The Phillip C. Jessup International Moot Court Team

Coach Profile:

George W. McCleskey Professor of Water Law, 2003
Director, Center for Water Law and Policy
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Admitted to Practice in New York, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia, and before the Federal District Courts of West Virginia.

Education

B.A., Kent State University, 1989
M.S., Florida State University, 1991
J.D., American University, 1995
LL.M., American University, 1997


Teaches: US Water Law, International Water Law, International Environmental Law, Property

Professor Eckstein has significant experience in international environmental law, especially in the area of freshwater resources. He currently serves as an advisor to the U.N. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization and Ambassador Chusei Yamada of the U.N. International Law Commission in the development of an international convention on transboundary ground water resources.

Professor Eckstein also served as a consultant for the World Commission on Dams, Organization of American States, and US Agency for International Development on various international environmental and water issues, and served as a researcher for Hungary in the World Court case - Gabcikovo-Nagymaros Project - on issues of international law and transboundary ground water resources. In addition, Professor Eckstein directs the International Water Law Project, an Internet-based project designed to compile and disseminate information on international water law and policy issues and related topics.

Professor Eckstein also has considerable experience in U.S. environmental law. Prior to joining TTU, he served as Senior Counsel for CropLife America, a U.S. trade association of agricultural chemicals and biotech companies, advising on matters of U.S. and international regulatory and environmental law and compliance related to agricultural chemicals and biotechnology, air and water pollution, endangered species, and intellectual property. Prior to that, Professor Eckstein worked as a litigator in private practice on environmental, toxic tort, and asbestos cases.

Before joining the TTU faculty, Professor Eckstein taught as an adjunct Professor at American University Washington College of Law. In addition to his law degrees, he holds a Bachelor's Degree in Geology, and a Master's Degree in International Affairs.

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Selected Publications

• "A Hydrogeological Perspective of the Status of Ground Water Resources under the UN Watercourse Convention," 30 Columbia J. of Envt’l Law 525 (2005).
• "Protecting A Hidden Treasure: The U.N. International Law Commission and the International Law of Transboundary Ground Water Resources," 5 Amer. Univ. Sustainable Devel. L. & Pol’y 5 (2005).
• "The Challenges of the Rule of Capture in Texas," Conference Proceedings – High Plains Groundwater Resources: Challenges and Opportunities, Conference Proceedings 163, Texas Tech University Water Resources Center, Lubbock, TX (Rainwater & Zobek, Eds. 2004).
• "A Hydrogeological Approach to Transboundary Ground Water Resources and International Law" 19 Am. U. Int'l L.R. 201 (2003) (co-authored with Dr. Yoram Eckstein).
• "Ground Water Resources and International Law in the Middle East Process," Water International (June 2003) (co-authored with Prof. Yoram Eckstein).
• "Development of International Water Law and the UN Watercourse Convention" in Hydropolitics in the Developing World: A Southern African Perspective 81 (Turton & Henwood, eds.) (2002).
• "International Water Law, Transboundary Groundwater Resources and the Danube Dam Case," in Gambling With Groundwater: Physical, Chemical, and Biological Aspects of Aquifer-Stream Relationship, American Institute of Hydrology 243 (Van Brahana, et. al., eds. 1998) (co-authored with Dr. Yoram Eckstein).
• "Of Solemn Oaths and Obligations: The Environmental Impact of the ICJ's Decision in the Case of the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros Project," in Yearbook of International Environmental Law 1997 (1997) (co-authored with Stephen Stec).