David Sive

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...