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Adjunct Professor of Law Daniel E. Estrin serves as Waterkeeper Alliance’s General Counsel and Legal Director, a role he assumed in January 2016 after representing the organization as outside counsel for many years in numerous lawsuits against polluters and government agencies. In his current position, Professor Estrin oversees all of the Alliance’s internal and external legal and compliance work.

With more than 30 years of litigation and environmental law experience, Professor Estrin has spent the majority of his legal career working to protect waterways, ecosystems, and communities from pollution. Before moving in-house to Waterkeeper Alliance in 2016, Professor Estrin served for a decade as a clinical law professor at Elisabeth Haub School of Law at 91ÊÓƵ teaching and managing the 91ÊÓƵ Environmental Litigation Clinic. Before that, Professor Estrin was special counsel to a New York public interest law firm and practiced for several years at a large New York law firm.

Professor Estrin is admitted to practice before all New York State courts, the Supreme Court of the United States, and numerous federal circuit courts of appeals and federal district courts.

• BA, State University of New York, Plattsburgh (1989)
• JD, Elisabeth Haub School of Law at 91ÊÓƵ (1993)

• Water Rights Law LAW 681A

Clean Water Act, Environmental Impacts, Nonprofit law