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Fuller Professor of Law: Jason Scott Johnston
Dr. Johnston has taught environmental law since joining the Penn Law faculty in 1995. He arrived from Vanderbilt Law School where he was on the faculty from 1989 to 1994. Before that, Dr. Johnston was a Senior Fellow in Civil Liability at Yale Law School, an associate professor of law at Vermont Law School, and a clerk for The Hon. Gilbert S. Merritt, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit. He earned a J.D. in 1981 cum laude from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Economics in 1984 from the University of Michigan where he was the Aloca Fellow in Law and Economics. The Fuller Professorship was established in 1989 under the terms of a gift by Robert G. Fuller, Jr. L'64. Though designated primarily for a scholar in the field of real property and natural resources law, Mr. Fuller supports the use of the chair to recognize the contributions of outstanding scholars in other fields of critical importance to the Law School. Dean Michael A. Fitts was the previous holder of the chair until he was named dean in 2000. Almanac, Vol. 48, No. 9, October 23, 2001 |
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Dr.
Jason Scott Johnston has been named the Robert G. Fuller, Jr. Professor
of Law. Dr. Johnston also serves as the director of POLE (Program
on Law and the Environment), which he founded at the Law School
in 1998. The program promotes multidisciplinary research in environmental
law and regulation. POLE's objective is to further our understanding
of the evolution of federal environmental and resource law as well
as the possibilities for new market and decentralized approaches.
Through POLE, Penn Law trains a new, transactional generation of
environmental lawyers. 
