Gulf War Reparations and the UN Compensation Commission
Environmental Liability
Edited by Cymie Payne and Peter Sand
Author Information
Cymie Payne is a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law and was formerly a member of the UNCC Secretariat.
Peter Sand is a Professor at the University of Munich and was formerly a UNCC Commissioner for environmental claims.
Contributors:
José R. Allen is a partner in the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate Meagher & Flom LLP. From 1999 to 2005, Mr. Allen served as a Commissioner on the UNCC's F4 Panel of Commissioners. Mr. Allen has been practicing law, with an emphasis on environmental litigation, for over thirty years. He is a member of the bars of California and Massachusetts and resides in San Francisco, California.
Carl Bruch is a Senior Attorney and Co-Director of International Programs at the Environmental Law Institute in Washington, DC. His research examines the law, policy, and institutions governing natural resources during and after conflict. He is currently coordinating the development of seven books on post-conflict peacebuilding and natural resource management (forthcoming 2011).
David D. Caron is C. William Maxeiner Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, and President, American Society of International Law. From 1996 to 2003, Professor Caron served as Commissioner on the UNCC's Panel of Commissioners. He is a Barrister Member of Chambers, 20 Essex Street as well as member, bar of California. He served as Chair of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration from 2005 to 2009.
Michael Donlan is a Principal at Industrial Economics (IEc), a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based think tank.
Robert Costanza is University Professor of Sustainability and Director, Institute for Sustainable Solutions at Portland State University; formerly professor of economics at Louisiana State University, the University of Maryland, and director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont. He is currently a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Ecological Economics Research Center of New Zealand (EERNZ), a Senior Fellow at the National Council on Science and the Environment in Washington, DC, and a Senior Fellow at the Stockholm Resilience Center. He also is co-founder and past president of the International Society for Ecological Economics, and was founding chief editor of the society's journal, Ecological Economics; founding co-editor of Ecological Economics Reviews; and founding editor-in-chief of the new journal, Solutions.
Michael C. Donlan is a principal with Industrial Economics Inc., Cambridge/MA, which provided independent expert consultant services to the UNCC's F4 Panel in 2000-2005. He is an expert in managing multidisciplinary natural resource and economic damage assessments. Mr. Donlan holds a B.A. in geography modified by economics from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
Daniel Farber is the Sho Sato Professor of Law and chair of the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was a law clerk for Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Akiva Fishman is a Research Associate at the Environmental Law Institute. His work focuses on the link between natural resources and conflict, international environmental institutions, and U.S. brownfields and invasive species law. He is currently assisting with the development of seven books on post-conflict peacebuilding and natural resource management (forthcoming 2011).
James K. Hammitt is Professor of Economics and Decision Sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health, Director of the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, and visiting professor at the Toulouse School of Economics. In 2002-2005, he served as consultant to the Government of Kuwait on public health impacts of the Gulf conflict. Formerly a Senior Mathematician at the RAND Corporation, he is a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Science Advisory Board and chairs its Advisory Council on Clear Air Compliance Analysis.
Michael T. Huguenin was President and co-founder of Industrial Economics Inc., Cambridge/MA, which provided independent expert consultant services to the UNCC's F4 Panel in 2000-2005. He has designed and conducted a broad range of environmental studies over the past 35 years. Mr. Huguenin holds an A.B. in physics from Washington University in St. Louis and a M.S. in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Julia E. Klee managed the UNCC Secretariat's work on the environmental claims. She is a former partner with the law firm of Pillsbury, Madison and Sutro where she helped establish the firm's environmental practice in the 1980's. Other environmental positions include manager of environment, health and safety at the University of California, Berkeley; environmental consultant with ERM Environomics in Beijing, China; inspector/officer with the San Francisco Bay Area Air Pollution District. Ms. Klee holds degrees in chemistry (University of Illinois) and law (University of California at Berkeley).
Thomas A. Mensah was the chairman of the UNCC's F4 Panel of Commissioners from 1999 to 2005. Former Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana, Professor of Law and Director of the Law of the Sea Institute at the University of Hawaii, and High Commissioner of Ghana to South Africa, he was the first President of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. He is a graduate of the University of Ghana, the University of London and Yale University.
Robert W. Paterson is a principal with Industrial Economics Inc., Cambridge/MA, where he values environmental and natural resource assets and services in damage assessment and public policy analyses. Mr. Paterson holds a B.A. in economics from Colby College and an M.S. in resource economics from the University of Maine.
Cymie R. Payne was a senior lawyer with the UNCC's environmental claims program from 1999-2005. She is a lecturer at University of California, Berkeley, School of Law where she was also Director of the Global Commons Project and Associate Director of the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment. Ms. Payne practiced law with the US Department of the Interior in Washington, DC, and the firm of Goodwin, Procter, LLP in Boston. She is a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, and a member of the bars of California and Massachusetts.
Peter H. Sand is a lecturer in international environmental law at the Faculty of Law, University of Munich, Germany; formerly Associate Professor of Law at McGill University Montreal, Canada. Before serving as UNCC Commissioner on the F4 Panel in 1999-2005, he held a number of international positions, including Senior Legal Officer of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Assistant Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), Chief of the Environmental Law Unit of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), and Legal Adviser for Environmental Affairs of the World Bank.
Alexandra E. van Geel is a senior associate with Industrial Economics Inc., Cambridge/MA, where she evaluates injuries to natural resources in freshwater, marine and terrestrial environments. Ms. van Geel holds an A.B. in biology from Princeton University and a M.S. in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Larraine Wilde is Principal Environmental Scientist with Sinclair Knight Merz Pty.Ltd., Sheffield, and led the technical team advising Iraq on the UNCC environmental claims. Ms. Wilde has directed and managed teams providing assessment of marine and terrestrial environments in more than 30 countries across Asia, Africa, South America, the Middle East and Europe with assessments in conflict/post-conflict countries including Sierra Leone, Kosovo, Palestine and Rwanda.
