Catherine Schluter

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Catherine SchluterResearch Attorney Marine Affairs Institute & RI Sea Grant Legal Program

Contact Information

401-254-5392cschluter@rwu.eduSuite 284

Education

B.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

J.D. Georgetown University Law Center 

 

 

Catherine Schluter is a research attorney with the Marine Affairs Institute at Roger Williams University School of Law and the Rhode Island Sea Grant Legal Program.

Throughout law school, Catherine worked on various onshore and coastal environmental and natural resources law issues, and she has interned with a national environmental non-profit organization, as well as several federal agencies. 

Catherine earned a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was an executive editor of the Georgetown Environmental Law Review, and a B.A. with Highest Distinction in Asian Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Catherine is a member of the North Carolina Bar.

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