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Maine Law Hosts Environmental Law Expert as Visiting Associate Professor for Spring 2007

February 9, 2007

PORTLAND-The University of Maine School of Law announced the arrival of Melissa Powers, an expert in pollution control litigation, as the visiting associate professor for the spring 2007 term. A clinical professor and staff attorney for the Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center at Lewis & Clark Law School, Powers will be teaching environmental law and coastal zone law while at the University of Maine School of Law. Powers will also be pursuing research in environmental law and policy issues during her time with the Law School.

Powers teaches an environmental law clinic at Lewis & Clark Law School. A graduate of the University of California Berkeley and
Lewis & Clark Law School, Powers practiced environmental law at the Western Environmental Law Center, a nonprofit environmental law firm in Eugene, Oregon, where she focused on Clean Water Act law suits filed by citizens.

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