Faculty
Robert Anderson
Senior Trial Attorney, Environmental Crimes Section, U.S. Department of Justice
Mr. Anderson prosecutes violations of federal environmental laws across the U.S., including transnational smuggling of live wildlife and parts, unlawful commercial fishing, commercial big game poaching, and corporate taking of protected species. He specializes in supervising and prosecuting long-term undercover international investigations and working with foreign governments in extradition and MLAT matters. He has received numerous awards and commendations, and has twice received the U.S. Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award, for work in international wildlife criminal prosecutions. He has written and taught across the globe on the subject of environmental law enforcement and is the author of many training materials and articles. Mr. Anderson earned his BS and JD degrees from the University of Montana.
Mary Jane Angelo
Associate Professor of Law, University of Florida, Levin College of Law
Professor Angelo joined the University of Florida faculty in 2004 after many years of environmental law practice, including serving as an assistant judicial officer and then as a senior attorney for the U.S. EPA in Washington, D.C., and serving as a senior attorney for the St. Johns River Water Management District in Florida. Her substantial environmental law practice has included water law, wetlands law, endangered species law, pesticides law, biotechnology law, and hazardous and toxic substances law. Professor Angelo received her BS degree in biological sciences from Rutgers University and her MS in entomology and JD degrees from the University of Florida.
Oscar Avalle
Country Manager, Bolivia Office, World Bank
Mr. Avalle was the special representative of the World Bank to the United Nations from 2006 to 2008. Before that he was World Bank’s operations manager for Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela posted in Lima, Peru, and the special assistant to the World Bank’s vice president for Latin America and the Caribbean. Until 1998, Mr. Avalle worked at the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the financial mechanism that assists developing countries in responding to global environmental challenges. Before joining the World Bank, Mr. Avalle was an Argentine career diplomat representing his country from 1991 to 1996 in the United Nations negotiations related to sustainable development and humanitarian affairs. Among others, he served with the Argentine delegation to Rio, UNCED, to the Climate Change Convention, and the Biodiversity Convention. He received his MBA degree from Georgetown University and MA in political science, diplomacy, and international relations from the Catholic University of Argentina and the Foreign Service Institute of the Argentine Foreign Ministry.
David C. Batson
Senior Collaboration and ADR Specialist, U.S. EPA
Mr. Batson provides support to parties involved in environmental, public policy, and workplace disputes, including service as an ADR neutral, consultation on the use of ADR and employing ADR professionals, training, and design of effective dispute systems. He has over 30 years of conflict resolution experience spanning all major environmental programs, including 21 years as an ADR professional specializing in public policy, hazardous waste, and site/facility related disputes, and service as senior counsel for the Office of Enforcement. An experienced mediator and facilitator, he has served clients in over 300 disputes, some involving up to 1200 parties. In addition, he is the author of guidance for federal agencies on mediation practice and ADR confidentiality. He is an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law Center and a frequent speaker on the effective use of negotiation and ADR in environmental disputes.
Don Baur
Partner, Perkins Coie
Mr. Baur’s practice focuses on public lands, energy resources, marine resources, fish and wildlife, wetlands, endangered species, NEPA, and Indian law. He has published numerous articles and served as adjunct professor of wildlife law at Golden Gate Law School and instructor for the Environmental Law Institute and American Bar Association. He is coeditor of the American Bar Association’s treatises on the Endangered Species Act and ocean and coastal law. Prior to joining Perkins Coie, he was general counsel to the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission and attorney-advisor in the Solicitor’s Office of the Department of the Interior. Mr. Baur received his BA degree, with highest honors, from Trinity College and his JD degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
Laurie Beyranevand ’03
Assistant Professor of Legal Writing, Vermont Law School
Before joining the faculty at VLS, Professor Beyranevand was a staff attorney with the Disability Law Project of Vermont Legal Aid, Inc. She has served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Marie E. Lihotz, PJFP, in New Jersey and in the Office of the Vermont Attorney General, Environmental Unit. She directs the MELP and LLM Internship Program and teaches Environmental Research and Writing at VLS. She earned her BA degree from Rutgers College and her JD degree from Vermont Law School.
