Professor Ahmad’s research explores the intersections of energy siting, the environment, and sustainable development and draws on international investment law and corporate social responsibility. She has published over 30 scholarly articles and book chapters. In 2016, she was recognized by the Orlando Business Journal as a 40 Under 40 honoree for her leadership and community involvement. Professor Ahmad was competitively selected twice to present at the Sabin Colloquium on Innovative Environmental Scholarship at Columbia Law School. She has presented her research on the law and policy of advanced biofuels in Abu Dhabi, Cairo, Cambridge, Doha, Denver, New York, and San Francisco. Prior to joining the Barry Law faculty, Professor Ahmad was the inaugural Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Law at Pace Law School. She also worked as a Legal Fellow with Sustainable Development Strategies Group on tax policy for natural resources, community development agreements, and mineral leasing rights for projects in Afghanistan, Mali, and Mozambique. At the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment at Columbia University, she advised on offshore drilling laws for Sierra Leone. Professor Ahmad’s earlier experience included working for a multinational oil and gas company in the Denver-Julesburg Basin and in private law practice in Florida in the areas of land use, zoning, asset protection, and bad faith insurance litigation defense. Professor Ahmad earned an undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature with language emphases in Latin and English from the University of California at Berkeley with high honors. Her undergraduate thesis examined representations of tradition and modernity in Indo-Anglian literature from 1947 to 1997. She completed her law degree (J.D.) from the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where she was a Virgil Hawkins Fellowship recipient. At UF Law, she served as executive editor of the Florida Journal of International Law and wrote about women’s property rights in Post-Partition South Asia. Later, she earned a masters of law (LL.M.) in Environmental and Natural Resources Law from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, where she explored the legal barriers for the deployment of advanced renewable technologies in the Global South and worked on the editorial review of the Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law. Professor Ahmad currently serves as Vice Chair of the ABA Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice’s Environmental Justice Committee, which was presented with the 2016-2017 ABA Committee Excellence Award, and the ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources’ Superfund and Natural Resource Damages Litigation Committee. She is an official expert for multilateral development organization, International Bamboo and Rattan Organisation (INBAR) Taskforce on Bamboo for Renewable Energy (TFB4RE), which promotes environmentally sustainable development using bamboo and rattan. Professor Ahmad was previously Chair of the Younger Comparativists Committee’s Linkages and Engagement Advisory Group of the American Society of Comparative Law, Regional Chair of Mid-Florida for the Florida Muslim Bar Association, Chair of the Florida Bar’s Media and Communications Law Committee and a Board Member of the City and County of Denver’s Human Rights and Community Partnerships Advisory Board. She is a member of the state bars of Florida and Colorado. Professor Ahmad’s most publications and working papers may be found on Social Science Research Network.

Mr. Badenoch has dedicated his career to the realignment of society and nature. He has been a founder of environmental startups, counsel for large-scale brownfield transactions and remediation projects domestically and abroad, a writer of environmental legislation and legal texts, a consultant and advisor for international human rights organizations, and pro bono support for the Flint class action lawsuits. Recently he represented Steven Donziger in his famous case representing Ecuadorian farmers and Indigenous communities against Chevron. Mr. Badenoch represented vulnerable communities in Orange County California in their attempt to keep another massive polluting facility from entering their neighborhood, yielding a unanimous decision from the California Coastal Commission. For the last eight years he has served in leadership at the American Bar Association’s Center for Human Rights, and as a member of the ABA Environmental Justice Task Force. While working with EJ communities as a Visiting Attorney at the Environmental Law Institute, He has focused on brownfields remediation and community-led area-wide planning. Mr. Badenoch founded and helps direct the Blight Revitalization Initiative for Green, Healthy Towns (BRIGHT), which engages local communities to develop redevelopment plans, He helps those communities devise and implement projects that can attract and leverage public and private financing to turn brownfields and blighted areas into catalysts for sustainable redevelopment. BRIGHT published The BRIGHT Guide at www.thebrightguide.com as a DIY guide for communities to engage in their own area-wide planning. Mr. Badenoch is also the Founder of the ELI Pro Bono Clearinghouse, which connects EJ communities with the pro bono legal representation they need. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and Pepperdine Law, where he also obtained a Master’s Degree in Dispute Resolution from Straus Institute. Mr. Badenoch is a member of the California Bar as well as the United States Court of Appeals for Second Circuit.

Mr. Brotherton practices in the areas of civil litigation, business and corporate matters, energy, transportation, insurance, environmental issues, land use, administrative law, and real estate. He was admitted to the Texas State Bar in 1994 after graduating the same year from Texas Wesleyan University School of Law (Now Texas A&M University School of Law). Mr. Brotherton is also licensed in the State of North Dakota. When he obtained his law degree in 1994 at the age of 44 after five years of night classes, he was the regional manager for BCM Engineers, Inc., a national environmental engineering firm. Prior to becoming an attorney, Mr. Brotherton worked at developing complex treatment plans for national Superfund sites and RCRA facilities as an environmental scientist. He received his MS in Environmental Science from the University of Texas at Dallas, and his undergraduate degree from the University of North Dakota. After obtaining his law degree, he then went on to teach environmental law as an adjunct professor for 12 years at Texas Christian University and lectured in environmental and land-use law at the Center for Environmental Research and Training at the University of Texas at Arlington. Mr. Brotherton has also taught at Lamar University, the University of North Texas, and the University of Texas at Dallas. Since 2006, William has served as a court-appointed special commissioner (judge) to determine the value of condemned property. He is knowledgeable in that area as a result of his experience serving on the Planning & Zoning Commission for the town of Flower Mound, Texas for over 6 years in addition to his service as a director of the Upper Trinity Regional Water District. Since 2006, Mr. Brotherton has represented the Denton Central Appraisal District as outside litigation counsel. An enrolled member of the Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi in Vermont, he worked closely with the Standing Rock Sioux Nation and the Spirit Lake Sioux Nation in North Dakota to attempt to resolve the Dakota Access protest. In addition, he represented the tribe as a councilmember in the repurposing of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. Besides being licensed in the States of Texas and North Dakota, He is licensed in the United States District Courts for the Northern and Eastern Districts of both Texas and North Dakota. Mr. Brotherton has been licensed since 2009 in the Supreme Court of the United States of America.