Paul Stanton Kibel

• BA, Colgate University
• JD, Willamette University College of Law
• LLM, UC Berkeley School of Law

• Environmental Law
• International Environmental Law
• Land Use
• Natural Resources
• Trade & the Environment
• Water Law

• Of counsel to and former partner at Fitzgerald, Abbott & Beardsley LLP in the environmental/land use practice group.
• Former adjunct professor at GGU; has also taught at UC Berkeley, Stanford University, and the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
• Directed GGU's "City Parks" Project and authored the 2007 GGU report, Access to Parkland: Environmental Justice at East Bay Parks.
• Faculty editor of the Golden Gate University Environmental Law Journal.
• Former co-chair, National Resources Subsection of Real Property Section of the State Bar of California.
• Member of the State Bar of California.

• The public trust according to 'Casitas': a case of misapplication, National Law Journal, January 19, 2012.
• Instream Flow and the Public Trust: Statutory Innovation and California's 2009 Delta Reform Act, ABA Water Resources Committee Newsletter, January 2011, p. 4.
• Rain follows the Plow: An Introduction to the Issue, 3 Golden Gate Univ. Envt'l L. J. 1 (2009).
• Two Rivers Meet: At the Confluence of Crossborder Water Law and Foreign Investment Law, chapter in book Sustainable Development in World Investment Law (Kluwer 2009).
• Instruments not Monuments: An Introduction to the Issue, 2 Golden Gate Univ. Envt'l L.J. 1 (2008). With C. Danny Wang.
• A Line Drawn in Water: Aquifers Beneath the Mexico-United States Border, 12 Univ. of Denver Water L. Rev. 191 (2008).
• Access to Parkland: Environmental Justice at East Bay Parks, Report by Golden Gate University School of Law City Parks Project (2008).
• CEQA Rules for Agency Actions Affecting Climate Change, California Environmental Law Reporter (Fall 2008).
• Water Supply Assessment Inadequacy: An Independent Cause of Action? 31 Real Property Law Reporter (Sept. 2008).
• Roots of the Grassroots: An Introduction to the Issue, 1 Golden Gate Univ. Envt'l L. J. 3 (2007). With Philip D. Batchelder.
• Rivertown: Rethinking Urban Rivers, (MIT Press, 2007).
• The People Down the Hill: Parks Equity in San Francisco's East Bay, 1 Golden Gate U. Envtl. L.J. 331 (2007).
• Grasp on Water: a Natural Resource that Eludes NAFTA's Notion of Investment, 34 Ecology Law Quarterly 655 (2007).
• Rio Grande Designs: Texans' NAFTA Water Claim Against Mexico, 25 Berkeley J. of Int'l. Law 228 (2007). With Jonathan R. Schutz.
• The Addiction and the Portfolio: An Introduction to the Issue, 36 GGU Law Rev. 321 (2006).
• A Shallow Fix: The Uniform Environmental Covenants Act Leaves Hard Brownfield Questions Unanswered, 57:2 Planning and Environmental Law 3 (Feb. 2005).
• The Urban Bankside: An Introduction to the Issue, 35 GGU Law Rev. 285 (2005).
• Creating Open Space: Two Cases of Conflicts Resolved, California Coast & Ocean, Winter 2004-2005.
• Los Angeles' Cornfield: An Old Blueprint for New Greenspace, 23 Stanford Environmental Law J. 275 (2004).
• The High Seas Lowdown: An Introduction to the Issue, 34 GGU Law Rev. 453 (2004).
• Nature of the Beast: An Introduction to the Issue, 33 GGU Law Rev. 333 (2003).
• Sprawl and "Paper Water": A Reality Check from the California Courts, 20 California Real Property Journal 21 (2002). With Barry H. Epstein.
• UNCED's Uncertain Legacy: An Introduction to the Issue, 32 GGU Law Rev. 345 (2002).
• The Paper Tiger Awakens: North American Environmental Law After the Cozumel Reef Case, 39 Columbia J. of Transnational Law 395 (2001).
• The More Things Change: An Introduction to the Issue, 31 GGU Law Rev. 325 (2001).
• Alone at Sea: Chile's Presencial Ocean Policy, 12:1 J. of Environmental Law 43 (2000).
• Introduction to the Issue: Fluidity in the Law, 30 GGU Law Rev. xix (2000).
• The Earth on Trial: Environmental Law on the International Stage, (Routledge Press, 1999).
• National Incentives to Protect Natural Resources: Preserving Their Place in International Trade, 29 Environmental Law Reporter 10411 (1999).
• Sovereignty and Ecology: An Introduction to the Issue, 29 GGU Law Rev. 311 (1999).
• The Urban Nexus: Open Space, Brownfields and Justice, 25 Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Rev. 589 (1998).
• Introduction to the Issue: Metropolitan Vantage Point, 28 GGU Law Rev. 265 (1998).
• Justice for the Sea Turtle: Marine Conservation and the Court of International Trade, 15 UCLA J. of Environmental Law & Policy 57 (1997).
• Reconstructing the Marketplace: the International Timber Trade and Forest Protection, 5 NYU Environmental L.J. 735 (1996).
• Wisdom Across the Atlantic: North America and the European Experience, 19 Environs Envt'l L. & Pol. J. 69 (1995-1996).
• Canada's International Forest Protection Obligations: A Case of Promises Forgotten in British Columbia and Alberta, 6 Fordham Environmental Law J. 231 (1995).
• Russia's Wild East: Ecological Deterioration and the Rule of Law in Siberia, 7 Georgetown Int'l. Environmental Law Rev. 59 (1994).
• The Conservation/Free Trade Debate Resurfaces: the Uncertain Intersection of the 1992 Driftnet Fisheries Act and GATT, 1 Willamette Bull. Inl't Law & Policy 53 (1993).

• Environmental Law & Policy
• Civil Procedure
• Water Law
• California Natural Resources and Environmental Law
• Faculty Editor - Golden Gate Environmental Law Journal