Peter Bradford
Former Member, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Former Chair, New York and Maine Utility Regulatory Commissions
Mr. Bradford has taught at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He currently serves on Vermont’s Public Oversight Panel for the audit of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant and has served on several other state, federal, and international advisory panels pertaining to nuclear power, including a panel advising how best to replace the remaining Chernobyl nuclear plants in Ukraine. He is a member of the Policy Advisory Council of the China Sustainable Energy Project. Mr. Bradford is vice-chair of the board of the Union of Concerned Scientists. He received his BA degree and his JD degree from Yale University.
David J. Brower
Planner, Lawyer, and Research Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Professor Brower teaches courses in land use and environmental planning, coastal zone management, planning law, sustainable development, and environmental ethics. He is the author and coauthor of several books, the latest of which is Hazard Mitigation. Professor Brower is counsel to the Hartford, Connecticut, law firm of Robinson & Cole LLP. His undergraduate and law degrees are from the University of Michigan.
Cindy Cook
Principal, Adamant Accord, Inc.
Ms. Cook is a nationally recognized mediator and facilitator and principal of Adamant Accord, Inc., a firm that specializes in environmental dispute resolution and the design and implementation of public involvement processes for complex public policy issues. She is a Land Use Institute fellow at VLS and served as an Act 250 coordinator for the Vermont Environmental Board for seven years. She currently serves on the board of directors of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR), and as immediate past cochair of ACR’s Environment and Public Policy Section. She received her BA degree from Yale University.
Michael Dworkin
Professor of Law and Director, Institute for Energy and the Environment, Vermont Law School
Professor Dworkin is past chair of the Vermont Public Service Board. He clerked for the D.C. Court of Appeals, represented U.S. EPA in appellate litigation, and was general counsel of the Vermont Public Service Board before becoming its chairman. He has served as chair of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners’ (NARUC) Committee on Energy Resources and the Environment, and was a director of the Electricity Innovation Institute. Professor Dworkin earned his BA degree from Middlebury College and his JD degree from Harvard Law School.
Tim Eichenberg
Chief Counsel, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission
Mr. Eichenberg has published more than 30 articles and reports on environmental issues, and co-edited the American Bar Association’s treatise on Ocean and Coastal Law and Policy. He has served as legal counsel for the California Coastal Commission, The Ocean Conservancy, Oceana, and Environmental Defense Center. He is a former chair of the Clean Water Network in Washington, D.C., and co-founder of the Casco Baykeeper Program in Maine. Mr. Eichenberg has lectured at the University of Maine School of Law, Golden Gate University School of Law, and the Environmental Law Institute. He earned his BA degree from Earlham College, his JD degree from the Washington University School of Law, and was a postdoctoral fellow in marine policy at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Peg Elmer
Associate Director, Land Use Institute, Vermont Law School
Ms. Elmer has over 30 years of applied experience in community planning in New England. After working at the local level as a town planner, zoning administrator, and health officer, and as a consultant and then as a coordinator of Act 250 projects, she moved to state-level policy coordination. She staffed the Governor’s Commission on Vermont’s Future that resulted in Act 200, the Vermont Growth Management Act. She was the land use policy program director at the Vermont Natural Resources Council prior to coming to the Vermont Department of Housing and Community Affairs, where she served as planning director for close to 10 years before joining the Land Use Institute at VLS in 2007.
David B. Firestone
Professor of Law, Vermont Law School
Professor Firestone has been a member of the Vermont Law School faculty since 1973. He is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and Vermont. He has been an engineer in the automotive and aerospace industries; an attorney with the Office of Regional Counsel (Boston), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; a visiting fellow in the Faculty of Laws, King’s College, London; a lecturer and seminar leader in Eastern Europe, Austria, Micronesia, Madagascar, and Russia; a consultant to the World Bank; a counsel to practicing lawyers; and a member of the Fulbright Senior Specialist Roster. Professor Firestone is the author of Environmental Law for Nonlawyers. He received his BSME degree from Wayne State University and JD degree from Harvard University.
