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Myanna Dellinger is a Danish-American law professor, climate change and international law specialist, and
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Early life

Myanna Dellinger was born and raised in Denmark. Her
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parents only received seven years of education. Dellinger was the first member of her family to receive a university education. Her early life interests included reading and numerous outdoor activities such as horseback riding, bike riding, and learning about the environment.


Education

Dellinger received B.A. and M.Sc. degrees from the Aarhus Business School, now
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, ranked in the top 100 by several influential rankings among over 17,000 universities world-wide. She studied law at the University of Oregon School of Law, graduating first in her class in 2008. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the
University of South Dakota The University of South Dakota (USD) is a public research university in Vermillion, South Dakota, United States. Established by the Dakota Territory legislature in 1862, 27 years before the establishment of the state of South Dakota, USD is t ...
, expecting to complete her dissertation in 2021.


Career


International communications specialist

Myanna Dellinger enjoyed a successful first career in international communications. She taught English for Science and Technology at the master's degree level in Denmark as well as English as a Second Language for the
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and
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. She also started, grew, and operated a localization and interpretation agency working with such clients as
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Studios, and major law firms in California, Texas, and New York. She personally translated and interpreted in projects such as multi-million-dollar patent infringement lawsuits, the Holocaust survivors class action lawsuit against Swiss banks,
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and
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Law clerk and law professor

After law school, Myanna Dellinger clerked for the late Hon. Frances J. D’Eramo of the United States Virgin Islands Superior Court and the late Hon. Procter Ralph Hug Jr., of the
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. She proceeded to become a law professor at two different ABA-accredited California law schools before accepting a position as Professor of Law at the (also ABA-accredited) University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law. She specializes in human rights law, public and private international law, and business law. Her research focuses on climate change prevention as well as public and private financial liability for damages caused by extreme weather events. She has also written on the potential adverse effects of
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to
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and
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Awards & research results

Myanna Dellinger earned the honorary title “
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” by graduating in the top 10% of her law school class (she was number one). In 2016, Dellinger was awarded a Fulbright specialist grant in law to conduct research and to lecture at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany. Dellinger later became a peer reviewer for the
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. Dellinger's work has been cited by, among numerous others, American judges, the
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, the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the
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. She has been on the top 10% of the most downloaded authors worldwide on
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since 2017.


Diversity

Myanna is an immigrant from Denmark. She is fluent in English, Danish, and German. She is the first and only in her blue-collar family to earn several university degrees and obtain a career in academia. She took care of her terminally ill father while in law school and was the sole caregiver for her elderly mother in Denmark during Professor Dellinger's judicial election campaign, which she lost by only 0.8%. She got more than 1.6 million votes as the “outside” candidate for office. Myanna is a cancer survivor.


Podcasts

Myanna Dellinger is the host and producer o
The Global Energy & Environmental Law Podcast
a discussion of global and local environmental law issues. Produced by the University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law and the International Environmental Law Committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association.


Selected works


Electric Utility Wildfire Liability Reform in CaliforniaEnvironmental Law Reporter
Vol #49 Issue #11 (2019)
Post-Jesner Climate Change Litigation under the Alien Tort Statute
Vol. 44 no. S Colum. J. Envtl. L. 395 (2019)
Trophy Hunting – A Relic of the Past
42 J. Envtl. L. & Litig. 525 (2018)
See You in Court: Around the World in Eight Climate Change Lawsuits
4
Wm. & Mary Envtl. L. & Pol'y Rev.
525 (2018).
Rethinking Force Majeure in Public International Law
3
Pace L. Rev.
396 (2017). *Acts of God or Acts of Man? Rethinking Contractual Impracticability in Times of Climate Change, Nat. Resources & Env't, Winter 2016, at 31.
An "Act of God"? Rethinking Contractual Impracticability in an Era of Anthropogenic Climate Change
67 Hastings L.J. 1551 (2016).
Trophy Hunting Contracts: Unenforceable for Reasons of Public Policy
41 Colum. J. Envtl. L. 395 (2016).
Narrowed Constellations in a Supranational Climate Change Regime Complex: The "Magic Number" is Three
37 Fordham Int'l L.J. 373 (2014). *Rethinking Fuerza Mayor in a World of Anthropogenic Climate Change, 42 J. L. & Soc. Pontifica Universidad Católica Del Perú 45 (2014).
An Unstoppable Tide: Creating Environmental and Human Rights Law from the Bottom Up
1
Or. Rev. Int'l L.
63 (2013). *Is California an Oil Boom State?, Orange County Law., May 2013, at 24
Localizing Climate Change Action
14 Minn. J. L. Sci. & Tech. 603 (2013)
Ten Years of the Aarhus Convention: How Procedural Democracy Is Paving the Way for Substantive Change in National and International Environmental Law
(2011)
Using Dogs for Emotional Support of Testifying Victims of Crime
15 ANIMAL L. 171 (2009) * Airline Bailouts and Climate Change Re-Regulation, 47 N. KY. L. REV. 95 (2020


References

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