Gabriel A. Weil
Gabriel Weil is an assistant professor of law at Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, where he teaches torts, law and artificial intelligence, climate change law and policy, and related environmental-law courses.
His research focuses on climate-change law and policy, artificial-intelligence governance, and tort law’s role in mitigating catastrophic risks from artificial intelligence. His climate scholarship explores legal and policy tools for addressing the mismatch between existing institutions and the challenge of climate change, including geoengineering governance, global-commons problems, and subnational climate policy.
Before joining Touro, Weil served as a non-resident senior fellow at the Institute for Law & AI, formerly the Legal Priorities Project. He also held fellowships with Principles of Intelligent Behavior in Biological and Social Systems and the Institute for Law & AI.
Weil previously was a visiting professor at the University of Wyoming College of Law, a visiting researcher at Georgetown University Law Center, and manager of research at the Climate Leadership Council.
Earlier, he held positions with the University of California, Irvine School of Law’s Center for Land, Environment, and Natural Resources; the Ford Foundation U.S.-China Climate Policy Exchange Program; the Pace Energy and Climate Center; the Sri Lanka delegation to the United Nations; the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials; the Energy Programs Consortium; the National Housing & Rehabilitation Association; the Georgetown Climate Center; the White House Council on Environmental Quality; and Georgetown University Law Center.
He earned a J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center where he served as executive editor of the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review. He also earned an LL.M. in environmental law, summa cum laude, from Pace University Elizabeth Haub School of Law; and a bachelor’s from Northwestern University.
Gabriel A. Weil
May 11, 2026
Catherine Sharkey’s “Punitive Damages as Societal Damages” addresses a tension that has been obvious for decades, but usually treated as an annoyance: punitive damages are justified in public-regarding terms—punishment, deterrence, and condemnation—yet delivered through private litigation and typically paid to a single plaintiff. The doctrinal rhetoric often tracks conduct broad in scope, such as systematic ... ‘Punitive Damages as Societal Damages,’ by Catherine M. Sharkey
