As noted in the December 2025 issue of AquaForum, we regret to announce that our dear colleague and friend, Prof. Paul Stanton Kibel, passed away this past November 2025. For more than a decade he was involved with, and committed to, our Association, and took up the position of Projects Chair of the AIDA Executive Council with great results.
He participated (as a presenter) at two World Water Congresses (Recife, Brazil and Edinburgh, Scotland) for which AIDA organized the law track panels. He also contributed a chapter on dams and fisheries to The Greening of Water Law Handbook that AIDA produced for the United Nations Environment Programme. Paul was Water and Natural Resource Counsel at the Water and Power Law Group PC. He was Professor Emeritus at Golden Gate University School of Law, where he had taught Water Law and California Environmental & Natural Resources Law, and co-directed the Golden Gate University Center on Urban Environmental Law. He was also a Visiting Professor in Water Law at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law. Prior to joining the Water and Power Law Group, Paul was a partner with the water and natural resource practice group at Fitzgerald Abbott & Beardsley LLP, and worked for the California State Coastal Conservancy’s Office of Counsel and Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund. He previously co-chaired the Natural Resources Subsection of the California State Bar Real Property Section, and served as a faculty advisor to the California Water Law Symposium. His publications include the books Rivertown: Rethinking Urban Rivers (MIT Press, 2007) and Riverflow: The Right to Keep Water Instream (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and articles on water law in the Stanford Environmental Law Journal, Ecology Law Quarterly, Virginia Environmental Law Journal and Berkeley Journal of International Law. Dear Paul, you will be greatly missed!!!
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