Areas of Expertise:

Clean Energy, Climate Change, Energy Economics, Energy Efficiency, Environmental Policy, Hydraulic Fracturing, Natural Gas, Regulation, Renewables

Jamie Van Nostrand is an Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Energy and Sustainable Development at WVU College of Law. Before coming to WVU in July 2011, Mr. Van Nostrand spent three years as a member of the adjunct faculty at Pace Law School in White Plains, NY and Executive Director of the Pace Energy and Climate Center, which is an environmental policy and advocacy organization active on energy and environmental issues in New York and the Northeast. Before entering into law school teaching, Mr. Van Nostrand had a successful career in private law practice as a partner in the Environmental and Natural Resources practice group of large law firms based in the Pacific Northwest. In his 22-year career in private practice, Mr. Van Nostrand represented energy clients in state regulatory proceedings in eight western states, as well as proceedings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Mr. Van Nostrand was recognized by the Energy Bar Association as its 2007 State Regulatory Practitioner of the Year. Before going into private practice, he spent five years with the New York Public Service Commission as an Assistant to the Commission for Opinions and Review and as Assistant to the Chairman.

Mr. Van Nostrand has taught courses in energy and regulated industries, environmental law, emissions trading, administrative law and business associations in various capacities at Lewis & Clark Law School, the University of Tennessee College of Law, the University of Iowa College of Law, and Pace Law School. He has published and lectured widely on emissions trading and strategies for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, energy policy, renewable energy, utility rates and electric restructuring plans, and utility mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Van Nostrand teaches Energy Regulation, Markets and the Environment; Siting and Permitting of Energy Facilities; and the Science and Technology of Energy at WVU College of Law. In his role as Director of the Center for Energy and Sustainable Development, Mr. Van Nostrand is involved in various energy and environmental efforts in West Virginia, offering objective, unbiased research and policy analyses and promoting policies that strike a proper balance between the development of energy resources and protection of environment.

Mr. Van Nostrand received his LL.M. in Environmental Law from Pace Law School in May 2011, his J.D. from the University of Iowa College of Law, his masters degree in economics from SUNY at Albany, and an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Northern Iowa.