Currently a senior advisor to Governor Jerry Brown on energy and environmental issues,
and was Acting Director of the Department of Conservation in 2011.
Two of Professor Rechtschaffen's articles were selected for special recognition. His
article on federal oversight of state environmental law programs was selected through
a peer review process as one of the ten best environmental law articles published
in 2003, and his article on enforcement of the Clean Water Act was selected as one
of the twenty best articles published in 2004.
Received a Fulbright fellowship to teach International Environmental Law in Slovenia,
2005.
Practiced environmental law with the California Attorney General and was a special
assistant to California Attorney General Jerry Brown on climate change issues from
2007 - 2010.
Environmental Justice, A Center for Progressive Regulation White Paper, March, 2005. With Eileen Gauna
and Catherine A. ONeill.
A New Progressive Agenda for Public Health and the Environment (Carolina Academic Press 2005). Co-author.
Reinventing Environmental Enforcement and the State/Federal Relationship (Environmental Law Institute 2003). With David L. Markell.
Environmental Justice: Law, Policy and Regulation (Carolina Academic Press 2002). With Eileen Gauna.
California Environmental Law & Land Use Practice, ch. in Enforcement of Hazardous Waste Management Requirements (Kenneth Manaster & Daniel Selmi, eds., 1995).
The Warning Game: Evaluating Warnings Under California's Proposition 65, 23 Ecology Law Quarterly 303 (1996).
Toxic Disclosure Should be Expanded, Not Scaled Back, Center for American Progress, Dec. 18, 2006.
Law and Public Policy Support Lockyer's Suit Against Auto Manufacturers for CO2 Emissions, (with Sean Hecht) California Progress Report, Dec. 11, 2006.
Contributing author. An Unnatural Disaster: The Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Center for Progressive
Regulation Report (Sept. 2005). Rechtschaffen, et al., Environmental Justice, (Center For Progressive
Regulation, White Paper #505, March 2005).
Using California's Anti-Discrimination Laws to Remedy Environmental Injustice, Environmental
Justice Committee Newsletter, ABA Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities (Fall 2003).
The Evidence of Environmental Injustice, 2003 Environmental Law News (Fall).
Environment Factors into Proposition 54: Who We Are, Where We Live Affects Health
of Most Minorities in State, Los Angeles Daily News (Sept. 10, 2003).
Appearing on the Next California Ballot: An Initiative to Ban Information, Urban Habitat (Sept. 2003).