Caroline Cecot

Caroline Cecot is a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. Ordinarily, she is a Professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, where she teaches administrative law, environmental law, energy law, and torts.

In her research, Professor Cecot focuses on environmental and energy law and regulation, administrative law, and agency practice of cost-benefit analysis, often applying her expertise in law and economics to evolving issues in these areas. She has published articles in law reviews and peer-reviewed journals, including the Duke Law Journal, Vanderbilt Law Review, American Law and Economics Review, and Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, and she is an author of the casebook Environmental Law and Policy, 5th Ed. (Foundation Press, 2024) (with Richard L. Revesz, Michael A. Livermore, and Jayni Foley Hein). Her articles have been designated as Top 20 environmental law and policy articles by the Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review in collaboration with the Environmental Law Institute, with one of her articles featured as an Honorable Mention for the best article that year. She has also been elected faculty speaker twice by students.

Professor Cecot earned an AB degree, magna cum laude, in economics from Harvard College, a JD from Vanderbilt Law School, and a PhD in law and economics from Vanderbilt University. During her graduate studies, she received the Robert F. Jackson Prize and the Archie B. Martin Memorial Prize for her grades; was elected to Order of the Coif; and served as Senior Articles Editor for the Vanderbilt Law Review. Previously, Professor Cecot was a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Law and Economics at Vanderbilt Law School and clerked for the Honorable Raymond J. Lohier, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She was also a Legal Fellow at the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law and has served on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board’s Economic Guidelines Review Panel.