Staff Attorney,
Environmental Law Clinic. Mr. Webster earned a B.A. in physics at Oxford University, a master's in
engineering hydrology from Imperial College,
London, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School,
where he was a Kent Scholar and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Prior to
attending law school, he spent 10 years as an environmental consultant, working
primarily in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and the United States for numerous
private, nonprofit, and governmental clients, such as the European Commission,
the Natural Resources Defense Council, Environmental Defense, and the Sierra
Club. Most recently, Mr. Webster was an associate in the environmental practice
group at Arnold & Porter LLP in New York,
where he represented nonprofit, municipal, and private clients on a wide range
of litigation matters, including landfill siting, control of waste transfer
operations, and contaminated site remediation. While at the clinic, Mr. Webster has litigated a number of cases,
including: the relicensing of the Oyster Creek nuclear power station; the cleanup of various contaminated sites; a proposed diversion of parkland in Monroe
Township; the provision of environmentally friendly affordable housing in
Clinton Township; and the protection of pine snakes in the Pinelands.