Law for the Land - Erin Ryan

Ryan, Erin: - Erin Ryan is an internationally regarded expert in environmental law, constitutional law, negotiation, and collaborative governance. After long service as the Atkinson Professor and Associate Dean for Environmental Programs at the Florida State University College of Law, she joins the faculty at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law in 2026. She presents widely in the United States, Europe, and Asia and has served as a fellow at the Harvard Negotiation Research Project, at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich, and as a Fulbright Scholar in China.

After graduating from Harvard Law School, she clerked on the Ninth Circuit and practiced environmental law in San Francisco. Before law school, she was a USFS ranger at Mono Lake, just east of Yosemite National Park.