Adell L. Amos is an Assistant Professor
of Law and the Director of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law
Program at the University of Oregon School of Law in Eugene, Oregon. Amos
joined the law school faculty after practicing environmental and natural
resources law with the Solicitor’s Office, Division of Parks and Wildlife at
the United States Department of the Interior. Amos represented and advised
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service on state
and federal water rights issues including work involving the Klamath, Snake,
Columbia, Middle Rio Grande, and Gunnison River Basins. She provided legal
advice on the interaction of water law with other environmental statutes
including the Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act, Federal Power Act and
National Environmental Policy Act. Amos teaches Water Resources Law,
Wildlife Law, Oregon Water Law and Policy, Environment and Energy,
Environmental Conflict Resolution, and Civil Procedure. Her scholarship
addresses citizen participation in water rights adjudications, the
relationship between federal and state governments on water resource
management, and the role of administrative agencies in setting national and
local water policy. Amos has published broadly in the field of water law
including, “The Use of State Instream Flow Laws for Federal Lands:
Respecting State Control While Meeting Federal Purposes” in Environmental
Law; “Hydropower Reform and the Impact of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 on
the Klamath Basin” in the Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation; and
“The Importance of Freshwater Conservation in the Context of Energy and
Climate Policy” in the Denver Water Law Review. She speaks frequently on
water, energy, and climate topics and just finished a grant funded project
with The Nature Conservancy on freshwater conservation in Oregon. Most
recently, she was selected to be the Resident Scholar at the University of
Oregon’s Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics for the upcoming theme on
Climate Equity and Ethics. Her work with the Wayne Morse Center will focus
on the ethical dimensions of water allocation systems. Amos earned her B.A.
in 1995 from Drury College, her J.D. in 1998 from the University of Oregon
(Coif). After law school, Amos clerked on the Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals for Judge Proctor Hug Jr. She is a member of the Missouri bar,
admitted 1999.
Eric Biber is a specialist in
conservation biology, land-use planning and public lands law. His principal
research interests include environmental and natural resources law,
administrative law and property. Prior to joining Boalt Hall in 2006, he
worked in the Denver office of Earthjustice, a public-interest nonprofit
organization specializing in public lands and other environmental cases.
Biber taught public lands law as an adjunct faculty member at the University
of Denver Sturm College of Law in fall 2005. He is a member of both the
Colorado and California bars. Biber earned a master's of environmental
science with a focus in conservation biology from the Yale School of
Forestry & Environmental Studies and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Following
law school, Biber clerked for Judge Carlos Lucero of the 10th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals in Denver and Judge Judith Rogers of the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Erik
Bluemel holds a J.D. from New York University, a L.L.M. from Georgetown
University Law Center, and a B.A. in political economy from the University
of California-Berkeley. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of
Denver Sturm College of Law, Bluemel clerked for the Honorable Barefoot
Sanders in the Northern District of Texas and the Honorable Kermit Edward
Bye in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. He also served as a staff
attorney and teaching fellow at Georgetown University Law Center's Institute
for Public Representation, where he represented dozens of national and local
groups on administrative, environmental, and public land law issues. Bluemel
currently serves on the Commission on Environmental Law of the International
Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which last year hosted a
conference on wildlife coexistence, and is Vice-President of Keystone
Conservation, an organization dedicated to ensuring coexistence between
human beings and predator species (gray wolves and grizzly bears) throughout
the Northern Rockies.
Alejandro
Camacho is an associate professor of law, teaching courses on
environmental law, property and regulatory innovation. His research focuses
on regulatory innovation in environmental, natural resources, and land use
law. Professor Camacho is currently the Chair of the Section on Natural
Resources of the American Association of Law Schools, and a Member Scholar
of the Center for Progressive Reform. He is also the chair of the policy
subgroup of the Assisted Migration Working Group, an NSF-funded
multidisciplinary collaborative effort involving government officials,
non-profit organizations, and academics in exploring assisted migration as a
potential adaptation to climate change.
