Associates

Gregory S. Weber, Esq.

Gregory S. Weber, in addition to his Center responsibilities, is a Professor of Law at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. There he heads the Pacific/McGeorge Institute for Sustainable Development, a program focused on transnational natural resources issues. Greg’s Center projects have included the Sacramento Transportation and Air Quality Collaborative and the Advisory Committee for the California State Water Plan-Update 2005. As an environmental law advisor, he has studied forestry disputes in Mexico for the World Wildlife Fund and in Canada for the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). Currently, he is leading a project to revise the FSC dispute resolution protocol which he wrote while on academic sabbatical in Oaxaca, Mexico. He has also trained Chilean prosecutors and defenders in negotiation skills. Before joining the McGeorge faculty, he clerked for Justice Edmond Burke, Alaska Supreme Court, practiced with a leading California water resources law firm, and was a senior attorney for the California Court of Appeal, Third District, in Sacramento. He is a co-founder of the California Water Law and Policy Reporter. Greg has published a half-dozen law review articles, mostly on water resources law. He has also co-authored four books, including two books on Water Law and one on the Law of Hazardous Wastes and Toxic Substances. Greg speaks and reads Spanish.