Philip J. Harter
Professor of Law and Senior Fellow of the Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution of the University of Missouri
Formerly director of the Program on Consensus, Democracy, and Governance, and visiting associate professor of law at Vermont Law School, Professor Harter has been a pioneer in both the theory and practice of the use of consensus and other forms of dispute resolution involving government agencies. He was a principal draftsman of the Negotiated Rulemaking Act and of the Administrative Dispute Resolution Act. Professor Harter served as cochair of the ABA’s Task Force on Regulatory Reform, in which capacity he represented the ABA in the regulatory reform debates before Congress.
Barry E. Hill
Senior Counsel for Environmental Governance, Office of International Affairs, U.S. EPA
Previously, Mr. Hill was the director of the Office of Environmental Justice at EPA. He has also served as the associate solicitor of the Division of Conservation and Wildlife and director of the Office of Hearings and Appeals of the Department of the Interior. Prior to that, he was counsel to the international law firm of Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin, project manager in the Superfund Business Unit of ICF Inc., special counsel to the attorney general of the District of Columbia, legal counsel to the inspector general of the U.S. EPA, law secretary to the deputy administrative judge of New York City (Criminal Division), and an assistant district attorney in Brooklyn. He has taught at Antioch School of Law and American University’s Washington College of Law, and has published several articles. Mr. Hill received his BA degree in political science from Brooklyn College, MA degree in political science from Howard University, and JD degree from Cornell Law School.
Randolph Hill
Deputy Director, Office of Civil Enforcement, U.S. EPA
Mr. Hill has served in his current position at EPA since 2004, where he helps to oversee the management of EPA’s civil enforcement of the major environmental statutes. Prior to that, he spent over 15 years in EPA’s Office of General Counsel and served as the agency’s national legal expert for many Clean Water Act issues. He has taught environmental law as a visiting professor at Tulane University, and public administration at the University of Maryland, University College, where he was a finalist for the Excellence in Teaching Award in 1998. Mr. Hill obtained his JD and master of public policy degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif.
Paul Hines
Assistant Professor, University of Vermont School of Engineering
Before coming to UVM, Professor Hines worked as a research scientist at the U.S. DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory; for the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, where he studied interactions between nuclear power plants and the transmission network; for Alstom ESCA, where he designed a short-term load forecasting tool; and for Black and Veatch, where he worked on various substation design projects. His research interests include complex systems and networks, the control of cascading failures in power systems, and energy system reliability and policy. He received his PhD degree in engineering and public policy from Carnegie Mellon University, his MS degree from the University of Washington, and his BS degree from Seattle Pacific University.
Jessica Jay ’97
Founding Partner, Conservation Law, P.C.
Ms. Jay’s law firm is devoted to ensuring the permanence of land conservation through sound land conservation transactions and the defense and enforcement of perpetual conservation easements. She represents and partners with land trusts, government entities, and landowners to conserve working landscapes and environmentally significant properties in the Rocky Mountain West. She actively engages conservation professionals, land trusts, and landowners in conservation workshops and discussions. Ms. Jay collaborates with the land trust community and easement holders to develop and implement legal defense and enforcement mechanisms for easement holders, to protect and defend easements and their perpetual nature during both legal and legislative challenges, and to design and protect conservation easement incentives. She received her BA degree from Bowdoin College and JD and MSEL degrees from Vermont Law School.
