Professor Melissa Powers

Specialty Area and Course Description

Climate Change and the Law

Academic Credentials

B.A. 1992 University of California at Berkeley
J.D. 2001 Lewis & Clark Law School

Professional Background

Melissa Powers is a staff attorney with the Law School's Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center. Before coming to PEAC she practiced environmental law at the Western Environmental Law Center, a non-profit environmental law firm in Eugene, OR, where she focused primarily on pollution control litigation and in particular on Clean Water Act citizen suits.