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= Robert (Rob) Verchick = From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Robert Reed Verchick (born October 5, 1964) is a U.S. legal scholar known for his studies and advocacy related to climate change law, environmental law, and disaster law, a new field that he has helped organize and develop. He is also the author The Octopus in the Parking Garage: A Call for Climate Resilience (2023, forthcoming) and Facing Catastrophe: Environmental Action for a Post-Katrina World (2010). He was the Deputy Associate Administrator for Policy at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 2009-2010 in the Obama administration. He is president of the non-profit policy research organization the Center for Progressive Reform. He hosts a podcast, produced by the Center for Progressive Reform, titled "Connect the Dots."

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Early Life and Education Verchick was born on October 5, 1964, in Las Vegas, Nevada. He graduated from Chaparral High School in Las Vegas in 1982. Verchick received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, with departmental honors, from Stanford University in 1986. He received a Juris Doctor degree cum laude from Harvard University in 1989.

Career As a law professor at the University Missouri-Kansas City for 11 years, he wrote influential work on environmental regulation, feminism, and the environmental justice movement. Since 2004, Verchick has held the Wendall Gauthier-Michael St. Martin Eminent Scholars Chair in Environmental Law at Loyola University New Orleans. After personally experiencing the devastation of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, Verchick's research and advocacy expanded to include climate resilience, climate justice, and disaster policy. His co-authored book, Disaster Law and Policy (2010), was the first legal text book to introduce the subject of disaster law and policy to university students.

In 2012, Verchick was Fulbright-Nehru Environmental Leadership Scholar, based in New Delhi, India.

As Deputy Associate Administrator for Policy at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 2009 and 2010, Verchick served on President Obama's Interagency Climate Change Task Force.

Books Rob Verchick (2023), The Octopus in the Parking Garage: A Call for Climate Resilience, New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231203548. Daniel A. Farber, James Ming Chen, Lisa Grow Sun, and Robert R.M. Verchick (2015), Disaster Law and Policy, Philadelphia: WoltersKluwer/Aspen. ISBN 9781454869252 Rosemary Lyster and Robert R.M. Verchick, eds. (2018), Climate Disaster Law: Barriers and Opportunities, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 978-1786430021. Nancy Levit and Robert R.M. Verchick (2016), Feminist Legal Theory, New York: NYU Press. ISBN 978-1479882809. Robert R.M. Verchick (2010), Facing Catastrophe: Environmental Action for a Post-Katrina World, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674047914.