Steven P. Solow

  • Adjunct Professor
Baker Botts LLP, 700 K St. NW, Washington, DC 20001

Education

B.A., Brown University 
J.D., New York University

Steve Solow is a former Co-Director of the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic (1992 -1994).  Before coming to the Elisabeth Haub School of Law he was a prosecutor with the New York State Organized Crime Task Force.  After leaving the law school, he was an assistant chief and then chief of the Department of Justice’s Environmental Crimes Section until 2000. In 1997, while working at the Department of Justice, he started the Washington DC Externship Program, and has taught the seminar portion of the class ever since.  From 2000 to 2002 he was Co-Director of the Environmental Law Clinic at the University of Maryland School of Law.

He is currently a partner at Baker Botts LLC in the Washington, DC office. His practice focuses on internal investigations, corporate compliance, and environmental civil and criminal litigation. He served as the reporter for the ABA Criminal Justice Standards on Prosecutorial Investigations, and has authored numerous articles and book chapters. He was a recipient of the Burton Award for Distinguished Legal Writing. He is a member of the International Association of Independent Corporate Monitors, and from 2017 to 2022 he served as the Court Appointed Monitor over Carnival Cruise lines, following the company’s conviction for environmental crimes in 2016. Since 2004 he has served as pro bono counsel to the Mines Advisory Group in the U.S., an international NGO that removes land mines and unexploded ordnance around the world. You can learn about this work here https://www.magamerica.org/

Steve received his B.A. from Brown University and his J.D. from New York University School of Law.  He was then a law clerk to the Hon. Harold L. Murphy, United States District Court Judge for the Northern District of Georgia.