Donald C Baur

Donald C. Baur is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Perkins Coie. He previously has served as general counsel of the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission and as an attorney advisor in the Office of the Solicitor for the U.S. Department of the Interior, where he served in the office's Honors Program. He graduated with highest honors from Trinity College and from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. Baur is on the summer faculty of the Vermont Law School, where he has taught ocean...See more

Donald C. Baur is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Perkins Coie. He previously has served as general counsel of the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission and as an attorney advisor in the Office of the Solicitor for the U.S. Department of the Interior, where he served in the office's Honors Program. He graduated with highest honors from Trinity College and from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. Baur is on the summer faculty of the Vermont Law School, where he has taught ocean and coastal law since 1997. He also taught federal wildlife law at the Golden Gate School of Law and serves as cochair of the American Law Institute/Environmental Law Institute Conference on Species Protection and the Law and as an instructor in the Environmental Law Institute's Environmental Boot Camp. He is vice chair of the Book Publications Committee of the ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources, and he has served with Wm. Robert Irvin as coeditor of the ABA's book Endangered Species Act: Law, Policy, and Perspectives (2002). Baur has published over 40 law review and similar publications, many of which concern the marine environment. He received grants from the Turner Foundation to prepare a legal analysis, through the World Wildlife Fund, of marine protected areas (published with Wm. Robert Irvin and Darren Misenko in the Vermont Law Review) and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, through the Center for Future of the Oceans of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, for a legal analysis of marine ecosystem-based management (Chapter 21 of this book). He is a member of the Environmental Leadership Council of the Environmental Law Institute, and serves at the Boards of the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation and Shenandoah National Park Trust. See less