About Emily
Emily Griffith builds her work from two clear starting points: a grounding in international studies and a legal education concentrated on environmental law. She earned a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center in 2014, where she studied environmental law. Before law school she read Global Studies, Development and International Relations at the University of California, Santa Barbara, completing a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Her early legal training took place inside federal agencies and nonprofit policy shops. In 2016 she served as a law clerk at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The next year she held two different positions that reflected both policy and legal interests: a Stabile Law Fellowship at the Environmental Working Group and a legal internship at the Center for International Environmental Law. Those roles placed regulatory questions alongside international treaty frameworks and public-interest litigation strategies.
By 2019 she returned to the EPA as a lawyer in Region 9. That position involved counsel work tied to regional enforcement and regulatory matters. It also exposed her to the daily trade of federal environmental practice: rule interpretations, administrative procedures, and interagency coordination. The record of public-sector employment outlines a steady movement from clerking and internship roles into full attorney responsibilities at the agency level.
In 2023 she joined the University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco, as an adjunct professor. In the classroom she brings practical federal experience to students. She teaches courses that touch on environmental regulation, administrative law, and policy. Her teaching emphasizes how legal doctrines translate into agency action.
Griffith’s work crosses regulatory practice and policy analysis. She has handled matters that require familiarity with federal statutes, administrative process, and environmental enforcement. Her background in international relations also informs questions about cross-border environmental problems and international legal instruments, a perspective that has appeared in her public-interest and agency roles.
She is licensed to practice in California and has spent much of her career on issues tied to federal environmental law. Her current practice centers on environmental law and regulatory policy, combining agency-side experience, public-interest litigation exposure, and classroom teaching into a practice focused on advising clients and training new lawyers about the legal mechanics of environmental protection.
