Patrick McGinley

Patrick C. McGinley is the Charles H. Haden II Professor of Law at West Virginia College of Law. He has taught courses on, and published numerous law review articles relating to, environmental, natural resources, and administrative law. Professor McGinley has served as chair of the Association of American Law Schools' environmental law section. He has litigated many environmental cases and testified before the US Senate and House of Representatives regarding environmental and natural resource law issues. In March, 2016, McGinley was awarded the Svitlana Kravchenko Environmental Rights Award at the 39th Annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference recognising his scholarship, teaching and public interest environmental litigation.

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No Ordinary Lawsuit

No Ordinary Lawsuit

In late May, a U.S. Appeals court heard oral arguments in a U.S. government effort to stop a trial in a climate case some have referred to as “the trial of the century.” The case began in 2015 when 21 young Americans from diverse ...
A Tale of Two Treaties: The Clean Power Plan

A Tale of Two Treaties: The Clean Power Plan

World leaders met near Paris almost a century ago promising to cooperate to end the scourge of war. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson touted his country’s contributions to international cooperation leading to the 1919 Treaty of ...