Antony Anghie
Panels:
“The Authority of Scholarship” (panelist), American Society of International Law Annual Meeting (April 2024).
Other activities:
Named Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science at Cambridge University for Academic Year 2024-2025.
Lingxi Chenyang
Presentations:
“Food Antidemocracy,” Annual Sustainability Conference of American Legal Educators (May 2024).
“Farming for Our Future,” California Lawyer’s Association (Oct. 2023).
“Whose Food System Is It Anyway? The Role of Corporations and Government in Shaping What We Eat,” Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting (Jan. 2024).
“Food Antidemocracy,” Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting (May 2024).
“Food Antidemocracy,” Environmental Law Workshop (Sept. 2024).
Other activities:
Over the past year, has been involved in a multi-disciplinary technical working group to develop science-based standards to allocate the Inflation Reduction Act’s $20 billion for climate-smart agriculture. These working groups are part of an effort by Meridian Institute in collaboration with the Platform for Agriculture and Climate Transformation.
Jorge Contreras
Publications:
Genetic Patents and the Sustainable Development Goals in THE ELGAR COMPANION TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS, Matthew Rimmer, Caroline B. Ncube & Bita Amani, eds. (Edward Elgar, 2024).
Brigham Daniels
Publications:
Great Salt Lake and the Future of Environmental Law, __ U. Colo. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming) (with Elisabeth Parker, Karrigan Börk & Andrew P. Follett).
The Limits of Awards for Anti-corruption: Experimental and Ethnographic Evidence from Uganda, 43 J. Pol’y Analysis & Mgmt. 1079 (2024) (with Mark Buntaine, Alex Bagabo, and Tanner Gangerter).
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO DISPUTES BETWEEN ADJOINING LANDOWNERS, Release No. 35 (Matthew Bender Elite Products, 2024) (with David A. Thomas and James H. Backman).
Why Stop Grazing the Climate Commons?, 13 Mich. J. Envtl. & Admin. L.C. L. Rev. 88 (2023).
Other activities:
Appointed Co-Director, Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources, and the Environment, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law.
Over the past year, has been developing the Stegner Center’s Great Salt Lake Project in collaboration with Beth Parker, senior attorney for the center’s Law and Policy Program. The GSL Project focuses on creating actionable legal and policy solutions critical to preserving Great Salt Lake.
Lincoln Davies
Publications:
California, an Island?, 77 Stan. L. Rev. Online (2024) (with Stephanie Lenhart).
Panels and Presentations:
“Policy and Regulation Supporting Grid Resilience” (panel organizer and moderator), 2024 WIRED Grid Resilience Symposium (Sept. 2024).
“Our Energy Future,” (Stegner Lecture presenter), Annual Wallace Stegner Center Symposium: The Renewable Energy Transition: Building a Bright Future, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law (Mar. 2024).
Other activities:
Appointed Co-Director, Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources, and the Environment, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
Appointed Executive Director, Energy, Resource, and Environment Programs, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
Quoted in “Utah politicians rejoice at end of Chevron Doctrine” Salt Lake Tribune (June 29, 2024).
Leslie Francis
Publications:
STATES OF HEALTH: THE ETHICS AND CONSEQUENCES OF POLICY VARIATION IN A FEDERAL SYSTEM (Oxford University Press, 2024) (with John G. Francis). The book contains comprehensive discussions of a wide variety of health policy issues and their consequences for the health of the population. A full chapter is devoted to different state approaches and commitments to public health.
How, and When, Federalism Is Good for Public Health, Harvard Public Health (Sept. 2024) (with John G. Francis) argues that states and the federal government have complementary roles in addressing threats to public health, including the threat of avian influenza spread.
Robert Keiter
Publications:
CONSERVING NATURE IN GREATER YELLOWSTONE: CONTROVERSY AND CHANGE IN AN ICONIC ECOYSTEM, (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2025).
Presentations:
“The Enduring Quest to Conserve the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem” (Aubrey Haines Distinguished Lecture presenter) Biennial Yellowstone Science Conference, Big Sky, Montana (Sept. 2024).“The Wyoming Constitution Unveiled: A Journey Through History, Precedent and the Declaration of Rights,” Wyoming State Bar Convention, Cheyenne, Wyoming (Sept. 2024).
Nancy McLaughlin
Publications:
Keeping The Perpetual In Florida's Conservation Easements, 18 FIU L. Rev. 347 (2024).
Presentations:
“Conservation Easements: Contemporary Issues and Challenges,” Maryland Land Conservation Conference (2024).
“The Meaning of Perpetuity in the Conservation Easement Context,” Annual Sustainability Conference, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ (2024).
“Conservation Easement Valuation Challenges,” Virginia Certified Appraisers (2024).
“Conservation Easement Title Challenges,” Idaho Land Title Association Annual Meeting (2024).
Other activities:
Organized and presented at the annual “Trying Times: Federal Tax Law and Conservation Easements” program, sponsored by the Wallace Stegner Center and Utah Open Lands, which had over 515 registrants from around the nation in 2024.
Served as vice president of Utah Open Lands, a state-wide land trust.
Served as editor of SSRN’s Protected Lands e-journal.
Served as Utah state chair for the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.
Served on the Land Protection Committee of Vital Ground, which works to protect grizzly bear habitat.
Served as an expert witness for the Maryland Attorney General’s Office on a conservation easement enforcement case.
