James H. House and Hiram H. Hurd Professor of Environmental Regulation;

Co-Director, Center for Law, Energy & the Environment; Director, Environmental Law Program

Tel: 510-643-5699
Fax: 510-643-2673
Email Address: hdoremus@law.berkeley.edu

Holly Doremus is a leading scholar and teacher in the areas of environmental law, natural resources law, and law and science.

Doremus brings a strong background in life sciences and a commitment to interdisciplinary teaching and scholarship to her work at Berkeley Law. She earned her PhD in Plant Physiology from Cornell University and was a post-doctoral associate at the University of Missouri before making the transition to law. In addition to her law school teaching experience, she has taught in the graduate ecology program at UC Davis, in the College of Natural Resources at UC Berkeley, and at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at UC Santa Barbara. She has been a principal investigator on two major NSF IGERT interdisciplinary training grants and a multidisciplinary grant dealing with hydropower relicensing in California. She has co-authored papers with economists and ecologists, and has been a member of two National Research Council review committees.

Doremus received her JD and Environmental Law Certificate from Berkeley Law, where she was an articles editor for the Ecology Law Quarterly and a member of the Order of the Coif honor society. She then clerked for Judge Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, practiced municipal and land use law with the firm of Eickelberg & Fewel in Corvallis, Ore., and taught at the University of Oregon and Oregon State University before beginning her law teaching career at UC Davis in 1995. She is a Member-Scholar of the Center for Progressive Reform and an elected member of the American Law Institute. She was honored as a UC Davis Chancellor's Fellow for 2001-2006.

Eight of Doremus's articles in the legal literature have been selected for reprinting in the Land Use and Environment Law Review, an annual compilation of the year's leading works. Her recent publications include Water War in the Klamath Basin: Macho Law, Combat Biology, and Dirty Politics (Island Press, 2008) (with A. Dan Tarlock); "Scientific and Political Integrity in Environmental Policy," Texas Law Review (2008); "Data Gaps in Natural Resource Management: Sniffing for Leaks Along the Information Pipeline," Indiana Law Journal (2008); and "Precaution, Science, and Learning While Doing in Natural Resource Management," Washington Law Review (2007).

Education

J.D., UC Berkeley (Boalt Hall) (1991)

PUBLICATIONS:

Books

Doremus, Lin, and Rosenberg, Environmental Policy Law: Problems, Cases, and Readings, 6th

ed. (Foundation Press, forthcoming 2012).

Doremus, Lin, Rosenberg and Schoenbaum, Environmental Policy Law: Problems, Cases, and

Readings, 5th ed. (Foundation Press, 2008).

Doremus and Tarlock, Water War in the Klamath Basin: Macho Law, Combat Biology, and

Dirty Politics (Island Press, 2008).

Schoenbaum, Rosenberg and Doremus, Environmental Policy Law: Problems, Cases, and

Readings, 4th ed. (Foundation Press, 2002).

Articles and Book Chapters

Doremus, Climate Change and the Evolution of Property Rights, 2 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. ___

(forthcoming 2012).

Doremus, Through Another’s Eyes: Getting the Benefit of Outside Perspectives in

Environmental Review, 38 B.C. Envtl. Aff. L. Rev. 245-278 (2011).

Doremus, Adaptive Management as an Information Problem, 89 N. C. L. Rev. 1455-1498

(2011).

Doremus, Adapting to Climate Change Through Law that Bends Without Breaking, 2 San

Diego Journal of Climate and Energy Law 45-84 (2010).

Camacho, Doremus, McLachlan, & Minteer, Reassessing Conservation Goals in a Changing

Climate, Issues in Science and Technology, Summer 2010, 21-26.

Doremus, The Endangered Species Act: Static Law Meets Dynamic World, 32 Wash. U. J. L.

& Pol’y 175-235 (2010).

Doremus, CALFED and the Quest for Optimal Institutional Fragmentation, 12 Environmental

Science and Policy 729-732 (2009).

Doremus and Hanemann, The Clean Air Act as a Template for Climate Change Legislation, in

Edella C. Schlager et al., eds., Navigating Climate Change Policy: The Opportunities of

Federalism (University of Arizona Press, 2011).

