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Natural Resources and Environmental Law In this fifth annual newsletter, we are proud to report on our expanding capacity in the area of natural resources and environmental law (NREL) at the University of Idaho College of Law. Over the past year, to broaden our focus on the integration of law and science, we added a field course and a peer-reviewed, NREL edition of the Idaho Law Review. These additions build on an already vibrant program and community of students who work with seven law faculty and numerous other natural resources and environmental science faculty across campus committed to helping students further their knowledge and skills in solving the difficult NREL problems facing us in the coming years. Together, with the strong emphases on public service and pro bono activity at the UI College of Law, we are committed to promoting the knowledge and skills students need to contribute to sustainable and equitable stewardship of the environment. For more information, please visit the College of Law’s NREL website: uidaho.edu/nrel.
Environmental Law Society The Environmental Law Society (ELS), one of the most active student groups, had a productive 2014-15 academic year. We began with the annual law school community rafting trip, braving the rapids along the beautiful, wild and scenic Salmon River near Riggins, Idaho. The fall semester also included two visitors. Dr. Tom O’Keefe, an aquatic ecologist who works for the nonprofit, American Whitewater, presented on the removal of low-economic value dams in the Pacific Northwest, and Murray Feldman, an attorney at Holland & Hart in Boise, who discussed climate change considerations and the Endangered Species Act. So as not to interfere with final exam preparations, we wrapped up the semester in early November by co-sponsoring a hike to Kamiak Butte State Park with the Idaho Law Health & Fitness student organization. After winter break, the ELS immediately sponsored
a live streaming of the CLE, Science in Litigation: Admission of Evidence and Working with Experts, to the courtroom. March and early April were very busy. The ELS had its annual elections, and along with the Veterans Law Association, Palouse Land Trust and Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute, we showed two documentaries: School’s Out and Fight No More Forever, free of charge, at the Kenworthy. The ELS also donated funds so Dr. Jerome Montague, a natural resources analyst for the U.S. military, could speak at the Native American Law Conference. He also gave a separate presentation on the Ecology of Climate Change. In April, we showed Under the Dome, a documentary on air pollution in China, moderated by Professor Anastasia Telesetsky. To finish out the year, we co-hosted, with the Student Bar Association, a cleanup of Highway 95 a few miles south of Moscow.
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Idaho Law Review Natural Resources and Environmental Law Edition The UI College of Law just released the first annual Natural Resources and Environmental Law Edition of the Idaho Law Review (NREL-ILR). With this release, we join the ranks of the small but growing number of peer-reviewed law journals. The NREL-ILR seeks an interdisciplinary focus and encourages articles of shorter length than traditional law review norms. The first edition of the NREL-ILR is a significant contribution to the growing literature at the law/science interface. The edition theme is adaptive governance and adaptive management and includes contributions from some of the leading ecology and legal scholars in the United States on these topics. I
This edition would not have been possible without the hard work, tenacity, patience, and commitment to excellence of Editor in Chief KC Harding and NREL-ILR Editor Ashley Williams. They have set a high bar. Next year’s edition will take a more regional focus on water adjudication and the Snake River Basin Adjudication. The Idaho Law Review has been the scholarly voice of the UI College of Law and a valuable resource for judges, practitioners and scholars nationwide for more than 50 years. The journal publishes three editions every year: a fall, spring and symposium edition. Editions of the ILR are available in print and online through Hein Online, Westlaw, LexisNexis and at uidaho.edu/law/law-review.
