February 11:
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Melissa K. Scanlan is the Water Law and Policy Scholar at the University of Wisconsin Law School and the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee's School of Freshwater Sciences. She is leading a pilot project to link the Law School into the new Center for Water Policy at the School of Freshwater Sciences, and is collaborating on interdisciplinary water research teams. She teaches water law and policy.
Prior to joining UW, Professor Scanlan served as a lead consultant involved
in launching the interdisciplinary Center for Water Policy
in 2011. Over a decade earlier, she received a competitive Equal Justice
Works Fellowship (formerly NAPIL) and an Echoing Green Fellowship to found and
direct Midwest Environmental
Advocates, Wisconsin's first non-profit environmental law center.
Selected as a Wisconsin Super Lawyers' Rising Star in 2006, 2007, and
2008, Professor Scanlan has represented clients in high impact lawsuits and
shaped public policy in areas ranging from the Great Lakes Compact and water
supply issues to enforcement and implementation of the Clean Water Act. She
currently serves on the Board of the Environmental Law Section of the State Bar
of Wisconsin.
Melissa Scanlan earned a law degree and Master of Science
in Environmental Science, Policy and Management from the University of
California-Berkeley. Her scholarly articles have focused on the public trust
doctrine, the Great Lakes Compact, and empirical research about water
management. She is a regular contributor of op-eds on emerging issues in water
law, most recently on cooperative
federalism under the Clean Water Act and implementing rules designed to
provide cleaner
water.
Outside her scholarly work, she blogs about social
entrepreneurs, is a co-founder of the Washington
Heights Community Garden, and keeps thousands of honey bees in her urban
backyard.