The Center for Progressive Reform consists of a full-time staff and more than 60 Member Scholars who volunteer their time to support and provide independent policy research, advocacy, congressional testimony, legal insight and analysis, and more.
Our Scholars represent dozens of colleges and universities in every region of the country. They live and work in big cities and small towns, on the coasts and in the heartland, and in about half the states — including blue, purple, and red ones.
Member Scholar Maxine Burkett is a Professor of Law at the William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai’i at Manoa. An expert in the law and policy of climate change, she has written extensively in diverse areas of climate change law with a particular focus on climate justice. During the Biden administration, she served as the Assistant Director for Climate, Oceans, and Equity at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oceans, Fisheries, and Polar Affairs in the State Department’s Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. She also served as a Senior Advisor to Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry.
University of Texas Law School
University of Alabama School of Law
University of Florida Levin College of Law
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability
Wake Forest University Law School
Harvard Law School
CUNY School of Law
William S. Richardson School of Law University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Georgetown University Law Center
University of California, Irvine School of Law
Boston University School of Law
University of Kansas School of Law
University of California, Riverside
Syracuse University College of Law
Saint Louis University School of Law
Vermont Law School
University of Richmond School of Law
University of Alabama School of Law
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Case Western University School of Law
University of Florida Levin College of Law
Lewis & Clark Law School
University of New Mexico School of Law
The George Washington University Law School
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
The George Washington University Law School
Earthjustice California Regional Office
American University Washington College of Law
University of Minnesota Law School
University of San Francisco School of Law
University of Michigan Law School
University of Florida Levin College of Law
Wake Forest University School of Law
Yale Law School
University of California, Irvine School of Law
St. John’s University School of Law
University at Buffalo Law School, The State University of New York
University of Texas School of Law
University of Michigan Law School
University of California, Irvine
Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center
Texas Tech University School of Law
Lewis and Clark Law School
University of Kansas School of Law
UC College of the Law, San Francisco
University of Arizona College of Law
George Washington University School of Law
Lewis and Clark Law School
Lewis and Clark College School of Law
University of Michigan Law School
University of Richmond School of Law
Wake Forest University School of Law
Temple University Beasley School of Law
University of Richmond School of Law
University of Wisconsin Law School
Chicago-Kent College of Law
Howard University Department of Earth, Environment, & Equity
University of Cincinnati College of Law
Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
University of Texas School of Law
Texas A&M University School of Law
Howard University School of Law
University of Pennsylvania-Carey School of Law and Kleinman Center for Energy Policy
Penn State University College of Law
Lewis and Clark Law School
Wake Forest University School of Law
Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana