Prof. Hari Osofsky Receives Distinguished Service Award from the Association for Law, Property, and Society

At its recent annual meeting, held at the School of Law at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, the Association for Law, Property, and Society (ALPS) honored Professor Hari Osofsky with its Distinguished Service Award. The award, established last year, recognizes honorees for “using their expertise to improve the quality of people’s lives locally, nationally, or internationally; serving as mentors to junior faculty and others interested in teaching and research in property law; and serving and enlarging the community of property law scholars.”

The ALPS is an international, interdisciplinary organization of property scholars, founded in 2010. Osofsky has been involved with the ALPS in a leadership capacity since its inception, serving as president in 2012-13 (when its annual meeting was held at the University of Minnesota), as a board member, and as a member of the mentoring committee. “I was incredibly surprised, touched, and honored that the ALPS chose to give me the Distinguished Service Award in just its second year,” Osofsky said. “The organization has so many wonderful people involved who have provided extraordinary service.”

Osofsky is a professor of law, the faculty director of the Energy Transition Lab, the director of the Joint Degree Program in Law, Science, and Technology, and a fellow with the Institute on the Environment. Her more than 50 publications focus on improving governance and addressing injustice in energy and climate change regulation. Her professional leadership roles beyond the Association for Law, Property, and Society have included, among others, serving as chair of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Property and as a member of the executive council of the American Society of International Law and the International Law Association’s Committee on the Legal Principles of Climate Change. She is a member of the Society of American Law Teachers Board of Governors, the International Bar Association’s Model Statute on Climate Change Remedies Working Group, and the editorial board of Climate Law.