 Professor Trish McCubbin served as a Fulbright Scholar in China in the spring semester of 2007. She taught American environmental and administrative law to students at the Wuhan University School of Law in Wuhan, China, which is home to the Research Institute for Environmental Law, one of the nation’s premier institutions in this field. There she worked with Chinese colleagues on issues related to the country’s domestic efforts to address climate change, culminating in China and Climate Change: Domestic Environmental Needs, Differentiated International Responsibilities, and Rule of Law Weaknesses, an article published as part of a symposium held at the University of Houston in February 2008.
Since her return from China, her scholarship has continued to focus on climate change, and she has regularly spoken on the topic at law schools and legal conferences. For example, she contributed an article to an SIU symposium on EPA’s Endangerment Finding for Greenhouse Gases and the Potential Duty to Adopt National Ambient Air Quality Standards to Address Global Climate Change. In addition, her article, Cap and Trade Programs Under the Clean Air Act: Lessons from the Clean Air Interstate Rule and the NOx SIP Call, built on her presentation at a March 2009
conference on Regulating Climate: What Role for the Clean Air Act?, sponsored by the Duke University School of Law and the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. In the spring of 2010, she will appear again at Duke, as well as speak at the Florida State University College of Law and at Lewis and Clark Law School’s conference on The Clean Air Act at 40.
At her home institution, Professor McCubbin and her husband, Eric, are active in the Fulbright Alumni Association and the SIU International Friends Club. She and Eric provide friendship and assistance to international students in Ph.D. and Masters Degree programs at SIU from all around the world.
She has been a member of the SIU faculty since 2000, teaching environmental law, administrative law, a climate change seminar, and other environmental courses. She received the Outstanding Teaching Award for 2008-2009 and the Outstanding Scholarship Award for 2006-2007.
Professor McCubbin received her J.D. in 1990 from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she also served as Executive Editor of the Journal of Law & Politics. She received her B.A. in Political and Social Thought from the University of Virginia in 1985, graduating with High Honors and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. |
