Written by:

J. B. Ruhl

Matthews & Hawkins Professor of Property
Florida State University
College of Law

John Copeland Nagle

John N. Matthews Professor of Law
University of Notre Dame
Law School

James Salzman

Samuel F. Mordecai Professor of Law and Professor of Environmental Policy
Duke University
School of Law

Alexandra B. Klass

Professor of Law
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
University of Minnesota
School of Law

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J. B. Ruhl Matthews & Hawkins Professor of Property Florida State University College of Law Tallahassee, FL 32306-1601 Contact Author

Education:

• LL.M., George Washington University, 1986
• J.D., University of Virginia, 1982
• Ph.D., Southern Illinois University, 2006
• B.A. with High Honors, University of Virginia, 1979

Bio:

J. B. Ruhl is the Matthews & Hawkins Professor of Property at Florida State University College of Law, where he teaches courses on environmental law, land use, and property. Previous to joining the FSU faculty in 1999, Professor Ruhl taught at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois (1994-98), and at the George Washington University Law School (1998-99). He has also visited for summer teaching at Vermont Law School, the University of Texas School of Law, and Lewis & Clark College of Law.

Professor Ruhl is a nationally regarded expert in the fields of endangered species protection, regulation of wetlands, ecosystem management, environmental impact analysis, and related environmental and natural resources fields. His extensive publications in these fields include recent articles in the Stanford Law Review, Georgetown Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, George Washington Law Review, Washington University Law Review, Environmental Law, and Ecology Law Quarterly, several of which have been selected by a national peer review committee as one of the 10 best law review articles in environmental law published during the year of their respective releases. He is also co-author of the recently published casebook, The Law of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management (Foundation Press, 2nd ed. 2006), which is the first casebook to organize environmental law under these emerging themes, and of the forthcoming book on The Law and Policy of Ecosystem Services (Island Press).

Professor Ruhl has served as the Executive Editor of the American Bar Association's environmental, natural resources, and energy law quarterly, Natural Resources & Environment, and as the Publications Officer of ABA's Section of Environmental, Energy, and Resources Law. He is a frequent lecturer and presenter, most recently at the law schools of Georgetown University, Stanford University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Florida, the University of Kansas, the University of Nebraska, Duke University, University College Cork (Ireland), and Indiana University-Bloomington.

Prior to entering full-time law teaching, Professor Ruhl was a partner in the law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P., practicing environmental and natural resources law in the firm's Austin, Texas office. He was also an Adjunct Professor of environmental law with the University of Texas School of Law from 1991-94.