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Paul Kibel
Golden Gate University School of Law Paul Stanton Kibel is an Associate Professor at Golden Gate University School of Law, where he teaches Water Law and California Environmental and Natural Resources Law, and a former lecturer in Water Policy at UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy. He is of counsel and former partner with the environmental and natural resource practice group at Fitizgerald Abbott & Beardsley, and from 2002-2008 he served as co-chair of the Natural Resources Subsection of the Real Property Section of the California State Bar. Kibel is the author of the book The Earth on Trial: Environmental Law on the International Stage (Routledge 1999), and editor of the book Rivertown: Rethinking Urban Rivers (MIT Press 2007). He holds an LLM from UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). |
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Dave Owen
UC College of the Law, San Francisco Dave Owen is the Harry D. Sunderland Professor at UC Law SF, where he teaches courses in environmental, natural resources, water and administrative law. His research focuses primarily on water resource management, and some recent projects have addressed groundwater use regulation, taxation of water consumption, the roles of federal regional offices, stream protection under the Clean Water Act, and policies to expedite dam removals and hydropower upgrades. Several of his articles have won awards, and, in 2017, he received UC Law SF's highest award for teaching. Before coming to UC Law SF in 2015, he practiced land use and water law in California and then taught at the University of Maine School of Law. |
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Holly Doremus
UC Berkeley School of Law Holly Doremus is the James H. House and Hiram H. Hurd Professor of Environmental Regulation at the University of California, Berkeley, Co-Director of the Law of the Sea Institute, and Co-Faculty Director of the UC Berkeley Institute for Parks, People, and Biodiversity. She is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She holds a B.S. in biology from Trinity College (Hartford, CT), Ph.D. in plant physiology from Cornell University, and J.D. from UC Berkeley. Her scholarship focuses on biodiversity protection, the intersection between property rights and environmental regulation, and the interrelationship of environmental law and science. |
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Harrison "Hap" Dunning
UC Davis School of Law (King Hall) Hap Dunning is a Professor of Law Emeritus, University of California at Davis. Staff Director of the Governor's Commission to Review California Water Rights Law (1977-78). Member, California Water Commission (1981-82). Chair, Steering Committee for a water resources initiative on the California ballot in November 1982. Member, Bay-Delta Advisory Commission (1996-2001). Recipient, Clyde O. Martz Award for Natural Resources Law Teaching (2004). Currently on the boards of The Bay Institute of San Francisco, the Water Education Foundation and the board of the Tuolumne River Trust. |
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Richard M. Frank
UC Davis School of Law (King Hall) Richard M. Frank is the director for the new California Environmental Law and Policy Center and teaches courses in the environmental law curriculum at UC Davis School of Law. He was formerly the executive director of the Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment (CLEE) at UC Berkeley School of Law. Before coming to CLEE and UC Berkeley, Professor Frank practiced law with federal and state agencies for 32 years, most of that time with the California Department of Justice. Immediately before joining Berkeley Law, he served as California's Chief Deputy Attorney General for Legal Affairs. In 2006, Governor Schwarzenegger appointed Frank to the Delta Vision Task Force, an advisory body asked to develop policy recommendations for the Governor and Legislature, addressing environmental problems confronting the California Delta. He served in that capacity in 2007-08. In May 2009, the Chair of the California Air Resources Board appointed Frank Vice Chair of the Economic Allocation & Advisory Committee, an advisory body formed to assist the Air Resources Board in implementing California's landmark Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32). |
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Jennifer L. Harder
McGeorge School of Law Jennifer L. Harder is a professor at McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, where she teaches courses in water law and natural resources practice in McGeorge's Water & Environmental Law program. Jennifer earned her J.D. at UC Davis School of Law in 1998, after which she clerked for Justice Alexander O. Bryner of the Alaska Supreme Court. Following her clerkship, Jennifer worked as an attorney and partner at Downey Brand LLP, Sacramento, where her practice focused on water law, public agency law, and environmental compliance and litigation. Jennifer is author of the water law casebook, Cases & Materials on Water Law, 9th Ed. |
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Alice Kaswan
University of San Francisco School of Law Professor Alice Kaswan is a Professor of Law and a Dean’s Circle Scholar at the University of San Francisco School of Law, where she has taught since 1999. She has written and spoken widely about climate federalism, addressing the appropriate roles of federal, state, and local governments in mitigating and adapting to climate change. Her work also explores the intersection between environmental justice and climate change policy. She teaches environmental and property law courses. Kaswan is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a member scholar of the Center for Progressive Reform, an organization of law professors that advocates for environmental, health, and safety protections. She received her JD, cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1991, and received a B.S., with highest honors, from U.C. Berkeley in 1984. Before she began her law teaching career in 1995, at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., she clerked for the New Jersey Supreme Court and practiced law in New York City with Berle, Kass & Case and with Morgan, Lewis, & Bockius. |
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Barton H. "Buzz" Thompson, Jr.
Stanford Law School Barton H. “Buzz” Thompson, Jr. is an of counsel in O’Melveny’s Silicon Valley office and a member of the Water Industry Practice Group. He is the Robert E. Paradise Professor of Natural Resources Law at Stanford Law School, the Perry L. McCarty Director and Senior Fellow of the Woods Institute for the Environment, and Senior Fellow (by courtesy) at the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies. The author of several books on water law and policy, he is one of the nation’s leading experts on water issues. He has advised clients on water law issues for decades, developed innovative legal strategies for best exploiting water resources and, in 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court appointed Buzz to serve as the special master in Montana v. Wyoming (137 Original). Prior to joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1996, Buzz was a partner in O'Melveny's Los Angeles office, and a lecturer at the UCLA School of Law. He was a law clerk to Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Joseph T. Sneed of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Buzz is chairman of the board of the Resources Legacy Fund, the Resources Legacy Fund Foundation, and the American Farmland Trust; a California trustee for The Nature Conservancy; and a board member of both the Sonoran Institute and the Santa Lucia Conservancy. Buzz previously served as a member of the Science Advisory Board for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. |
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