David Schoenbrod, a pioneer in the field of environmental law, served as a staff attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council during the 1970s, where he led the charge to get lead out of gasoline. He now is Trustee Professor at New York Law School and a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

His latest book, with Richard Stewart and Katrina Wyman, is Breaking the Logjam: Environmental Protection That Will Work (Yale University Press, 2010). The book summarizes the work of a New York Law School-New York University School of Law project, involving a diverse group of fifty environmental law experts, to recommend to Congress how to restructure environmental statutes to achieve their objectives more effectively and efficiently. His other books from Yale are Power Without Responsibility: How Congress Abuses the People Through Delegation; Democracy by Decree: What Happens When Courts Run Government (with Ross Sandler); and Saving Our Environment from Washington: How Congress Grabs Power, Shirks Responsibility, and Shortchanges the People. He has also frequently contributed opinion pieces to the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and the New York Times.

Schoenbrod has degrees from Yale College, Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and Yale Law School.

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