ENR Program Tackles Global Warming

Alyssa Johl

A third year student at the University of Oregon School of Law, Alyssa is starting her second year as a Fellow for the Global Environmental Democracy Project. Prior to entering law school, Alyssa worked as a research associate for the International Program of Earthjustice where she explored the legal processes and institutions associated with international environmental law.

Kevin Parks

A second year law student, Kevin focuses on international environmental law, and the institutional processes that can pave the way towards a sustainable dynamic between healthy economic development and natural resource management and conservation.

Sha Talebi

Adell Amos

Professor Amos joined the faculty in 2005 to serve as the Director of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program. She also teaches Water Law, Wildlife Law and Civil Procedure. She developed her research interest in water law while working in the Solicitor's Office at the United States Department of the Interior representing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service on water issues including general stream adjudications, negotiated water rights settlements and state permitting processes. She is currently working on a project that examines the impact of regional shifts in water availability on water allocation and distribution systems in the eastern and western United States.

John Bonine

Professor Bonine is former Associate General Counsel for Air Quality for the U.S. EPA in Washington, D.C. He was in charge of EPA's legal positions under the Clean Air Act in the 1970s. At EPA, he defended over 200 lawsuits brought by industry and others that challenged EPA regulations. Prof. Bonine has published a casebook, The Law of Environmental Protection, which teaches law students about this and other pollution laws. His focus is on the power and techniques of EPA, States, and cities to regulate global warming, with a special expertise in "technology-forcing."

Richard Hildreth

Law professor Richard Hildreth, Director of the University of Oregon Ocean & Coastal Law Center, is an expert on the legal implications of climate change for U.S. and international management of ocean and coastal resources. He teaches about international, national, and subnational responses to climate change in his International Environmental Law course.

Svitlana Kravchenko

Professor Svitlana Kravchenko is an expert in climate change issues internationally. She teaches science, international treaties - UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol, implementation of and compliance with treaties, cases and litigation in the US and other countries - in her course Global Environmental Challenges. Prof. Kravchenko made presentations at the conferences at the University of Oregon and the George Washington University. Intersection of the climate change and human rights is part of her forthcoming casebook "Human Rights and the Environment" (accepted by the Carolina Academic Press, in co-authorship with Prof. John Bonine and Don Anton).

Mary Wood

A natural resources law/federal Indian law/property law professor, Mary Wood is studying domestic climate litigation involving states and federal agencies. Her focus is on the politicization of agency regulation in this area and the viability of judicial review. She is exploring common law claims brought by states and tribes against the federal government for its failure to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Professor Wood is a co-author of a national textbook in natural resources law and authoring a forthcoming book, Nature's Trust, in which she argues that the global atmosphere is a property asset owned by all nations of the world as sovereign trustees who hold a duty of protection towards future generations.