NRLI Distinguished Visitors

On October 1, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. we welcomed our 22nd Annual Natural Resources Law Institute Distinguished Visitor, J.B. Ruhl, the Matthews & Hawkins Professor of Property at Florida State College of Law, who presented the annual NRLI Distinguished Visitor lecture,  "After Cap-and-Trade: The Climate-Forced Path of Environmental Law." 

Professor Ruhl is a nationally regarded expert in the fields of endangered species protection, ecosystem services policy, regulation of wetlands, ecosystem management, environmental impact analysis and related environmental and natural resources fields.  He has published extensively in these fields.  His case book, The Law of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management (Foundation Press, 2d ed. 2006), is the first casebook  to organize environmental law under these emerging themes, and his book The Practice and Policy of Environmental Law (Foundation Press 2008) is the only environmental law casebook incorporating a practice context focus.  He also recently published The Law and Policy of Ecosystem Services (Island Press 2007). 

Prior to entering full-time law teaching, Professor Ruhl practiced environmental and natural resources law with the law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P.  in its Austin, Texas and Washington, D.C. offices.  He received his B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Virginia, his LL.M. in Environmental Law from the George Washington University Law School, and a Ph.D. in Geography from Southern Illinois University.

Professor Ruhl joins a distinguished list of environmental law luminaries who have shared their particular expertise with the Lewis & Clark Law community. Previous Distinguished Visitors, each of whose scholarly work has subsequently appeared in Lewis & Clark's Environmental Law, include: