Cale Jaffe
- Associate Professor of Law, General Faculty
- Director, Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic
Cale Jaffe is director of the Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Virginia, Jaffe was an attorney with the Southern Environmental Law Center, a leading environmental law and policy organization working at national, state and local levels. From 2013 to 2016, he was director of the center’s Virginia office. He was part of the SELC team that won a unanimous victory before the Supreme Court of the United States in Environmental Defense v. Duke Energy, 549 U.S. 561 (2007), and he has litigated numerous energy-related cases before the Virginia State Corp. Commission. In 2014, Jaffe was appointed by Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe to serve on the Governor’s Climate Change and Resiliency Update Commission.
Jaffe graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in American studies. He earned his J.D. and an M.A. in legal history from the University of Virginia. While a student at Virginia, he served as editor-in-chief of the Virginia Environmental Law Journal, and was a member of the Order of the Coif and the Raven Society. After graduation, he clerked for Judge Norman K. Moon of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia and Judge Roger L. Gregory of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Education
- J.D.University of Virginia School of Law2001
- M.A.University of Virginia2001
- B.A.Yale University1995
Articles:
"Environmental Federalism as Forum Shopping," 44 Wm. & Mary Envtl. L. & Pol'y Rev. (2020).
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"Melting the Polarization Around Climate Change Politics," 30 Geo. Int'l Envtl. L. Rev. (2018).
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"The Toxic Legacy of Coal Ash on Southeastern Rivers, Waterways, and Reservoirs," 40 Wm..& Mary Envtl. L. & Pol’y Rev. 577 (2016).
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"Environmental Law" (with Sean M. Carney), 45 U. Rich. L. Rev. 287 (2010).
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"Air in the Balance: Rewriting the Clean Air Act’s New Source Review Program," 54 Va. Lawyer 30 (Oct. 2005).
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"An Uneasy Rebirth for the Clean Water Act: How Changes in Federal Case Law Impact ‘Isolated’ Wetlands in South Carolina," 16 S.C. Lawyer 36 (Mar. 2005).
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"Obligations Impaired: Justice Jonathan Jasper Wright and the Failure of Reconstruction in South Carolina," 8 Mich. J. Race & L. (2003).
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"The Wetlands Commons: What the Virginia Nontidal Wetlands Resources Act of 2000 Says About the Future of Environmental Regulation," 20 Va. Envtl. L.J. 329 (2001).
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U.S. Supreme Court Briefs:
United States Forest Service v. Cowpasture River Preservation Association, (2020).
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Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Christian, (2019).
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County of Maui, Hawaii v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, (2019).
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Virginia Uranium, Inc. v. Warren, (2018).
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Current Courses
IN THE NEWS
09/24/2020
Climate Change, Overcoming Partisanship, & Joe Biden’s Climate Plan (By Request) (The 101 Policy Corner)
07/31/2020
Judge Rules Against Virginia Uranium’s ‘One Last Effort’ To Mine Chatham Deposit (Danville Register & Bee)
06/18/2020
03/05/2020
02/18/2020
02/15/2020
Clean Economy Act Would Bring Changes to Virginia's Electric Utilities (The Roanoke Times)
01/28/2020
Trump’s New Water Rule: What It Means for Mines and Pollution (The Christian Science Monitor)
01/23/2020
Episode 7 The Meaning of Green: Renewables and Nuclear Power: There is No Free Lunch (The Meaning of Green)
11/22/2019
Following Supreme Court Ruling, Battle Over Uranium Mining Going to Virginia Trial in February (Danville Register & Bee)
10/30/2019
06/18/2019
06/18/2019
06/17/2019
As Uranium Mining Ban Upheld by Highest Court in the Land, Company President Vows To Continue Fight (Danville Register & Bee)
04/15/2019
New EPA Rule Poses Greatest Threat to the Clean Water Act in a Generation (Darden School of Business)
02/14/2019
01/26/2019
Appeals Court Set To Review FERC’s Approval of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (The Roanoke Times)
01/11/2019
11/05/2018
Virginia’s 36-year-old Uranium Mining Ban is on the Supreme Court’s Docket Today (The Virginia Mercury)
11/03/2018
09/15/2018
10/14/2017
Cale Jaffe Column: Trump Just Made Life Harder for Business — And All of Us (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
09/29/2017
New Book Seeks to Revive Debate Over Energy Company Relationships With Policymakers (Southeast Energy News)
08/09/2017
Record Belies Critics of Environmental Rules (The Environmental Forum)
06/10/2017
Apropos Of Something: Trump & Pruitt's Heated Agenda; Living a Transgender Life (Charlottesville Podcasting Network)
02/08/2017
Cale Jaffe Column: Trump Might Be Creating an Opportunity for Environmentalists (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
11/14/2016
Major Companies Call for More Renewable Energy Options in Virginia (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
09/18/2016
Native American Student Union Joins Efforts Opposing Crude Oil Pipeline (The Cavalier Daily)
07/05/2015
Energy Rules Have Virginia Weighing New Nuclear Reactor at North Anna (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
12/06/2012
Environment, Economy, Energy Factors in Debate Over Uranium Mining in Virginia (The Washington Post)
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Faculty in the News
Saikrishna Prakash, The Living Presidency: Saikrishna Prakash on ‘Recaging the Executive Lion’ (American Enterprise Institute)
Risa L. Goluboff, Judicial Review (Democracy in Danger)
Michal Barzuza, Quinn Curtis, Why Millennials Will Win Trump’s War on Socially Responsible Investing (The Hill)
Michael D. Gilbert, 1027 IN FOCUS 2: Possible Turnout Scenario of Trump’s Refusal To Concede to Presidential Election (tbs eFM)
