Marilynne Roberts

Associate Professor
Email: mroberts@gw.hamline.edu
Phone: 651 523-2123

B.A., University of Minnesota
J.D., University of Minnesota Law School

"Who speaks for the environment, nature, or all living creatures? Lawyers do. Lawyers who use the law as an instrument to develop public policy and impact social change. An environmental lawyer can take complex scientific information and litigation practices to create a voice for our environment."

Professor Roberts brings current issues to her classes in Environmental Law and Ecology, Law of Air and Water Quality, Lawyering Skills, Mediation Skills, and Torts I and II. She also teaches seminars in Environmental Law.

Before coming to Hamline, Roberts was assistant director of the University of Minnesota Student Legal Service, and practiced law in the areas of corporate, tax and labor law. She serves as a mediator, arbitrator, and Hearing Review Officer for the Minnesota Department of Children, Families and Learning. She has served as a hearing examiner for a federal court Consent Decree race discrimination case, and as a referee for the Dalkon Shield Claimants Trust.

Professor Roberts has published and lectured frequently on acid rain and other environmental issues. In 1986 she represented a coalition of environmental groups in litigating the first acid deposition standard in the United States. She has served as chair of the Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness and the Minnesota State Bar association committee of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar.

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