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Education

Georgetown University Law Center

J.D., May 2000, cum laude

• GPA: 10.42/12.00
• Journal: Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, Editor-in-Chief
• Clinic: Institute for Public Representation, Spring 1999
• Moot Court: Georgetown Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Team, Advocate

Tufts University

Ph.D., Chemistry, 1997

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

S.B., Chemistry (minor in Literature), 1992

Legal Experience

Georgetown University Law Center

Adjunct Professor (2002 to 2003 academic year)

• Teaching the "Applied Scholarly Editing Seminar."

U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division

Appellate Section Staff Attorney (Nov. 2001 to present)

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Judicial Clerk for Judge Ronald Lee Gilman (Sept. 2000 to Aug. 2001)

• Researching and drafting opinions and bench memoranda.

Institute for Global Environmental Strategies

Editor-in-Chief (Summer 2000)

• Edited a new Asian environmental law, science, and policy journal.

Georgetown University Law Center

Research Assistant for Professor John Echeverria (Aug. 1998 to May 2000)

• Summarized state and federal takings cases; tracked and analyzed environmental cases on the current Supreme Court docket.

Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources

Summer Law Intern for the Appellate Section (Summer 1999)

• Researched and wrote legal memoranda and appellate brief for environmental cases.

Georgetown University Law Center

Research Assistant for Professor Richard Lazarus (Sept. 1998 to Feb. 1999)

• Researched, wrote, and presented paper on EPA's authority to condition permits on the basis of environmental justice concerns.

EarthJustice Legal Defense Fund

Legal Clerk (Summer 1998)

• Worked on international environmental law, international trade law, and indigenous peoples' rights in North America and Latin America.

Georgetown University Law Center

Research Assistant for Professor Edith Brown Weiss (Oct. 1997 to Apr. 1998)

• Maintained and updated database of international environmental law statutes.

Awards

• U.S. Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition, Best Brief and Overall Runners Up, Team Competition, Spring 2000.
• Georgetown University Law Center Leahy Moot Court Competition, Best Individual Brief, Fall 1999.
• Graduate Research Traineeship in Environmental Chemistry, National Science Foundation, June 1994.
• Graduate Student Fellowship, Tufts University Center for Environmental Management, for project: Global Warming Potential and Infrared Intensities of Technological Gases: Experimental and Computational Studies, June 1993.

Selected Publications

• Stephanie Tai & Andrew B. Loewenstein et al., Towards a Greener Peace: Nuclear Reprocessing and Security in East Asia, in International Environmental Cooperation: Politics and Diplomacy in Pacific Asia (Paul Harris ed., forthcoming 2001).
• Stephanie Tai, Friendly Science: Medical, Scientific, and Technical Amici Before the Supreme Court, 78 Wash. U. L.Q. 789 (2000).
• Stephanie Tai, Recent Development, Environmental Hazards and the Richmond Laotian American Community: A Case Study in Environmental Justice, 6 Asian L.J. 189 (1999).
• Richard Lazarus & Stephanie Tai, Integrating Environmental Justice into EPA Permitting Authority, 26 Ecology L.Q. 617 (1999).
• Stephanie Tai et al., Reassignment of the Vibrational Spectra of CH₃CHF₂ (HFC-152a), CH₃CHF₃ (HFC-143a), CHF₂CF₃ (HFC-125), and CHCl₂CF₃ (HCFC-123), 55A Spectrochimica Acta 9 (1999).
• Stephanie Tai, Vibrational Spectra, Infrared Radiative Properties, and Transition-State Analysis of CFC Substitutes (1997) (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Tufts University).
• Stephanie Tai et al., Infrared Intensities, Atomic Charges, and Dipole Moments in the Fluoroethane Series Using Atomic Polar Tensor Analysis, 101 J. Physical Chemistry A 9749 (1997).
• Stella Papasavva & Stephanie Tai et al., Infrared Radiative Forcing of CFC Substitutes and their Atmospheric Reaction Products, 102 J. Geophys. Res. 13643 (1997).
• Stella Papasavva & Stephanie Tai et al., Ab Initio Calculations of Vibrational Frequencies and Infrared Intensities for Global Warming Potentials of CFC Substitutes: CF₃CH₂F (HFC-134a), 99 J. Physical Chemistry 3438 (1995).

Bar admissions

United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

• October 30, 2002.

United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

• October 22, 2002.

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

• March 20, 2002.

United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

• February 12, 2002.

United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

• January 31, 2002.

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

• January 28, 2002.

United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

• August, 2001.

Supreme Court of Tennessee

• November 14, 2000.

Cases