Everything about David Sive totally explained
David Sive is an
attorney,
environmentalist, and professor of
environmental law, who has been recognized as a pioneer in the field of
United States environmental law, and is credited with helping create the field of environmental law. He received a Bachelor of Laws degree from
Columbia Law School in
1948 where he was recognized as a
Harlan Fiske Stone scholar.
In the early
1960's he was involved in a landmark environmental case opposing construction of a power plant on
Storm King Mountain located on the
Hudson River in
New York State, called Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference v. Federal Power Commission, 354 F.2d 608 (2d Cir. 1965) and 453 F.2d 464 (2d Cir. 1971). The Scenic Hudson case established some of the basic first principles of
standing in
United States environmental law and is credited with having helped inspire the passage of the
National Environmental Policy Act and the creation of environmental law as a field and career. (Card, Skip, Scenic Standing; The 40th Anniversary of Scenic Hudson and the Birth of Environmental Litigation, New York State Bar Association Journal, Sept. 2005).
Sive also was involved in the preservation of the "forever wild" clauses of the New York State Constutition preserving the
Adirondack Park and Catskill mountains. Sive has been described as a "pioneer" and "elder statesman" of environmental law by the
New York Times. (Reinhold, Robert, The Law; Coming of Age of the Environmental Lawyer,
New York Times,
April 29 1988). Sive is a founding partner of the environmental law firm
Sive, Paget & Riesel, located in
New York City.
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