Environmental Law Center: Summer Session:
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Senior Trial Attorney, Environmental Crimes Section, U.S. Department of Justice, Missoula, Montana
For the past 16 years, Mr. Anderson has prosecuted violations of federal environmental laws across the U.S., in cases involving the smuggling of live wildlife and parts, unlawful commercial fishing, corporate taking of protected species, and pollution. He specializes in supervising and prosecuting long-term undercover investigations and working with foreign governments in extradition and MLAT matters. He is a member of Interpol's Wildlife Crime Working Group and has been the enforcement officer for the Convention on International Trade in Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Mr. Anderson earned his BS and JD degrees from the University of Montana.
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.
Deputy Special Representative to the United Nations, World Bank
Until 2005, Mr. Avalle was the World Bank's operations manager for Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela, and the special assistant to the World Bank's vice president for Latin America and the Caribbean Region. He also worked at the Global Environment Facility, the financial mechanism that assists developing countries in responding to global environmental challenges. He represented Argentina from 1991 to 1996 in the United Nations negotiations related to sustainable development and humanitarian affairs and was an associate professor of international relations at the Catholic University of Argentina. Mr. Avalle 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.
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.
Senior Attorney, Environmental Defense
Mr. Bean has headed the wildlife conservation activities of Environmental Defense since 1977. Previously, he was with the Environmental Law Institute and the firm of Covington and Burling. He is the author (with Melanie Rowland) of The Evolution of National Wildlife Law. An authority on endangered species conservation, he has been an innovator in the use of incentives to enlist private landowners in conservation activities. Since 2003 he has been codirector of Environmental Defense's Center for Conservation Incentives. Mr. Bean received his JD degree from Yale Law School.
Former Member, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and Former Chair, New York and Maine Utility Regulatory Commissions
Mr. Bradford has taught at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. With 37 years of expertise in the field of energy law and policy, he is the author of many articles and one book. He is a member of the Policy Advisory Council of the China Sustainable Energy Project. He served on a panel advising how best to replace the remaining Chernobyl nuclear plants in Ukraine and also on an expert panel on the opening of the Mochovce nuclear power plant in Slovakia. Mr. Bradford is vice-chair of the board of the Union of Concerned Scientists. He received his BA and his JD from Yale University.
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.
Private Practitioner, Castleton, Vermont, and Member, Vermont Public Service Board
Mr. Burke is chair of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners Special Access Task Force and was legal issues chair of NARUC's intercarrier compensation task force. His practice emphasizes family law, civil litigation, real estate, zoning/municipal, and estate law. Previously, he was an associate and then a partner at Parisi & Broderick in Castleton. He is an adjunct business law professor at Castleton State College. He has served on the Rutland County Bar Association Family Court Committee and Real Property Committee, as well as on the VBA Municipal Law Committee. He has been awarded a Melvin Jones Fellowship, the highest award given by the Lions Club International Foundation. Mr. Burke earned his JD degree from Boston University School of Law and his AB degree from Dartmouth College.
Principal, Adamant Accord, Inc.
Ms. Cook is an experienced environmental mediator, facilitator, and instructor. She is particularly interested in land use issues, and is an expert in developing public involvement processes for complex environmental issues. She has worked on developing public involvement processes for a variety of high-profile projects, including the Hudson River PCB Dredging Project and the development of a wind power siting policy in Vermont. Ms. Cook chairs the Environment and Public Policy Section of the Association of Conflict Resolution and is a fellow of Vermont Law School's Land Use Institute. She received her BA degree from Yale University.
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 dministrator, 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.
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.
Professor of Law, University of North Dakota School of Law
Professor Grijalva teaches courses in environmental law, federal Indian law, administrative law, and native natural resources. He is also director of the Tribal Environmental Law Project. He regularly speaks and writes on Indian country environmental law and policy. Professor Grijalva received his JD degree from the Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College with a certificate in environmental and natural resources law.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Senior Vice President for Conservation Programs, Defenders of Wildlife
Mr. Irvin is in charge of Defenders' conservation policy, field conservation, international conservation, and litigation programs. He has been in private practice and has served as director of the U.S. Ecoregional Conservation, World Wildlife Fund, vice president and general counsel at the Center for Marine Conservation, senior counsel for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, director and counsel for the National Wildlife Federation, and trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. He is coeditor (with Donald C. Baur) of the American Bar Association's deskbook on the ESA and was cochair of the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Section of the District of Columbia Bar. Mr. Irvin earned his BS degree in forestry from Utah State University and his JD degree from the University of Oregon School of Law.