Deb
Donahue has been a member of the University of Wyoming College of Law
faculty since 1992. She currently teaches Public Land Law, Environmental
Law, and courses in Indian Law. Before joining the UW faculty, she worked
for several conservation organizations, including the National Wildlife
Federation in Alaska, federal land management agencies, and the mining
industry. In 1983-85 she served as executive director for the Wyoming
Outdoor Council. Other exploits include trapping grizzly bears, mapping
sage grouse leks, and hunting big game. Donahue is author of The Western
Range Revisited: Removing Livestock from Public Lands to Conserve Native
Biodiversity (1999). She writes on conservation issues, endangered
species protection, water pollution, and climate change. She spent 2002 on
sabbatical in New Zealand, studying biodiversity conservation policy. In
2000 she was honored as the Wyoming Wildlife Federation’s Natural Resources
Conservationist of the Year. Her J.D. is from the University of Colorado;
she has a master’s degree in wildlife biology from Texas A&M.
K.K. DuVivier graduated
cum laude from Williams College with a double major in English and Geology.
She interned in the mineral departments of the Smithsonian Institution and
the Hudson River Museum and then joined the American subsidiary of the
French company COGEMA as an exploration geologist. For three and a half
years, she mapped, logged core, and coordinated field operations in
Colorado, Texas, and New Mexico, before leaving to attend law school at the
University of Denver. She received the Order of St. Ives when she graduated
in 1982 and immediately started practice in natural resources law, first at
Sherman & Howard and then at Arnold & Porter. While her children were
young, Prof. DuVivier worked as an Assistant City Attorney for the City and
County of Denver and as the Reporter of Decisions for the Colorado Court of
Appeals. She started full-time teaching at the University of Colorado School
of Law in 1990, and she joined the faculty at DU in 2000. She has taught a
variety of subjects over the years, including Civil Procedure, Legal
Research & Writing, Local Government, Wills & Trusts, and Environmental Law.
She served as Director of DU’s Lawyering Process Program from 2000 to 2007
and hosted the 2007 Association of Legal Writing Director’s Conference. In
2008-2009, she returned to natural resources, teaching both Energy Law and
Mining Law. Prof. DuVivier served for six years as Vice-Chair of the
American Bar Association, Hard Minerals Committee, and for ten years as
Chair or Vice-Chair of the Appellate Practice Subcommittee of the Litigation
Section of the Colorado Bar Association. She has presented at several
national conferences and has published numerous journal articles including
for the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation as a short course participant,
in the Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy, and
in the ABA-SONREL Publication, Natural Resources & Environment. In 2006, she
was inducted as a member of the American Law Institute.
Michael Dworkin, Professor of Law and
Director of the Institute for Energy and the Environment at Vermont Law
School, has also been a litigator for US EPA, a management partner in an
engineering firm, and a utility regulator. Professor Dworkin was Chair of
the Vermont Public Service Board from 1999 to 2005 and he chaired the
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners’(NARUC) Committee
on Energy Resource & the Environment. . In November 2008 he was presented
The Mary Kilmarx Award for Contributions to Good Government, Clean Energy
and the Environment by this Committee. In 2003, on behalf of the
Public Service Board, he received the “Innovations in American Government
Award” from the Kennedy School of Government for helping oversee Efficiency
Vermont’s development into one of America’s five most innovative and
effective public service programs. In November 2008 he was awarded The Mary
Kilmarx Award for Contributions to Good Government, Clean Energy and the
Environment by this Committee: National Association of Regulatory
Utility Commissioners. Michael is now a non-utility Trustee of the
Electric Power Research Institute and is a Director of the American Council
for an Energy Efficient Economy. For many years, he has helped pursue more
sustainable energy portfolios, with special emphasis on energy-efficiency
and renewable energy choices. A graduate of Middlebury College and the
Harvard Law School, Michael’s work has focused on the points where
technical, economic, and legal issues intertwine. He believes that: “Energy
policy is our world’s most pressing environmental challenge, and
environmental issues are the energy sector’s most important constraint.”
