comparative Asian environmental law.
Raised in the South by two chemists, she decided to combine her chemistry background with a legal education to improve the use of science in environmental protection. At Georgetown, she was the Editor-in-Chief of the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review and was a member of the Georgetown Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Team.
After graduating from Georgetown, Professor Tai worked as the editor-in-chief of the International Review for Environmental Strategies, a publication by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies in Japan. She also served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Ronald Lee Gilman on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She then worked as an appellate attorney in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she briefed and argued cases involving a range of issues, from the protection of endangered cave species in Texas to the issuance of dredge and fill permits under the Clean Water Act.
During the summer before joining the Wisconsin Law School faculty, Professor Tai teamed up with several other law professors to work on two Supreme Court amicus briefs: one for a group of legislators in Environmental Defense v. Duke Energy Corp., No. 05-0848, and another for a group of scientists in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, No. 05-1120. She spends her leisure time reading fiction, listening to indie pop, scouring farmers' markets, and annoying her pet iguana.
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