Michael Wara
Associate Professor of Law

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Jonathan P. LaRiviere, A. Christina Ravelo, Allison Crimmins, Petra S. Dekens, Heather L. Ford, Mitch Lyle, & Michael W. Wara, Late Miocene Decoupling of Oceanic Warmth and Atmospheric Dioxide Forcing, 486 Nature 97 (June 7, 2012).
Methods of Cost Containment in a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Program, U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, September 15, 2009 (written testimony of Dr. Michael Wara, Assistant Professor, Stanford Law School / Faculty Fellow, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development / Center Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment).
Michael Wara, Married in Haste We May Repent at Leisure, comment to Obama Urges Passage of Climate Bill, New York Times, June 23, 2009.
Michael Wara and David G. Victor, A Realistic Policy on International Carbon Offsets, Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Working Paper, No. 74 (April 2008).
Michael Wara, Is the Global Carbon Market Working? Nature, February 2007, pg. 595.

michael.wara@stanford.edu

650 725.5310

Education:

BA Columbia University 1995
PhD (Ocean Sciences) UC Santa Cruz 2003
JD Stanford Law School 2006

Expertise:

Climate Change Policy
Energy Law and Regulation
Environmental and Natural Resources Law
International Environment
Regulatory Policy