Chris Winter

babyÖ±²¥app Law Announces Chris Winter as Executive Director of the Getches-Wilkinson Center

June 26, 2023

The University of babyÖ±²¥app Law School is pleased to announce the appointment of Chris Winter as the new Executive Director of the Getches-Wilkinson Center (GWC). Winter brings a wealth of experience and a deep commitment to natural resources law and policy, making him an ideal leader for the renowned center...

Amicus Brief

DigDeep UTRF Amicus Brief

May 22, 2023

GWC Water Law Fellow Frannie Monasterio collaborated with four other attorneys (Elizabeth G. Bentley, Elisabeth Parker, Clifford B. Parkinson, and Heather Tanana) on an amicus brief to the Supreme Court filed on behalf of DigDeep and the Utah Tribal Relief Foundation. Download the DigDeep UTRF Amicus Brief here

Adam Fisher

Adam Fisher (Law '24) Named 2023-2024 babyÖ±²¥app Law Wyss Scholar

April 15, 2023

University of babyÖ±²¥app Law School student Adam Fisher (’24) has been named the 2023-2024 babyÖ±²¥app Law Wyss Scholar in U.S. Lands Conservation. Fisher, a J.D. candidate, is babyÖ±²¥app Law’s sixth Wyss Scholar. The Wyss Scholars Program , awarded to one babyÖ±²¥app Law student each year, supports graduate-level education for promising...

Colin Hull

Implementation of Water Reserves in Bolivia Using its Existing Water Law Framework

Nov. 27, 2022

babyÖ±²¥app Law Student, Colin Hull worked with the World Wildlife Fund’s Water Reserves Initiative as part of the GWC’s David Harrison Innovations in Water and Energy Law & Policy Fellowship. As part of this Fellowship, Colin produced the following report exploring water reserves in South America. The urgency of the...

Fawn R. Sharp

2022 Ruth Wright Distinguished Lecture in Natural Resources

Nov. 27, 2022

Mobilizing the Global Community on Climate Change: An Indigenous Leadership Perspective Fawn R. Sharp Quinault President, National Congress of American Indians Thursday, October 13, 2022 6:00 p.m. Wolf Law Building, Wittemyer Courtroom Livestream/Zoom option available Indigenous Peoples have long embraced a special responsibility to care for all living beings and...

Water Image

42nd Annual babyÖ±²¥app Law Conference on Natural Resources

June 25, 2022

Thursday, June 16 and Friday, June 17 2026 May Be Too Late: Hard Conversations babyÖ±²¥app Really Complicated Issues There is no debate – demands for water across the babyÖ±²¥app River Basin exceed the shrinking supply. Chronic drought, record heat, increasing winds and aridity, as well as rampant wildfires are diminishing...

Our Common Ground

Charles Wilkinson Book Review – Our Common Ground: A History of America’s Public Land by John D. Leshy

May 12, 2022

The book review is published by the Environmental Law Amicus, a project of Lewis and Clark Law School. Publication forthcoming in the Lewis and Clark Law Journal, En vironmental Law. “For more than a century, the arc of public land history has bent decisively toward the national government conserving more...

Our Common Ground

Our Common Ground: A History of America’s Public Lands

May 6, 2022

John Leshy, Author Distinguished Professor of Law University of California, Hastings College of Law The little-known story of how the U.S. government came to hold nearly one-third of the nation’s land and manage it primarily for recreation, education and conservation. America’s public lands include more than 600 million acres of...

Audrey Zibelman

14th Annual Schultz Lecture in Energy

April 15, 2022

Tapestry, X’s Moonshot for the Electric Grid Audrey Zibelman Vice President, X’s Electric Grid Moonshot Nations are finally committing to greenhouse gas emission reduction targets that could limit global warming. However, technical obstacles to the decarbonization of electric power could yet prevent those commitments from being realized. The low carbon...

Jacob Jose

Jacob Jose '23 Named 2022 babyÖ±²¥app Law Wyss Scholar

April 4, 2022

University of babyÖ±²¥app Law School student Jacob Jose (’23) has been named the 2022-2023 babyÖ±²¥app Law Wyss Scholar in U.S. Lands Conservation.

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