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Profiles

John Bonine, Professor of Law

John Bonine is one of the pioneers of environmental law in the United States, first working in the U.S. Senate in 1972 and then the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency where he rose to Associate General Counsel before joining the University of Oregon in 1978. While at Oregon, he has created or co-founded numerous institutions: the world's first environmental law clinic, now WELC; the Public Interest Environmental Law Conferences or PIELC, the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide or ELAW, a domestic network of public interests environmental lawyers in the United States, a network of environmental law professors, and the Oregon-Lviv University Partnership.

He is a member of the Commission on Environmental Law of the World Conservation Union and an elected member of the International Council of Environmental Lawyers. He is author of a textbook, The Law of Environmental Protection, and various works particularly on public participation and access to justice in environmental decision-making. Bonine teaches Administrative Law, Comparative Environmental Law, Constitutional Law, Environment and Pollution, and the LL.M. Seminar.

Professor Bonine has long been an advocate of public interest law. One of his early articles is The New Private Public Interest Bar, which you can view by clicking here.

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