Founding partner, Conservation Law, P.C.
Ms. Jay's conservation practice involves working with land trusts, land trust associations, nonprofit entities, governmental entities, and private landowners to preserve working landscapes and environmentally significant properties in the Rocky Mountain West. Ms. Jay speaks frequently about conservation topics at the local, state, and national level at such forums as the national and regional Land Trust Alliance Conferences, and she actively engages land trusts and groups of land owners in conservation workshops. Ms. Jay researches, develops, and publishes legal defense and enforcement mechanisms for land trusts that hold conservation easements, and currently is collaborating with Colorado land trusts to create an easement defense and enforcement model. Ms. Jay received her BA degree from Bowdoin College and JD and MSEL degrees from Vermont Law School.
Professor of Law, Vermont Law School
Professor Kadoch teaches appellate advocacy, dispute resolution, children and the law, family law, and interviewing, counseling and negotiation. She has been a visiting professor of law at the University of Tennessee College of Law and Roger Williams University School of Law. She earned a fellowship to the University of Notre Dame Law School Colloquium on Legal Discourse. She has been a member of the ABA Committee on Children and the Law since 1999. Professor Kadoch received her BA degree from Boston University, her MA degree in public policy and management from the University of Southern Maine, her MA degree in liberal studies from Dartmouth College, and her JD degree from the University of Maine School of Law.
Ecological Extension Service Naturalist and GIS Analyst, Massachusetts Audubon Society
Mr. Lautzenheiser is an expert field naturalist concentrating on plants, reptiles and amphibians, butterflies, and landscape interpretation. He is also a skilled community ecologist with particular interest in wetlands and rich northern hardwood forests. Mr. Lautzenheiser spends more than 800 hours in the field each year, working to help state agencies, municipalities, and private citizens make informed decisions about land management and conservation in Massachusetts. 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.
Director, Resource Systems Group (RSG)
RSG is a resource policy consulting firm located in Vermont with a national client base. At RSG, Mr. Lawe develops and uses complex simulation models to help local, state, and federal agencies understand the implication of specific policies. He has worked in the fields of transportation, land use, air quality, noise abatement, and energy. His work has also been applied in the private sector ranging from Fortune 100 companies to local developers. Mr. Lawe has published numerous papers on the challenges of forecasting and planning. He received his BA degree from St. Lawrence University, MA degree from Dartmouth, and MSEL degree from Vermont Law School.
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 joined the Pepperdine faculty in 1986. A lawyer, mediator, and teacher-professor, Professor Lowry 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.
Principal, CONCUR, Inc.
Mr. McCreary is an experienced mediator, policy analyst, and instructor. He has a longstanding interest in the land use, water resources, and marine resources arenas. He is currently facilitating dialogues to implement the California Marine Life Protection Act Initiative and to create the Tahoe Science Consortium for the Lake Tahoe Basin. He has facilitated a wide variety of technical meetings and dialogues focused on reducing bycatch of seabird, turtles, and marine mammals in longline fishing. He has taught a curriculum on transboundary water resource management for the nations that share the Okavango Basin in Southern Africa. He received his PhD from MIT in urban and regional planning with an emphasis in environmental policy and dispute resolution. He received his MA degree in landscape architecture and environmental planning from the University of California at Berkeley, and his BA degree in biology and environmental planning from University of California at Santa Cruz.
Land Use Group, Robinson & Cole LLP
Mr. Merriam has published over 200 professional articles on land use law, and four books, most recently, Eminent Domain Use and Abuse: Kelo in Context. He was a director of the American Planning Association and is past president of the American Institute of Certified Planners. Mr. Merriam is fellow of the College of the AICP, a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, a fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, and a Counselor of Real Estate. He received his BA degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, his Master of Regional Planning degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his JD degree from Yale Law School.