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Motivated Law Students Enter the Field Before the Court Room Most UI College of Law students returned to classes August 25, 2014. But eight students returned a week early to take part in a new week-long NREL field course at the UI’s McCall Field Campus. They learned first-hand how our natural resources management and protection laws are best understood when grounded, and experienced, in their social, cultural, and ecological contexts. Professor Jerrold Long designed and led this course with the assistance of his NREL faculty colleagues: “My primary motivation in creating this course was to connect our students to place, to see how the law affects real people and real landscapes. I believe that we can best represent our clients, and best solve problems, when we are familiar with the communities, landscapes, and natural environments in which our lives and disputes occur.” One of the great advantages of attending law school in Idaho is our proximity to the places where law happens on the ground. The students visited a gold mine next to the Frank Church “River of No Return” Wilderness. They talked with U.S. Forest Service employees about forest management and restoration, visited bull trout and steelhead habitat and quite literally crawled through the culverts that can close off hundreds of miles of spawning beds. They sat with ranch
owners and government scientists to discuss how they have worked together to protect a threatened ground squirrel. So instead of reading about NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) compliance from a casebook, for example, the students sat with a district ranger, who held her environmental impact statement in front of her. They listened to her stories about the challenges of satisfying multiple constituencies. The students then traveled around the forest to see the places and resources that the laws affect. In addition to learning about the law on the ground, the law students also experienced the importance of scientific and interdisciplinary understandings in natural resource law regimes, both by visiting with government scientists as well as by interacting with their non-law student colleagues. And every night, the students returned to the University’s McCall Field Campus, located on Payette Lake, surrounded by Ponderosa State Park. During breaks after field trips, they passed time swimming or canoeing in the lake, hiking around the State Park, sitting on the beach, or hanging around the campfire talking about the things they had experienced during the day.
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Student comments “The opportunity to travel to and see first-hand the places where NREL laws are applied has helped me to create and reinforce a framework of what is important and what I want to work to protect. The field class functioned as an introduction to Natural Resource Law, Environmental Law, and Administrative Law. Professor Long’s presentation of the material made an already interesting subject fun and interactive. I wish I could take the class again next year!” — Ryan Black, J.D. Candidate 2017
“I believe in most cases the best way to really understand a subject is to experience it outside the classroom. The NREL Field course helped me better comprehend issues pertaining to Idaho’s wildlife, land use, wilderness, power sources and so much more. I appreciated the consideration and willingness of the forest service, mining company and many more of the other organizations and people who gave their time to speak to us. It was a great experience to have as a developing law student.” — Ashley C. McDermott, J.D./M.S. Candidate 2017
“The NREL Field Course was a transformative experience. This is a musttake course for any law or science grad student interested in how major environmental laws affect real-world, on-the-ground natural resource management decisions. I gained a thorough understanding of the interactions between private industry, government agencies, the public, conservation groups, and attorneys in making resource management decisions. The knowledge I acquired from this course will be invaluable as I pursue a career in science-based natural resource management and policy.” — Nicole Ward, M.S. Student, Water Resources
“Besides being a lot of fun, the course helped me understand some of the complexities regarding the ways that law affects resource managers. Through the field trips, we were able to talk to some of the key stakeholders in large, complex and environmentally contentious projects. Having direct access to these people and being able to ask them questions made the experience unique and personal. The projects and time we spent together as a group really helped us all come to a deeper understanding of the issues. I would highly recommend this course to anyone pursing Natural Resources or Environmental Law. I learned so much in one week, and it gave me a thorough grounding in resources issues of the west.”— Shana Hirsch, Ph.D. Student, Water Resources
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Recent J.D./M.S. Concurrent Degree Graduates Eric Anderson
Eric Anderson received his M.S. in Bioregional Planning and Community Design. He says, “My thesis ‘The National Forest Management Divide: Evidence From Administrative Comments on U.S. Forest Service Projects Indicating Why Environmental Interest Groups in the Northwestern U.S. Choose Whether or Not to Collaborate’ seeks to better understand the recently observed divide between environmental interest groups’ efforts to influence U.S. Forest Service vegetation management projects through collaborative or litigious strategies. These findings will allow land managers to better predict forums amenable to collaborative National Forest project proposals. My major advisor is Professor Patrick Wilson, and my committee members are Professors Jerrold Long and Tamara Laninga. My ultimate goal is to work for the USDA Office of General Counsel—U.S. Forest Service section., but for now, I’ve accepted a job offer from the Wilson Law Firm in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, to hone my trial skills before applying with the Federal Government.”
