Professor Gold earned an A.B. cum laude in biology from Harvard
College and a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an articles editor
of the Yale Law Journal and a supervising student in the
clinical program. After law school he clerked for U.S. district judge
Raymond J. Dearie, Eastern District of New York. In 1989 he joined the
Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of
Justice in Washington, D.C. He held the position of senior attorney,
Environmental Enforcement Section, before joining the law school in
2007. His major cases included trials or settlements relating to
hazardous waste sites under the Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation, and Liability Act as well as the Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act; single and multiple-facility Clean Air Act cases; and
appellate matters under several environmental statutes. During his
tenure at the Department of Justice, he received numerous service awards
from both the department and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Professor Gold has extensive experience in legal teaching and
training as well as litigation. In addition to case updates, and
litigation and mediation training presentations for the Department of
Justice, the EPA, and professional organizations and conferences, he has
appeared as a guest lecturer at Pace Law School and at a community
seminar at Brooklyn Law School.
