Sam Bookman’s research focuses on comparative constitutional law, and in particular, the relationship between constitutional law and state responses to environmental challenges. His work has been published or forthcoming in Environmental Law and the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. He is active in practice as Senior Staff Attorney in the Environment Program at the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice, where he regularly advises on environmental litigation before international and domestic tribunals. At Harvard, he is a Graduate Fellow at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics. In his native New Zealand, he was Director of the Equal Justice Project (2013), clerked for the Chief District Court Judge of New Zealand (2015–17), and was a Junior Barrister and Litigation Clerk in Auckland (2017). In 2014, he clerked for the President of the Supreme Court of Israel for four months.
