Adell Amos, an associate professor and associate dean for academic affairs in the UO School of Law, has been named a Dean's Distinguished Faculty Fellow, law school Dean Michael Moffitt recently announced.

Amos, a 1998 alumnus of the school, recently served in Washington, D.C., for two years as deputy solicitor for land and water resources in the United States Department of the Interior.

An expert in water law, Amos joined the law school faculty after practicing environmental and natural resources law with the Solicitor's Office, Division of Parks and Wildlife at the Department of the Interior. She represented and advised the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service on state and federal water rights issues including work involving the Klamath, Snake, Columbia, Middle Rio Grande, and Gunnison River Basins. She provided legal advice on the interaction of water law with other environmental statutes including the Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act, Federal Power Act, and National Environmental Policy Act.

- from a story by the UO School of Law