University of Colorado Law Review
Volume 79 Issue 3, Spring 2008
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
Alexandra B. Klass, The Frontier of Eminent Domain. Alexandra Klass is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. She teaches and writes in the areas of environmental law, natural resources law, tort law, and property law. Her scholarly work includes publications in the Minnesota Law Review, Iowa Law Review, University of Colorado Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Wake Forest Law Review, and Ecology Law Quarterly. Prior to her teaching career, Professor Klass was a Partner at Dorsey & Whitney LLP in Minneapolis, where she specialized in environmental law and land use cases. She continues to represent clients pro bono in cases involving environmental law and land use matters. Professor Klass received her B.A. degree in political science and French with distinction from the University of Michigan in 1988 and her J.D. cum laude from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1992, where she was an Articles Editor for the Wisconsin Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. She clerked for the Honorable Barbara B. Crabb, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin from 1992–1993.
Shi-Ling Hsu, A Realistic Evaluation of Climate Change Litigation Through the Lens of a Hypothetical Lawsuit. Shi-Ling Hsu is the Associate Dean for Special Projects at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law. He has also been an Associate Professor at George Washington University, where he taught courses in environmental law, law and economics, and property law. Hsu earned a B.S.E.E. and J.D. from Columbia University and a M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis. Prior to his academic career, Professor Hsu was Senior Attorney and Economist for the Environmental Law Institute in Washington, D.C. He was also a Deputy City Attorney in San Francisco and practiced law with Fenwick & West in Palo Alto, California. Professor Hsu’s recent publications include The Identifiability Bias in Environmental Law, 35 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 433 (2008); Some Quasi-behavioral Arguments for Environmental Taxation, in Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation: Volume V 29 (2008); and Litigating Canada-U.S. Transboundary Harm: International Lawmaking and the Threat of Reciprocity, 48 Va. J. Intl L. 1 (2007).
Jason J. Czarnezki, An Empirical Investigation of Judicial Decisionmaking, Statutory Interpretation, and the Chevron Doctrine in Environmental Law. As of summer 2008, Professor Czarnezki will serve as an Associate Professor of Law at the Vermont Law School, where he will attempt to bridge research in law, social science, and hard science in an effort to improve and understand lesser known areas of environmental policy. His first project in this endeavor is writing a book under contract with the Environmental Law Institute tentatively titled, A Greener Manifest Destiny: Frontiers in Environmental Law and Policy. Prior to joining the Vermont Law School faculty, Professor Czarnezki was an Assistant Professor of Law at the Marquette University Law School and, in spring 2008, was a Visiting Professor at the DePaul University College of Law. Professor Czarnezki received his J.D. with Honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a member of the University of Chicago Law Review and was awarded the D. Francis Bustin Prize for excellence in legal scholarship. Professor Czarnezki has published in the law journals of the University of Chicago, Stanford University, Boston College, Boston University, the University of Virginia, the University of Colorado, and the University of Maryland.
Robin Kundis Craig, Climate Change, Regulatory Fragmentation, and Water Triage. Robin Craig is the Attorneys’ Title Insurance Fund Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Environmental and Land Use Law Program at the Florida State University College of Law in Tallahassee, Florida. She specializes in all things water, including the Clean Water Act, coastal water pollution, the intersection of water issues and land issues, marine biodiversity and marine protected areas, and water law. She is the author of The Clean Water Act and the Constitution (2004 & 2008 editions) and Environmental Law in Context (2005 & 2008 editions) as well as over forty law review articles and book chapters. In addition, she recently completed two years of work with the National Research Council’s Committee on the Clean Water Act and the Mississippi River, which culminated in the October 2007 release of the Committee’s report, Mississippi River Water Quality and the Clean Water Act: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities. Professor Craig also serves as Chair of the American Bar Association’s Constitutional Environmental Law Committee, Vice Chair of its Marine Resources Committee, and Supreme Court News Editor for the ABA’s Administrative & Regulatory Law News.
Michelle Albert,The Fight to Save Red Lady: Does the 1872 Mining Law Impliedly Preclude Review of Patent Protest Determinations? Ms. Albert recently earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Colorado Law School, and she received her B.A. from Brown University, graduating magna cum laude. During law school, Ms. Albert was an Associate Editor for the University of Colorado Law Review, completed externships with Western Resource Advocates and Earthjustice, and was a quarter-finalist in the Pace National Environmental Moot Court Competition. After graduation, Ms. Albert will join the Denver office of Arnold & Porter, LLP.