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Anna A. Mance joins ºÚÁÏÀÏ˾»úDedman School of Law from Stanford Law School where she was a Thomas C. Grey Fellow and Lecturer in Law. Professor Mance’s teaching and scholarly interests are in the areas of environmental law, climate law, international law and development, transnational law, civil procedure, and public governance and accountability. Her recent work assesses the relationship between state capacity to address climate change and private enforcement of environmental law.

Professor Mance’s work has been published or is forthcoming in law reviews and interdisciplinary scholarly journals including the Stanford Law Review, Cardozo Law Review, and The Lancet. Her scholarship is informed by her extensive experience in global environmental health and international development as Vice Chair of Policy of the ABA International Environmental Law Committee from 2013 to 2016 where she drafted ABA reports on various initiatives including to ratify UNCLOS and to institute a global lead paint ban, as a Visiting Attorney at the Environmental Law Institute, as a Climate Fellow at NRDC, and as a post-graduate researcher in Global Environmental Health at the University of California-Berkeley School of Public Health. Professor Mance has also worked on novel approaches to address climate change and sea level rise; she is currently addressing wildlife and biodiversity protection through impact litigation with the interdisciplinary WILDS Project.

Professor Mance holds an M.S./MDP from the University of California-Berkeley and a J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law. After graduating from law school with honors, Professor Mance spent five years as a litigator at the Miami offices of Aballí Milne Kalil, focusing on transnational disputes and fraud investigations, and served as Global Counsel for BitPesa, based in Nairobi.