Craig N. Oren is an expert on the federal Clean Air Act. He teaches Administrative, Environmental Law, Property, Estates and Trusts.
He has written extensively about the Clean Air Act's attempts to
protect clean air; to induce people not to drive to work; and to set air
quality standards that will protect public health. He has
served on the
National Academy of Sciences Committee studying the act's
implementation.
Professor Oren is a graduate of the University of California,
Berkeley, School of Law. Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty in 1984,
Professor Oren clerked for Justice Matthew O. Tobriner of the California
Supreme Court; practiced litigation at Schiff Hardin & Waite in
Chicago; served as assistant counsel for the Subcommittee on Health and
the Environment, Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. House of
Representatives; and was a consultant to the Environmental Protection
Agency's Office of Air and Radiation.
He has been a visiting professor at both the University of North
Carolina School of Law and the University of California, Los Angeles,
School of Law. Professor Oren has lectured widely on environmental
issues around the country. He has served on National Research Council
committees on visibility, hazardous air pollutants, and new source
review, and helped write the reports issued by those committees.
