With deep sadness, we share the news that our colleague, Paul Stanton Kibel, passed away on October 29, 2025. He died of cancer, which he had fought for years with unflagging courage and hope. He passed away in peace, surrounded by his family.
WPLG's Paul Kibel has been invited to deliver lectures in late October 2024 at Novi Sad University in Serbia and the University of Montenegro Faculty of Law on the topic of fisheries and hydropower in transboundary river basins.
WPLG Attorney Paul Kibel will deliver a lecture at the University of Manchester International Law Centre (MILC) in England on April 22, 2024.
On February 24, 2024, WPLG's Richard Roos-Collins and Paul Kibel will participate in panels for the 2024 California Water Law Symposium (WLS) at the University of San Francisco School of Law.
In June 2023, WPLG attorney Paul Kibel was elected to the Executive Council of the International Association for Water Law (AIDA) based in Rome, Italy. Paul will serve as Projects Chair on the Executive Council, which is elected by AIDA members.
On April 10, 2023 and April 11, 2023, WPLG attorney Paul Kibel will moderate two panels and deliver the closing presentation for a webinar on International Law Aspects of Fisheries and Hydropower in Europe.
WPLG's Paul Kibel published an article on the North Crimean Canal and the Ukraine-Russia War in International Law News, a publication of the American Bar Association's Section on International Law.
On Thursday, August 18, 2022, WPLG attorney Paul Kibel will serve as a panelist for an online program organized by the Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF) Environmental Law Section.
WPLG attorney John Bezdek, who represents tribes in the Colorado River Basin, served as co-chair for the 2022 Tribal Water in the Southwest conference (held May 26-27, 2022).