Holly Doremus is Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Member Scholar of the Center for Progressive Reform.   She has written extensively about environmental and natural resources law and policy, with particular emphasis on biodiversity conservation and on the interplay of science and policy.  She received her B.S. in biology from Trinity College (Hartford, CT), Ph.D. in plant physiology from Cornell University, and J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall).  After law school, she clerked for Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and practiced law in Corvallis, Oregon, before joining the faculty at UC Davis.  After 14 years at UC Davis, she moved to UC Berkeley in 2009.

 

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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 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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Brian Gray is the author of numerous books and articles in the fields of environmental law, water resources, public lands and natural resources, property rights and the constitution, and related subjects. He also has argued environmental and water resources cases before the California Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and other courts. Professor Gray is a recipient of the William Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Hastings Outstanding Teacher Award, and the Nature Conservancy's Volunteer Service Award.

 

Professor Gray currently is working on a series of interdisciplinary studies of California water policy with scientists, economists, and public policy specialists from the University of California, Stanford, and the Public Policy Institute of California. The first two publications from this study are California Water Myths (PPIC 2009) and Managing California’s Water: From Conflict to Reconciliation (PPIC 2011).

 

Professor Gray serves as a tutor and president of the board of directors of 826 Valencia, a nonprofit organization that provides after school tutoring, in-school assistance, and other educational services to students in the San Francisco schools. He also is a member of the board of directors of 826 National.

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Alice Kaswan is a Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco, where she teaches Environmental Law, Administrative Law, and Property. She received her JD from Harvard Law School, and her BS in Conservation and Resource Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Her scholarship focuses on climate change, federalism, and environmental justice. Professor Kaswan is a member scholar of the Center for Progressive Reform. Prior to entering academia, Professor Kaswan practiced land use and environmental law at Berle, Kass & Case in New York City.

 

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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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John Leshy has been at Hastings since 2001. Previously he was Solicitor (General Counsel) of the U.S. Department of the Interior (1993-2001); Special Counsel to Chairman George Miller of the Resources Committee, U.S. House of Representatives (1992-93); Professor of Law at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona (1980-1992); Associate Solicitor of the Department of the Interior for Energy & Resources (1977-80); and with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in California (1972-77) and the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. (1969-72). He co-chaired the Obama-Biden transition team for the Interior Department in 2008-2009. He is the author of numerous articles, book chapters, books on the Mining Law of 1872 and the Arizona Constitution, and is co-author of casebooks on federal land and resources law and water law. A graduate of Harvard College, he was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, his alma mater, in 2004, 2006, 2007, and 2011.

 

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Tony Rossmann has served in the past 35 years as counsel in some of California’s and the West’s leading water and land-use proceedings, including the Owens Valley groundwater war, the Mono Lake public trust litigation, South Pasadena’s resistance to the 710 freeway, Nevada’s opposition to the MX missile and the Yucca Mountain nuclear repository, the State Water Project Monterey Amendments challenge, and the Imperial-to-San Diego Colorado River water transfer. Mr. Rossmann, an honors graduate of Harvard College (1963) and Harvard Law School (1971) and former editor of the Harvard Law Review, has taught water resources, land use, and constitutional law for the past 25 years, since 1991 at the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall. Previously he taught at Stanford, Hastings, UCLA, and as Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Tokyo. Mr. Rossmann served from 1971 to 1972 as law clerk to Justice Mathew Tobriner of the California Supreme Court. As a naval officer between college and law school, Mr. Rossmann spent four years in East Asia, including two years of combat duty in the Tonkin Gulf.

 

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Appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, David Sandino served as Chief Counsel for the California Department of Water Resources from 2006-2010 and worked on water, environmental, and energy issues during his twenty-year career with the Department. The Department operates the largest state-built water system in the United States, the State Water Project, which delivers water to 25 million Californians and 750,000 acres of farmland.

 

During his tenure with the Department, he also served for four years as lead counsel for the California Reclamation Board (currently named the Central Valley Flood Protection Board), which is responsible for flood control protection in the Central Valley. From 1995-2000 he also worked as lead attorney for the Department in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay-Delta Hearings, which allocated responsibilities to meet environmental water quality standards in the Delta.

 

He currently serves as associate professor at Texas Tech University School of Law, where he teaches water law, environmental law, and property law. He also has taught water law, environmental law, energy resources law, real property and local government law at Santa Clara University School of Law, University of San Francisco School of Law, and Golden Gate University School of Law. He also created and teaches a water law and policy course for environmental professionals at the UC Davis Extension and the UCLA Extension.

 

He received a distinguished teaching award from UC Davis for his contribution to natural science continuing adult education. He received a 1999 Fulbright Fellowship to teach in Russia, where he taught international environmental law at the Moscow State Academy.

 

He is on the Board of Editors of California Environmental Law Reporter, and he has written numerous articles on the environment, water, and land use. He has been a frequent speaker on California and western water and environmental issues at conference and seminars.

 

He served on the City of Davis Planning Commission and Natural Resources Commission. He currently serves on the City of Davis Policy Advisory Commission, which reviews internal police investigations.

 

He received his A.B. in chemistry from UC Davis in 1980. He continued his education with a J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law, where he graduated in 1984. He received his LL.M specializing in pubic international law in 1987, from the University of London, King's College. While in London, he studied under a Rotary Foundation Graduate Fellowship.

 

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Linda Vida has been the Director of the Water Resources Center Archives (WRCA) originally, located on the UC Berkeley campus, for over 16 years. She manages a staff of 3 FTE and is in charge of collection development, outreach, fundraising, administration and special projects. Prior to working at WRCA, Ms. Vida was Head Librarian at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Library in San Francisco (Region 9) and worked under contract for five years. She received her Masters in Library and Information Sciences (MLIS) from UC Berkeley in 1983. She has extensive knowledge of water resource issues and is experienced in using available technology to make information and data accessible to a diverse audience.

 

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