Brian E. Gray, Professor of Law

Brian Gray received his B.A., cum laude, in economics from Pomona College in 1976. He continued his education at UC Berkeley, receiving his J.D. from Boalt Hall in 1979. While attending Boalt, he was editor-in-chief of the California Law Review. Professor Gray served as a law clerk to Judge Arlin M. Adams of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit during the 1979-80 term. He went on to practice at Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Robertson & Falk in San Francisco and to teach water law at Stanford University.

Professor Gray is chair of the board of the Natural Heritage Institute and serves on the board of directors of 826 Valencia, a nonprofit literacy and tutoring center in San Francisco's Mission district. He also has chaired the California State Bar Committee on the Environment, served on the board of the Berkeley Law Foundation, and worked as a consultant to the California Law Revision Commission. Professor Gray has represented a variety of environmental organizations before the Ninth Circuit and recently argued a case involving protection of water quality and endangered species in the Bay-Delta Estuary before the California Supreme Court. He also served as an expert witness in the PG&E bankruptcy and appeared as an expert on the law of property in the litigation over title to Barry Bonds' 73rd home run baseball. 

Professor Gray teaches Environmental Law as a first-year elective, California Water Resources, Federal and Interstate Water Resources, and seminars on Property Rights and Environmental Regulation and on the American West. He was appointed to the Harry and Lillian Hastings Research Chair for the 1999-2000 academic year. Professor Gray also is the recipient of the Hastings Outstanding Professor award and the William Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Professor Gray is married and has two children, Sam and Will.