Mark Latham
Associate Professor of Law, Vermont Law School
Professor Latham joined the VLS faculty in 2005. His areas of expertise include CERCLA, environmental issues in corporate transactions and commercial real estate, and brownfields redevelopment. He was formerly partner and chair of the Environmental Practice Group of the Chicago and Washington, D.C., law firm of Gardner, Carton, and Douglas. He represented as defense counsel businesses, municipalities, and individuals in state and federal, civil and administrative enforcement actions under the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, CERCLA, RCRA, and EPCRA, and has counseled regarding regulatory compliance under all major environmental statutes. He has evaluated environmental liabilities, drafted and negotiated environmental contractual provisions, and has advised in the remediation of contaminated properties. He received his BSN degree from Wesleyan University and his JD degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
Tom Lautzenheiser
Central/Western Regional Scientist, Massachusetts Audubon Society
Mr. Lautzenheiser is an expert field naturalist concentrating on plants, reptiles, amphibians, butterflies, and landscape interpretation. He is also a skilled community ecologist with particular interest in wetlands and rich northern hardwood forests. Mr. Lautzenheiser is responsible for guiding ecological management planning for Massachusetts Audubon’s 33,000-acre sanctuary network, and works with his land protection, science, and property management colleagues to ensure that Massachusetts Audubon’s activities consistently achieve their conservation goals. He received his BS degrees in biology and environmental studies from Tufts University and his MS degree in natural resource planning/ecological planning from the University of Vermont.
Lela Love
Professor of Law and Director, Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution and the Cardozo Mediation Clinic, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
In addition to two decades of teaching, training, consulting, and writing in the dispute resolution field, Professor Love serves as a mediator, arbitrator, and dispute resolution consultant in a wide range of cases. Since 1985, she has mediated hundreds of community, civil court, and employment discrimination cases with students in her mediation clinic at Cardozo School of Law. Independently, she has served as the mediator of family, human rights, civilian and police-officer, school-based, probate, and commercial cases. She is the immediate past chair of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section. She has coauthored three law school text books on dispute resolution, numerous book chapters and articles, as well as the book, The Middle Voice, coauthored with Joseph Stulberg. Professor Love earned her BA degree from Harvard University, her MEd degree from Virginia Commonwealth University, and her JD degree from Georgetown University.
L. Randolph Lowry
President and Professor of Management, Lipscomb University, Nashville
Formerly professor of law and director of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University School of Law, Professor Lowry is a lawyer, mediator, and teacher-professor. He is also the author of several books including West’s Negotiation and Settlement Advocacy. In addition to his work in law schools, he has trained more than 30,000 lawyers and managers in negotiation skills for organizations such as Nike, Pacific Gas and Electric, and State Farm Insurance and for bar associations across the country. Professor Lowry received his BA and MPA degrees from Pepperdine University and his JD degree from Hamline University School of Law.
Dwight Merriam
Land Use Group, Robinson & Cole LLP
Mr. Merriam founded Robinson & Cole’s Land Use Group in 1978. He represents land owners, developers, governments and individuals in land use matters including eminent domain, regulatory takings, and tax appeals. He is a fellow and past president of the American Institute of Certified Planners, a former director of the American Planning Association, chair-elect of the American Bar Association’s Section of State and Local Government, a fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. He also teaches land use and zoning law at the University of Connecticut School of Law and has published six books and over 200 articles. He received his BA degree from the University of Massachusetts, his masters of regional planning degree from the University of North Carolina, and his JD degree from Yale University.
Alan S. Miller
Global Environment Facility Coordinator and Team Leader, Climate Change, International Finance Corporation
The IFC is the private-sector lending arm of the World Bank Group. Mr. Miller is a lawyer with 35 years’ experience in energy and environmental issues, both domestically and internationally. He was previously team leader for Climate Change for GEF and also created and directed the Center for Global Change at the University of Maryland and the Renewable Energy Policy Project. Earlier in his career, he was a staff member of the World Resources Institute and the Natural Resources Defense Council. He is the coauthor of Environmental Regulation: Law, Science and Policy and Green Gold. He received his BA degree from Cornell University and JD and MPP degrees from the University of Michigan.
Patrick A. Parenteau
Professor of Law and Senior Counsel, Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic, Vermont Law School
Professor Parenteau has served as the director of the Environmental Law Center and handled a number of key cases under the ESA and other environmental statutes, and served as special counsel to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the northern spotted owl exemption proceeding. He has also served as commissioner of the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation, general counsel for the New England Regional Office of U.S. EPA, vice president for conservation of the National Wildlife Federation, and environmental counsel with the Perkins Coie law firm in Portland, Oregon. Professor Parenteau received his BS degree from Regis College, JD degree from Creighton University, and LLM degree in environmental law from George Washington University Law School.
