Professor Robbins is visiting from the University of Akron School of Law, where she has been on the faculty since 2008. She teaches Environmental Law, Natural Resources Law, and Criminal Law, as well as related seminars. She focuses much of her research on wildlife law and the intersection of law, science, and the environment. Robbins is also working on criminal law projects that relate to her background and teaching. She has been admitted to the California and New York bars, as well as the bar for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. Prior to joining the Akron's law faculty, Robbins served as an assistant district attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office and was legal director for Sequoia ForestKeeper, an environmental nonprofit. She also clerked for the Hon. Norman H. Stahl of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and the Hon. Faith S. Hochberg of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
Her most recent publications are "Recovery of an Endangered Provision: Untangling and Reviving Critical Habitat Under the Endangered Species Act," Buffalo Law Review (2010); "Strength in Numbers: Setting Quantitative Criteria for Listing Species Under the Endangered Species Act," UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy (2009); and "Missing the Link: The Importance of Keeping Ecosystems Intact and What the Endangered Species Act Suggests We Do About It," Environmental Law (2007). Robbins also has a book project underway—a compilation of essays on ecosystem management by an interdisciplinary group of scholars—which is to be published by the University of Akron Press.