Professor Amy Hardberger

Visiting Professor of Law, 2010 Email: amy.hardberger@ttu.edu

Admitted to practice in Texas and U.S. District Courts for the Western District of Texas.

Before attending law school, Professor Hardberger completed a master’s degree in hydrogeology and worked as an environmental consultant remediating closed Air Force Bases throughout the United States. She is also a professional registered geologist in Texas.

After graduating from Texas Tech Law School, where she served as an editor of the Texas Tech Law Review, Professor Hardberger served as a law clerk to the Honorable William Wayne Justice in the Western District of Texas.

Following her judicial clerkship, Professor Hardberger gained experience in environmental law and policy by working at the Texas office of the Environmental Defense Fund in both the Energy and Water Programs. At EDF, she coordinated the legal efforts against proposed coal power plants in Texas including the TXU projects. She has also worked on legal and policy issues concerning Texas water including municipal water conservation and the energy/water nexus. She has also published writings on international groundwater issues and the human right to water.

Degrees

B.A., Geology, Earlham College, 1994.

M.S., Geology University of Texas at San Antonio, 2001.

J.D., Texas Tech University, 2005

Publications

"Preparing for the Unknown: International Water Agreements and Climate Change" University of Idaho Law Review (publication expected Winter 2010).

"Managing the Risks of CO2 Sequestration," Southwest Hydrology September/October (2009) (coauthored with Scott Anderson).

"The Energy-Water Nexus in Texas" University of Texas and Environmental Defense Fund (2009).

"State Practice in the Management and Allocation of Transboundary Ground Water Resources in North America" Yearbook of International Environmental Law (coauthored with Prof. Gabriel Eckstein) 2009.

"Why We Do the Things We Do?: The Role of Ethics in Water Resource Planning," 6 Santa Clara Journal of International Law 129 (2008)

"From Policy to Reality: Maximizing Urban Water Conservation in Texas" [PDF] Environmental Defense Fund Publication (2008).

"The Facts about Texas Water" in Texas Law of Water Resources (State Bar Books) (coauthored with Prof. Gabriel Eckstein) (publication expected 2008).

"Summaries from the Symposium: Precious, Worthless, or Immensurable: The Value and Ethic of Water," Proceedings of Precious, Worthless, or Immensurable: The Value and Ethic of Water, First Water Symposium, ICASALS Publication no. 2005-1 (edited with Prof. Gabriel Eckstein).

"Whose Job it is Anyway?: Governmental Obligations Created by the Human Right to Water," 41 Texas International Law Journal 533 (2006).

"Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Water: Evaluating Water as a Human Right and the Duties and Obligations it Creates," 4 Northwestern University Journal of International Human Rights 331 (2005).

"What Lies Beneath: Determining the Necessity of International Groundwater Policy Along the United States-Mexico Border and a Roadmap to an Agreement," 35 Texas Tech Law Review 1212 (2004).