Curtis Pew
Associate Clinical Professor and Attorney-in-Charge, Securities Arbitration Clinic, Hostra University School of Law
Professor Pew supervises law students in representing securities investors, subject to certain income, residency and size-of-claim restrictions, who pursue claims arising from retail securities investments. He has worked as a lawyer specializing in arbitral matters arising in maritime law, and then in arbitration of international commercial and securities-related domestic disputes. Previously, he was an adjunct professor at Cardozo Law School where he taught International Commercial Arbitration as well as coached the school’s Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot team. He received his BA degree from Tulane University, his MPPA degree from the University of Wisconsin, and his JD degree from George Washington University.
Walter Poleman
Senior Lecturer, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont
Professor Poleman teaches courses in integrated field science, landscape ecology, and measurements and mapping of natural resources. He also serves as the director of the Place-based Landscape Analysis and Community Education (PLACE) Program, a partnership of University of Vermont and Shelburne Farms, which provides local residents with a forum for exploring and understanding the natural and cultural history of their town landscape. He received his BS degree in biology from Cornell University and his MS degree in botany from the University of Vermont.
Harvey Reiter
Partner, Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP
Mr. Reiter represents clients in the natural gas, electric utility, and communications industries, primarily before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the Federal Communications Commission, and the federal appellate courts. His clients have included natural gas distributors, governmental agencies, the World Bank, electric utilities, cogenerators, gas and power marketers, and Internet service providers. He has provided legal counseling, litigation, and appellate, transactional, and other legal services, including oral arguments before various federal circuit courts of appeal. He is listed in Best Lawyers of America and in the 2008 Washington, D.C. edition of Super Lawyers for energy law. Prior to entering private practice, he was a staff attorney and then special assistant to the deputy general counsel for litigation with FERC. Mr. Reiter earned his BA degree from Michigan State University and his JD degree from Boston University.
Caleb Rick ‘88
Cofounder and Managing Director, North Common Associates
Mr. Rick has counseled over 100 nonprofit organizations on resource development strategies during the last two decades. Prior to forming his firm, he served as charitable gift counsel for the Sierra Club. Previously, he was director of planned giving at the University of California, San Francisco, director of annual giving for Dartmouth Medical School and Mary Hitchcock Hospital, and was on the staff of the New York Lieutenant Governor. A member or board member of several professional associations, he is a frequent speaker and writer on legacy giving and resource development issues. Mr. Rick earned his AB degree from Middlebury College, his JD degree from Vermont Law School, and a certificate from the Coro Foundation’s City Focus Program.
Mary Elliott (M.E.) Rolle ’02
Attorney–Advisor, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of General Counsel for Natural Resources
Ms. Rolle handles natural resource injury cases for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Partnering with co-trustee entities, including other federal and state agencies and Indian tribes, she has handled natural resources damages cases under CERCLA, OPA, and the National Marine Sanctuaries Act. Previously, she worked for NOAA in the Office of General Counsel for Ocean Services and advised the National Marine Sanctuary Program, the Office of Coastal Resources Management, NOAA’s Office of Marine and Aviation Operations, and other offices within the National Ocean Service, on a variety of legal issues. Ms. Rolle is the author of several articles related to toxic tort law and ocean and coastal resources management. She earned her BA from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, her JD from the University of Wisconsin Law School, and her LLM from Vermont Law School.
Christine Ryan
Environmental Law Librarian, Vermont Law School
Ms. Ryan is an experienced legal research instructor at Vermont Law School where she teaches legal research courses as well as environmental law research classes and workshops. She has created and continues to expand the VLS Environmental Law Research Guide, which links to carefully selected Internet resources that support the practice of environmental law. She develops the environmental law collection of electronic resources and books for VLS, and provides information services to the VLS community. She serves as research consultant to the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. Prior to joining the staff at Vermont Law School, she was a reference librarian at Dartmouth College and at Yale University, where she also taught research classes. Ms. Ryan received her BA degree from the University of Connecticut, her MA degree from Dartmouth College, and her MS degree in library science from Simmons College.
