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John P. Dwyer
Title: John H. Boalt Professor of Law, Emeritus
Email Address: jdwyer@law.berkeley.edu
Upon graduating from law school, John Dwyer clerked for Judge Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and for Justice Sandra Day O' Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court. He practiced with the Public Defender Service in Washington, D.C., before joining the Boalt faculty in 1984. He served as dean of the Law School from 2000 to 2002.
Dwyer has published a number of articles on the role of risk assessment in environmental policy, the environmental regulation of the mining industry, federalism and environmental law, comparative environmental law, and the implementation of air toxic policy and federal court jurisdiction. He has been a presenter at numerous conferences related to environmental law. He has also published two books, Our Town: Race, Housing and the Soul of Suburbia (with David Kirp and Larry Rosenthal) and Property Law and Policy: A Comparative Institutional Perspective (with Boalt colleague Peter Menell).
Dwyer has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. He has served as the chair of the Campus Ad Hoc Committee on Environmental, Ecological and Earth Sciences; as a member of the Campus Committee on Environmental and Health Services; and as a member of the executive committee of the Energy and Resources Group. For two years he was an associate dean at Boalt. In 1997 Dwyer received Boalt's Rutter Award for Teaching Distinction.
Education:
B.A., DePauw University (1973)Ph.D., California Institute of Technology (1978)
J.D., UC Berkeley (Boalt Hall) (1980)
