Jan Hasselman
Jan Hasselman is a senior attorney with Earthjustice's Northwest office in Seattle, WA, which he first joined in 1998.
Since that time, he has successfully litigated a number of regional and national issues including listings of salmon under the Endangered Species Act, stormwater pollution, coal fired power plants, and coal and crude oil terminals. He currently serves as lead counsel to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in their litigation against the Army Corps of Engineers regarding approval of the Dakota Access pipeline.
Jan has a history degree from Wesleyan University, and graduated magna cum laude from Boston College Law School, where he was executive editor of the Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review.
Prior to joining Earthjustice, he served as a judicial law clerk in the federal district court in Boston. He is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Washington and Seattle University law schools, and in 2013 was a visiting professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) under a Fulbright grant.
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