Executive Director, Adjunct Professor of Law
Wilf Hall 312
(212) 998-6146
email: danielle.spiegel-feld@nyu.edu

Danielle is the Executive Director at the Guarini Center where her research focuses on domestic and international sustainable energy law and policy. She is also an adjunct professor scheduled to teach a new course on urban environmental law with Professor Katrina Wyman starting in Fall 2018. Previously, she served as a research fellow in Climate Change and the Law at the University of Copenhagen’s Faculty of Law where she studied interactions between international trade law and domestic environmental policy. While in Copenhagen, Danielle lectured in courses on international energy law, international environmental law, and the law of the World Trade Organization. Danielle has written widely on topics in environmental and energy law and policy such as electricity regulation, biofuels policy and groundwater conservation. Danielle received her J.D. from NYU and her B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania. She is admitted to practice law in New York State.

Recent Publications and Blog Posts:

• Daily News: Only Half the Bag Solution
• The Urban Environmental Renaissance
• Do Mandatory Energy Audits Reduce Building Energy Use?: A Bayesian Analysis of New York City’s Local Law 87
• Crain’s: Greening the City from the Top Down
• Expanding Green Roofs in New York City: Towards a Location-Specific Tax Incentive
• Clean and Resilient Power for Caribbean States
• NYT: New York City Should Grade Buildings on Energy Efficiency
• The Promise of Renewable Energy Microgrids for Rural Latin America
• Greening New York City’s Homes: The Case For Requiring Energy Efficiency Upgrades
• Building Demand for Efficient Buildings: Insights from the EU’s Energy Disclosure Regime
• Allocating the Economic Benefits of Renewable Energy Between Stakeholders on Small Island Developing States (SIDS): Arguments for a Balanced Approach
• Deploying Solar Powered Microgrids on Small Island Developing States
• US News: “Power Progress at the Court”
• Brief as amicus curiae in Support of Petitioners in EnerNOC v. Electric Power Supply Ass’n
• Reforming Electricity Regulation in New York State: Lessons from the United Kingdom