Lynn E. Blais

Professor Blais teaches Administrative Law, Environmental Law, and Property. Her research focuses on the allocation of property rights and natural resources, and the decision-making processes underlying these allocations. During her tenure at Texas Law she has served as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and has been instrumental in establishing three clinics: the Capital Punishment Clinic, the Environmental Law Clinic, and the Supreme Court Clinic.  She served as a Co-Director of the Supreme Court Clinic for 10 years.  Her articles have appeared in such journals as the Fordham Law Review, the Texas Law Review, the University of Illinois Law Review, and the Southern California Law Review.

Before joining the Texas faculty in 1991, Professor Blais served as a law clerk to the Honorable Harry A. Blackmun of the United States Supreme Court and the Hon. Wm. Wayne Justice of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. She also practiced environmental law with the public interest firm Hall & Phillips in Los Angeles.