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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.