Yvonne Scannell
Associate Professor of Law and Director, Centre for Environmental Law and Policy, Trinity College, Dublin
Professor Scannell teaches Irish and European Environmental Law, Planning Law, and Legal Systems and Methods at Trinity College, Dublin. She has written six books and numerous articles on environmental and planning law and some on constitutional law. She has been consistently nominated as one of Ireland’s leading environmental lawyers in professional surveys. She has served on the boards of Forfas, An Foras Forbartha, Habitat for Humanity, the Irish National Petroleum Corporation, and on the advisory board of the EPA. She has worked for UNDP and the EU in Eastern Europe and she is on the Environmental Panel of the International Court of Arbitration. She also practices as a consultant on environmental and planning law with Arthur Cox, Solicitors. She is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin and Cambridge University.
Dinah Shelton
Manatt/Ahn Professor of International Law, George Washington University Law School
Professor Shelton has taught at George Washington since 2004. She previously taught international law and was director of the doctoral program in international human rights law at the University of Notre Dame Law School. She has also lectured at the University of California (Davis), Santa Clara University, Stanford University, University of California (Berkeley), the University of Paris, and the University of Strasbourg, France. She is the author of three prize-winning books, Protecting Human Rights in the Americas (coauthored with Thomas Buergenthal), Remedies in International Human Rights Law, and the three-volume Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity. In 2006, she was awarded the Elisabeth Haub Prize for Environmental Law. In 2009, the General Assembly of the Organization of American States elected her to a four-year term as a member of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission. She received her BA and JD degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.
Michael Sutton
Vice President and Director, Center for the Future of the Oceans, Monterey Bay Aquarium
Previously, Mr. Sutton headed the Marine Fisheries Program at the David & Lucile Packard Foundation, the largest private funder of ocean conservation efforts in North America. He founded and directed World Wildlife Fund’s Endangered Seas Campaign, a global effort to promote the conservation and sustainable use of marine fisheries. He has served as a senior advisor to the secretary of commerce and the secretary of state on marine fishery issues, sitting on two federal advisory committees. He received his BS degree in wildlife biology from Utah State University and his JD degree from George Washington University.
Lea E. Swanson
Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Agency for International Development/Afghanistan
Ms. Swanson has worked in international development for the past 18 years. She has brokered groundbreaking partnerships and directed the design, development, and implementation of community-based programs in developing and transition economies for Fortune 100 companies, recipient and donor countries, local citizenry, nongovernment organizations, and international aid agencies. She spent 5 years based in the former Soviet Union with the U.S. Agency for International Development and 2 years in Europe, where she served as the executive director of the International Institute for Energy Conservation-Europe. She also has worked in Africa, the Asia/Pacific region, and Latin America. Prior to her international posts, she served as a special assistant for policy, planning, and evaluation in the Office of the Assistant Administrator at the U.S. EPA. Ms. Swanson earned her MBA degree at Monash University, Australia and her MPA degree at Harvard University.
Jack Tuholske
Private Practitioner, Missoula, Montana, and Adjunct Professor, University of Montana Law School
Since graduating with honors from the University of Montana Law School in 1985, Mr. Tuholske has litigated a wide range of natural resource issues throughout the West. He has been lead counsel for more than 25 published decisions. Clients range from small, grass-roots groups to national organizations like the Sierra Club and the Wilderness Society. His areas of practice in federal court include the ESA (bull trout and grizzly bears), the Clean Water Act (TMDL and citizen suits), timber sale litigation (NEPA and NFMA), and off-road vehicle use. He has been instrumental in shaping Montana environmental law, including cases strictly construing the Montana Environmental Policy Act and defining the constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment.
Jacqueline Weaver
A.A. White Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center
Professor Weaver is a coauthor of three books: the three-volume treatise on Texas Law of Oil and Gas, the nationally used casebook titled Energy, Economics and the Environment, and the treatise International Petroleum Exploration and Exploitation Agreements, published by Barrows in 2009. She has written articles on energy markets, sustainable development in the international energy industry, comparative unitization laws in energy-producing nations, energy policy, and traditional oil and gas law topics. She has lectured on international petroleum transactions in Beijing and has Uganda. She was the director of the Russian Petroleum Legislation Drafting Project, which drafted model laws for Russia’s petroleum sector in 1990-91. Professor Weaver received her BA degree from Harvard University and her JD degree from the University of Houston.
