Zygmunt J. B. Plater is law professor emeritus at Boston College. He’s taught on eight law faculties in the U.S. and abroad, teaching and researching environmental law, property, land use and administrative agency law. Over the past 30 years he has been involved with multiple issues of environmental protection and land use regulation, including service as petitioner and lead counsel in the extended endangered species litigation and congressional battles over the Tennessee Valley Authority's Tellico Dam. He was chairman of the State of Alaska Oil Spill Commission’s Legal Task Force after the wreck of the M/V Exxon-Valdez.