Jody Freeman ( born 1964 ) is the Archibald Cox Professor at Harvard Law School and a leading expert on administrative law and environmental law . She served as Counselor for Energy and Climate Change in the Obama White House in 2009-2010 . Freeman is a prominent scholar of regulation and institutional design , and a leading thinker on collaborative and contractual approaches to governance . After leaving the White House , she advised the National Commission on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on topics of structural reform at the Department of the Interior . She has been appointed to the Administrative Conference of the United States , the government think tank for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of federal agencies , and is a member of the American College of Environmental Lawyers
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Jody Freeman