Eric Glitzenstein is the Director of Litigation at the Center for Biological Diversity, a national conservation organization dedicated to preventing human-caused extinctions and protecting life on Earth. Mr. Glitzenstein oversees and coordinates the Center’s litigation of cases brought under the Endangered Species Act, National Environmental Policy Act, Migratory Bird Treaty Act, Clean Water Act, and other statutes.
Prior to working with the Center, Mr. Glitzenstein was the co-founder (with Katherine Meyer) and Managing Partner of the D.C.-based firm Meyer & Glitzenstein, one of the nation’s leading public-interest law firms. The firm specialized in the protection of wildlife and captive animals, environmental and natural resource conservation, and open government cases, among other issues.
Prior to co-founding Meyer & Glitzenstein in 1993, Mr. Glitzenstein was a staff attorney with the Public Citizen Litigation Group, working on a wide variety of public-interest issues, including open government, nuclear safety, and environmental and natural resource protection. Mr. Glitzenstein has been a Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School and has also taught courses and classes in wildlife, animal, and public interest law at the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown, Cornell, Columbia, American University, and George Washington, among others.
Mr. Gitzenstein is a 1978 graduate of Johns Hopkins University and a 1981 graduate (magna cum laude) of the Georgetown University Law Center. Following graduation from law school, he clerked for U.S. District Judge Thomas Flannery of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.