Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Environmental Law Clinic. Professor Strickland's work in the Environmental Law Clinic involves advocacy before trial courts, appellate courts, and administrative agencies on a variety of topics, including compliance by federal agencies with the National Environmental Policy Act; citizen suits against polluters under federal and state clean water, clean air, solid waste, and hazardous waste laws; diversions of public parkland, wetlands, and other state land-use permits; access rights and stewardship obligations under the public trust doctrine; endangered species rules and protections; 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. 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.