LeRoy (Lee) Paddock

Lee Paddock is Associate Dean for Environmental Law Studies at George Washington University Law School.  His research focuses on public participation, environmental enforcement, environmental justice, private environmental regulation, and hydraulic fracturing regulation.  From 2002-May 2007, he was Director of Environmental Legal Studies and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Pace University School of Law. 

For eight years Lee was a Senior Consultant to the National Academy of Public Administration where he has focused on environmental governance, environmental justice, Clean Air Act and enforcement issues.  He is co-chair of the American Bar Associations Section of Environment, Energy and Resources Virtual Learning Committee.  He is a member of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Environmental Law Commission and of the Academic Advisory Group on Energy for the International Bar Association’s Section on Environment, Energy, Resources and Infrastructure Law. 

From 1978 until 1999, Lee was an Assistant Attorney General with the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office where he served as Director of Environmental Policy for 13 years, as manager of the Office’s Agriculture and Natural Resources Division and as a member of its Executive Committee.  He has been named to several national panels including the Aspen Institute’s Series on Environment in the 21st Century and the American National Standard Institute’s ISO 14000 Environmental Management Systems Council. 

Lee clerked for Judge Donald Lay of the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.  His law degree is from the University of Iowa Law School and his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan.