Vanessa Casado Pérez is an Associate Professor at Texas A&M School of Law and a Research Associate Professor at Texas A&M Department of Agricultural  Economics. Her scholarship focuses on property and natural resources law. In several publications, she explores the role of property rights in the management of scarce natural resources. She has published in, among others, the Hastings Law Journal, Environmental Law Reporter, the NYU Environmental Law Journal, or the California Journal of Public Policy.  She is affiliated with the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University. Prior to joining Texas A&M, Professor Casado Perez was Teaching Fellow of the LL.M. Program in Environmental Law & Policy and Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School. She holds an LLB, a BA in Economics, and an LLM from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, where she is from. She holds an LLM from the University of Chicago Law School and a JSD from NYU School of Law. Professor Casado Perez worked in the Environmental division of the Procuraduria General de la Nacion in Colombia