Sean Bowen
Sean Bowen received his M.S. in Environmental Science. He says, “My thesis is an application of the Kingdon policy stream to the problem of spent nuclear fuel. Using the expected runout date of spent fuel space in a reactor fuel pool as a possible focusing event, I examined political, policy and problem streams to predict possible solutions to the spent nuclear fuel issue. My major adviser was Professor Patrick Wilson from Conservation Soil Sciences, and committee members Professor Anastasia Telesetsky from the College of Law and Professor Bill Watkins from Environmental Science.”
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Sam Finch
Nicole Huddleston
Sam Finch received his J.D./M.S. in environmental science in May 2015. His thesis, Estimating Nitrogen Content in Dryland Wheat Using Landsat Imagery, explores the ability of free, publicly available satellite data to estimate nitrogen content in wheat. Estimating nitrogen content in wheat can be used to improve fertilizer application efficiency to help decrease unwanted environmental degradation caused by nitrogen fertilizers. Sam also wrote a critique of scientific research justifications in the field of agricultural science, arguing that increased scientific understanding cannot currently solve issues of environmental degradation and food security because both issues are, at their roots, social and economic issues. Sam currently resides in Moscow, Idaho. In August, he began a six-month trip abroad with his fiancĂŠe Molli. They will spend the fall in France and the winter in the mountains of the Republic of Georgia.
Nicole J. Huddleston is the first student at the University of Idaho to graduate with concurrent degrees in the Professional Science Master Program as well as a Juris Doctor. Nicole is a native of Filer, Idaho, and first came to Moscow in 2006. After graduating from the University of Idaho in 2010 with a bachelor or science in biology, she went to work for the Department of Interior as an invasive species technician specializing in zebra mussels. The regulatory basis of the job piqued her interest, which led to law school. The Professional Science Master is an especially good fit for Nicole, as she would like to use the professional degree to inform her legal career in the areas of natural and water resources. Nicole is a lover of all natural resources, and grew up whitewater rafting all of Idaho’s great rivers. She took the Idaho bar exam in July and plans to run as many rivers as possible until the results come out this fall.
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Faculty Professor Barb Cosens spent spring 2015 as the Goyder Institute Visiting Professor in Public Sector Policy and Management at Flinders University researching adaptive water governance and water law in South Australia and the Lake Eyre Basin.
Recent Publications: Cosens, B. 2015, The Columbia River Treaty: an Opportunity for Modernization of Basin Governance, 27 (1) Colorado Natural Resources, Energy & Environmental Law Review (in press).
Professor Barbara Cosens is the coordinator for the NREL program and liaison for the College of Law to the Water Resources, Environmental Science, and PSM Programs. She teaches Water Law, Water Policy, Law Science and the Environment, and leads a team-taught graduate course in Interdisciplinary Methods in Water Resources. Her research interests include the integration of law and science in education, water governance, and dispute resolution; adaptive water governance and resilience; and the recognition and settlement of Native American water rights. She is a collaborator with the Utton Center and Earth Data Analysis Center at University of New Mexico and the American Indian Law Center on development of the Native American Water Right Settlement Electronic Repository and has served as a negotiator and mediator of Native American Water Right settlements. Cosens is a member of the Universities Consortium on Columbia River Governance and has worked with Nigel Bankes, University of Calgary Faculty of Law, on two projects funded by the Program on Water Issues at the Munk School of Global Affairs: one on mechanisms for flexibility and adaptability in international water agreements; and the other on U.S. and Canada domestic law in international law. She is co-chair of a project made possible through support from the NSF-funded National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, SESYNC: Adaptive Governance in Regional Water Systems to Manage Resilience in an era of Changing Climate. Professor Cosens
