Lisa Goldman

Senior Attorney, Counsel, and Co-Director, Africa Program
202-939-3863
202-939-3868
goldman@eli.org

Expertise

• Armed Conflict and the Environment: post-conflict natural resource management
• Climate Change: energy subsidies and incentives; cap and trade policy
• Environmental Justice: environmental justice issues; community environmental enforcement
• International: intranational foreign laws—Liberia; transboundary environmental impact assessment; post-conflict natural resource management

Profile

Lisa Goldman works on a broad array of domestic and international projects at ELI. Her research interests include forestry and biodiversity in Liberia; environmental justice and community environmental enforcement; energy subsidies and federal climate change legislation; transboundary environmental impact assessment; and constitutional environmental law. She has helped train environmental officials in Chile, Liberia, Laos, and throughout the U.S.

Before joining ELI in 2004, Goldman spent two years working as a Graduate Fellow at the Institute for Public Representation, an environmental law clinic at Georgetown University, and clerked for the Honorable Robert J. Timlin, U.S. District Judge for the Central District of California. She is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer from Niger.

Education

• LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center, 2004
• J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School, 2001
• B.A., Human Biology, Stanford University, 1994

Selected Publications

Assessment of the Legal, Scientific, and Institutional Framework for Biodiversity Protection in the Republic of Liberia (United Nations Environment Programme, Oct. 2007).

Carl Bruch, Mikiyasu Nakayama, Jessica Troell, Lisa Goldman, & Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Assessing the Assessments: Improving Methodologies for Impact Assessment in Transboundary Watercourses, 23 Int. J. Water Resour. Dev. 391-410 (Sept. 2007).

George M. Sikoyo and Lisa Goldman, Assessing the Assessments: Case Study of an Emergency Action Plan for the Control of Water Hyacinth in Lake Victoria, Int. J. Water Resour. Dev. (Sept. 2007).

Tobie Bernstein and Lisa Goldman, Environmental Enforcement in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region: A Community Guide to Enforcement in Texas and Chihuahua (Envtl. L. Inst. 2007).

Brief of Environmental Law Institute as Amicus Curiae (co-author), Rapanos v. United States and Carabell v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nos. 04-1043, -1384 (U.S. filed Jan. 2006).