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Ava Ayers is an assistant professor of law, and a past Director of the Government Law Center, at Albany Law School.
Before teaching, Ayers worked for nine years in the office of the New York Attorney General, where she was a Senior Assistant Solicitor General. She served both as a supervisor and as lead counsel in various high-profile cases involving immigration law, states’ rights, constitutional rights, environmental law, and other issues. Ayers graduated first in her class from Georgetown Law in 2005. She then clerked for the Honorable Sonia Sotomayor on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and for the Honorable Gerard Lynch on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Ayers is the author of articles on immigration law, federalism, legal ethics, and other subjects, as well as the book A Student’s Guide to Law School, published by the University of Chicago Press. Before her gender transition in 2020, she was known as Andrew Ayers.

Professor Hirokawa joined the faculty at Albany Law School in 2009.  

He teaches courses involving environmental and natural resources law, land use planning, property law, and jurisprudence.  

Professor Hirokawa's scholarship has explored convergences in ecology, ethics, economics, and law, with particular attention given to local environmental law, ecosystem services policy, watershed management, and environmental impact analysis. 

He has authored dozens of professional and scholarly articles in these areas and has co-edited (with Patricia Salkin) Greening Local Government (forthcoming 2012, ABA). Prior to joining the faculty at Albany Law, Professor Hirokawa was an Associate Professor at Texas Wesleyan University School of Law and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Oregon School of Law.  

Professor Hirokawa practiced land use and environmental law in Oregon and Washington and was heavily involved with community groups and nonprofit organizations. Professor Hirokawa studied philosophy and law at the University of Connecticut, where he earned his JD and MA degrees.  He earned his LLM in Environmental and Natural Resources Law from Lewis & Clark Law School.

Timiebi Aganaba works in global space governance law and environmental advocacy. 

Aganaba鈥檚 work promotes regional collaborations among countries to maximize the presence of emerging countries and marginalized groups. She is well-known in her industry for promoting the regulation of aeronautic technologies to be utilized against climate change. This has expanded to the use of satellites to measure greenhouse gas emissions as well as other remote sensing methods.

She is an assistant professor for the School for the Future in Innovation in Society with a courtesy appointment at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law.

Aganaba has received the Space Leaders Award from the International Astronautical Federation. She has served as the executive director of the World Space Week Association and a legal officer for the Nigerian Space Research and Development Agency.

Daniel Bodansky is an expert in climate change, international law, and environmental and sustainability law.

He is a regents' professor of law in the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, and an affiliate faculty member with the Center for Law, Science and Innovation and the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability's School of Sustainability at ASU.

Professor Bodansky's research focuses on public international law, international environmental law, climate change law and legal theory.

Prior to his position at ASU, Bodansky has served as the Climate Change Coordinator at the U.S. Department of State and has consulted for the United Nations in the areas of climate change and tobacco control.

Karen Bradshaw is an expert on environmental law, wildlife advocacy and natural resources law.

Bradshaw is a professor of law at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law and is frequently mentioned in the mainstream media as a reliable source. Her articles have been recognized, through a peer-reviewed process, as the top articles in the field of environmental law, administrative law, land-use law and natural resources law. 

Her book, "The New Animal Rights: How Uncovering the Biological Origins of Property Can Save America's Wildlife," advocates for giving wildlife the right to own land to preserve biodiversity. 

Hsu is an expert in the areas of environmental and natural resource law, climate change, law and economics, and property. He has published in a wide variety of legal journals and co-authored the casebook Ocean and Coastal Resources Law. Before entering academia, he was a senior attorney and economist for the Environmental Law Institute in Washington, D.C. He teaches Property and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Climate Change.

Mary Christina Wood is known worldwide for her climate expertise and speaks to national and international audiences on climate issues. The faculty director of the University of Oregon鈥檚 nationally acclaimed Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center, she is also a co-author of leading textbooks on natural resources law and public trust law. She originated the legal approach called Atmospheric Trust Litigation, now being used in cases brought on behalf of youth throughout the world, seeking to hold governments accountable to reduce carbon pollution within their jurisdictions. She has developed a corresponding approach called Atmospheric Recovery Litigation, which would hold fossil fuel companies responsible for funding an Atmospheric Recovery Plan to draw down excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere using natural climate solutions. Her book, Nature's Trust: Environmental Law for a New Ecological Age (Cambridge University Press), sets forth a new paradigm of global ecological responsibility. 

Adell L. Amos is served in the Obama Administration as the Deputy Solicitor for Land and Water Resources at the U.S. Department of the Interior. Amos oversaw legal and policy issues involving the nation鈥檚 water resources and public lands. She worked directly on water resilience and planning, wilderness policy, the National Landscape Conservation System, renewable energy and its associated water footprint, low-impact hydropower, dam removal efforts including the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement, the America鈥檚 Great Outdoors Initiative, and many others.

Her research emphasizes the jurisdictional governance structures that are deployed for water resources management in the United States and internationally. She focuses on the relationship between federal and state governments on water resource management, the role of administrative agencies in setting national, state, and local water policy, the role of law in developing water policy and responding to change, and the impact of stakeholder participation in water resource decision-making. She is currently working on a multi-year project which focuses on the integration of law and policy into hydrologic and socioeconomic modeling for the Willamette River Basin through a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary effort funded by the NOAA and the National Science Foundation.

