Sarah Light

Sarah Light holds the Mitchell J. Blutt and Margo Krody Blutt Presidential Professorship and serves as Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. She is faculty co-director of the Wharton Climate Center, driving interdisciplinary climate research and policy initiatives.

Her research critically examines environmental law's intersection with corporate structures and market dynamics, analyzing how corporate governance frameworks function as environmental regulation. She investigates private environmental governance mechanisms including corporate carbon pricing systems and financial sector decision-making in banking/insurance, while addressing First Amendment implications in greenwashing regulation. This work bridges legal theory, business ethics, and sustainability innovation.

Professor Light's scholarship appears in premier law journals including Stanford Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Duke Law Journal, UCLA Law Review, and University of Pennsylvania Law Review.

Her teaching excellence has been formally recognized through multiple Wharton Teaching Excellence Awards across both undergraduate and MBA programs.

As an active climate policy contributor, she participates in Penn's Climate Seminar series and has presented on energy ethics, ESG frameworks, and green energy transition politics at university events through 2025.