Douglas Kysar

Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law
(on leave, spring 2026)
Education

J.D., Harvard Law School, 1998

B.A., Indiana University, 1995

 
Curriculum Vitae
Courses Taught
  • Climate Change and Animals
  • Animal Law
  • Constitutions and the Environment
  • The Law of Climate Change
  • Torts I
  • Law, Environment and Religion: A Communion of Subjects
  • Products Liability
  • Environmental Protection Clinic
Douglas Kysar

Professor Douglas Kysar is Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law at Yale Law School and faculty director of the Law, Environment and Animals Program. His teaching and research areas include torts, animal law, environmental law, climate change, products liability, and risk regulation. Kysar was previously on the faculty at Cornell Law School. He received his B.A. summa cum laude from Indiana University in 1995 and his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1998. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable William G. Young of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

News

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Renowned Climate Diplomat Joins YLS Professors to Teach Global Climate Change Course

In the wake of the conclusion of the historic Paris Climate Change accords, Yale Law School Professors Harold Hongju Koh and Douglas A. Kysar asked Todd D. Stern to join them in teaching a Fall 2016 course at the Law School on The Past, Present and the Future of Global Climate Change: Law and Policy.
Renowned Climate Diplomat Joins YLS Professors to Teach Global Climate Change Course
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A Communion of Subjects

This spring, Linda Sheehan, executive director of the Earth Law Center, visited a unique new class at Yale, “A Communion of Subjects: Law, Environment, and Religion,” a collaborative effort of the Law School, the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES), and the Yale Divinity School (YDS).
A Communion of Subjects

Contact Information

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Faculty Assistant

Jennifer Marshall
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