Bill Dornbos
Associate Director, Yale Center for Environmental Law & PolicyDegrees
J.D., University of Michigan Law School; M.S., Environmental Policy, University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment; B.A., History, Carleton College.
About
Bill is the Associate Director at the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. He is an attorney with experience in environmental litigation and policymaking. He previously worked at the Natural Resources Defense Council, where he served as a special assistant to the NRDC executive team. In that position, Bill handled a series of projects involving policy and management matters. Much of his policy work focused on climate change and energy issues. Before NRDC, he served as an Assistant Attorney General in the New York State Attorney General’s Office, prosecuting a range of environmental enforcement cases. Bill’s other professional endeavors include time as a litigator in private practice on both the plaintiff and defense sides and as a federal law clerk. He graduated in 1998 with a joint degree in law and environmental policy from the University of Michigan Law School and the School of Natural Resources and Environment. He earned a B.A. from Carleton College with a major in history.
