Areas of Expertise
Environmental Law, Climate Change Law, National Security Law, Constitutional Law, Natural Resources Law
Courses
Climate Change Law & Policy, Environmental Law, Natural Resources Law (Energy focus)
Biography
Mark Nevitt is an associate professor of law with tenure at Emory University School of Law, where he joined the faculty in 2022. His research how climate change strains existing legal frameworks, with a particular focus on the national security dimensions of environmental law and emerging challenges in transnational climate governance.
Professor Nevitt was previously an associate professor of law at Syracuse University College of Law and Distinguished Professor of Leadership and Law at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. From 2017 to 2019, he served as the Sharswood Fellow and Lecturer-in-Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
His scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in leading law reviews, including the Stanford Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Washington University Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Yale Journal of Regulation, and Harvard Environmental Law Review, among others. He is a member of the Editorial Board for Lawfare, Journal of National Security Law and Policy, and Just Security, online forums where his work frequently appears. He is also an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for New American Security. He was elected to the American College of Environmental Law in 2025 and is a co-author of the forthcoming 11th edition of Environmental Regulation: Law, Science, and Policy (with Robert V. Percival)
Before entering academia, Nevitt served in the United States Navy as both a tactical jet aviator and Judge Advocate General (JAG) attorney, retiring at the rank of Commander. As an aviator, he logged over 1,000 flight hours and completed more than 290 carrier-arrested landings aboard the USS Constellation (CV 64). As a Navy JAG, he worked as an environmental attorney, criminal defense attorney, international law attorney, and ethics attorney. He also served as senior legal advisor for the US investigation into Iran's detention of US sailors at Farsi Island (2016) and as a White House Military Social Aide. His military decorations include the Air Medal and four Meritorious Service Medals.
Education
Nevitt, originally from Rhode Island, holds a BSE from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and both a JD and LLM (with distinction) from Georgetown University Law Center.