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Alison Gocke
Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellow, Lecturer in LawBiography
Alison Gocke is a Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law. Her research lies primarily in the fields of environmental law, energy law, and administrative law, with a particular focus on the intellectual framework behind our environmental regulations. She is interested in examining those governance structures that play a central role in addressing environmental issues, with the aim of improving our systems' ability to tackle significant environmental crises like climate change.
Before becoming a Bigelow Fellow, Alison was an Associate Research Scholar at Yale Law School, where she co-directed the Environmental Protection Clinic. She was also previously a legal fellow at the Natural Resources Defense Council and a law clerk to the Honorable Guido Calabresi on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She holds a BA from Princeton University and a JD and MS from Stanford University.
Education
Stanford Law School
JD, 2018
Activities
- Articles Editor, Stanford Law Review
- Supreme Court Clinic
- Research Assistant to Professors David Sklansky, Bob Weisberg, Greg Ablavsky
- Director, Environmental Law Pro Bono
- Co-Founder, SLS Women in Politics (Stanford University Diversity & Inclusion Grant)
Stanford University
MS in Environment and Natural Resources, 2018
Princeton University
BA summa cum laude in Intellectual and Cultural History, Minor in Environmental Studies, 2013
Experience
University of Chicago Law School
Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellow & Lecturer in Law, 2021-present
Yale Environmental Protection Clinic
Co-Director; Clinical Lecturer and Associate Research Scholar, New Haven, CT, August 2020 – August 2021
Natural Resources Defense Council
Yale/NRDC Legal Fellow, Washington, DC, August 2019 – August 2020
The Honorable Guido Calabresi, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Law Clerk, 2018-2019
Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP
Summer Associate, New York, NY, June-August 2016
Google, Nest Labs
Legal Intern, Palo Alto, CA, June-September 2015
Green Corps Environmental Organizing
Environmental Campaign Organizer, Boston, MA, June-September 2013
US House Committee on Natural Resources
Intern for ranking Democratic Representative Ed Markey, Washington, DC, June-August 2012
University of Virginia School of Law
Research Assistant to Professor Risa L. Goluboff, October 2010 – March 2011
Presentations
- Moderator, Annual Supreme Court Review and Preview, Environmental Law Institute (October 1, 2020)
- Nodal Governance of the U.S. Electricity Grid, Santa Clara University, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association (August 3, 2018)
Memberships and Professional Affiliations
- Barred in New York
Awards and Honors
- Gerald Gunther Prize for Outstanding Performance in Property Law, Comparative Law, Federal Indian Law, and Legal Ethics; Hilmer Oehlmann, Jr., Award in Federal Litigation
- Kirkwood Moot Court 2015-16 Winner (Best Brief & Best Overall)
- Pro Bono Distinction
- Rhodes Scholar Finalist
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence
- Law and Society Association Undergraduate Prize
- Peter W. Stroh ’51 Environmental Senior Thesis Prize
- Laurence Hutton Prize in History
- C.O. Joline Prize in American History
- Princeton Prize in American History
- William Koren, Jr., Memorial Prize in History