African Institute Lectures

Alexandra Klass

Distinguished McKnight University Professor
Alexandra B. Klass is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School. She teaches and writes in the areas of energy law, natural resources law, environmental law, tort law, and property law. Her recent scholarly work, published in many of the nation’s leading law journals, addresses regulatory challenges to integrating more renewable energy into the nation’s electric transmission grid, siting and eminent domain issues surrounding interstate electric transmission lines and oil and gas pipelines, and applications of the public trust doctrine to modern environmental law challenges. She is a co-author of several leading law textbooks, including Energy Law and Policy (2d ed. 2018) Energy Law: Concepts and Insights (2d ed. 2020), and Natural Resources Law: A Place-Based Book of Problems and Cases (4th ed. 2018). Prior to her teaching career, Professor Klass was a partner at Dorsey & Whitney LLP in Minneapolis, where she specialized in environmental law and land use litigation. She is a Member Scholar at the Center for Progressive Reform, a Fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment, and in 2020 was named to the Minnesota Governor’s Advisory Council on Climate Change.

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