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On Thursday, June 22, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its Arizona v. Navajo Nation decision . The Court determined the United States has a trust relationship with the Navajo Nation, but the United States does not need to take affirmative steps to secure water for the...

The University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ 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...

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

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

Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ 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...

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...

Thursday, June 16 and Friday, June 17 2026 May Be Too Late: Hard Conversations Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Really Complicated Issues There is no debate – demands for water across the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ River Basin exceed the shrinking supply. Chronic drought, record heat, increasing winds and aridity, as well as rampant Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ are diminishing...

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...

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...

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...