Heidi Gorovitz Robertson
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 Title: Associate Dean & Professor
 Dept: Law
 Office: LB 130
 Phone: 216-687-9264
 Email: heidi.robertson@law.csuohio.edu
 Address: 2121 Euclid Ave. LB 130, Cleveland, OH 44115

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Education:
B.A., Tufts University
J.D., University of Wisconsin
LL.M., Columbia University
J.S.D., Columbia University
 
Brief Bio:
Prior to joining the law faculty in 1995, Professor Robertson practiced environmental law at Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro (now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman) in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Professor Robertson's research focuses on urban environmental issues. In particular, she has written about the demographic distribution of environmental risk and about legislative and other efforts to redevelop urban brownfields land. Professor Robertson has also written about EPA's quest for a policy concerning the use of data from research on human subjects, specifically in pesticide toxicity studies. Most recently, Professor Robertson has written about the development of the fields of environmental ethics and bioethics.  Professor Robertson has served as a Risk Analysis Fellow in CSU's Program of Excellence in Risk Analysis. From 1999 to 2007, Professor Robertson served on the Board of Trustees of the Clean Air Conservancy, an environmental non-profit. She was a member of the Ohio Lake Erie Commission's Blue Ribbon Task Force on Balanced Growth.  In addition to her appointment to the law faculty, Professor Robertson is a member of the Environmental Studies faculty at the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs.

Teaching Areas: Property, Environmental Law and Policy, Environmental Law
Seminar: International Environmental Law, Environmental Law Clinic