Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, Environmental Law Clinic. Professor Strickland earned an A.B. cum laude from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and executive editor of the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law. Following law school, he was a clerk to Senior U.S. District Judge Joseph H. Young in Baltimore. Professor Strickland`s work at the clinic involves advocacy before trial courts, appellate courts, and administrative agencies on a variety of topics, including diversions of public parkland, wetlands and other permits, hazardous waste pollution, beach access rights under the public trust doctrine, endangered species rules, and municipal land use decisions. Before joining the clinic, he worked in the Environmental Protection Bureau of the New York State Attorney General`s office, where his cases included a navigational dredging suit against General Electric Company, a $13 million claim against the successor of a company that polluted a municipal landfill, and the defense of a New York statute banning the gasoline additive MTBE against claims of preemption under the federal Clean Air Act. He was previously an associate at the New York office of Latham & Watkins and then Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider, LLP, where he complemented his antitrust work with pro bono representation of the Natural Resources Defense Council.