About Holly Doremus
Holly Doremus is the James H. House and Hiram H. Hurd Professor of Environmental Regulation, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research, and Faculty Director of the Law of the Sea Institute at Berkeley Law. Her work spans environmental and natural resources law and policy. Focal areas include conservation, water management in the west, the appropriate use of science in policy, and the boundaries of private and public property rights. She teaches Environmental Law and Policy, Water Law, Ocean and Coastal Law, Environmental Law Writing Workshop, and Science and Regulatory Policy.
Doremus earned a PhD in Plant Physiology from Cornell University and was a post-doctoral associate at the University of Missouri before making the transition to law. She received a JD and Environmental Law Certificate from Berkeley Law, where she was an articles editor for Ecology Law Quarterly. She then clerked for Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and practiced municipal and land use law with the firm of Eickelberg & Fewel in Corvallis, Oregon, before beginning her law teaching career at UC Davis. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has served on the Board of Directors of Defenders of Wildlife and of Audubon California.
Contact Email
You can contact Holly Doremus at: hdoremus@law.berkeley.edu