Blaire Bernstein

Blaire Bernstein is a Postdoctoral Scholar of Climate Action Research and Policy Development at the University of California, Irvine. She carries out research and program development as part of CLEANR’s Integrated and Equitable Climate Action program, a collaborative, community-driven effort to investigate and improve local and regional climate action throughout California and ensure compliance with state climate policy and civil rights laws.

Before joining UCI, Blaire worked as a legal consultant and researcher for the University of Oxford’s Climate Litigation Lab, investigating legal avenues to hold public finance institutions accountable for continued fossil fuel investments. She also worked as a law clerk for Our Children’s Trust, supporting national and international climate litigation efforts and identifying opportunities for strategic climate litigation.

Bernstein earned a J.D. from Villanova Law School and an LL.M. in Global Environment and Climate Change Law from the University of Edinburgh Law School. In addition to serving as a writer and editor for the Villanova Law Review, she worked extensively in the fields of environmental and public interest law as a research assistant as well as for the Institute to Address Commercial Sexual Exploitation and the Clean Air Council.