Barton Thompson Email & Phone Number

A global expert on water and natural resources, Barton “Buzz” Thompson is the Robert E. Paradise of Natural Resources at Stanford Law School and professor of environmental behavioral sciences at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. He also serves of counsel to the law firm of O’Melveny & Myers, where he specializes in water resources and was a partner prior to joining Stanford Law School, and as an advisor to a major impact investment fund. He was the founding Perry L. McCarty Director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, where he remains a Senior Fellow and directs the Water in the West program. Professor Thompson is the author of major books on water law and policy, natural resources law, environmental law, property law, and the Endangered Species Act. He served as Special Master for the United States Supreme Court in Montana v. Wyoming, an interstate water dispute involving the Yellowstone River system. He also is a former member of the Science Advisory Board of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. He chairs the boards of the Resources Legacy Fund and the Stanford Habitat Conservation Board, is a California trustee of The Nature Conservancy, and is a board member of the American Farmland Trust, the Sonoran Institute, and the Santa Lucia Conservancy.