Courses Offered:

Property
Natural Resources Law
Environmental Law

Professional Biographical Information:

Peter A. Appel joined the University of Georgia School of Law faculty in 1997 and teaches in the areas of property, natural resources law and environmental law.

Recent publications include:"The Power of Congress 'Without Limitation' in the Twenty-First Century" in the Public Land & Resources Law Review (2004),"The Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition: A Constitutional Moment?" in Lewis and Clark: Legacies, Memories, and New Perspectives (2004) and"The Diligent Prosecution Bar to Citizen Suits: The Search for Adequate Representation" in the Widener Law Review. In addition to these articles focusing on the environmental and natural resources areas, Appel has addressed more traditional topics in property law such as the rule against perpetuities (Journal of Legal Education, 2004) and the role of the entailment in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Law and Literature Association of Australia Conference, November 2002).  Appel has also been invited to train federal wilderness managers at the Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center, a facility run jointly by all federal agencies responsible for wilderness management.

Appel developed a practical understanding of environmental issues through his six years of service as an attorney with the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Prior to holding that position, he clerked for Chief Judge Gilbert S. Merritt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit.

From 1999 to 2001, Appel served as a Lilly Teaching Fellow at the University of Georgia. The campus-wide program offers support and discussion to a select few UGA professors who show strong promise in both teaching and scholarship. Lilly Fellows also receive funds to develop new instructional programs over their two-year fellowship.

Appel earned his bachelor's and law degrees from Yale University, where he served on the notes editing committee of the Yale Law Journal and was a member of the Yale Law and Policy Review.