Faculty > Adell Amos

Assistant Professor Director, Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center Contact Room 339 Phone: (541) 346-3826 Email Adell Amos Courses Environmental Law Alliance Externship Water Resources Law Oregon Water Law and Policy Wildlife Law Environmental Conflict Resolution

Adell L. Amos is an Assistant Professor of Law and the Director of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program at the University of Oregon School of Law in Eugene, Oregon. Amos joined the law school faculty after practicing environmental and natural resources law for six years with the Solicitor's Office at the United States Department of the Interior. Amos represented and advised the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service on state and federal water rights issues including work involving the Klamath, Snake, Columbia, Middle Rio Grande, and Gunnison River Basins. Additionally, she provided legal advice on the interaction of water law with other environmental statutes including the ESA, CWA, and NEPA.

Amos teaches Water Resources Law, Wildlife Law, Oregon Water Law and Policy, Environment and Energy, Environmental Conflict Resolution, and Civil Procedure. Her scholarship addresses citizen participation in water rights adjudications, the relationship between federal and state governments on water resource management, and the role of administrative agencies in setting national and local water policy. Amos recently published an article entitled, The Use of State Instream Flow Laws for Federal Lands: Respecting State Control While Meeting Federal Purposes� in Environmental Law. She has a forthcoming article in the Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation on hydropower reform and the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

Amos earned her B.A. in 1995 from Drury College, her J.D. in 1998 from the University of Oregon (Coif). After law school, Amos clerked on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for Judge Proctor Hug Jr. She is a member of the Missouri bar, admitted 1999.