Madeline June Kass
Assistant Professor of Law
M.E.S., Yale University;
J.D., University of California,
Berkeley (Boalt Hall);
B.S., Tufts University,
magna cum laude
Telephone: 619.374.6949
Email: mkass@tjsl.edu
Prior to joining the faculty of Thomas Jefferson in the fall of 2003, Professor Kass practiced law for close to a decade in the Seattle offices of Preston Gates & Ellis (now K&L Gates) and Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe where her practice focused primarily in the areas of land use and environmental compliance and litigation. Prior to entering private practice, she conducted immunology research at Harvard Medical School, served as the Research Editor of the Berkeley Women’s Law Journal and clerked for the Massachusetts State Superior Court. She currently serves as the faculty advisor for the Thomas Jefferson Environmental Law Society and on the Editorial Board of NATURAL RESOURCES & ENVIRONMENT. She has also served as a Vice-Chair of the Endangered Species Committee of the ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources, on the Editorial Board of Washington State Bar Association Environmental and Land Use Law Newsletter, as Chair of the Public Interest Grant Selection Committee of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Bar Association of Washington (QLaw), and as a Visiting Professor at the University of Seattle School of Law (academic year 2005-06 and spring 2007). Her primary areas of teaching and scholarship are environmental and natural resources law.
Recent Scholarship
Is the Atmosphere Half Empty or Half Full?, 22 Natural Resources & Env. __ (forthcoming Spring 2008)
A Least Bad Approach for Interpreting ESA Stealth Provisions, 32 Wm. & Mary Env. L. & Pol'y Rev. 427, (2008)
Issues Editor (2002-present), Natural Resources & Env. (American Bar Ass'n Section of Environment, Energy and Resources)
Threatened Extinction of Plain Vanilla 4(d) Rules, 16 Natural Resources & Env. 78 (2001)
Brownfields: Where the Market Makes Green, 13 Natural Resources & Env. 345 (1998) (with Pamela J. Bridgen & Valerie Ann Lee)
Shoreline and Coastal Management, Washington Environmental Law Handbook, Chapter 4 (2nd edition 1992) (with W. H. Chapman)
Molecular Events in B Cell Activation, 135 J. Immunology 1674 (1985) (with J. G. Monroe)
Vantage Point, the Editor's Introduction, (Natural Resources & Environment Magazine, Fall 2005 (co-authored with the editor)
Wetlands Turnabout, 18 Natural Resources & Environment 62 (Spring 2004)
List of Works
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Subjects include:
Environmental Law, Natural Resources Law, Torts, Wildlife & Marine Life Law.
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