Ann Powers
Biography
Professor Ann Powers is an emerita faculty member of the Elisabeth Haub School of Law男女操逼视频软件檚 Center for Global Environmental Legal Studies at 男女操逼视频软件. She assumed emerita status in 2014. She has taught a range of environmental courses, including the law of oceans and coasts, international environmental law, UN diplomacy, and water quality. Her scholarship includes articles on emerging ocean issues, water pollution trading programs, and other subjects.
Professor Powers has worked with various projects of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), including the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law and the Oceans, Coasts & Coral Reefs Specialist Group of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law. She served on the ABA男女操逼视频软件檚 Sustainable Development Task Force and as ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources男女操逼视频软件 (ABA SEER) Liaison to the IUCN Law Academy, and is the International Council of Environmental Law男女操逼视频软件檚 (ICEL) Representative to the UN.
She has served on many boards and panels, including the American Bar Association男女操逼视频软件檚 Standing Committee on Environmental Law, the Board of Directors of the Environmental Law Institute, the National Research Council男女操逼视频软件檚 Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology and the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic. In connection with her work and professional activities, she has testified on numerous occasions before the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, and state legislatures and commissions.
Until joining the faculty in 1995 Professor Powers was vice-president and general counsel of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, a major regional non-profit environmental organization, where she supervised the Foundation男女操逼视频软件檚 legal work and its pollution control advocacy program. She also served as a senior trial attorney in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, handling both civil and criminal cases, and as an assistant United States attorney for the District of Columbia.
Professor Powers is graduate of Indiana University and Georgetown University Law Center. She clerked for the Honorable Thomas A. Flannery, U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia.
Education
- BA, Indiana University
- JD, Georgetown University Law Center
Selected Publications
Books
- INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS ON WATER POLLUTION CONTROL (Environmental Law Inst. 2008) (with Jeffrey Miller and Nancy Long)
Chapters
- 男女操逼视频软件淐limate Change and Pollution: Addressing Intersecting Threats to Oceans, Coasts and Small Island Developing States,男女操逼视频软件 in THE FUTURE OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (David Leary and Balakrishna Pisupati eds.) (United Nations University Press 2010)
- 男女操逼视频软件淓merging Ocean Issues,男女操逼视频软件 in OCEAN AND COASTAL LAW AND POLICY (Donald C. Bauer et al. eds.) (American Bar Association 2008) (with Odin Smith)
- 男女操逼视频软件淧rotecting Our Waters and Watersheds: The United States男女操逼视频软件 Experience,男女操逼视频软件 in Direito, 脌gua E Vida: Law, Water and the Web of Life, 41 (Antonio Herman Benjamin ed., 2003)
- 男女操逼视频软件淟aw and Pollution,男女操逼视频软件 in REVISTA: DA ESCOLA DA MAGISTRATURA DO ESTADO DE RONDONIA,197 (2002) (publication of the Judicial Center of the State of Rond么nia, Brazil)
Law Review Articles
- The Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Pollution and Activities: Gauging the Tides of Global & Regional Governance, 23 Int男女操逼视频软件檒 J. Marine & Coast. L. 423 (2008) (with David VanderZwaag)
- The Connecticut Nitrogen Exchange Program, 14 Penn St. Envtl. L. Rev. 195 (2006)
- The Current Controversy Regarding TMDLs: Contemporary Perspectives "TMDLs And Pollutant Trading,男女操逼视频软件 4 Vt. J. Envtl. Law 1 (2003)
- Justice Denied? The Adjudication of Extradition Applications, 37 Texas Int男女操逼视频软件檒 L. J. 277 (2002)
- Gwaltney of Smithfield Revisited, 23 Wm. & Mary Envtl. L. & Policy Rev. 557 (1999)