Richard Revesz assumed the deanship of NYU School of Law on June 1, 2002.

As the Law School's 14th dean, Revesz has championed public service, the increase of scholarships, innovative financial aid programs, and the further deepening and expansion of the school's celebrated Hauser Global Law School Program. He is also the Lawrence King Professor of Law and director of the Law School's Program on Environmental Regulation in the Center on Environmental and Land Use Law.

Revesz joined the Law School faculty in 1985, following clerkships with Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Considered one of the world's leading experts in environmental and regulatory law and policy, Revesz has published over 50 articles and books in environmental law and policy and administrative law. He teaches courses in Environmental Law, Administrative Law and Advanced Environmental Law. He also has been active in a variety of public policy and law reform efforts.

Revesz has served as a member of the Environmental Economics Advisory Committee of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board since 1999. In 1998, he assumed the role of Co-Reporter for the Judicial Review section of the Administrative Procedure Act Project of the American Bar Association Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice. He also has been a member of the Board of Directors of the American Law and Economics Association since 1999.

Revesz received his B.S.E., (1979) summa cum laude, from Princeton University where he majored in Civil Engineering and Public Affairs. He received an M. S. degree (1980) in Civil Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980 and his J.D. (1983) from the Yale Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal.