Education

• LL.M., International Environmental Law, Washington College of Law, American University (1997)
• J.D., Washington College of Law, American University (1995)
• M.S., International Affairs, Florida State University (1991)
• Dual B.A., Geology and International Affairs, Kent State University (1989)

Professor Gabriel Eckstein is the George W. McCleskey Professor of Water Law, under which title he develops courses and lectures in U.S. and international water law, U.S. and international environmental law, and law and science; conducts research on local, national, and international water law and environmental law issues; supervises student research on administrative, international, and environmental law topics; and coaches the School's Jessup International Law Moot Court Team. In addition, he directs the School's Center for Water Law and Policy, and he manages the International Water Law Project, an Internet-based project designed to compile and disseminate information on international water law and policy issues and related topics.

Professor Eckstein has significant experience in international environmental law, especially in the area of freshwater resources. He currently serves as an advisor to UNESCO and Ambassador Chusei Yamada of the U.N. International Law Commission in the development of an international convention on transboundary groundwater resources. Professor Eckstein has served as a consultant for the World Commission on Dams, Organization of American States, and U.S. Agency for International Development on various international environmental and water issues. Professor Eckstein also has considerable experience in U.S. environmental law. Prior to joining TTU, he served as Senior Counsel for CropLife America, a U.S. trade association of agricultural chemicals and biotech companies, advising on matters of U.S. and international regulatory and environmental law and compliance related to agricultural chemicals and biotechnology, air and water pollution, endangered species, and intellectual property.

Courses Taught
U.S. Water Law, International Water Law, International Environmental Law, Property Law, Law and Science

Selected Publications

• Eckstein, Gabriel. "A Hydrogeological Perspective of the Status of Ground Water Resources under the UN Watercourse Convention," Columbia Journal of Environmental Law 525 (2005).
• Eckstein, Gabriel. "Protecting A Hidden Treasure: The U.N. International Law Commission and the International Law of Transboundary Ground Water Resources," American University Sustainable Development Law & Policy 5 (2005).
• Eckstein, Gabriel (Rainwater & Zobek, eds.). "The Challenges of the Rule of Capture in Texas," Conference Proceedings – High Plains Groundwater Resources: Challenges and Opportunities, Conference Proceedings 163, Texas Tech University Water Resources Center, Lubbock, TX (2004).
• Eckstein, Gabriel and Yoram Eckstein. "A Hydrogeological Approach to Transboundary Ground Water Resources and International Law" 19 American University International Law Review 201 (2003).
• Eckstein, Gabriel and Yoram Eckstein. "Ground Water Resources and International Law in the Middle East Process," Water International (June 2003).
• Eckstein, Gabriel (Turon & Henwood, eds.). "Development of International Water Law and the UN Watercourse Convention" in Hydropolitics in the Developing World: A Southern African Perspective 81 (2002).
• Eckstein, Gabriel and Yoram Eckstein (Van Brahana, et. al., eds.). "International Water Law, Transboundary Groundwater Resources and the Danube Dam Case," in Gambling With Groundwater: Physical, Chemical, and Biological Aspects of Aquifer-Stream Relationship, American Institute of Hydrology 243 (1998).