Kevin Anthony Reilly Kevin Anthony Reilly received his J.D. from St. John's University School of Law, his LL.M. in Environmental Law from Pace Law School, and he pursued doctoral studies in History at the City University of New York. He is a principal appellate court attorney with the New York State Supreme Court, First Department, and an adjunct professor of law at St. John's University School of Law, where he teaches, among other courses, Land Use Planning and Environmental Law courses.
He is past Chair of the New York State Bar Association's Environmental Law Section, former Editor of the Section's Journal, the New York Environmental Lawyer, and co-author of Understanding Environmental Law (LexisNexis). Mr. Reilly also writes the annual Commentaries analyzing New York's Environmental Conservation Law for McKinney's Consolidated Laws of New York (Thomson West). Presently he is a member of the Planning Board of Ridgewood, New Jersey, and was a former long-term elected member of the Board, chairman of the Lawyers' Committee, and presently a member of the Land Management Committee, of the Breezy Point Cooperative, Inc., a seaside community adjacent to the Gateway National Recreation Area. Nicholas A. Robinson Nicholas A. Robinson is the Gilbert & Sarah Kerlin Distinguished Professor in Environmental Law at the Pace University School of Law.
Former Deputy Commission and General Counsel of New York's Department of Environment Conservation, Prof. Robinson established Pace's nationally ranked environmental legal education programs and has practiced and taught environmental law for more than 35 years. He is a graduate of Brown University and of Columbia University Law School. He has served as General Counsel to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and was legal advisor to the World Conservation Congress in Switzerland from 1996-2004.