Melinda Taylor
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401 UCB
2450 Kittredge Loop Drive
Wolf Law Building
Boulder, CO 80309
E-mail: melinda.taylor@colorado.edu
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Bio:Melinda Taylor is on the faculty of the University of Texas School of Law, where she teaches courses on environmental and energy law, including the environmental impacts of energy development. She founded the Kay Bailey Hutchison Center for Energy, Law, and Business at U.T. in 2014. Prior to joining the faculty of the University of Texas in 2006, Taylor was the Director of the Ecosystem Restoration Program for the Environmental Defense Fund, a national, nonprofit conservation organization. She focused on incentive-based approaches to conserve habitat for rare species on private lands. Taylor was a partner at the law firm Henry, Lowerre, Kelly & Taylor from 1991-1993. She served as Deputy General Counsel of the National Audubon Society from 1988-1991. At Audubon, she was responsible for managing the organization?s litigation docket and supervising a project aimed at reducing pollution from oil and gas drilling. She was an associate at Bracewell & Patterson in Washington, DC from 1986-1988.
Taylor graduated from the University of Texas School of Law in 1986. She also holds a B.A. from the University (Plan II, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) (1983).
Courses:
| Fall 2020 | Foundations of Natural Resources Law | LAWS 6112-801 |
| Fall 2019 | Foundations of Natural Resources Law | LAWS 6112-801 |
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