Author Archives: Arlene Kwasniak

About Arlene Kwasniak

Arlene J. Kwasniak B. Sc., M.A., LL.B., LL.M., is a Professor, Associate Dean (Research), and Graduate Program Director, in the Faculty of Law, University of Calgary. Arlene's graduate degrees are an M.A. (Philosophy) from Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan) in 1975, a LL.B. from the University of Alberta (Edmonton) in 1980, and a LL.M. (Environmental and Natural Resources Law) from Lewis and Clark, Northwestern School of Law (Portland, Oregon) in 1992. Arlene's research and teaching areas are water law, public lands and natural resources law, environmental assessment law, municipal law, conservation and sustainability, interjurisidictional/watershed approaches to regulation, and development of and issues concerning economic instruments to attain sustainability goals. Arlene's books include Alberta Public Rangeland Law and Policy, A Conservation Easement Guide to Alberta, Reconciling Political and Ecosystem Borders: A Legal Map and Alberta Wetlands: A Law and Policy Guide. Arlene has published numerous articles in her research areas. She has served on a number of law and policy development committees including the Alberta Water Council, Wetlands Team which strove to develop new wetland policy for the province, the Alberta Water Management Review Committee which was instrumental in developing the Alberta Water Act, and the federal Regulatory Advisory Committee constituted under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act to advise the federal Environment Minister on matters concerning environmental assessment in Canada.