Kenneth Kilbert
Associate Professor of Law
Office: 2006B
Campus Phone: 419.530.5597
Email: Kenneth.Kilbert@utoledo.edu
Secretary: Diane Bohn (419) 530-2958, Suite 2014
Fall 2009
Civil Procedure 1
Friedenthal, Miller, Sexton & Hershkoff
Civil Procedure: Cases and Materials
West
Rev. 9 th ed.
0314190961
required
(although West is coming out with a new 10 th edition of this book, Ken would prefer using the Rev. 9 th ed.)
Baicker-McKee, Janssen & Corr
A Student’s Guide to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
West
12 th edition
9780314904720
required
Shreve & Raven-Hansen
Understanding Civil Procedure
Lexis Nexis
4 th edition 2009
9781422407127
recommended
Environmental Law
Percival, Schroeder, Miller & Leape
Environmental Regulation: Law, Science and Policy
Aspen
6 th edition 2009
required
Percival & Schroeder
Environmental Law Statutory and Case Supplement with Internet Guide
Aspen
2009-10 edition
recommended
Associate Professor Kilbert, a graduate of Bethany College (B.A.) and the University of Pittsburgh (J.D.), joined the faculty in 2006. He teaches Environmental Law, Natural Resources Law, Administrative Law, Civil Procedure and Water Law. He also serves as Director of the Legal Institute of the Great Lakes, a multidisciplinary research center within the College of Law.
Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Kilbert was in private practice for more than 20 years, focusing primarily on environmental litigation. He served as lead counsel in a broad range of environmental cases, including enforcement actions under federal and state statutes, cost recovery actions, citizen suits, toxic tort suits, administrative proceedings, arbitrations and mediations. Professor Kilbert also taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law from 2001 to 2006.
Professor Kilbert is a former chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Civil Litigation Section and its Environmental Litigation Committee, and he is co-editor of an American Bar Association environmental litigation newsletter. He served as Executive Editor of the University of Pittsburgh Law Review.
Publications include:
Re-Exploring Contribution Under RCRA's Imminent Hazard Provisions, 87 Neb. L. Rev. 420 (2008).
Successor Liability Under CERCLA: Whither Substantial Continuity?, 14 Penn St. Envtl. L. Rev. 1 (2005)
Litigation Strategies for Recovering Environmental Cleanup Costs. (Aspatore Books 2004)
Interpreting Regulations in Environmental Enforcement Cases: Where Agency Deference and Fair Notice Collide, 17 Va. Envtl. L. J. 449 (1998) (with C. Helbling)
