Ken has spent most of his career litigating and prosecuting the most complex public interest cases, first as Director of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau’s law reform litigation efforts, then as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Colorado, where he was Chief of the Complex Prosecutions Section, prosecuting and directing the prosecution of financial, public corruption, environmental and other crimes.

In the second half of the 1980s, Ken was one of a small group of federal prosecutors who pioneered criminal prosecutions under federal environmental statutes, achieving the first federal convictions under the knowing endangerment provisions of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and numerous other corporate and individual convictions, including prosecutions concerning the notorious Summitville Mine environmental disaster.

In January 1998, Ken was appointed by the UN Secretary-General to serve as one of the senior prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands, where he led the investigation and prosecution of a number of cases involving horrendous war crimes, violations of international humanitarian law and crimes against humanity in Bosnia during the 1990s.

Ken has taught and lectured extensively on the investigation and prosecution of white-collar crime, international criminal justice and environmental crimes. He enjoys a wide-range of outdoor activities, has climbed many of Colorado’s Fourteen-thousand foot peaks, and rafted and canoed many of the West’s rivers, including the Grand Canyon.

Ken joined Earthjustice in September 2011 as the Managing Attorney in the Rocky Mountain office.

Ken Scott graduated with honors from both the University of Colorado (1976) and Harvard Law School (1979), and clerked for U.S. District Judge John Kane in the District of Colorado in 1979–1980.