Donald Hornstein

Dr. Donald Hornstein serves as the Aubrey L. Brooks Professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law, where he has established himself as one of the nation's leading environmental law scholars. His excellence in teaching is evidenced by winning the Law School's McCall Award for Teaching Excellence a record eight times and three additional university-wide teaching awards. His academic impact was recognized in Harvard University Press's "What the Best Law Teachers Do," which featured him among 26 of the nation's finest law instructors. As a Fulbright scholar with research experience in East Africa, his environmental law scholarship has twice been recognized in the annual Top 10 national articles, with publications in prestigious journals including the Columbia Law Review and Yale Journal on Regulation. His expertise extends to catastrophic risk insurance, serving on the Board of Directors of North Carolina's Wind Pool. Through his Coursera course "Introduction to Environmental Law and Policy," he shares his expertise in environmental regulation and policy with a global audience. Before academia, he worked at the Department of Justice's Environmental Law Division and represented environmental organizations before the U.S. Supreme Court while at Arnold & Porter.