About

Sam Panarella was appointed to serve as the Dean of UMass Law in 2023. Prior to his deanship, Dean Panarella was a Professor of Law at University of Montana School of Law and the Executive Director of the Max Baucus Institute at the University of Montana. His research and teaching interests include energy, climate change, environmental, and business law. His recent scholarship appears in Harvard Environmental Law Review, Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum, UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy, and University of Virginia Environmental Law Journal. Dean Panarella has extensive experience teaching and running legal programs in China and Europe.

Dean Panarella is a graduate of Lewis & Clark Law School. After law school, he served as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Otto R. Skopil, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

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Honors

Selected for Inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America – Energy Law
The Best Lawyers in America
Top 20 Environmental Law Paper of 2018
Vanderbilt University (United States, Nashville)
John Ruffatto Memorial Award
University of Montana (United States, Missoula) - UM

Organizational Affiliations

Dean, School of Law, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Past Affiliations

Executive Director, Max Baucus Institute

Tenured Professor of Law/Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, University of Montana (United States, Missoula) - UM

President & Co-Founder, Fios/Crux Consulting

Partner/Associate, Stoel Rives LLP

Judicial Clerk, Honorable Otto R. Skopil, Jr., United States 9th Circuit Court of Appeals

Education

Law
1998, Juris Doctor, Lewis & Clark College (United States, Portland)
Liberal Studies
Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Montana (United States, Missoula) - UM