Alisa E. White is the LLM Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law in the Environmental Law and Policy Program at Stanford Law School. She is also an Affiliated Scholar in the Sustainable Cities Program at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. Her primary research interests are in environmental, climate change, property, and land use law, with a particular focus on climate change resilience, sustainable cities, and private environmental governance. She has conducted research on private land conservation, Indigenous land return, and community-based natural resource management in the United States, Mexico, Chile, and Aotearoa New Zealand.

Her scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in Stanford Environmental Law Journal, Ecology Law Quarterly, Environmental Law Reporter, multiple peer-reviewed journals, and the Cambridge Handbook of One Health and the Law.

Alisa holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Master of Environmental Science from Yale School of the Environment, and a B.A., summa cum laude, from Dartmouth College. Alisa served as a law clerk to the Honorable Judge Scott M. Matheson, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and as a Legal Fellow at the Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy, and Land Use Law at New York University School of Law. She remains a Non-Resident Fellow at the Guarini Center. Prior to law school, she worked in environmental data consulting and for an environmental nonprofit in Mexico.