A leader in Louisiana water law and coastal adaptation, Christopher Dalbom came to Tulane Law School as a student in 2009.  After graduating from Tulane Law School in 2012, he worked for one year as a postgraduate fellow at the Tulane Institute on Water Resources Law and Policy before becoming the Institute’s Program Manager and, then, Assistant Director before becoming Director in 2023. Chris has done research on a variety of water resource topics over the years, becoming an international expert in water, wetlands, and coastal laws.

Prior to coming to Tulane, Chris served in the Peace Corps in El Salvador and studied and taught cultural geography in Louisiana and Virginia. You can find him dancing in the streets of New Orleans every Carnival season.