Rate My Professor Gina Warren

Gina Warren is a Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center, holding the A.L. O’Quinn Chair in Environmental Studies and serving as co-director of the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Center since 2020. She joined the Law Center in 2016 after teaching at Texas A&M University School of Law from 2011 to 2016 and Duquesne University School of Law from 2010 to 2011. Warren has also taught internationally at the University of Cologne in Germany in 2011 and in coordination with the University of Guanajuato in Mexico in 2015. Prior to academia, she litigated land use, environmental, energy, and utility law cases at Perkins Coie in Bellevue, Washington from 2007 to 2010 and Post & Schell in Philadelphia from 2005 to 2007, and clerked for the Honorable Michael Winkelstein of the New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division from 2004 to 2005. She earned a J.D. from Rutgers School of Law in 2004 and a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Arizona in 1996.

Warren's research specializes in the nexus between environment, property, social justice, and energy, with scholarship published in top journals such as the Boston University Law Review ("Hotboxing the Polar Bear: The Energy and Climate Impacts of Indoor Marijuana Cultivation," 2021), Missouri Law Review ("Big Sports Have Big Environmental and Social Consequences," 2020), Maryland Law Review ("1-Click Energy: Managing Corporate Demand for Clean Power," 2018), Columbia Journal of Environmental Law ("Regulating Pot to Save the Polar Bear: Energy and Climate Impacts of the Marijuana Industry," 2015), and Nebraska Law Review ("Hydropower: It’s a Small World After All," 2013). Her book chapter, "Powering the US-Mexico Energy Industry: The Future of U.S.–Mexico Relations: Renewable Energy and Electric Power Connections" appeared in 2020. Warren's work has been cited by the Colorado Supreme Court and Supreme Court of Texas, featured by the Washington Post, and excerpted in energy textbooks. She has been named Student Bar Association Professor of the Year twice (2018-2019 and 2024-2025), voted faculty graduation speaker by the class of 2020, and selected as Vermont Law and Graduate School Distinguished Energy Law Scholar in 2023. At the Law Center, she chairs the Promotion & Tenure and Non-Tenure Track Committee, advises organizations including the Energy and Environment Student Society and Houston Law Review, and teaches courses in Property, Renewable Energy Law, Energy Law & Policy, Natural Resources Law, and International Energy Law.