Associate Professor Kalyani Robbins joined The University of Akron School of Law in
2008. She received her B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, her J.D. from
Stanford Law School (where she was an articles editor for the Stanford Law Review), and
her LL.M. in Environmental and Natural Resources Law, cum laude, from Lewis & Clark
Law School. Professor Robbins teaches Environmental Law, Natural Resources Law, and
Criminal Law. She focuses her research on biodiversity and ecosystem management. She has
been admitted to the California and New York bars, as well as the bar for the U.S.
District Court for the Eastern District of California. Prior to joining the Akron Law
faculty, Professor Robbins served as an assistant district attorney in the Manhattan
District Attorney’s Office and was legal director for Sequoia ForestKeeper, an
environmental nonprofit. She also clerked for The Honorable Norman H. Stahl of the United
States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and The Honorable Faith S. Hochberg of the
United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. She has published on issues
of Constitutional Law, Criminal Prosecution, and, most recently, Wildlife Law. 

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