Susan Smith brings a wealth of practical experience to teaching, as she has spent more than 20 years litigating environmental and natural resources issues. She focuses her scholarly research on the role of law in achieving sustainability and on environmental criminal enforcement. She first worked as an associate with Holland and Hart as an environmental and natural resources litigator, and then became a senior trial attorney and assistant with the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she received several awards for distinguished service. Since joining the Willamette faculty in 1989, Smith has served as pro bono counsel for various environmental and community groups.

To read Smith's complete biography on the Willamette College of Law website, click here.

A widely sought speaker and panelist, Robin Morris Collin was the first law professor to teach sustainability at an American law school. Morris Collin came to Willamette in 2003 after a distinguished 10-year career as a tenured member of the faculty at the University of Oregon School of Law. She began her teaching career in 1984 at Tulane Law School and has taught at Pepperdine University School of Law, McGeorge Law School at the University of the Pacific, and Washington and Lee Law School. She also practiced administrative law at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., criminal law as an assistant county attorney in Maricopa County, Ariz., and private plaintiffs’ antitrust law at Reed, Goldstein and Jenkins-Reed in Phoenix.

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After graduating with dual degrees from Duke University, where he served as articles editor of the Duke Law Journal, Professor Dobbins clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He then served as law clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court. Dobbins worked for four years in the Commercial Litigation Group of Perkins Coie LLP in Portland, Ore., and for six years in the Appellate Section of the Environment Division at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. Throughout his career, he has briefed and argued more than 50 cases in federal and state appellate courts. Dobbins joined the Willamette law faculty in 2006. He teaches Federal Courts, Administrative Law and Appellate Procedure.

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A widely sought speaker and panelist, Robin Morris Collin was the first law professor to teach sustainability at an American law school. Morris Collin came to Willamette in 2003 after a distinguished 10-year career as a tenured member of the faculty at the University of Oregon School of Law. She began her teaching career in 1984 at Tulane Law School and has taught at Pepperdine University School of Law, McGeorge Law School at the University of the Pacific, and Washington and Lee Law School. She also practiced administrative law at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., criminal law as an assistant county attorney in Maricopa County, Ariz., and private plaintiffs’ antitrust law at Reed, Goldstein and Jenkins-Reed in Phoenix.

To read Collin's complete biography on the Willamette College of Law website, click here.

Susan Smith brings a wealth of practical experience to teaching, as she has spent more than 20 years litigating environmental and natural resources issues. She focuses her scholarly research on the role of law in achieving sustainability and on environmental criminal enforcement. She first worked as an associate with Holland and Hart as an environmental and natural resources litigator, and then became a senior trial attorney and assistant with the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she received several awards for distinguished service. Since joining the Willamette faculty in 1989, Smith has served as pro bono counsel for various environmental and community groups.

To read Smith's complete biography on the Willamette College of Law website, click here.