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Professor Robinson-Dorn’s practice, teaching, and research is concentrated in environmental and natural resources law. Prior to joining UCI Law, he was the founding director of the award-winning environmental law clinic at the University of Washington. He is currently a member of the Board of the Clinical Legal Education Association.
Expertise: Environmental law, natural resources, public lands, water, administrative law, clinical law
Current Courses: Administrative Law, Environmental Law Clinic
Prior Courses Taught: Lawyering Skills, Environmental Law and Policy, Environmental Law: Pollution Control, Public Land Law, Administrative Law, Expert Witnesses, Environmental Law Clinic, Federal Public Lands and Natural Resources Law, Advanced Environmental Law Clinic
Recent Awards
- January 2011: Named a 2011 Bellow Scholar with Scott Schumacher of University of Washington School of Law and Carroll Seron of UC Irvine for their project, Fellow Travelers, a systematic study of clinical teaching fellowships. The Bellow Scholars award, presented by the AALS Committee on Lawyering in the Public Interest, recognizes lawyer-scholars studying various aspects of the justice system with a focus on access to justice and the role of law and the university.
- March 14, 2013: CLEANR Literature Series, Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and Environmental Quality at UCI Law
- Feb. 7, 2013: CLEANR Guest Speaker Kenneth Feinberg at UCI Law
- Nov. 8, 2012: CLEANR Guest Speaker Kent Syverud at UCI Law
- Nov. 1, 2012: CLEANR Literature Series: The Death and Life of Great American Cities at UCI Law
- Oct. 2, 2012: CLEANR Guest Speaker Joseph Sax at UCI Law
- Sept. 27, 2012: CLEANR Guest Speaker Dan Farber at UCI Law
- Feb. 7, 2012: CLEANR Guest Speaker Richard J. Lazarus at UCI Law
- March 9, 2011: Presenting "Climate Engineering: What the Law Has to Say" as part of a geoengineering and climate change lecture series, University of Washington
- Jan. 28, 2011: Presenting "The ESA Through a Different Lens: Ethics for Government Lawyers and The Lawyers Against Whom They Litigate" at 18th annual Endangered Species Act conference, Seattle
- Nov. 12, 2010: Co-host, "Preserving the Environment of the Arctic Region" symposium at UC Irvine
- April 2010: Panelist on Climate Adaptation at 2010 Idaho Law Review Symposium, "Energy Independence: Challenges Facing the West in Adopting Alternative and Renewable Energy Resources"
- Spring 2010: Panelist on U.S. Environmental Law at the 1st Human Rights and Environmental Law Symposium, Korean Bar Association, Cheongju, South Korea
- Climate Change (with Bill Rodgers, Anna Moritz and Jennifer Barcellos, Carolina Academic Press)
- Prof. Robinson-Dorn's Scholarly Papers on SSRN