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Professor Gabriel Eckstein

Gabriel Eckstein Eckstein, Gabriel
George W. McCleskey Professor of Water Law, 2003
Director, Center for Water Law and Policy
(806) 742-3990 x260
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Complete Curriculum Vitae

Admitted to practice in New York, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia, and before the Federal District Courts of West Virginia.

Professor Eckstein has significant experience in international environmental law, especially in the area of freshwater resources. He currently serves as an advisor to the U.N. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization and Ambassador Chusei Yamada of the U.N. International Law Commission in the development of an international convention on transboundary ground water resources. Professor Eckstein also served as a consultant for the World Commission on Dams, Organization of American States, and US Agency for International Development on various international environmental and water issues, and served as a researcher for Hungary in the World Court case - Gabcikovo-Nagymaros Project - on issues of international law and transboundary ground water resources. In addition, Professor Eckstein directs the International Water Law Project, an Internet-based project designed to compile and disseminate information on international water law and policy issues and related topics.

Professor Eckstein also has considerable experience in U.S. environmental law. Prior to joining TTU, he served as Senior Counsel for CropLife America, a U.S. trade association of agricultural chemicals and biotech companies, advising on matters of U.S. and international regulatory and environmental law and compliance related to agricultural chemicals and biotechnology, air and water pollution, endangered species, and intellectual property. Prior to that, Professor Eckstein worked as a litigator in private practice on environmental, toxic tort, and asbestos cases.

Before joining the TTU faculty, Professor Eckstein taught as an adjunct Professor at American University Washington College of Law. In addition to his law degrees, he holds a Bachelor's Degree in Geology, and a Master's Degree in International Affairs.

Degrees

B.A., Kent State University, 1989

M.S., Florida State University, 1991

J.D., American University, 1995

LL.M., American University, 1997

Courses

US Water Law, International Water Law, International Environmental Law, Property

Selected Publications

“Commentary on the U.N. International Law Commission’s Draft Articles on the Law of Transboundary Aquifers,” 18 Colo. J. Int’l Envt’l L. & Pol’y 537 (2007)

“State Practice in the Management and Allocation of Transboundary Ground Water Resources in North America,” Proceedings of the 2006 NGWA Ground Water and Environmental Law Conference, July 6-7, 2006, Chicago, IL (2006) (co-authored with Amy Hardberger [Environmental Defense])

“Precious, Worthless, or Incalculable: The Value and Ethic of Water,” introductory essay to Proceedings of the Symposium–Precious, Worthless, or Incalculable: The Value and Ethic of Water Vol. 1, 38 Texas Tech L.Rev. 963 (2006)

"A Hydrogeological Perspective of the Status of Ground Water Resources under the UN Watercourse Convention," 30 Columbia J. of Envt’l Law 525 (2005).

"Protecting A Hidden Treasure: The U.N. International Law Commission and the International Law of Transboundary Ground Water Resources," 5 Amer. Univ. Sustainable Devel. L. & Pol’y 5 (2005).

"The Challenges of the Rule of Capture in Texas," Conference Proceedings – High Plains Groundwater Resources: Challenges and Opportunities, Conference Proceedings 163, Texas Tech University Water Resources Center, Lubbock, TX (Rainwater & Zobek, Eds. 2004).

"A Hydrogeological Approach to Transboundary Ground Water Resources and International Law" 19 Am. U. Int'l L.R. 201 (2003) (co-authored with Dr. Yoram Eckstein).

"Ground Water Resources and International Law in the Middle East Process," Water International (June 2003) (co-authored with Prof. Yoram Eckstein).

"Development of International Water Law and the UN Watercourse Convention" in Hydropolitics in the Developing World: A Southern African Perspective 81 (Turton & Henwood, eds.) (2002).