Steve Johnson, Professor of Law, Mercer University School of Law
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Steve Johnson

Titles

  • Professor of Law, Mercer University School of Law

Biography

Stephen M. Johnson is a professor of law at Mercer University School of Law. Before entering academia, he worked as a regulatory attorney for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources, where he helped draft and implement environmental regulations, and later served as a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division. At DOJ, he represented EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in wetlands litigation, handling both enforcement actions and challenges to agency decisions, and defended a wide range of federal agencies in cases brought under the major federal environmental statutes. Professor Johnson is the author of leading casebooks on wetlands law and has published extensively on Clean Water Act jurisdiction and agency rulemaking. Professor Johnson received his JD from Villanova Law School and an LLM in Environmental Law from George Washington University Law School. His course offers students a clear, practical, and engaging introduction to wetlands regulation—grounded in real cases, current controversies, and hands-on legal analysis.

Expertise

  • Land Use Planning and Regulation
  • Wetlands and Water Resources

Departments

  • Summer Session