Peer Reviewers

Betsy Baker is professor at Vermont Law School, on leave at University of Washington School of Law as Counsel to the Dean for Alaska Programs . She served as Visiting Scholar with the Extended Continental Shelf Task Force at the U .S . Department of State, Office of Ocean and Polar Affairs/Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (2012–2013) . She has taught law of the sea as part of her Vermont seminars on international law and at Harvard Law School . Her research and policy work includes commissioned papers on Arctic offshore oil and gas regulation for the Inuit Circumpolar Council and, for the Arctic Council, the Arctic Ocean Review . She holds a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University, a JD from the University of Michigan, and an LLM and doctor iuris degrees from the University of Kiel, Germany, where she was an Alexander von Humboldt Chancellors Fellow . Ira Breskin is a senior lecturer at SUNY Maritime College in the Bronx, New York, where he teaches courses in maritime economics, operations, and regulation . Prior to joining SUNY Maritime, he was a business journalist for about 25 years covering corporate strategy, international trade, and transportation for a number of publications, including Investor’s Business Daily and the Journal of Commerce . Breskin has two master’s degrees: an MBA from Dowling College and an MS in international trade and transportation from SUNY Maritime . He completed a Knight-Bagehot Fellowship at Columbia University Business School and a National Endowment for Humanities Fellowship at Mystic Seaport . Breskin holds a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University . Sean Dixon is a staff attorney at Riverkeeper, working on Hudson River and New York City water quality, development, remediation, energy, and climate issues . Dixon currently serves on the Section Council for the ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources, is a Senior Fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program, and is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Pace Law School . He is also cofounder and co-owner of Village Fishmonger NYC, a community-supported fishery supplying local, responsiblyharvested seafood direct to consumers in the Greater-New York City region . Dixon was formerly a coastal policy attorney at Clean Ocean Action where his work ranged broadly from dredged materials to liquefied natural gas imports/exports to offshore oil and gas activities and coastal pollution . He previously worked on commercial fishing vessels in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska as a fisheries observer, a Graduate Research Fellow at Pace Law School’s Center for Environmental Legal Studies, and, for two years, as a lecturer at Yale University . Sean is a graduate of Pace Law School, Boston University’s Marine Program, and Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies . Michael Dunning is a partner in the Perkins Coie Environment, Energy, and Resources practice in Seattle, where he counsels and litigates for clients on environmental, energy, and project development, policy matters, legislative advocacy, and strategic communications . His environmental counseling and litigation experience includes the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Toxic Substances Control Act, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, National Environmental Policy Act, and similar Washington State laws: Washington State’s Shoreline Management Act, Washington state’s solid-waste management laws, and Natural Resource Damages . Prior to joining Perkins Coie, Dunning was an assistant attorney general, representing the state’s Department of Ecology on a broad range of environmental issues . He served as the Attorney General’s Section Chief for the