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Eric Biber
Title: Acting Professor of Law
Office: 689 Simon Hall
Tel: 510-643-5647
Email Address: ebiber@law.berkeley.edu
FSU Contact: Leslie Stone
Eric Biber is a specialist in conservation biology, land-use planning and public lands law. His principal research interests include environmental and natural resources law, administrative law and property. Prior to joining Boalt Hall in 2006, he worked in the Denver office of Earthjustice, a public-interest nonprofit organization specializing in public lands and other environmental cases. Biber taught public lands law as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law in fall 2005. He is a member of both the Colorado and California bars.
Biber brings technical and legal scholarship to the field of environmental law. He earned a master's of environmental science with a focus in conservation biology from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He was a member of the Yale Environmental Law Association and the winner of the 2001 Margaret Gruter Prize for the best paper on law and ethology, biology and related behavioral sciences. He served on the Case Note Committee of the Yale Law Journal.
Following law school, Biber clerked for Judge Carlos Lucero of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver and Judge Judith Rogers of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Biber's recent journal articles include "The Price of Admission: Causes, Effects, and Patterns of Conditions Imposed on States Entering the Union" in The American Journal of Legal History (2004), "Habitat Analysis of a Rare Dragonfly in Rhode Island" in Northeastern Naturalist (2002), and "The Application of the Endangered Species Act to the Protection of Freshwater Mussels: A Case Study" in Environmental Law (2002).
Education:
A.B, Harvard College (1995)J.D., Yale Law School (2001)
M.S., Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (2001)
