About the Authors
Zygmunt J.B. Plater
Zygmunt J.B. Plater is Professor of Law at Boston College Law School, teaching and researching in the areas of environmental, property, land use, and administrative agency law. Over the past 25 years he has been involved with a number of issues of environmental protection and land use regulation, including service as petitioner and lead counsel in the extended endangered species litigation over the Tennessee Valley Authority's Tellico Dam, representing the endangered snail darter, farmers, Cherokee Indians, and environmentalists in the Supreme Court of the United States, federal agencies, and congressional hearings. He was chairman of the State of Alaska Oil Spill Commission’s Legal Task Force over a two-year period after the wreck of the M/V Exxon-Valdez. He was a consultant to plaintiffs in the Woburn toxic litigation, Anderson et al. v. W.R. Grace et al., the subject of the book and movie A Civil Action. Professor Plater has taught on seven law faculties. While teaching public law for three years in the national university of Ethiopia, he redrafted the laws protecting parks and refuges, assisted in publication of the Consolidated Laws of Ethiopia, and helped organize the first United Nations Conference on Individual Rights in Africa. Professor Plater earned his A.B. from Princeton University, his J.D. from Yale University and his LL.M. and S.J.D. from the University of Michigan. More information regarding Professor Plater and his publications are available at http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/platerz.html.
Robert H. Abrams
Robert H. “Bo” Abrams currently is Professor of Law at Florida A & M University, College of Law. Previously he served on the law faculty at Wayne State University for 27 years during which time he also taught frequently at the University of Michigan Law School and School of Natural Resources & Environment. He is an expert in both Water Law and Environmental Law. In addition to his work on Environmental Law and Policy: Nature, Law, and Society, he is co-author of Legal Control of Water Resources (with Joseph Sax, Barton Thompson, Jr., and John Leshy, 4th ed. 2006). Professor Abrams is a past Chair of the ABA Water Resources Committee and is serving as a Vice Chair of that committee. He is a contributing editor of the Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases and also of the Eastern Water Law & Policy Reporter. Professor Abrams is a life member of the American Law Institute and has been inducted into the August Order of Water Buffalo. Professor Abrams attended both Stanford Law School and the University of Michigan Law School, earning his J.D. from the latter in 1973.
Robert L. Graham
Robert L. Graham is a partner at Jenner & Block LLC in Chicago. He is the founder and Chair of Jenner & Block’s Environmental, Energy and Natural Resources Law Practice. Mr. Graham also serves as Co-Chair of Jenner & Block’s Climate and Clean Technology Law Practice and is a member of the Firm’s Policy Committee. Mr. Graham is a nationally recognized authority in environmental, health, safety, natural resources, and energy matters, including disputes involving the National Environmental Policy Act, Superfund, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, natural resource damages, and toxic torts. He has handled numerous cases nationwide involving those types of claims for over 25 years. Mr. Graham is currently a member of the board of the Environmental Law Institute. He has also served on the board of advisors of Shepard's Environmental Liability In Commercial Transactions Reporter and chaired bar association committees on environmental law. He has lectured on matters of environmental concern at numerous conferences and seminars, served as editor of Illinois Environmental Laws and Regulations, and written extensively on environmental law issues. He also has more than a decade of experience teaching environmental law at both Northwestern University School of Law and Loyola University School of Law. Mr. Graham attained his B.A., with highest distinction, from the University of Michigan and was a James B. Angell Scholar. He attained his J.D. from the Harvard Law School. More information regarding Mr. Graham is available at http://www.jenner.com/people/bio.asp?id=113.
Lisa Heinzerling
Lisa Heinzerling is Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. She received an A.B. from Princeton University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, where she was editor-in-chief of the Law Review. She clerked for Judge Richard A. Posner on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and for Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. on the United States Supreme Court. She served as an assistant attorney general in Massachusetts, specializing in environmental law, before becoming a faculty member at Georgetown. She has been a visiting professor at the Yale and Harvard Law Schools. In 2003 she won the faculty teaching award at Georgetown. Professor Heinzerling is also a member-scholar of the Center for Progressive Reform, a think tank dedicated to making the positive case for health, safety, and environmental protection. Her book, written with Frank Ackerman and entitled Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing, was published by The New Press in February 2004. Most recently, Professor Heinzerling was the primary author for petitioners in Massachusetts v. EPA, in which the Supreme Court held that the Clean Air Act grants the EPA authority to regulate greenhouse gases. More information regarding Professor Heinzerling and her publications are available at http://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/Heinzerling/.
David A. Wirth
David A. Wirth joined the faculty of the Boston College Law School in 1999 and serves as Director of International Programs. His areas of research and teaching include public international law, environmental law, and administrative law. From 1990 to 1998 Professor Wirth was a member of the faculty at Washington and Lee University School of Law in Lexington, Va., and since 1992 has served on the summer session faculty at the Environmental Law Center at Vermont Law School in South Royalton, Vt. He has also taught at Harvard and Oxford Universities, the University of Virginia, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a Fulbright Scholar at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Regional Research Program in 1996-97, Professor Wirth researched environment as a security issue. His other professional experience includes serving as director of the Trade, Health, and Environment Program of the Community Nutrition Institute in Washington, D.C.; senior attorney at the National Resources Defense Council; and attorney adviser, Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Dept. of State. A life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Professor Wirth currently has served on the National Advisory Committee to the U.S. Representative to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation and the Environmental Advisory Council to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. A graduate of Yale Law School, Professor Wirth was editor of the Yale Journal of World Public Order. He served as law clerk to Judge William H. Timbers, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, New York, and has been admitted to the bar in New York and the District of Columbia. More information regarding Professor Wirth and his publications are available at http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-faculty/wirthd.html.
Noah D. Hall
Noah Hall is an Associate Professor at Wayne State University Law School in Detroit. His teaching and expertise is in environmental and water law, and his research focuses on issues of environmental governance, federalism, and transboundary pollution and resource management. His recent published work includes Political Externalities, Federalism, and a Proposal for an Interstate Environmental Impact Assessment Policy (Harvard Environmental Law Review), Transboundary Pollution: Harmonizing International and Domestic Law (University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform), and Toward A New Horizontal Federalism: Interstate Water Management in the Great Lakes Region (Colorado Law Review). He is the author of a popular blog, Great Lakes Law, http://www.greatlakeslaw.org/.While at Wayne State, Professor Hall founded the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center and established the Wayne Environmental Law Clinic. Professor Hall has also taught at the University of Michigan Law School and was an attorney with the National Wildlife Federation, where he managed the Great Lakes Water Resources Program for the nation's largest conservation organization. Professor Hall has extensive litigation experience and numerous published decisions in state and federal courts, and continues to represent a variety of clients in significant environmental policy disputes. Professor Hall graduated from the University of Michigan Law School and the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment, concentrating in environmental policy. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Kathleen A. Blatz, Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. More information regarding Professor Hall and his publications are available at http://www.law.wayne.edu/faculty/bio.php?id=42998.
