Philip Weinberg
Adjunct Professor of Planning

Philip Weinberg teaches Constitutional Law and Environmental Law at St. John's University School of Law. Prior to his joining the St. John's faculty he was Assistant Attorney General in Charge of the Environmental Protection Bureau in the New York State Attorney General's Office. He argued numerous appeals at the Attorney General's Office, including three at the United States Supreme Court.

A graduate of Columbia Law School, Professor Weinberg writes the Practice Commentary to McKinney's New York Environmental Conservation Law and is author of an environmental law casebook, as well as numerous articles on environmental law and constitutional law. He is a co-author of Understanding Environmental Law (Matthew Bender, 1998) and of Environmental Impact Review in New York, a book devoted to the State Environmental Quality Review Act (Matthew Bender, 1990), and co-editor of Environmental Law and Regulation in New York (West Pub. Co. 1996). He has been Chair of the New York State Bar Association's Environmental Law Section and of the Committee on Environmental Law and Committee on Transportation Law of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He is a member of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council and the Commission on Environmental Law of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.

Professor Weinberg wrote the chapter on federal-state relations, including federal preemption, in the Environmental Law Practice Guide (Matthew Bender).











Contact Details

weinberp@stjohns.edu
Office Hours: By appointment only
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Areas of Expertise

  • Environment
  • International Development
  • Law & Regulation
  • Politics