Robert Fischman,
Indiana University Maurer School of Law, SEQ CHAPTER \h
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and environmental affairs at Indiana University—Bloomington. Before joining
the Indiana faculty in 1992, he taught at the University of Wyoming College
of Law and served as Natural Resources Program Director and Staff Attorney
at the Environmental Law Institute in Washington, D.C. He has taught in the
environmental law programs at both Vermont Law School and Lewis and Clark
School of Law. Professor Fischman has also been a senior research scholar at
Yale Law School. He has written on public land management, endangered
species recovery, environmental impact analysis, and global climate change.
Fischman’s books include The National Wildlife Refuges: Coordinating a
Conservation System through Law and Federal Public Land & Resources
Law. Professor Fischman received his J.D. and M.S. from the University
of Michigan in 1987 and his A.B. from Princeton in 1984.
Roger Flynn is the
founding Director and Managing Attorney of the Western Mining Action Project
(WMAP). Founded in 1993 and based in Lyons, Colorado, WMAP is the nation’s
only non-profit public interest law firm specializing in hardrock mining.
He is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Colorado School of Law
(since 2002) and the University of Wyoming College of Law (since 2004),
teaching Mining and Mineral Development Law. WMAP represents conservation
groups, local communities, and Native American groups and Tribes before
state and federal courts on project-specific mining litigation as well as in
administrative permitting disputes. Roger is also a primary legal advisor
to the conservation community on national and state legislative and
regulatory reform efforts. His most recent law journal article, Daybreak
on the Land: The Coming of Age of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act
of 1976, was published by the
Vermont Law Journal in 2005.
Other articles include: The Right to Say No: Federal Authority over
Hardrock Mining on Public Lands, published by the University of Oregon
Law School’s Journal of Environmental
Law and Litigation in 2001, and The 1872 Mining Law As An
Impediment To Mineral Development On The Public Lands: A 19th
Century Law Meets The Realities Of Modern Mining, in the
Land and Water Law Review
published by the University of Wyoming College of Law in 1999. Roger
received his J.D. from the University of Colorado in 1991 and his B.S. in
Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University in 1984.
Jay Jerde is the Deputy Attorney General in the Water and Natural
Resources Division of the Wyoming Attorney General’s office. He received
his J.D. and his B.S. in Economics from the University of Wyoming. As an
Assistant Attorney General, Mr. Jerde’s areas of practice included bank
regulatory law, state tax law, civil rights and tort defense litigation, and
natural resources litigation. As Deputy Attorney General, his practice
involves environmental, natural resources, and water law and litigation.
Alexandra B. Klass is an Associate
Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. She teaches and
writes in the areas of environmental law, natural resources law, tort law
and property law. Her scholarly work includes publications in William & Mary
Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Iowa Law Review, University of Colorado
Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Wake Forest Law Review, and Ecology Law
Quarterly. Her recent scholarship includes a focus on the continuing role of
state common law in today’s federal regulatory state and an analysis of
property rights and tort liability associated with the use carbon capture
and sequestration technology as a means to combat climate change. Prior to
her teaching career, Professor Klass was a Partner at Dorsey & Whitney LLP
in Minneapolis, where she specialized in litigating environmental law,
natural resources law, and land use cases. She continues to represent
clients pro bono in cases involving environmental law and land use matters.
Professor Klass received her B.A. degree from the University of Michigan in
1988, and her J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1992,
where she was an Articles Editor for the Wisconsin Law Review and a member
of the Order of the Coif. She clerked for the Honorable Barbara B. Crabb,
Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin
from 1992-1993. Professor Klass is a Member Scholar at the Center for Progressive Reform.
Bruce M. Kramer received a B.A.
in International Relations from UCLA, a J.D. from the UCLA School of
Law, and an L.L.M. in Environmental and Natural Resources Law from
the University of Illinois College of Law. He is Maddox Professor of
Law Emeritus, Texas Tech University School of Law, Lubbock, Texas
and Of Counsel, McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, Houston, Texas. Professor Kramer is the co-author of
The Law and Pooling and Unitization (3d ed.), Williams and Meyers
Oil and Gas Law (since 1996, Cases and Materials on Oil and Gas Law
(6th and 7th eds.) and International Petroleum Transactions. He is
the author of numerous law review articles on oil and gas law
including “The Sisyphean Task of Interpreting Mineral Deeds and
Leases: An Encyclopedia of Canons of Construction and Royalty
Interests in the United States: Not Cut From the Same Cloth.” He has
been an editor of the Oil and Gas Reporter and was recently named
the administrative editor of that publication.
