Dave Owen
Associate Professor of Law
J.D., University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)
B.A., Amherst College
Office Phone: (207) 780-4214
dowen@usm.maine.edu
Dave Owen specializes in environmental law. His research interests range from ecosystem restoration to climate change, and he is particularly interested in legal responses to environmental uncertainty and change. He teaches courses in environmental law, natural resources law, water law, and administrative law.
Prior to joining the Maine Law faculty in 2007, Dave practiced with a small San Francisco firm specializing in environmental, land use, and water law, and he clerked for Judge Samuel Conti of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Before attending law school, Dave worked as a geologist and environmental auditor with an environmental consulting firm.
Outside of work, Dave’s primary interests are playing ultimate frisbee, hiking, feeding his addiction to The New Yorker, and attempting, usually unsuccessfully, to convince his dog to stop eating people’s shoes.
Recent Works
Legal Constraints, Environmental Variability, and the Limits of Innovative Environmental Governance, Environmental Science and Policy (2009).
Climate Change and Environmental Assessment Law, 33 Columbia J. Envtl. L. 57 (2008).
Law, Dynamism, Reliability: The Rise and Fall of CALFED, 37 Envtl. L. 1145 (2007).
Technocracy And Democracy: Conflicts Between Models and Participation in Environmental Law and Planning, 56 Hastings L. J. 901 (2005).
The Disappointing History of the National Marine Sanctuaries Act, 11 N.Y.U. Envtl. L.J. 711 (2002-2003).
