Alexandra Klass

Law School
 (612) 625-0155
aklass@umn.edu

Alexandra Klass is a professor and associate dean for academic affairs at the University of Minnesota Law School.  Klass teaches and writes in the areas of natural resources law and environmental law.  Prior to entering academia, she was a partner at the Dorsey & Whitney law firm in Minneapolis, where she obtained more than a decade of regulatory and courtroom experience in environmental law, natural resources law, and land use law.

Klass is particularly interested in the role of common law in environmental protection and is one of the nation’s top scholars exploring legal and policy frameworks for geologic carbon capture and sequestration. 

She is using her IonE resident fellow as an opportunity to collaborate with experts in architecture, engineering, public policy, agricultural economics, and public lands policy on green building technology as well as renewable energy and transmission issues, particularly with regard to property rights and development rights in wind and solar access on public and private lands.  She plans to organize conferences for scholars across the country around these issues, and to expand her environmental law capstone class to include students and faculty from disciplines outside law.

See Klass’s faculty page for more information.

BEYOND THE BIO

  • Environmental Hero:
    Joseph Sax
  • Fascinating Fact:
    Attended University of Michigan on a gymnastics scholarship.