Leslie Carothers is a Visiting Scholar at the Environmental Law Institute, where she served as President from 2003-2011. The Institute is the leading independent, non-partisan think tank on environmental law and governance and publisher of the Environmental Law Reporter. Its education and capacity building programs are offered internationally as well as in the United States. She has lectured on U.S. public interest litigation practices in ELI’s recent education program for Chinese environmental lawyers presented with law school partners there.