Faculty

Michael Pappas joined the faculty in 2012 to teach in the Environmental Law Program. His scholarship explores the balance between governmental responsibilities and private rights in managing natural resources such as energy sources, freshwater and coastal environments, fisheries, and food sources.

Prior to joining the law school, Professor Pappas was a Forrester Fellow and Instructor in Legal Writing at Tulane University Law School, where he also taught international and domestic fisheries law. In addition, he was an adjunct professor at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law teaching natural resources law and an instructor for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers PROSPECT Training Program, where he taught environmental law and regulation. After graduating law school, he clerked for the Hon. James L. Dennis, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Professor Pappas holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English Literature from Stanford University, and he received his JD from Stanford Law School, where he was the co-Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford Environmental Law Journal and a member of the Stanford Environmental Law Clinic. He is admitted to the California Bar.