Rachel Guthrie

Rachel Guthrie joined KU Law as an adjunct professor of Environmental Law in 2023. Starting in 2014, Rachel's boutique practice specialized in CERCLA (“Superfund”) cost recovery and contribution litigation in federal cases nationwide, often naming hundreds of potentially responsible parties ("PRPs") in a single case for legacy contamination, often implicating corporate transactions, bankruptcy law and sovereign immunity. Rachel also founded American Wolf Foundation as a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to endangered wolf conservation in 2018.

Rachel began her law career as an environmental associate at a large Kansas City law firm, where she had a diverse practice in civil and criminal litigation, business transactions and regulatory compliance counseling in matters arising under various environmental and energy laws, including CERCLA and Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments for real estate transactions, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Federal Insecticide, Rodenticide and Fungicide Act (FIFRA) and radiation safety and public utilities regulation.