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Professor of Law

Biography

Todd Aagaard joined the Villanova Law School faculty in 2008. He served as vice dean of the Law School from 2015 to 2019.Ìý His scholarship focuses on the fields of environmental law, energy law, and administrative law. ÌýHe has published numerous articles in leading law journals, including the Cornell Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Florida Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, University of Illinois Law Review, and Washington Law Review.Ìý He co-authored (with Andrew Kleit, an energy economist at Penn State) Electricity Capacity Markets, published in 2022 by Cambridge University Press.Ìý In addition, he is a co-author ofÌýPracticing Environmental Law, a practice-based environmental law casebook published by Foundation Press and currently in its third edition.Ìý He is a visiting fellow at Resources for the Future, a nonpartisan environmental economics think tank.

Aagaard received his BA with honors from Pomona College, his MS from the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and the Environment, and his JD magna cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School.Ìý While at Michigan, he was the editor-in-chief of theÌýMichigan Law ReviewÌýand an executive editor of theÌýMichigan Journal of Race & Law.Ìý Following completion of his JD and MS degrees, he clerked for Second Circuit Judge Guido Calabresi, before joining the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice as an attorney in the Appellate Section.Ìý At the Justice Department, he briefed and argued civil and criminal cases in federal courts of appeals in the areas of environmental law, natural resources law, Indian law and administrative law.

Practice Experience

• Judicial Clerk for Judge Guido Calabresi of the Second Circuit
  
• Appellate Attorney, U.S. Dep't of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division
• Joined the faculty in 2008

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