Isabel A. Englehart
Associate
Associate
ienglehart@fishmanhaygood.com 
504.586.5266 
504.389.4087 Practice Focus
About
Isabel Englehart focuses her practice primarily on environmental law. Before joining the firm, she was a policy advisor in former Governor John Bel Edwards’ Office of Coastal Activities, where she assisted in policy development and cross-government coordination related to coastal protection and restoration, as well as statewide climate planning and implementation, including the publication of a Louisiana Priority Climate Action Plan.
Prior to joining the Governor’s Office, Isabel was a senior research fellow with the Tulane Institute on Water Resources Law & Policy where she focused on issues of water governance and management including flood protection authorizations, ecosystem services crediting frameworks, and interstate compacts.
She received her law degree, cum laude, with a Certificate in Environmental Law from Tulane Law School in 2021. While at Tulane, Isabel was a Managing Editor of the Tulane Law Review and Rule XX student attorney for the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic. She received a bachelor’s degree through the Program in the Environment with a specialization in Sustainable Business and a minor in Russian Language, Literature, and Culture from the University of Michigan.
Professional Activities & Community Involvement
- American Association for Justice, Member
- Federal Bar Association – New Orleans Chapter, Member
- New Orleans Bar Association, Member
Recognitions
- Super Lawyers: Louisiana "Rising Star," Environmental Litigation, 2026
Media
- The Levee Disservitude: How and Why Louisiana Should Stop Undermining One of Its Most Essential Powers, 83 La. L. Rev. 841 (2023).
- Capitalizing on Coastal Carbon: The Role of a Blue Carbon Market in Louisiana’s Response to Climate Change and Coastal Land Loss (2023). (an issue paper by the Tulane Institute on Water Resources Law & Policy)
- In Defense of Dirt: Applying Principles of Water and Natural Resources Law to Mississippi River Sediment Management, 95 Tul. L. Rev. Online 1 (2021).
- Center for Biological Diversity v. EPA—The Fifth Circuit Creates A New Hurdle for Environmental Standing, 94 Tul. L. Rev. Online 67 (2020).
- Co-author, Taxing Flaring and the Politics of State Methane Release Policy, 36 Rev. Pol’y Res. 6 (2020).
- Panelist, “Law and Policy of Blue Carbon,” 31st Annual Tulane Environmental Law & Policy Summit, New Orleans, March 2026.
- Moderator, Louisiana Energy Dialogues, Baton Rouge, Nov. 2023.
- “Building Flood Protection with Public Servitudes and Easements,” 2022 RAE Coastal & Estuarine Summit, New Orleans, Dec. 2022.
- Moderator, “Water and Place: Perspectives on Inter-Basin Water Transfers,” 28th Annual Tulane Environmental Law & Policy Summit, New Orleans, March 2022.
- Moderator, “A View from the Bottom of the Watershed: Managing Hypoxia and Nutrient Pollution”, 28th Annual Tulane Environmental Law & Policy Summit, New Orleans, March 2022.
- Moderator, “Nature-Based Solutions to Climate Mitigation and Adaptation”, 28th Annual Tulane Environmental Law & Policy Summit, New Orleans, March 2022.
Credentials
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J.D., cum laude, from Tulane Law School, 2021
- Managing Editor of the Tulane Law Review
- B.S. in Program in the Environment from University of Michigan, 2018
- Louisiana
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