Steven Weissman
Lecturer in Residence, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, and Associate Director, California Center for Environmental Law and Policy
Mr. Weissman is an energy and environmental attorney, and former administrative law judge at the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC). In addition, he previously served as principal consultant to the California State Assembly’s Committee on Natural Resources. He is a member of the mediation panel for the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, and creator of the California PUC’s alternative dispute resolution program. In addition, he served as legal director for the Local Government Commission, an environmental and social policy think tank, providing assistance to local governments. He received his BA degree from the University of Michigan, his JD degree from the University of California at Davis, and his MPA degree from Harvard University.
LaJuana S. Wilcher
Partner, English, Lucas, Priest & Owsley
Ms. Wilcher worked in Washington, D.C. for 19 years, serving as assistant administrator for water at the U.S. EPA, and as a partner in the D.C. offices of Winston & Strawn and LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, LLP From 2003 to 2006 she was secretary of Kentucky’s Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet. In private law practice, she represents clients in litigation, negotiations, strategic positioning, and legislative and regulatory advocacy; she is listed in America’s Best Lawyers. Ms. Wilcher is an adjunct professor of law at Vanderbilt University Law School, a commissioner on the U.S. Commission on UNESCO, and a member of the U.S. Committee on the International Hydrological Programme. She received her BS degree in biology from Western Kentucky University and her JD degree from Northern Kentucky University’s Salmon P. Chase College of Law.You can read more about Ms. Wilcher at www.elpolaw.com.
David A. Wirth
Professor of Law, Boston College Law School
Professor Wirth teaches environmental, administrative, public international, and foreign relations law. Previously, he was senior attorney and codirector of international programs for the Natural Resources Defense Council and attorney-advisor for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs for the U.S. Department of State. He is the author of more than five dozen books, articles, and reports on international environmental law and policy for both legal and popular audiences. A graduate of Yale Law School, he holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in chemistry from Princeton and Harvard, respectively.
Steven M. Wise
President, Center for the Expansion of Fundamental Rights, Inc.
Mr. Wise has been a practicing animal rights attorney for 30 years and is president of the Nonhuman Rights Project, Inc. He has taught Animal Rights Law at Vermont Law School for 19 years, as well as at Harvard Law School, Lewis and Clark Law School, John Marshall Law School, and in the Master’s Program in Animals and Public Policy at the Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine. He is the author of Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights For Animals (2000), Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights (2003), Though the Heavens May Fall—The Landmark Trial that Led to the End of Human Slavery (2005), and An American Trilogy––Death, Slavery, and Dominion Along the Banks of the Cape Fear River (2009).
Tseming Yang
Professor of Law and Director, U.S.-China Partnership for Environmental Law, Vermont Law School
Professor Yang has worked on international environmental law, global climate change, and environmental justice issues at the U.S. Department of Justice, on EPA’s National Environmental Justice Advisory Council, and as a scholar and law teacher. He has published widely in those areas and is working on a case book on global environmental law, under contract with Aspen Publishers. He was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Tsinghua University Law School in Beijing and has supervised research projects with faculty at Sun Yat-sen University Law School in Guangzhou since 2002. He received his BA degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and his JD degree from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as articles editor of the California Law Review.
Deborah Young
Professor of Law and Director, Center for Advocacy and Clinical Education, Cumberland School of Law, Samford University
Professor Young has taught at Cumberland School of Law since 1997. Previously, she taught at Emory University School of Law, served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, and was a clerk to Judge Thomas A. Clark of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She is an expert in federal rules of evidence, criminal procedure, criminal law, and international criminal litigation. She is coauthor of Federal Sentencing Law and Practice (West Publishing) and an expert in rules of search and seizure, police investigative techniques, and interrogations. Professor Young earned her BS degree from the University of Kentucky and her JD degree from University of Michigan Law School.
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