The Big Thaw was edited by University at Buffalo professors Kim Diana Connolly, Errol Meidinger, Ezra B. W. Zubrow.
Kim Diana Connolly
Professor; Director of Clinical Legal Education; Vice Dean for Advocacy and Experiential Education
Kim Diana Connolly has focused her academic career on how best to educate future lawyers, as well as how best to use laws and policies to protect the planet and its inhabitants. She serves as the Vice Dean for Advocacy and Experiential Learning for the University at Buffalo School of Law, and directs the Clinical Legal Education Program. Her administrative approach is to support excellent experiential instructors offering innovative and exciting opportunities for law students to work either with clients or in simulated settings to prepare for the practice of law. Professor Connolly often presents and participates in collective endeavors that focus on experiential legal education, and has served in national leadership positions (including president of the Clinical Legal Education Association) for many years. Professor Connolly also studies, writes and speaks about environmental and animal law policies, creatively examining and sharing ideas as to how to move toward a sustainable future.
Errol Meidinger
SUNY Distinguished Professor; Margaret W. Wong Professor
Errol Meidinger teaches in the areas of international environmental law, international business law, administrative law, and socio-legal research. Much of his current research focuses on efforts to use “supra-governmental” regulatory systems, such as environmental certification and fair labor standards programs, to improve the social and environmental performance of businesses. He is also writing on the subjects of climate change, legal harvest requirements in forest and fisheries trade, government/non-government interactions in emerging global governance institutions, and the changing role of business in human rights protection.
Ezra B. W. Zubrow
Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology
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