A Wallace Stegner Center Greenbag

ABOUT THE EVENT:

Please join the Wallace Stegner Center for a panel discussion with law faculty on new directions in environmental, energy, climate, public land, and natural resource policy under the Trump Presidency.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

Sharon Buccino
Sharon Buccino is a research fellow with the Stegner Center at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law. She recently led the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement at the U.S. Department of the Interior. Sharon has taught local government and legislation as well as administrative, natural resources and energy law as an adjunct at Georgetown Law and the University of Wyoming. Previously, she worked as a Senior Attorney and Director of the Land & Wildlife program at the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington, DC. Sharon currently lives in Laramie, WY, where she is a member of the Wyoming Bar and serves as a Planning Commissioner.

Lingxi Chenyang
Lingxi Chenyang’s research interests lie at the intersection of moral psychology, climate ethics, landscape ecology, property law, and environmental law. Originally from Chengdu, China, Chenyang comes to the Environmental Resilience Institute after receiving her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she studied environmental law and published work on the merits of reducing meat demand as a climate policy strategy. Chenyang holds a bachelor’s in philosophy from Dartmouth College and is a Ph.D. Candidate in philosophy at the University of Michigan. She is also a Global Priorities Fellow with the Forethought Foundation.

Lincoln Davies (Moderator), Professor of Law, S.J. Quinney College of Law
Lincoln Davies is an internationally recognized expert in energy law and policy. He has written extensively on laws that promote renewable energy, as well as on the clean energy transition. His most recent work focuses on the development and governance of electricity markets in the United States. His research has been sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, the South Korean government, the Brookings Institution, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, among others. He is coauthor of one of the nation’s leading energy law textbooks. In 2012, he was named the McCloy Fellowship in Environmental Policy and, in 2024, the Elizabeth Evatt Distinguished Fellow at the University of Sydney Law School. He serves on the faculty at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, where he is Co-Director of the Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources, and the Environment and Executive Director for Energy, Resource, and Environment Programs.

Robert Keiter
Professor Keiter holds a J.D. degree with honors from Northwestern University School of Law and a B.A. with honors from Washington University. He has taught at the University of Wyoming, Boston College, and Southwestern University, and served as a Senior Fulbright Scholar at Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu, Nepal. Professor Keiter’s most recent books are To Conserve Unimpaired: The Evolution of the National Park Idea, (Island Press, April 2013), and the Wyoming State Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2017). His other books include Keeping Faith With Nature: Ecosystems, Democracy, and America’s Public Lands (Yale Univ. Press 2003); Reclaiming the Native Home of Hope: Community, Ecology, and the West (Univ. of Utah Press 1998); Visions of the Grand Staircase-Escalante: Examining Utah’s Newest National Monument (Utah Mus. of Nat. History & Wallace Stegner Center 1998); The Wyoming State Constitution: A Reference Guide (Greenwood Press 1993); and The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: Redefining America’s Wilderness Heritage (Yale Univ. Press 1991). He has also written numerous book chapters and journal articles on public lands and natural resource law, addressing such topics as national parks, ecosystem management, wildfire policy, and biodiversity conservation. He serves as a Trustee of the National Parks Conservation Association and the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, for which he served as President from 2013-2014. Professor Keiter teaches Natural Resources Law and Constitutional Law. He has received teaching awards from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, the University of Wyoming College of Law, and the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation. In 2008, he was named a University Distinguished Professor by the University of Utah. His current project is an update of his previous work on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

John Ruple
John Ruple is a Research Professor of Law at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law, and Director of the Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources & the Environment’s Law and Policy Program. John is an expert on federal public lands, natural resource management, critical mineral development, and permitting. He served as Senior Counsel in the White House Council on Environmental Quality during the Biden Administration and is committed to finding practical and balanced solutions to seemingly intractable natural resource management problems.

Amy Wildermuth
Amy Wildermuth teaches and writes about administrative law, civil procedure, environmental law, and U.S. Supreme Court practice. Her work has been published in a variety of prestigious legal journals, including the Northwestern Law Review, the Emory Law Journal, and the Minnesota Law Review. Before visiting at Minnesota Law, Professor Wildermuth served as dean at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Prior to that, she was associate vice president for faculty, professor of law, and the first-ever chief sustainability officer at the University of Utah. Professor Wildermuth is the chair-elect of the American Bar Association’s Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice.

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