Chairman
Professor Coplan is co-director of the
Environmental Litigation Clinic at
Pace University.
Eight years prior to joining the Pace faculty,
he practiced land use and environmental
litigation in New York City
with the firm Berlet, Kiss & Case.
Professor Coplan’s career in private practice
includes numerous environmental and civil
rights cases on behalf of citizens groups and
plaintiffs. Two such cases were Houston v. City
of Cocoa, which applied federal environmental
review laws to federally financed municipal
redevelopment activities designed to displace a
minority community, and County of Westchester
v. Town of Greenwich, which established that an
airport could not cut trees on neighboring
properties under a theory of prescriptive
rights. Before entering private practice, he
clerked for The Honorable Warren E. Burger,
Chief Justice of the United
States, and
The Honorable Leonard I. Garth, Circuit Judge
of the United States Court of Appeals for the
Third Circuit.
