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Christophe Courchesne

Titles

  • Interim Director, Environmental Law Center
  • Director, Environmental Advocacy Clinic
  • Associate Professor

Degrees

  • JD, Harvard University, 2004
  • BA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2001

Contact

Phone: 802-831-1627

Biography

Christophe Courchesne is the Director of the Environmental Advocacy Clinic and an Assistant Professor of Law. He has litigated environmental cases for nearly two decades. Before joining Vermont Law and Graduate School in 2022, he was Deputy Chief of the Energy and Environment Bureau and Assistant Attorney General at the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, leading work on the climate crisis, federal policy, environmental and racial justice, and clean energy. Prior to his bureau leadership, Professor Courchesne was Chief of the Environmental Protection Division at the AG’s Office, with oversight of the division’s civil enforcement docket, federal litigation and advocacy challenging Trump-era regulatory rollbacks, and defense of Massachusetts environmental agencies. Professor Courchesne was previously a Senior Attorney at Conservation Law Foundation, an associate in the environmental, energy, and land use practices at Goodwin Procter LLP, and a law clerk for the Honorable Robert Cordy at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. He has been admitted to practice in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and various federal courts.

Professor Courchesne received his Juris Doctor cum laude from Harvard Law School. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in English, summa cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 

Expertise

  • Administrative Law
  • Energy Law and Regulation
  • Environmental Law

Departments

  • Environmental Advocacy Clinic
  • Environmental Law Center