PROFILE:
Professor Hall’s teaching and expertise is in environmental and water law, and his research focuses on issues of environmental governance, federalism, and transboundary pollution and resource management.  His is co-authoring (with Plater et al.) the fourth edition of Environmental Law and Policy: Nature, Law, and Society (Aspen Publishers 2008).  Other recent and forthcoming publications include:

• Political Externalities, Federalism, and a Proposal for an Interstate Environmental Impact Assessment Policy, 32 Harvard Environmental Law Review __ (forthcoming, 2008)

• Transboundary Pollution: Harmonizing International and Domestic Law, 40 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 681 (2007)

• Toward A New Horizontal Federalism: Interstate Water Management in the Great Lakes Region, 77 Colorado Law Review 405 (2006) 

• Bilateral Breakdown: U.S.-Canada Pollution Disputes, 21Natural Resources & Environment18 (Summer 2006)

(To view and download Professor Hall’s research and publications, see his SSRN author page: http://ssrn.com/author=582814) 

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.