Jonathan Skinner-Thompson

  • Associate Professor of Law
  • COLORADO LAW
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Jonathan is an Associate Professor of Law at Colorado Law and Director of the Getches-Green Natural Resources, Energy & Environmental Law Clinic. Jonathan also teaches Environmental Law and Climate Change Law & Policy, and he writes on administrative and environmental law issues. His scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the Washington Law Review, and the environmental journals at Duke, Stanford, Vermont, and Virginia law schools, the ABA's Natural Resources & Environment magazine, and elsewhere.

Before joining Colorado Law, Jonathan was an attorney at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency--first in the Office of General Counsel and then with the Office of Regional Counsel in Denver. Jonathan also has served in the U.S. Department of Justice's Environmental Defense Section and was an environmental associate with firms in New York and Seattle. For his federal service, Jonathan received the Administrator's Award for Excellence, a Special General Counsel's Award, and the Assistant Attorney General's Award for Excellence, among others.

Jonathan graduated cum laude from Duke University School of Law and with high honors from the University of California, Berkeley.

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