Steph Tai

Steph Tai is the Associate Dean for Education and Faculty Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.  They are also a law professor at the University of Wisconsin, working on the intersections between environmental and health sciences and administrative law. Steph has a chemistry background (MIT undergraduate, Tufts University Ph.D.) and a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center. Prior to teaching at Wisconsin, they worked as editor-in-chief of the International Review for Environmental Strategies, a law clerk to on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and an appellate attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice.  Steph also actively represents amici in federal circuit court and Supreme Court cases, including Massachusetts v. EPA—the first climate change case brought before the U.S. Supreme Court—and County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund—a recent case in which their co-authored amicus brief was cited.