Professor Hall is on the faculty of Wayne State University Law School and is a frequent visiting professor at the University of Michigan Law School. He is also the founder and Executive Director of the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center. His teaching and expertise is in environmental and water law, and his research focuses on environmental federalism, public and private water rights, transboundary pollution and resource management, and adapting to climate change. He is the author of a widely-cited article on Great Lakes water law, Toward A New Horizontal Federalism: Interstate Water Management in the Great Lakes Region (published by the Colorado Law Review). His work has been published in many other leading journals, including the Harvard Environmental Law Review, the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, and Natural Resources & Environment (the American Bar Association’s environmental law journal). He will also be co-authoring the next edition of Environmental Law and Policy: Nature, Law, and Society, one of the leading environmental law casebooks. A complete list of publications, available free for download, can be found at Professor Hall’s Selected Works site and SSRN site.
Before joining the Wayne State University Law School faculty, Professor Hall previously taught at the University of Michigan Law School and was an attorney with the National Wildlife Federation, where he managed the Great Lakes Water Resources Program for the nation’s largest conservation organization. Professor Hall also worked in private practice for several years, representing a variety of business and public interest clients in litigated and regulatory matters. He has extensive litigation experience and numerous published decisions in state and federal courts, and continues to represent a variety of clients in significant environmental policy disputes.
Professor Hall graduated from the University of Michigan Law School and the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment, concentrating in environmental policy. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Kathleen A. Blatz, Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.
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