ROBIN KUNDIS CRAIG is the Robert A. Schroeder Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas School of Law, where she teaches Environmental Law, Water Law, Ocean and Coastal Law, Toxic Torts, and Civil Procedure. Craig specializes in all things water, including climate change adaptation in the water sector the food-water-energy nexus water quality and water allocation law marine protected areas and marine spatial planning and the intersection of freshwater and ocean and coastal law. She is the author, co-author, or editor of 12 books, including textbooks on Environmental Law, Water Law, and Toxic Torts, and over 100 law or science journal articles and book chapters. She can be reached at robinkcraiggmail.com or robinkcraigku.edu.
Work Phone:
785-864-0747
Email:
robinkcraig@gmail.com
Website:
https://law.ku.edu/people/robin-kundis-craig
EPA Region:
Region 7 - (IA, KS, MO, and NE)
Regent status:
Board of Regents
Year of induction:
2019
Degrees:
May 1996 J.D., Lewis & Clark School of Law, Portland, OR, with Environmental Law certificate, Rank 1, Summa cum laude
March 1993 Ph.D., University of California Santa Barbara, English Literature, Science & Literature, DISSERTATION Romantic Transformations The Poetics of Change and History in a Context of Mythography and Science (DAI 54-03A, 500 pp.)
May 1986 M.A., The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, Writing About Science, THESIS The Chemistry of Human Biology
May 1985 B.A., Pomona College, Claremont, CA, English Writing, Cum laude, THESIS Searching with the Monster English Romanticism and Science
Admissions:
State of Oregon (inactive)
Court Admissions:
U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon
Professional Societies and Organizations:
American Bar Association
• Section on Environment, Energy and Resources Law
• Section on Administrative Law
American Law Institute (elected member)
American Society for Environmental History
Association of American Law Schools
• Section on Environmental Law
• Section on Natural Resources and Energy Law
• Section on Maritime Law
Association for Environmental Studies and Science
International Union for the Conservation of Nature World Commission on Environmental Law
Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation
Sea Grant Law Center
Other Environmental Career Experience:
Chaired Professor of Law, University of Southern California Gould School of Law (July 2021-June 2024)
James I. Farr Presidential Endowed Professor of Law & University Distinguished Professor, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law (2012-2021)
Attorneys Title Professor of Law & Associate Dean for Environmental Programs, Florida State University College of Law (2006-2012)
Associate Professor & Professor of Law, Indiana UniversityIndianapolis School of Law (2002-2006)
Assistant Professor & Associate Professor of Law, Western New England College School of Law (1999-2002)
Adjunct & Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Lewis & Clark School of Law (Jan. 1998-July 1999)
Judicial Clerk, the Honorable Robert E. Jones, U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon (Aug. 1996-July 1998)
Law Clerk, General Counsel Division, Natural Resources Section, Oregon Department of Justice
Representative Publications:
Google Scholar Profile--httpsscholar.google.comcitationshlen&userWbA91Y8AAAAJ
SSRN Author Page--httpspapers.ssrn.comsol3cfdevAbsByAuth.cfmperid223637
12 books, including textbooks on Environmental Law, Water Law, and Toxic Torts, REENVISIONING THE ANTHROPOCENE OCEAN, THE END OF SUSTAINABILITY, COMPARATIVE OCEAN GOVERNANCE, and THE CLEAN WATER ACT AND THE CONSTITUTION.
Over 100 book chapters and articles in both law and science journals focusing primarily on the Clean Water Act, climate change adaptation, resilience, adaptive governance, water law, ocean and coastal law, and the water-energy nexus.
Illustrative Projects:
Re-Envisioning the Anthropocene Ocean (2024)
4C (with J.B. Ruhl) (2021)
A Survey of State Marine Aquaculture Regulation Coastal States Contribution to Food Security
Native Peoples and the Sea
Environmentally Beneficial Marine Aquaculture