Grant Giel is a first year associate and a graduate of Cornell Law School. He has worked with environmental and land use law in a state government context—with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation—and in a public interest context—with the Washington, D.C. office of the Food and Water Watch. At Cornell, he was the Publishing Editor of the Cornell Law Review, as well as the President of the Environmental Law Society and Vice President of the American Constitution Society. Grant is barred in New York, and his Maryland bar application is pending final approval.