Tom Mitchell
Publications:
Authored posts on the Wallace Stegner Center’s Law and Policy Blog about two works in progress: “Correlativity of rights and duties: Why should I care?” (Part 1) and “H.J.R. 26 and Utah’s breach of fiduciary duty to the children of Utah.”
Ruhan Nagra
Publications:
Relocating Justice, 74 Duke L.J. __ (forthcoming 2024).
Green Colonialism, authored as an invited participant of the biennial Environmental Law Collaborative Workshop (Oct. 2023).
Presentations and panels:
Presented before the Navajo Nation Resources and Development Committee on behalf of community members opposing a proposed hydrogen pipeline through the Navajo Nation.
“Beyond Buzzwords: Lessons Learned About How Clinics Can Support Social Movements” (panelist), American Association of Law Schools Clinical Conference (2024).
“Factbook for H2Hubs Stakeholders: Environmental Justice Views on Hydrogen” (panelist), the Energy Futures Initiative (2024).
Other activities:
Nagra’s Environmental Justice Clinic—and the clinic's students and community partners—were featured in Thinking beyond the law by the University of Utah.
Featured on the University of Utah Office of Sustainability podcast for the episode "Interdisciplinary Advocacy: A Bridge Between Legal Studies and Environmental Justice."
Beth Parker
Publications:
Great Salt Lake and the Future of Environmental Law __ U. Colo. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming) (with Brigham Daniels, Karrigan Börk & Andrew P. Follett).
Indigenizing the Right to a Healthy Environment, 41 Pace Envtl. L. Rev. 221 (Spring 2024) (with Heather Tanana).
Other activities:
Over the past year, has been developing the Stegner Center’s Great Salt Lake Project in collaboration with Prof. Brigham Daniels. The GSL Project focuses on creating actionable legal and policy solutions critical to preserving Great Salt Lake.
Jamie Pleune
Publications:
Creating a Transparent Methodology for Measuring Success within a Continuum of Conservation for the America the Beautiful Initiative, 14 George Washington J. Energy & Envt’l L. 107 (2023).
“A Legal Analysis of the BLM’s Public Lands Rule,” a white paper analyzing the final version of the Conservation and Landscape Rule (Apr. 24, 2024) (with Chris Winter and Wesley Peebles).
Presentations:
“Leveraging the Environmental Review Process to Fill Gaps in the Mine Permitting Process," at a workshop for ministry officials for the Government of Fiji (Apr. 2024).
“Strategies for Improving the Timeliness of Mine Permitting Without Compromising Environmental or Social Values,” presented to ministry and government officials for the governments of Bosnia Herzegovina and Romania as part of the Commercial Law Development Program (Mar. 2024).
“Commercial Development on Public Lands?” Sustainable Business Law Symposium, Pace Environmental Law Review (Apr. 2024).
“The National Environmental Policy Act: An Overview,” Environmental Law Institute Summer School Series (June 2024).
Danya Rumore
Publications:
Published a series of EDR Blog articles exploring key skills and concepts for making conflict productive.
“I resolve conflict for a living. Here's my advice for how to achieve true inclusivity” (opinion), Salt Lake Tribune (July 17, 2024).
Presentations:
Gave multiple invited talks, including at the Utah American Planning Association Fall Conference, the Utah Outdoor Recreation Summit, and the Utah League of Cities and Towns Annual Convention.
Other activities:
Over the past year, featured in publications including The Atlantic, High Country News, and the Salt Lake Tribune.
John Ruple
Presentations:
Speaker at the Transboundary Mining Conference hosted by the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska (Aug. 2024).
Other activities:
Returned to the College of Law after a two-year detail with the White House Council on Environmental Quality, resuming his role as director of the Stegner Center’s Law and Policy Program.
Elizabeth Kronk Warner
Publications:
Shared Stewardship, Ecology Law Quarterly (forthcoming, 2024) (with Jesus Salazar).
Sovereignty Over Box Checking: Effective Tribal Consultation Leading to Consent, 38 J. Land Use & Environmental L. 131 (2023).
SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, 53 Environmental Law Reporter 10124 (2023) (with Uma Outka) (invited)
#Includetheirstories: Rethinking, Reimagining, and Reshaping Legal Education, 2022 Utah L. Rev. 709 (2022) (with Leslie P. Culver).
Laboratories of the Future: Tribes and the Rights of Nature, 111 Calif. L. Rev. 325 (2023) (with Jensen Lillquist).
Presentations:
“Energizing Marginalized Communities: Renewable Energy Development in Indian Country,” Texas A&M School of Law, Fort Worth, TX (Mar. 2024).
“How Federal Indian Law Increases the Vulnerability of Native People,” Securities and Exchange Commission Native American Heritage Virtual Program (virtual) (Nov. 2023).
“Modern Expressions of Tribal Sovereignty,” Tribal Sovereignty Speaker Series, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (Nov. 2023).
“Laboratories of Innovation: Tribes and Rights of Nature,” Green bag lecture series, Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources & the Environment at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, Salt Lake City, UT (Nov. 2023).
“Tribal Climate Change Innovations” (panelist), Panel on the Role of State Courts and Constitutions in Addressing Climate Change, Wisconsin Law Review (Oct. 2023).
“Shared Stewardship,” Annual Rennard Strickland Lecture at the University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, OR (Oct. 2023).