Emily Collins joined the Pitt Law Faculty in 2008 as a Clinical Assistant Professor and Supervising Attorney of the Environmental Law Clinic. Professor Collins comes to Pitt Law from the Office of Public Interest Counsel of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, where she served as a state-employed public interest environmental attorney in the areas of water quality, water rights, air quality, solid waste disposal, low-level radioactive waste disposal, remediation, and wastewater rates.
Drawing on her public interest practice and education at the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic and the Gallatin School of New York University, Professor Collins has designed an interdisciplinary clinic that teaches students to work effectively in cross-disciplinary teams that provide legal and technical assistance to groups and individuals with environmental and community health concerns in Western Pennsylvania.
Education
Currently Teaching
Specialization
- Water Quality
- Water Rights
- Science and the Law
- Client Counseling Methodologies
Selected Publications
Articles
New Withdrawals, New Impairments As Pennsylvania Develops the Marcellus Shale, ABA, Section of Environment, Energy & Resources, 2010 Eastern Water Resources Conference-Surplus and Scarcity: Adapting to Hydraulic Disruption in the East (May 21, 2010).
