Randall S. Abate is a Professor of Law, Director of the Center for International Law and Justice, and Project Director of the Environment, Development & Justice Program at Florida A&M University College of Law. Professor Abate teaches several courses in domestic and international environmental law, including the Ocean and Coastal Law, and the Climate Change Law and Indigenous Peoples. He also teaches Constitutional Law, and Animal Law. Professor Abate has published widely on environmental law topics. His articles on climate change law and justice have appeared in several law journals including the Stanford Environmental Law Journal, Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, Connecticut Law Review, Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum, Washington Law Review, William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, Ottawa Law Review, and Fordham Environmental Law Review.
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Randall S. Abate is a Professor of Law, Director of the Center for International Law and Justice, and Project Director of the Environment, Development & Justice Program at Florida A&M University College of Law in Orlando, Florida.
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Sara Aminzadeh is the Executive Director of California Coastkeeper Alliance (CCKA), a non-profit organization that coordinates, supports, and enhances the work of local California Waterkeeper organizations to ensure that Californians enjoy access to clean water and a healthy coast.
Dr. Lowell Bautista is a Lecturer at the School of Law and a Staff Member at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS), Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, University of Wollongong.
Bettina Boschen is a Ph.D. Research Associate at the Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea (NILOS) at Utrecht University.
Elizabeth Burleson is a Professor of International Environmental Law at The University of South Dakota School of Law
Jason Busch is Executive Director of Oregon Wave Energy Trust (OWET), a nonprofit public-private partnership funded by the Oregon Innovation Council to support the responsible development of ocean energy in Oregon and the jobs this new industry will create.
Robin Kundis Craig is the William H. Leary Professor of Law at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she is also affiliated with the Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources, and the Environment.
Melissa Trosclair Daigle is a Research Associate for the Louisiana Sea Grant Law and Policy Program.
Jordan Diamond is a Staff Attorney and Co-Director of the Ocean Program at the Environmental Law Institute (ELI).
Dr. Meinhard Doelle is a Professor of Law, and Associate Dean of Research, at Dalhousie University, Schulich School of Law, where he also serves as the Director of the Marine & Environmental Law Institute.
Susan Farady is an Assistant Professor of Ocean Studies and Marine Affairs at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine.
Ivy Newman Fredrickson is a Staff Attorney for Conservation Programs at Ocean Conservancy.
Megan M. Herzog is the Emmett/Frankel Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law, where she teaches Ocean and Coastal Law and Policy and conducts research on environmental issues for the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
Megan E. Higgins is a Senior Environmental Scientist with the international consulting company, Tetra Tech, Inc.
Dr. Kamrul Hossain is an Adjunct Professor of International Law at the University of Lapland.
Jennifer Huang is an International Fellow at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions.
Eric V. Hull is an Associate Professor of Law at Florida Coastal School of Law.
Janis Searles Jones is the Chief Operating Officer at Ocean Conservancy.
Patrick W. Krechowski is a City Attorney in Neptune Beach, FL, and Adjunct Professor, Florida Coastal School of Law
Dr. Sarah Krejci received her Ph.D. in Oceanography from Florida Institute of Technology.
Adena Leibman is a Staff Attorney at Ocean Conservancy.
Jaclyn Lopez is a staff attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity. The Center is a national environmental non-profit whose mission is to protect and conserve endangered species through science, media, and litigation.
Jan McDonald is New Star Professor of Environmental Law and Associate Dean (Research) at University of Tasmania's Faculty of Law, and a leading expert in the legal and policy dimensions of climate change adaptation.
Chad J. McGuire is a professor of environmental policy at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth where he directs the graduate programs in environmental policy for the Department of Public Policy.
Dr. Richard J. McLaughlin is Endowed Chair for Marine Policy and Law at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies (HRI) at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi.
Dr. Kathryn Mengerink is a Senior Attorney and Co-Director of the Ocean Program at the Environmental Law Institute (ELI).
Timothy M. Mulvaney is a professor at the Texas A&M University School of Law.
Dr. Marcos A. Orellana is Director of the Center for International Environmental Law's (CIEL's) Human Rights and Environment Program and Adjunct Professor at the American University Washington College of Law.
Stephanie Showalter Otts is the Director of the National Sea Grant Law Center and the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Legal Program at the University of Mississippi School of Law.
Dr. Margaret Peloso is an attorney in the Washington, D.C. office of Vinson & Elkins LLP, where her practice focuses on climate change and environmental law.
Keith Rizzardi is an Assistant Professor of Law at St. Thomas University School of Law where he teaches administrative law, environmental law, legal ethics and negotiation, and directs a summer water law program in the Netherlands.
David Roche is a Public Interest Law Fellow at the Environmental Law Institute (ELI).
Miyoko Sakashita is the oceans director at the Center for Biological Diversity, a nonprofit conservation organization that uses science and law to protect imperiled wildlife and native habitat.
Alexis K. Segal is the co-founder of Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper (BBWK), based in Miami Beach, Florida.
Ramona Sladic is a Canadian lawyer based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, located in Canada's central arctic region.
Dr. Erika J. Techera is Professor and Dean of Law at The University of Western Australia.
Dr. David L. VanderZwaag holds the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Ocean Law and Governance at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada where he teaches international environmental law.
Julia Wyman is a staff attorney at the Marine Affairs Institute (MAI), a partnership of the Roger Williams University School of Law, Rhode Island Sea Grant Legal Program, and the University of Rhode Island. She is also an adjunct faculty member at the Roger Williams University School of Law