Amos holds the Clayton R. Hess Professorship and serves as the Executive Director for the Environment Initiative at the UO. She teaches regularly in the nationally ranked Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program, including courses in Water Law, Federal Administrative Law, Environmental Conflict Resolution, and Oregon Water Law and Policy. Her teaching and scholarship have been recognized by the UO Fund for Faculty Excellence and the Hollis Teaching Awards.

Ryan specializes in environmental governance and environmental, water, property and land use law. She is a prolific legal scholar who presents widely in the United States, Europe and Asia, and she appears regularly in news media. A former U.S. Forest Service ranger, she was a Fellow at the Harvard Negotiation Research Project, a Fulbright Scholar in China, and a Research Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich.

Jonathan H. Adler is the inaugural Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and the founding Director of the  at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where he teaches courses in environmental, administrative and constitutional law.
Professor Adler is the author or editor of seven books, including  (Brookings Institution Press, 2020), (Oxford University Press, 2016), Rebuilding the Ark: New Perspectives on Endangered Species Act Reform (AEI Press, 2011) and  (Palgrave). 
His articles have appeared in publications ranging from the Harvard Environmental Law Review and Yale Journal on Regulation to the Wall Street Journal, and New York Times. He has testified before Congress a dozen times, and his work has been cited in the U.S. Supreme Court. A 2021 study identified Professor Adler as the fifth most cited legal academic in administrative and environmental law from 2016 to 2020.
Professor Adler is a contributing editor to National Review Online and a regular contributor to the popular legal blog, . A regular commentator on constitutional and regulatory issues, he has appeared on numerous radio and television programs, ranging from the PBS 海角社区hour and National Public Radio to the Fox 海角社区 Channel and Entertainment Tonight. Professor Adler is also a senior fellow at the Property & Environment Research Center in Bozeman, Montana. In 2018, Professor Adler helped co-found the organization Checks and Balances.
In 2004, Professor Adler received the Paul M. Bator Award, given annually by the Federalist Society for Law and Policy Studies to an academic under 40 for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and commitment to students. In 2007, the Case Western Reserve University Law Alumni Association awarded Adler their annual "Distinguished Teacher Award." In 2018, Professor Adler was elected to membership of the American Law Institute.
Prior to joining the faculty at Case Western Reserve, Adler clerked for the Honorable David B. Sentelle on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. From 1991 to 2000, Adler worked at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market research and advocacy group in Washington, D.C., where he directed CEI's environmental studies program. He holds a BA magna cum laude from Yale University and a JD summa cum laude from the George Mason University School of Law.
Professor Adler was profiled in the  of the university's Think magazine. 




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Juris Doctorate
 
George Mason University
 
2000




Bachelor of Arts
 
Yale University
 
1991

Prior to her academic career, Scanlan represented non-profit, community groups and tribal government clients in high-impact lawsuits, and shaped public policy in areas ranging from the Great Lakes Compact to enforcement and implementation of the Clean Water Act. Her academic policy work has included topics such as use of the Public Trust Doctrine, phosphorus runoff, water diversion from the Great Lakes and climate change effects on water. 

Professor Rowell’s research interests revolve around risk regulation, the environment, and human behavior. She has taught courses on environmental law, administrative law, behavioral law and economics, risk and the environment, law and sustainable economic development, and valuation. Her research focuses on integrating scientific and social science insights into risk regulation and on the interactions between law, science, social science, and policy.
Her key interest areas are regulation and risk analysis, environmental law and policy, climate change, cost-benefit analysis, law, and psychology.
Recently, her research has focused on bringing interdisciplinary insights into environmental law. This year she published three books: The Psychology of Environmental Law (with Kenworthey Bilz), which explores the relationship between environmental law and psychology, and two companion volumes – A Guide to U.S. Environmental Law and A Guide to EU Environmental Law (with Josephine van Zeben) – which are designed to make environmental law accessible to non-legal readers and to foreign lawyers. Her past scholarly work has been published in law reviews and interdisciplinary journals including Science, the Harvard Environmental Law Review, and the University of Chicago Law Review. 
Professor Rowell has been a visiting professor at Duke Law School (2018) and Harvard Law School (2015-16) and was a visiting researcher at Oxford University (2015, 2016). In 2015, she also completed a federal detail at the Environmental Protection Agency, and was named a University Scholar through a program at the University of Illinois meant to recognize the university’s “very best teachers and scholars.”
Before joining the Illinois faculty in 2010, Professor Rowell was a Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School, from which she also received her J.D. After law school, Professor Rowell practiced at Perkins Coie LLP in Seattle. Professor Rowell has a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology/archaeology, which she earned from the University of Washington at the age of 18. Before law school, she worked as an encyclopedia entry writer and as a video game tester.

Dr. Adam D. Orford joined the University of Georgia School of Law in the fall of 2021.
His interdisciplinary research investigates legal and policy approaches to environmental protection, human health and wellbeing, and deep decarbonization of the United States economy. He also participates in collaborative research initiatives across UGA, including as the lead of the Georgia element of the National Zoning Atlas and as a participant in ongoing investigations into the legal, political, environmental and social dimensions of new energy manufacturing and emerging carbon removal technologies.
His recent scholarship has appeared in the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, the Georgetown Environmental Law Review, the Hastings Environmental Law Journal and the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences.
As an educator and mentor, Orford passionately supports law student success and career development.
He earned his J.D. from Columbia Law School, his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley Energy & Resources Group and his Master of Public Policy from the U.C. Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy. Prior to returning to the academy, he was an environmental litigator in private practice, representing public and private clients in complex environmental civil litigation and regulatory matters. In law school, he served as the editor-in-chief of the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law.