Graduation Date: June 2011
Degree(s): J.D.; M.E.M. Environmental Policy, Economics, and Law (Yale School of Forestry
and Environmental Studies); B.A. History (The University of Texas at Austin)
After graduating from Stanford Law School, Bruce will join NRDC’s Air and Energy Program, where he will focus on energy efficiency and other policies to tackle global climate change. During the fall of 2010, while in law school, Bruce worked for NRDC in Beijing, and spent two summers at the California Air Resources Board and California Environmental Protection Agency working on the state’s climate policies. As a student, Bruce represented Stanford at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in 2009. He also advocated before the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism Executive Board in Bonn as part of his work in the Stanford Environmental Law Clinic. Bruce served on the boards of Stanford’s Environmental Law and Energy Societies, co-chaired the 2009 Shaking the Foundation’s Conference on Progressive Lawyering, and was a public interest fellow and mentor at the Levin Center for Public Service and Public Interest Law. Prior to Stanford, Bruce developed stream and wetland protection policies for the State of California and earned a Masters degree in Environmental Management from Yale.