Melissa K. Scanlan is the Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair in Water Policy and the Director of the Center for Water Policy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences. She is a Professor in the School of Freshwater Sciences and affiliated faculty at the University of Wisconsin Law School. She has been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Alicante, Spain, a Visiting Professor at Boston College Law School, and an Associate Dean of the Environmental Program and Professor of Law at Vermont Law School.