<h1 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Delaware Law professor tapped to lead university-wide <br />sustainability initiative</strong></h1>
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<p>Delaware Law is pleased to announce Distinguished Professor <a href="ipl://20//WyIxMjIiXQ==">James R. May</a> has been named chief sustainability officer for Widener University. He will serve as the principal leader for university-wide sustainability efforts that link faculty, staff and students across Widener&rsquo;s four campuses in a common purpose.</p>
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<p>In addition to working with operations and student affairs offices, May will collaborate with the provost&rsquo;s office and university deans to oversee and coordinate Widener&rsquo;s myriad sustainability efforts &ndash; from operations to curricular, co-curricular and extra-curricular programming.</p>
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<p>May, a resident of Wilmington, Del., is an expert in the field of environmental and natural resources law, a former federal litigator and a former engineer. He teaches and writes in the areas of sustainability, global environmental constitutionalism, and constitutional and administrative law.</p>
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<p>Widener University Interim President Stephen C. Wilhite announced May&rsquo;s appointment at the university&rsquo;s opening faculty meeting, calling sustainability &ldquo;one of the defining issues of our times,&rdquo; where he also unveiled Widener&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.widener.edu/campus_life/thinkgreen/default.aspx">Green Pride</a> initiative.</p>
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<p>&ldquo;I am grateful for this opportunity to impact student learning, staff and faculty professional development and the university&rsquo;s leadership role in civic engagement,&rdquo; May said.</p>
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<p>May also directs Delaware Law&rsquo;s <a href="ipl://111//W10=">Global Environmental and Natural Resources Law Institute</a> and serves as an adjunct professor of graduate engineering on Widener University&rsquo;s main campus in Chester, Pa., where he founded and co-chairs a program on marine policy. He has founded or co-founded two nonprofit environmental organizations and has litigated more than 200 public interest environmental claims before tribunals and courts throughout the United States. He is the author or co-author of four books and more than 80 articles and book chapters.</p>
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<p>May is a fellow of the American College of Environmental Lawyers, for whom he has served as a delegate to China. He has advised the Hungarian government on constitutional reform and the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines on modalities of experiential learning and infusing sustainability into higher education.</p>
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<p>Widener University is a metropolitan university that connects curricula to social issues through civic engagement. Dynamic teaching, active scholarship, personal attention, applied leadership, and experiential learning are key components of the Widener experience.&nbsp; Its Delaware Law School is the First State&rsquo;s only law school, providing juris doctor, legal graduate and paralegal degree programs with an emphasis on developing legal professionals who reflect the Delaware Way and its traditions of civility, integrity and mutual respect. The school offers signature programs in corporate and business law, environmental law, family health law and policy, and trial advocacy. Widener University is proud to be tobacco free. Visit delawarelaw.widener.edu for more information.</p>
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