Jessica Owley
Professor of Law
Faculty Director for the Environmental Law Program
Professor Owley holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management from the University of California—Berkeley where she also received a J.D. and MLA (Masters of Landscape Architecture). She practiced in the Land Use and Environmental Law group at Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco after clerking on the Ninth Circuit and in the Central District of California. She is a member of the California bar.
Before joining Miami Law, Jessica Owley was a Professor of Law at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) where she directed the Environmental Law Program. Prior to Buffalo, she was an Assistant Professor at Pace Law School. She spent 2017 as a Visiting Professor at the Universidad Pontificia – Comillas (ICADE) in Madrid, Spain where she was an OECD fellow.
She is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Law, Property, and Society. She is one of the founding members and the current president of the Environmental Law Collaborative. She is a member of the IUCN’s World Commission on Environmental Law and the World Commission of Protected Areas.
Area of Expertise
Education
| 2005 | Ph.D. Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2004 | J.D. , University of California, Berkeley |
| 2001 | M.S. Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2000 | MLA Environmental Planning, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1997 | B.A. , Wellesley College |
