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Linda A. Malone

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Linda A. Malone is the Marshall-Wythe Foundation Professor of Law and Director of the Human Rights and National Security Law Program at the College of William and Mary School of Law. She is a member of the American Law Institute and a member of the Environmental Commission of the World Conservation Union (IUCN). She is the author of numerous articles in a wide range of publications and has authored and co-authored twelve books on international law, human rights, and environmental law, including most recently Defending the Environment: Civil Society Strategies to Enforce International Environmental Law. She has written in the form of law review articles, casebooks, treatises, study aids, and on-line publications. Her book, Environmental Regulation of Land Use, is the preeminent book in the field.

Professor Malone was the Associate Editor of the Yearbook of International Environmental Law and has served on the Advisory Council to the National Envorcement Training Institute of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Board of Directors of the American Agricultural Law Association, the Review Board of the Land Use and Environmental Law Review, and as chair of the agricultural law section of the American Association of Law Schools. She was a delegate to the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, co-counsel to Bosnia-Herzegovina in its genocide case against Serbia and Montenegro before the World Court, co-counsel to Paraguay in its challenge to the death penalty in Paraguay v. Virginia, co-counsel for amicus in Padilla v. Rumsfeld and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, served on committees of the National Academy of Sciences, and is the author of the water quality chapter of the report of the congressionally created U.S. Ocean Commission.