He is of counsel and former partner with the environmental and natural resource practice group at Fitizgerald Abbott & Beardsley, and from 2002-2008 he served as co-chair of the Natural Resources Subsection of the Real Property Section of the California State Bar. Kibel is the author of the book The Earth on Trial: Environmental Law on the International Stage (Routledge 1999), and editor of the book Rivertown: Rethinking Urban Rivers (MIT Press 2007). He holds an LLM from UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). Faculty webpage