Susan Biniaz
Lecturer in Law
(spring term)
Sue Biniaz is a Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. She served for more than 30 years in the State Department's Legal Adviser's Office, where she was a Deputy Legal Adviser, as well as the lead climate lawyer and a lead climate negotiator from 1989 until early 2017.
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Contact Information
Faculty Assistant
Jennifer Marshall
- SLB Room 337
- 203 432 4956
- jennifer.marshall@yale.edu
Education & Curriculum Vitae
J.D., Columbia Law School, 1983
B.A., Yale University, 1980
Courses Taught
- Negotiating International Agreements: The Case of Climate Change
Sue Biniaz is a Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. She served for more than 30 years in the State Department's Legal Adviser's Office, where she was a Deputy Legal Adviser, as well as the lead climate lawyer and a lead climate negotiator from 1989 until early 2017. She is a Senior Fellow at the UN Foundation and is on the adjunct faculty at Columbia Law School. During the winter 2017 quarter, she was a Distinguished Fellow at the Energy Policy Institute of Chicago and taught at the University of Chicago Law School. She attended Yale College and Columbia Law School, and clerked for Judge Dorothy W. Nelson on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.