Doremus, Lots of Science, Not Much Law: Why Knowledge Has Not (Yet) Been Power Over

Greenhouse Gas Emissions, in William H. Rodgers & Michael Robinson-Dorn, eds.,

Global Warming: A Reader (Carolina Academic Press, 2011).

Doremus and Hanemann, Of Babies and Bathwater: Why the Clean Air Act’s Cooperative

Federalism Framework Is Useful for Addressing Global Warming, 50 Arizona Law

Review 799-834 (2008).

Doremus, Scientific and Political Integrity in Environmental Policy, 86 Texas Law Review

1601- 1653 (2008).

Doremus and Hanemann, The Challenges of Dynamic Water Management, 26 UCLA J. Envtl.

L. & Pol’y 55-73 (2008).

Doremus, Precaution, Science, and Learning While Doing in Natural Resource Management,

82 Wash. L. Rev. 547-579 (2007).

Doremus, Data Gaps in Natural Resource Management: Sniffing for Leaks Along the

Information Pipeline, 83 Indiana Law Journal 407-463 (2008), reprinted in Land Use

and Environmental Law Review.

Rahn, Doremus and Diffendorfer, Species Coverage in Multi-Species Habitat Conservation

Plans: Where’s the Science?, 56 BioScience 613-619 (2006).

Doremus, Reinvigorating the Union of Wonder and Power, 24 Virginia Environmental Law

Journal 281-291 (2006).

Doremus, Science and Controversy, in Dale D. Goble, J. Michael Scott, Frank W. Davis, eds.,

The Endangered Species Act at 30: Volume 2, Conserving Biodiversity in Human-

Dominated Landscapes 97-103 (Island Press, 2006).

Doremus, Lessons Learned, in Dale D. Goble, J. Michael Scott, Frank W. Davis, eds., The

Endangered Species Act at 30: Volume 1, Renewing the Conservation Promise, 195-

207 (Island Press, 2006).

Doremus, Using Science in a Political World: The Importance of Transparency in Natural

Resource Regulation, in Wendy E. Wagner and Rena Steinzor, eds., Rescuing Science

from Politics 143-164 (Cambridge Univ. Press 2006).

Doremus and Tarlock, Science, Judgment, and Controversy in Natural Resource Regulation, 26

Public Land and Resources Law Review 1-37 (2005), reprinted in 37 Land Use and

Environment Law Review 335-375 (2006).

Doremus, Science Plays Defense: Natural Resource Management in the Bush Administration,

32 Ecology Law Quarterly 249-305 (2005).

Doremus, The Story of TVA v. Hill: A Narrow Escape for a Broad New Law, in Oliver A.

Houck & Richard J. Lazarus, eds., Environmental Law Stories: An In-Depth Look at

Ten Leading Cases on Environmental Law 109-140 (Foundation Press, 2005).

Doremus, Crossing Boundaries: Commentary on The Law at the Water’s Edge, in Craig

Anthony Arnold, ed. Wet Growth: Should Water Law Control Land Use?,

(Environmental Law Institute, 2005).

Doremus, The Purposes, Effects, and Future of the Endangered Species Act’s Best Available

Science Mandate, 34 Environmental Law 397-450 (2004), excerpted in Laitos, Cole,

Wood, and Zellmer (eds.), Natural Resources Law (West, 2005).

Doremus, Contracts for Bioprospecting: The Yellowstone National Park Experience, in

Microbial Diversity and Bioprospecting, A.T. Bull, ed. (American Society for

Microbiology Press 2004)

Doremus, Takings and Transitions, 19 Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law 1-46 (2003),

reprinted in 36 Land Use and Environment Law Review __ (2005) and excerpted in

Robert C. Ellickson and Vicki L. Been, Land Use Controls: Cases and Materials (3d ed.

2005).

Doremus, Shaping the Future: The Dialectic of Law and Environmental Values, 37 UC Davis

Law Review 233-268 (2003) and 27 Environs 233-268 (2003), reprinted in Jim Chen,

ed., The Jurisdynamics of Environmental Protection: Change and the Pragmatic Voice

in Environmental Law (Environmental Law Institute, 2003).

