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Amy Laura Cahn is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and teaches climate policy at Tufts University. She is a community-based movement lawyer focused on environmental and climate justice, civil rights, and community empowerment. Her work bridges legal academia and grassroots advocacy, with leadership roles in national coalitions and public interest law organizations.
Her educational background includes a B.A. summa cum laude from Hunter College and a J.D. magna cum laude from Penn Law.
Amy Laura Cahn’s research and professional interests center on environmental justice, climate justice, civil rights, and community-based legal advocacy. She specializes in just transition lawyering, urban agriculture law, and dismantling systemic barriers in environmental and housing policy. Her work emphasizes shifting power to frontline communities and supporting self-determination through legal strategies.
While no recent publications are listed, her professional contributions reflect deep engagement with interdisciplinary justice issues spanning law, policy, and community organizing.
- Skadden Fellow
Amy Laura Cahn has advised and collaborated with numerous community organizations and legal advocacy groups. She founded the Garden Justice Legal Initiative and has led environmental justice practices at the Conservation Law Foundation and the Public Interest Law Center. She has supervised legal clinics and facilitated national networks such as the Just Transition Lawyering Network. Though specific grant details are not mentioned, her Skadden Fellowship and leadership roles indicate significant funding and institutional support for her work.
She is actively involved in several key organizations: convener of the national Title VI Alliance, member of the Jewish Voice for Peace National Board, the Penn Law Alumni Advisory Board for Inclusion & Engagement, the Alternatives for Community and Environment Legal Advisory Board, the Editorial Board for the journal Environmental Justice, and the Environmental Justice Working Group for the federal Environmental Justice for All Act. She is also a co-founder of Bluestockings Bookstore in Lower Manhattan.
