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Fall 2011 Issue

Fall 2011 Director’s Letter

As we all know, the winds of change are constantly afoot, and that well worn maxim holds true for the Stegner Center too. With this issue of the newsletter, we introduce our new electronic format, which will replace the annual paper copy newsletter that we have produced for the past ... Read this post »

News of Note

College of Law Awarded $762,000 Grant to Support Environmental ADR Program at Stegner Center

The Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment is one of the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law’s most esteemed centers, sponsoring regular programs focused on public lands, water, energy, wildlife and other hot button topics affecting the American West. Stegner Center faculty have long recognized ... Read this post »

Robin Craig joins the College of Law as a Visiting Faculty Member

Robin Craig from Florida State University will join the College of Law during the Spring 2012 semester as a visiting faculty member. According to Wallace Stegner Center Director Bob Keiter, “My colleagues and I have gotten to know Robin and her outstanding and diverse scholarship in environmental law over the ... Read this post »

Keiter, Lindstrom Present Paper at Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute

On July 21, Robert Keiter, Wallace Stegner Professor of Law at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, and Kirstin Lindstrom, a 2011 graduate of the College, presented a paper as part of a panel discussion at the 57th Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute in Santa Fe. The ... Read this post »

Alumni Jamie Pleune Joins College of Law Faculty as Associate Clinical Professor

Jamie Pleune (Class of 2007) has joined the faculty of the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law as an Associate Clinical Professor and will teach and supervise the environmental law clinic. “I believe that supervised clinical education provides an opportunity to begin engaging with the law from a ... Read this post »

Stegner Events

Wallace Stegner Center Events 2011-2012

The Wallace Stegner Center has a robust lineup of programs for the 2011-2012 academic year. Now in its seventeenth year, our annual symposium addresses “Silent Spring at 50: The Legacy of Rachel Carson.” The symposium will explore three aspects of Carson’s legacy: the celebration and protection of the marine world, ... Read this post »

Lesley McAllister Joins Stegner Center as 7th Annual Young Scholar

Lesley McAllister, a Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law and Associate Adjunct Professor at the UC San Diego School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, will join the Wallace Stegner Center as our seventh annual Stegner Center Young Scholar. Professor McAllister will be in ... Read this post »

Stegner Faculty News

Wildermuth Appointed Associate VP for Faculty at U

Amy J. Wildermuth, Professor of Law at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, has been appointed associate vice president for faculty at the U. She succeeds Susan Olson, who stepped down June 30. Wildermuth has degrees in engineering, law, and the humanities—and leadership experience as a law ... Read this post »

Reflections on a Career in Retirement from Bill Lockhart

No paychecks have recently arrived, so my new “Emeritus” title is confirmed: the University has officially “retired” me. Typically, that demands reveling in newly-liberated fantasies of bikinis (or not) on beaches in Goa or Cancun, or less titillating philosophical gaping at Galapagos tortoises and iguanas. But any pleasure in these ... Read this post »

Faculty Update

Bob Adler and co-authors David Driesen and Kirsten Engel published the second edition of Environmental Law: A Conceptual and Pragmatic Approach (2011). Adler published three law review articles in 2010: “Resilience, Restoration and Sustainability: Revisiting the Fundamental ... Read this post »

Stegner Student News

Scholarship Recipients

The Wallace Stegner Center would like to congratulate our scholarship recipients for the 2011-2012 academic year. The Stegner Center provides a rich array of scholarships, fellowships, and awards, ranging from cash awards for outstanding papers to fellowships that combine financial support with clerkships and placements upon graduation. This year’s scholarship ... Read this post »

College of Law Students Awarded RMMLF Scholarships

This year, two students from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney of Law—Kass Wallin and David Hatch—were awarded Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation scholarships worth a total of $8000. They were two of 24 scholarship recipients (out of a pool of 61 applicants) for this semi-annual round of awards. In ... Read this post »

JLREL Changes Name to Utah Environmental Law Review

The Journal of Land, Resources & Environmental Law (JLREL) has changed its name to the Utah Environmental Law Review (UELR). According to the UELR editorial board, the name change was made for two reasons: first, to more appropriately reflect “the interrelationship of everything in the environment,” and second, to “more ... Read this post »

Quinney’s Pace Moot Court Team Advances to National Quarter finals

The University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law’s team of Cameron Johnson, Liz Silvestrini, and Laura Tanner advanced to the quarterfinals of the Pace National Environmental Law Moot Court competition for the second year in a row. Johnson, Silvestrini, and Tanner navigated an exceedingly complex problem involving the Resource Conservation ... Read this post »

Donors

Donor Report 2010-2011

At the Wallace Stegner Center, we deeply appreciate the generosity of our friends and supporters. Your contributions make it possible for us to offer our high quality symposia and lectures on topical environmental issues, and support our student activities and scholarship programs. We have included a list of our donors ... Read this post »

Appeal for Donations

The Wallace Stegner Center depends on donors to support our student activities and scholarships and our yearly programs, including the annual symposium, evening lecture series, and green bag series. Although several generous foundations and corporations have provided us with program funding, we also rely upon the support of individuals, particularly ... Read this post »