Doremus, Constitutive Law and Environmental Policy, 22 Stanford Environmental Law Journal

295-378 (2003).

Doremus and Tarlock, Fish, Farms and the Clash of Cultures in the Klamath Basin, 30 Ecology

Law Quarterly 279-350 (2003), reprinted in 35 Land Use & Environment Law Review

___ (2004).

Doremus, A Policy Portfolio Approach to Biodiversity Protection on Private Land, 6

Environmental Science and Policy 217-232 (2003).

Doremus, Biodiversity and the Challenge of Saving the Ordinary, 38 Idaho L. Rev. 325-354

(2002), reprinted in 34 Land Use & Environment Law Review ___ (2003), and

excerpted in two casebooks.

Doremus, Adaptive Management, the Endangered Species Act, and the Institutional Challenges

of “New Age” Environmental Protection, 41 Washburn L. J. 50 (2001).

Doremus and Pagel, Why Listing May Be Forever: Perspectives on Delisting Under the U. S.

Endangered Species Act, 15 Conservation Biology 1258-68 (2001) (peer reviewed).

Doremus, Water, Population Growth, and Endangered Species in the West, 72 University of

Colorado Law Review 361-414 (2001), excerpted in Rasband, Squillace, and Salzman,

Natural Resources Law and Policy (Foundation Press, 2004).

Doremus, The Special Importance of Ordinary Places, 23 Environs 3-17 (2000), excerpted in

Dale D. Goble & Eric T. Freyfogle, Wildlife Law: Cases and Materials (Foundation

Press 2002).

Doremus, Delisting Endangered Species: An Aspirational Goal, Not a Realistic Expectation, 30

Environmental Law Reporter 10434-10454 (2000).

Doremus, The Rhetoric and Reality of Nature Protection: Toward a New Discourse, 57 Wash.

& Lee L. Rev. 11-73 (2000).

Doremus, Nature, Knowledge and Profit: The Yellowstone Bioprospecting Controversy and the

Core Purposes of America’s National Parks, 26 Ecology L. Q. 401-488 (1999).

Doremus, Restoring Endangered Species: The Importance of Being Wild, 23 Harvard Envtl. L.

Rev. 1-92 (1999), reprinted in 31 Land Use & Envt. L. Rev. ___ (2000).

Doremus, Preserving Citizen Participation in the Era of Reinvention: The Endangered Species

Act Example, 25 Ecology L. Q. 707-717 (1999), excerpted in Stephen M. Johnson,

Economics, Equity, and the Environment (Environmental Law Institute, 2004).

Polasky and Doremus, When the Truth Hurts: Endangered Species Policy on Private Land with

Incomplete Information 35 J. Envtl. Econ. & Mgmt. 22-47 (1998) (peer reviewed),

reprinted in Stephen Polasky, ed., Economics and Biodiversity Conservation (Ashgate

Publishing, 2002).

Doremus, Listing Decisions Under the Endangered Species Act: Why Better Science Isn’t

Always Better Policy, 75 Washington University Law Quarterly 1029 (1997), reprinted

in 30 Land Use & Envt. L. Rev. ___ (1999), and excerpted in Dale D. Goble & Eric T.

Freyfogle, Wildlife Law: Cases and Materials (Foundation Press 2002).

Polasky, Doremus, and Rettig, Endangered Species Conservation on Private Land, XV

Contemporary Economic Policy 66 (1997).

Doremus, Private Property Interests, Wildlife Restoration, and Competing Visions of a

Western Eden, in Robert B. Keiter (ed.), Reclaiming the Native Home of Hope:

Community, Ecology, and the American West 78 (University of Utah Press 1997),

reprinted in 18 J. Land, Resources, & Envtl. L. 41 (1998).

Doremus, Patching the Ark: Improving Legal Protection of Biological Diversity, 18 Ecology

L.Q. 265 (1991), reprinted in 23 Land Use & Envt. L. Rev. 465 (1992) and excerpted in

three casebooks.