Jeffrey Thaler
Visiting Professor, University of Maine
B.A., magna cum laude, Williams College
J.D., Yale Law School
Office Phone: (207) 228-8539
jeffrey.thaler@maine.edu
Jeff Thaler is the University of Maine’s first Visiting Professor of Energy Policy, Law & Ethics, and also serves as Assistant University Counsel for environmental, energy and sustainability projects and sustainability initiatives. For the past several decades, Prof. Thaler has had a wide-ranging legal practice focusing upon environmental and energy permitting, compliance, enforcement and litigation, as well as litigation for clients with commercial, medical and legal disputes, and insurance coverage, personal injury and toxic tort problems. He has been recognized for his work in environmental and natural resources law, commercial litigation and appellate law, ethics and professional responsibility law, personal injury litigation and professional malpractice law.
Following graduation from Yale Law School, Prof. Thaler clerked for Chief Justice Vincent McKusick and Senior Associate Justice Sidney Wernick of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court before starting his career in private and public interest practice. He is the 2007 recipient of the Justice Louis Scolnik Award for his years of pro bono civil liberties litigation work. Prof. Thaler created and directs an annual program for Williams College students entitled Resettling Refugees in Maine, where students live for over three weeks with a refugee or immigrant family and work with service providers.
In 2010, Prof. Thaler was a founder and a charter member of the American College of Environmental Lawyers. He is the lead author of The Maine Environmental Handbook, the recent Lexis Nexis Treatise Treatment of Greenhouse Gases Under the National Environmental Policy Act, and a Maine Bar Journal article on Maine’s Anti-SLAPP law and case law. He also is a Founder and Co-Chair of the Environmental and Energy Technology Association of Maine. He served for over a decade, including as Chair, of the Maine Supreme Court’s Advisory Committee on the Code of Professional Responsibility.
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