About the Author

• Author: Stephen M. Johnson
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About the Author

Stephen M. Johnson is the W.F.G. Professor of Law at Mercer University Law School in

Macon, Georgia. He received his J.D. from Villanova University School of Law and an

LL.M. in environmental law from the George Washington University Law School. Prior to

teaching, he served as an attorney for the Bureau of Regulatory Counsel in the

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources (now DEP) and as a trial attorney

for the U.S. Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division,

Environmental Defense Section, where he worked on wetlands litigation and other

environmental litigation.

He joined the Mercer faculty in 1993 and served as the Associate Dean for Academic

Affairs from 2002-2012. He specializes in Environmental Law, but has also taught Torts,

Statutory Law, Administrative Law, and Dispute Resolution. His scholarship focuses on

wetlands, environmental justice, economics and the environment, technology and the law,

and administrative law. In addition to authoring numerous articles on those topics, he has

edited an American Bar Association book on Wetlands law and has authored a book on

economic approaches to environmental protection. He has also authored several CALI

exercises on wetlands and environmental law and has served on the Board of Directors of

CALI for more than a decade.

While teaching at Mercer, he has been fortunate to teach or visit at Notre Dame Law

School, the University of London and Strathclyde University. In 2004, he taught at the

University of Tokyo and at Waseda University (Tokyo) on a Fulbright grant.