Sara Gosman

Professor Gosman is an associate professor at the University of Arkansas School of Law who teaches and writes in the areas of environmental and energy law. Her courses include environmental law, energy law and policy, and natural resources law as well as Torts. Her research explores the ways in which uncertainty about risk creates both challenges and opportunities for policy; in her current work, she focuses on the governance of risks from the development and transportation of oil and natural gas. Professor Gosman is an expert on the laws governing the risks of energy pipelines. She has written on rationalism in pipeline safety policy and the treatment of risk in pipeline siting. Since 2016, she has represented the public on the Gas Pipeline Advisory Committee, a federal advisory committee to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation. She is also the President of the Board of Directors for the Pipeline Safety Trust, a non-profit organization devoted to pipeline safety. From 2017-2018, she was a member of a National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine committee on the safety of propane gas facilities. Prior to joining the University of Arkansas School of Law in 2014, Professor Gosman was a lecturer at the University of Michigan Law School. She taught courses in toxics, Supreme Court environmental litigation, environmental justice, and oil and gas law. She has also practiced as a water resources attorney at the National Wildlife Federation and as an assistant attorney general in the environmental division of the Michigan Department of Attorney General. Professor Gosman received an A.B. with high honors from Princeton University and a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where she was senior editor of the Harvard Environmental Law Review. She also holds a master’s degree in public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University.