Professor Telesetsky joined the University of Idaho College of Law in 2009, after eight years of practicing as an attorney in California, Washington, and abroad. Her practice focused on public international law and environmental law. She had the distinction of representing the Government of Ethiopia before the Ethiopia-Eritrea Claims Commission at the Permanent Court of Arbitration. In 2003 and 2004, she was a Bosch Fellow in Germany where she worked for the German Foreign Ministry on promoting international food security and assisted in drafting guidelines on implementation for the “Right to Food”. As a Fulbright Fellow and a Berkeley Human Rights Center fellow, she collaborated with communities in the Philippines and Papua New Guinea on developing culturally appropriate legal solutions to environmental protection problems. In addition to bachelors and masters degrees in Anthropology, Professor Telesetsky earned her law degree from the University of California-Berkeley (Boalt Hall) and an LLM in International Law from the University of British Columbia.

• Rule of Marine Capture versus Rule of Cooperation in the East China Sea: Exploring Options for Regional Ecosystem Restoration, China Yearbook of International Law (Forthcoming 2011)
• Experimenting with International Collaborative Governance for Climate Change Mitigation by Private Actors: Scaling up Dutch Co-Regulation, European Journal of Legal Studies, Volume 4, Issue 1 (Summer 2011), p. 57-80.
• “Bilateral Negotiations to Co-Manage Shared Marine Fisheries for Purposes of Conservation and Restoration”, in SHARING AND DISTRIBUTING OCEAN RESOURCES, Jin-Hyun Paik and Seokwoo Lee (eds.), (SLOC-Korea and Institute of East & West Studies, Yonsei University) (2011)
• Binding the United Nations: Compulsory Review of UN Disputes before the International Court of Justice, 21 Minnesota Journal of International Law (2011)
• “A New Investment Deal in Asia and Africa: Land Leases to Foreign Investors” in EVOLUTION IN INVESTMENT TREATY LAW AND ARBITRATION, Chester Brown and Kate Miles (eds.) Cambridge University Press 2011)
• Moving Beyond International Non-governmental Organization’s Accountability: Promoting an International Human Rights Based Review of INGO ’s Performance, Symposium Edition “Lawyering for Humanity: The Role of International NGOs”, 18 Willamette University Journal of International Law and Dispute Resolution (2011)
• Great Agricultural Land Grab: An Examination of How Elite Capture of Arable Land Contributes to Environmental Conditions of Conflict, Symposium on “Conflict over Resources: Resources in Conflict”, 3 Gottingen J. of Intern’l L. 1 (2011)
• Insurance as a Mitigation Mechanism: Managing International Greenhouse Gas Emissions Through Nationwide Mandatory Climate Change Catastrophe Insurance, 27 Pace Env. Law R. 3 (2010)

Law Review Articles

Eco-restoration, Private Landowners and Overcoming the Status Quo Bias, 26 Griffith L. Rev. 248 (2017).

U.S. Seafood Traceability as Food Law and the Future of Marine Fisheries, 47 Envtl. L. 765 (2017).

Books

Global Environmental Law (forthcoming 2019) (co-authored with Tseming Yang, Lin Harmon & Robert Percival) (Responsible for chapters on Air Pollution, Climate Change, Biodiversity, Corporate Governance, and Civil Society).

Ocean and Coastal Law Nutshell (rev. ed. forthcoming 2019) (co-authored with Donna Christie).

Ecological Restoration in International Environmental Law (2017) (co-authored with An Cliquet & Afshin Akhtarkhavari).

Book Chapters

Disaster by Degrees: The Implications of the IPCC 1.5C Report for Disaster Law, in International Yearbook of Disaster Law (forthcoming 2019) (Co-authored).

United States Law, Marine Protected Areas, and Challenges to “Lasting Protection”, in State Practice and Area-Based Management in Asia-Pacific (Forthcoming 2019).

Active Marine Restoration and Law, in Le Droit de l’ocean transforme par l’exigence de conservation de l’environnement marin (Transforming Ocean Law through Necessary Marine Environmental Conservation) (2019).

Maritime Law Enforcement in United States, in State Practice and Maritime Law Enforcement in Asia-Pacific (2018).

Motivating Ecological Restoration by Private Landowners Through Special Purpose Districts, in Ecological Restoration Law: Concepts and Case Studies (2018).

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and Climate Change, in Climate Change and Ocean Governance (2018).

Investment Law and Biodiversity, in Research Handbook on Environment and Investment Law (2018).

Weathering the 21st Century: How UNCLOS Contributes to Responding to Climate-Related Disaster Events, in Stress-Testing the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (2018).

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: Legitimacy as a Sustainability Challenge, in Legitimacy of International Courts (2018).

Perspectives on the International Court of Justice Ruling in the “Whaling in the Antarctic” Case, in Ocean Law Debates—The 50-Year Legacy and Emerging Issues for the Years Ahead (2018) (co-authored piece). 

Legal Pluralism-Linking Law and Culture in Natural Resource Co-Management and Environmental Compliance, in Anthropology and Law (2017).