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 30 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.
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.
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.
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Law, and Policy; Director of Pre-Law Program, Green Mountain College
Professor Purdom has served as acting director and director of development and marketing at the Merck Forest & Farmland Center. Prior to that, she was an attorney with Witten, Woolmington, Bongartz & Campbell, P.C. and a judicial law clerk to the Honorable J. Garvan Murtha, Chief Judge of the United States District Court, District of Vermont. She earned her JD and MSEL degrees from Vermont Law School and her BS degree from Linfield College.
Senior Director, Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC
Professor Rachlin is a distinguished lecturer at Vermont Law School and a trustee of the school. An active practitioner for 48 years, he has served as state's attorney, a member of the Vermont Board of Bar Examiners, and a member of the Professional Conduct Board. He has authored book chapters on the Holocaust and numerous articles. He is a concert pianist and a member and cofounder of the Vermont Chamber Group. He received his BA degree from Yale University and his JD degree from the University of Chicago Law School.
Director of the Judicial and Part-time J.D. Externship Programs and Associate Professor of Law, Vermont Law School
Professor Sargent has taught Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Introduction to Clinical Practice, and the Judicial Ethics Seminar. She has served on the faculty of the National Judicial College and as a visiting associate professor at Dartmouth College. She is a special justice of the Lancaster, Littleton, and Haverhill District Courts and the New Hampshire District Court. She served as a managing attorney, assistant appellate defender, and staff attorney at the New Hampshire Public Defender's Office. Professor Sargent earned her BA degree from Emory University and her JD degree from Suffolk University Law School.
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.
Partner, Ayrlie Partners, LLC
Ms. Swanson has worked in international development for the past 16 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.
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 Supreme Court cases strictly construing the Montana Environmental Policy Act and defining the constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment.
Administrative Law Judge and former policy advisor, California Public Utilities Commission (PUC); Visiting Lecturer, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley
Mr. Weissman is an energy and environmental attorney, and former 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.
Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Mr. Wellinghoff is an energy law specialist with over 30 years of experience in the field. Immediately before joining the commission, he was in private practice where he focused exclusively on client matters related to renewable energy, energy efficiency, and distributed generation. While in the private sector he represented an array of clients from federal agencies, renewable developers, and large consumers of power to energy efficient product manufacturers and clean energy advocacy organizations. His experience also includes two terms as the State of Nevada's first consumer advocate for Customers of Public Utilities. Mr. Wellinghoff obtained his BS degree from the University of Nevada, his MAT degree from Howard University, and his JD degree from Antioch School of Law.
Partner, English, Lucas, Priest & Owsley
Ms. Wilcher brings federal, state, and private-sector experience to help resolve environmental disputes through legislation, regulation, litigation, and negotiation. As assistant administrator for water at the U.S. EPA (1989-1993), she was responsible for the nation's water and wetlands programs. She was secretary of Kentucky's Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet (2003-2006) before returning to private law practice and teaching. In private practice, Ms. Wilcher has focused on federal Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act issues for municipal, corporate and not-for-profit clients. She received her BS degree from Western Kentucky University and her JD degree from Northern Kentucky University's Salmon P. Chase College of Law.
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.
President, Center for the Expansion of Fundamental Rights, Inc.
Mr. Wise has been a practicing animal rights attorney for 30 years. He represents organizations that seek institutional changes in the status of nonhuman animals in our law, and individuals whose companion animals have been injured or killed. He has taught Animal Rights Law at Vermont Law School for 15 years. He wrote the first entry on “Animal Rights” for the upcoming Encyclopedia Britannica. He has also taught at Harvard Law School, John Marshall Law School, St. Thomas Law School, Lewis & Clark Law School, and Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine. He is the author of Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights, Rattling the Cage-Toward Legal Rights for Animals, and Though the Heavens May Fall-The Landmark Trial that Lead to the End of Human Slavery.
Professor of Law and Director, Vermont Law School-Sun Yat-sen University Partnership for Environmental Law
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 of the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as articles editor of the California Law Review.
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