Lesley K. McAllister is an associate professor at the University of San
Diego School of Law and an associate adjunct professor at the School of
International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California
at San Diego. Before entering academia, McAllister clerked for the
Honorable Fern M. Smith of the Northern District of California and also
worked for Earthjustice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office
of Regional Counsel. She teaches and conducts research in the areas of
environmental law, property law, and comparative and international law.
Recent publications include Making Law
Matter: Environmental Protection and Legal Institutions in Brazil
(Stanford University Press, 2008); "Sustainable Consumption Governance
in the Amazon," ELR News & Analysis
(2008); and “Beyond Playing ‘Banker’: The Role of the Regulatory Agency in
Emissions Trading,” Administrative Law
Review (2007). Professor McAllister is a member of the Law and
Society Association, the Latin American Studies Association, and the
American Bar Association. She is the current chair of the Environmental Law
Committee of the ABA Section of State and Local Government Law. She earned
her J.D. with distinction from Stanford Law School and received a Ph.D. from
the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley.
Patrick A. Parenteau is Professor of Law
and Senior Counsel in the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic at
Vermont Law School. He previously served as Director of the Environmental
Law Center at VLS from 1993-1999. Professor Parenteau also teaches in the
Environmental Studies Program at Dartmouth College. Professor Parenteau has
an extensive background in environmental and natural resources law. His
previous positions include Vice President for Conservation with the National
Wildlife Federation in Washington, DC (1976-1984); General Counsel to the
New England Regional Office of the EPA in Boston (1984-1987); Commissioner
of the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (1987-1989); and Of
Counsel with the Perkins Coie law firm in Portland, Oregon (1989-1993).
Professor Parenteau is a nationally recognized expert on the Endangered
Species Act, the Clean Water Act, NEPA, and other environmental laws. He has
been involved in drafting, litigating, implementing, teaching, and writing
about environmental law and policy for over 30 years. He is a recipient of
the National Wildlife Federation’s Conservation Achievement Award for 2005
in recognition of his contributions to wildlife conservation and
environmental education. Professor Parenteau holds a B.S. from Regis
University, a J.D. from Creighton University, and an LLM in Environmental
Law from the George Washington U.
Timothy J. Preso is a staff attorney
in the Northern Rockies office of Earthjustice, a national non-profit,
public-interest law firm. Mr. Preso graduated in 1994 from the Georgetown
University Law Center and served as a law clerk for the Hon. Harry T.
Edwards of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit. Mr. Preso practiced law with the Washington, D.C., law firm of
Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin, L.L.P., before joining Earthjustice in
2000. Mr. Preso's practice as an Earthjustice attorney has focused on
representing conservation organizations and individuals with respect to
legal issues affecting public lands and wildlife, including litigation
addressing the U.S. Forest Service's Roadless Area Conservation Rule and
National Forest planning rules; management of grizzly bears, wolves,
wolverines, bison, elk and other species; oil and gas development; and
off-road vehicle use of the National Forests. Mr. Preso's practice has
involved litigation before multiple federal and state district courts as
well as the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Ninth, Tenth and
District of Columbia Circuits.
Clay Samford is a trial attorney with the
Environment and Natural Resources Division of the United States Department
of Justice. Mr. Samford represents federal agencies in a wide variety of
natural resource and public land litigation. Prior to joining the Department
of Justice, Mr. Samford clerked for Judge John C. Porfilio on the Tenth
Circuit Court of Appeals and for Justice Raymond Austin on the Navajo Nation
Supreme Court. Mr. Samford is a graduate of Stanford Law School.
