Cymie R. Payne
Cymie Payne is Associate Professor at Rutgers University, focusing on international and environmental law. She has appeared at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea on behalf of the International Union for Conservation of Nature. As legal counsel with the UN Security Council's United Nations Compensation Commission in Geneva, Switzerland, she participated in landmark decisions on the legal responsibility of aggressor states for the restoration and remediation of damage to the environment from armed conflict. As Director of the Global Commons Project at University of California Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy and the Environment, she focused on the linkage of state and international climate policy, particularly with respect to emissions trading systems; conflicts of state law with international trade; and regulating risks of new technologies such as carbon sequestration. She previously practiced natural resource and environmental law at the U.S. Department of the Interior and the law firm of Goodwin, Procter.
Associate Professor, Rutgers University
Chair, IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law, Oceans, Coasts and Coral Reefs Specialist group
Member, Bar of the State of California and the Bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
American Society of International Law, Executive Committee (former)
American Society of International Law, Board of Editors, Insights (former)
University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Juris Doctor
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Master of Arts
The Fishery Landing at Joal, Senegal - ITLOS Case No. 21 Photo Cymie Payne
Cymie Payne