The Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program (ENRLP) of Stanford Law School and the Climate and Energy Policy Program (CEPP) of Stanfords Woods Institute for the Environment invite applications for a Wildfire Policy Legal Fellow. The Fellow will join the thriving community in the Stanford Law School, reporting to the ENRLP Director, and will work primarily with the leaders of CEPP at the Woods Institute within the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.
This full-time fellowship is crafted for early-career attorneys with a strong interest in wildfire policy design and implementation and the important interactions with decarbonization and climate resilience policy. It offers a hands-on opportunity to apply your legal skills and expertise to address urgent and intensifying wildfire policy challenges in California and the western US. This work will build on and deepen partnerships with policy stakeholders and Stanfords long track record of engagement on wildfire policy in both Sacramento and Washington, D.C.
The Fellow will lead legal and policy analysis to support constructive solutions to (1) Particulate Matter (PM) management reform under the Clean Air Act, (2) the development of a quantitative planning process for wildfire risk reduction in California, transforming the current suppression-oriented wildfire management approach towards a focus on protecting public health through quantified risk reduction, and (3) managing the electricity rate impacts of wildfire-related grid investments. The fellow will play a key role in a team including data scientists, additional lawyers, and experts in developing policy solutions.
Fellowship applicants should have:
Applicants should submit a cover letter summarizing their interest in these positions and relevant experience, a resume, a writing sample, a list of three professional references, and a transcript through http://stanfordcareers.stanford.edu/, referencing job number 14429. Applications should be submitted as soon as possible and will be considered on a rolling basis until the positions are filled.
This position is for a one-year fixed term, with possibility for renewal. The Fellow is expected to work primarily in person at Stanford Law School in order to interact with students and team members.
The expected base pay range for this position is $72,000-$80,000. Stanford University has provided a pay range representing its good faith estimate of what the university reasonably expects to pay for the position. The pay offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on factors including (but not limited to) the qualifications of the selected candidate, budget availability, and internal equity.