Heather Elliott

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Heather Elliott


Heather Elliott is the Alumni, Class of ’36 Professor of Law at the University of Alabama, where she teaches water resources law, land-use law, statutory interpretation, civil procedure, and legal ethics. Her legal scholarship has been published in the Stanford Law Review, the Indiana Law Journal, and the Boston University Law Review, among others. For the last several years, Heather has been heavily involved in Alabama water law and policy. She was appointed by then-Governor Robert Bentley to the Riparian Focus Area Panel of the (now defunct) Alabama Water Agencies Working Group. In 2014, she won an $80,000 grant from the United States Geological Survey to write the first comprehensive treatise on Alabama water law, which is forthcoming in 2019 from the University of Alabama Press.

Heather is a former law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and to Judge Merrick B. Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She received her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, where she was an articles editor for the Ecology Law Quarterly, earned an Environmental Law Certificate, and was elected to Order of the Coif. She earned M.A. and M.Phil. degrees in political science at Yale University and graduated magna cum laude from Duke University with a B.A. in political science and philosophy.

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