Attorney or Senior Attorney

Description

The Institute for Policy Integrity (www.policyintegrity.org) is seeking applicants for an attorney or a senior attorney position with a primary focus on appellate litigation and emerging administrative law issues, including the major questions doctrine and other doctrines related to federal agency decisionmaking.

 

About the Institute for Policy Integrity

Housed at the New York University School of Law, the Institute Policy Integrity (Policy Integrity) is a non-partisan think tank dedicated to improving the quality of government decisionmaking. Our principal focus is U.S. energy and environmental policy, with a particular emphasis on climate change. We produce original scholarly research in the fields of economics, law, and regulatory policy. We also advocate for reform before courts, legislatures, and executive agencies.

 

Policy Integrity’s interdisciplinary mission focuses on the rational use of economic analysis in government decisionmaking and how tools like cost‐benefit analysis and distributional analysis can improve policy design. Policy Integrity’s docket covers a range of issue areas, with a particular emphasis on federal environmental protections and federal‐ and state‐level electricity policies, as well as a steady stream of projects on public health and consumer protection.

 

Policy Integrity’s successful advocacy outcomes include ensuring that agencies are required to consider the lost social benefits and other harms of any deregulatory actions; guiding state utility regulators on the need to value environmental externalities in energy policy decisions; convincing both federal and state courts to endorse the use of the social cost of carbon for monetizing avoided climate damages; and prompting the Department of the Interior to analyze the option value of delaying offshore oil leases.

 

Responsibilities

 

In general, attorneys and senior attorneys may be assigned projects across a range of substantive areas or may be tasked to specialize in a key area depending on the attorney’s experience and Policy Integrity’s priorities. This attorney or senior attorney position will focus primarily on appellate litigation and emerging administrative law issues but may also work on other state or federal regulatory issues.

 

The attorney or senior attorney will work with Policy Integrity’s directors, economists, and fellows to:

·      Draft amicus briefs to the Supreme Court, D.C. Circuit, and other federal courts in cases challenging significant agency rulemakings and policies

·      Track and analyze emerging issues in administrative law at the federal level

·      Author reports and academic papers on emerging issues in administrative law

·      Represent Policy Integrity in partnerships with other academic institutions, think tanks, and non-governmental organizations

·      Draft regulatory comments and other formal submissions to federal and state agencies

·      Draft op-eds, respond to media inquiries, and discuss Policy Integrity’s work at conferences, on social media, and elsewhere

·      Supervise legal and economics fellows, summer law clerks, research assistants, and students in the NYU School of Law’s Regulatory Policy Clinic

 

Senior Attorneys, in addition to the list above, will: 

·      Provide programmatic leadership addressing emerging developments in administrative law, help shape Policy Integrity’s positions on key issues, and direct research and manage projects in their areas of expertise

·   Work with other Policy Integrity staff to devise and implement strategies for Policy Integrity’s broader energy, environmental, and climate efforts, and help oversee organizational operations

 

Policy Integrity is committed to a culture in which all people are welcomed, respected, supported, and valued to fully participate. We welcome and encourage applications from diverse applicants, and we consider multiple aspects of diversity.

 

NYU is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to a policy of equal treatment and opportunity in every aspect of its recruitment and hiring process without regard to age, alienage, caregiver status, childbirth, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, domestic violence victim status, ethnicity, familial status, gender and/or gender identity or expression, marital status, military status, national origin, parental status, partnership status, predisposing genetic characteristics, pregnancy, race, religion, s