Noah Hall

Wayne State University

Noah D. Hall is an Assistant Professor at Wayne State University Law School and a Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan Law School.  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.  He is co-authoring (with Plater et al.) the fourth edition of Environmental Law and Policy: Nature, Law, and Society (Aspen Publishers 2008).   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.  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. 

Mr. Hall is also the founding executive director of the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center (www.greatlakeslaw.org).  Interested student interns and recent grads are encouraged to visit the website.

From:    http://www.wayne.edu