Recent Ph.D. Graduates
http://www.ocean.udel.edu/cms/jfirestone/
Jeremy Firestone (graduated 2000). Jeremy, who comes from Michigan, earned a BS in cellular and molecular biology and a JD at the University of Michigan. He served as assistant attorney general with the Natural Resources Division of the Michigan Department of the Attorney General from 1989 until entering graduate school. Prior to that, he spent three years as an environmental lawyer with US EPA in Boston, and was an intern at the Natural Resources Defense Council. During his graduate career he has interned at Resources for the Future, taught Ethics in Public Policy Decisionmaking (PUPA/PLAN 67), and served as a research and teaching assistant. His dissertation - "Environmental Enforcement Choice: Trading off Equity for Environmental Benefits" - is an institutional and empirical study of EPA choice among administrative, civil judicial, and criminal proceedings to penalize violators. He received two external research awards: an EPA STAR Fellowship and an NSF Dissertation Grant. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor in Public Policy Analysis at UNC-CH during Fall 2000, and was a Senior Lecturer at Duke University Law School during Spring 2001. He conducted research at the UNC Environmental Finance Center on the tax implications of maintaining open-space. In August of 2001 Jeremy was appointed Assistant Professor of Ocean and Coastal Law and policy at the Graduate College of Marine Studies at the University of Delaware. He teaches International Law of the Oceans.
