Meet Our Faculty and Staff

Front row, from left:  Bob Miller ’91, professor; Pamela Frasch, assistant dean and executive director (CALS); Melissa Powers ’01, assistant professor; Susan Mandiberg, professor; Allison LaPlante ’02, staff attorney and clinical professor (PEAC); Tom Buchele, managing attorney and clinical professor (PEAC); Laura Handzel, assistant director (CALS).  Second row, from left:  Janice Weis, associate dean and program director; Chris Wold ’90, associate professor and clinical director (IELP); Erica Thorson ’05, staff attorney and clinical professor (IELP); Dan Rohlf, professor and clinical director (PEAC); Dan Mensher ’07, staff attorney and clinical professor (PEAC); Craig Johnston ’85, professor; Jan Neuman, professor.  Third row, from left:  Lin Harmon ’91, (former associate director); Bill Funk, professor; Kathy Hessler, clinical professor and director Animal Law Clinc; Fourth row, from left:  Linda D’Agostino-Long, program assistant; Mike Blumm, professor; Aubrey Baldwin ’05, staff attorney and clinical professor (PEAC).  Not pictured: Professor Henry Drumonds, Professor Don Large, PEAC Executive Director Karen Smith Geon. 

The faculty members who teach in our environmental law program are distinctive in four ways:

First, while they include leading scholars in environmental and natural resources law, most do not limit themselves to these fields, but bring interest and involvement in related fields of law to their teaching as well.

Second, they seek to integrate issues of pollution control and resource allocation in their teaching.

Third, they bring to this task perspectives shaped by their wide experience.

Finally, they are all approachable human beings who have lives and interests beyond the law that they are happy to share with students.

In addition to full-time faculty and staff, the law school draws between ten and twenty adjunct faculty members per year from the region’s leading practitioners in environmental and natural resources law. The seminars they teach reflect their special expertise and practical experience.