Professor Pidot writes about environmental law, global warming, and federal courts. His current research examines the procedures that courts use to decide questions of jurisdiction and the effects those procedures have on public interest litigants.
Professor Pidot is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, where he teaches environmental law and property. He graduated with high honors from Wesleyan University before attending Stanford Law School, where he graduated with distinction and served as editor-in-chief of the Stanford Environmental Law Journal. After earning his law degree, Professor Pidot served as a fellow at the Georgetown Environmental Law & Policy Institute and as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Judith W. Rogers of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He also worked as an appellate litigator at the Environment & Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he argued more than a dozen cases before federal appellate courts and served as a staff attorney on two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.