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Kim Diana Connolly
Associate Professor of Law
Department of Clinical Legal Studies
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Profile
Professor Connolly’s areas of academic interest include natural resources and public lands law, particularly wetlands law and policy and other Clean Water Act matters. Professor Connolly’s scholarly works have appeared in The Environmental Law Reporter, The Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, The Catholic University Law Review, The Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, The Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, The Southeastern Environmental Law Journal, and other publications. Professor Connolly served as co-editor of the ABA Wetlands Law and Policy: Understanding Section 404 book and is the co-author of the forthcoming Environmental Law And Policy in the News: An Advocate’s Guide To Understanding Mass Media. She speaks regularly at national and international conferences regarding wetlands, coastal and other environmental law and policy, as well as law teaching matters.
Professor Connolly teaches or has taught the Dealing with Environmental Law and Policy in the Media; Energy Law and the Environment; Environmental Advocacy Seminar; Environmental Law Clinic; Environmental Law of South Carolina; Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiating; Introduction to Environmental Law and Policy; Legislation; and Pretrial Practice. She is also a member of the summer faculty at Vermont Law School (a U.S. News and World Report top-ranked environmental program) where she teaches Wetlands Law and Policy. Professor Connolly is also an associate faculty member of the University of South Carolina School of the Environment. She is particularly interested in skills, clinics and practical teaching and is serving as the President of the Clinical Legal Education Association in 2009.
Before joining the law faculty in 1999, Professor Connolly worked as an associate at a number of Washington, D.C. law firm environmental law practice groups. She received her J.D. magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center and her LL.M. with highest honors from George Washington University Law School. Professor Connolly did her undergraduate work in chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a Morehead Scholar. Prior to law school, Professor Connolly was the director of the North Carolina Rural Communities Assistance Project, Inc., and also served as a VISTA Volunteer.
Kim Connolly Visits College of Law as Stegner Center Young Scholar
Professor Connolly joined the Wallace Stegner Center as a Stegner Center Young Scholar from October 20-21, 2008. The Young Scholars Program, which is made possible by the generous support of the Cultural Vision Fund, is designed to recognize and establish a relationship with promising scholars early in their academic careers. Recipients are selected based on their accomplishments, the quality of their academic work, and their promise in the field of environmental and natural resources law and policy. Professor Connolly's presentation is titled, "The Empty Promises of U.S. Wetland Mitigation Policy".
In October 2008, Professor Connolly visits South Korea as a guest of the Gyeongnam Ramsar Environmental Foundation. While there she will present on the preservation of international wetlands at five different events. Please read the blog of her journey.
In August 2007, Professor Connolly was featured in USC News Profiles ... MORE
On July 17, 2007, Professor Connolly testified before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure about the status of the nation's waters. "I have been asked to provide information about the history of regulation and the current state of play with respect to wetlands and other waters of the United States under the Clean Water Act," Connolly explains. ... MORE