Maxine Lipeles

Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic and Senior Lecturer in Law

E-mail: milipele@wulaw.wustl.edu
Phone: (314) 935-5837
Office: Anheuser-Busch Hall, Room 121
Assistant: Jo Hobbs
E-mail: jdhobbs@wulaw.wustl.edu
Phone: (314) 935-6474

Courses Taught

Environmental Law
Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic
Climate Change and the Law

Education

A.B., 1975, Princeton
J.D., 1979, Harvard University

Profile

Maxine I. Lipeles is Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic. She has been teaching various environmental law courses to graduate and undergraduate students at Washington University since 1990, and served as director of the Environmental Engineering Program from 1994-1999.

Lipeles has nearly 30 years of practice experience in environmental law, both in the private sector at Husch Eppenberger in St. Louis from 1982-1999, and as Assistant Attorney General in the Environmental Protection Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office from 1980-1982. She is the author and co-author of two casebooks, "Hazardous Waste" (Anderson Publishing, 3d. Ed. 1997) and "Water Pollution" (Anderson Publishing, 3d Ed. 1998) (with Jackson Battle), and "An Environmental Law Anthology" (Anderson Publishing, 1996) (with Robert Fischman and Mark Squillace).

She earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School, and her A.B. from Princeton University.

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