Benson, M.H., C. Lippitt, R. Morrison, B. Cosens, J. Boll, B.C. Chaffin, R. Heinse, D. Kauneck, T. E. Link, C. Scruggs, M. Stone, V. Valentin. (in press) Five Ways Institutions Can Support Interdisciplinary Research and Scholarship Before Tenure, Environmental Studies and Sciences (accepted for publication in August 2015). Corrao, Mark V., B. Cosens, Robert Heinse, Timothy E. Link, and Jan U.H. Eitel, 2015, Using Science to Bridge Management and Policy: Terracette Hydrologic Function and Water Quality Best Management Practices in Idaho, Rangelands (in press for August 2015). Olivia Odom Green, Ahjond S Garmestani, Craig R Allen, Lance H Gunderson, JB Ruhl, Craig A Arnold, Nicholas AJ Graham, Barbara Cosens, David G Angeler, Brian C Chaffin, and CS Holling, 2015. Barriers and bridges to the integration of social– ecological resilience and law. Frontiers in Ecology 13(6): 332337. http://www.esajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1890/140294 Alexander K. Fremier, Michael Kiparsky, Stephen Gmur, Jocelyn Aycrigg, Robin Kundis Craig, Leona Svancara, Dale Goble, Barbara Cosens, Frank W. Davis, & J. Michael Scott. 2015. A Riparian Conservation Network for Ecological Resilience, Biological Conservation 191: 2937. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2015.06.029 Cosens, B., Gunderson, L. and Chaffin, B. 2014. The Adaptive Water Governance Project: Assessing Law, Resilience and Governance in Regional Socio-Ecological Water Systems facing a Changing Climate. 51 Natural Resources and Environmental Law Edition of the Idaho Law Review 1.
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Cosens, B., and Fremier, A. 2014. Assessing System Resilience and Ecosystem Services in Large River Basins: a Case Study of the Columbia River Basin, 51 Natural Resources and Environmental Law Edition of the Idaho Law Review 91. Bankes, N. and Cosens B. Columbia River Treaty Options: Protocols for Transboundary Adaptive Management Examined (condensed report on Bankes and Cosens 2014) 129 The Water Report, Nov. 15, 2014. Cosens, Barbara; Gunderson, Lance; Allen, Craig; Benson, Melinda H. 2014. “Identifying Legal, Ecological and Governance Obstacles, and Opportunities for Adapting to Climate Change.” Sustainability 6, no. 4: 2338-2356 URL: http://www. mdpi.com/2071-1050/6/4/2338 Chaffin, B. C., H. Gosnell, and B. A. Cosens. 2014. A decade of adaptive governance scholarship: synthesis and future directions. Ecology and Society 19(3): 56. http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-06824-190356 Barbara Cosens, Lance Gunderson & Brian Chaffin, Assessing Law, Resilience and Governance in Basin Scale Water Systems Facing Changing Climate: The Adaptive Water Governance Project, Special Edition Newsletter of the ABA International Environmental Law Committee, No. 3, Summer 2015 on Water Impacts of Climate Change. Bankes, N. and Cosens, B. Protocols for Adaptive Water Governance: The Future of the Columbia River Treaty, October 21, 2014, research project for the Program on Water Issues, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, http:// powi.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ Protocols-for-Adaptive-Water-GovernanceFinal-October-14-2014.pdf . Barbara Cosens and Craig Stow, Resilience and Water Governance: Addressing Fragmentation and Uncertainty in Water Allocation and Water Quality Law, Social-Ecological Resilience and Law, Ahjond Garmestani and Craig Allen eds. Columbia University Press, 2014
Professor Angelique EagleWoman Professor EagleWoman brings a diverse background to the UI College of Law that includes tribal economic development, legal code development, litigation, criminal law and scholarly interest in international indigenous law. She has been at the UI College of Law since 2008. She received her LL.M. in American Indian and Indigenous Studies from the University of Tulsa College of Law. EagleWoman teaches in the areas of Native American Law, Native Natural Resources Law, Tribal Economics and Law, and Civil Procedure. Professor EagleWoman (Wambdi A. WasteWin) is a citizen of the SissetonWahpeton Dakota Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation. Professor EagleWoman was a former member of the law faculty at Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota and held a visitorship position at the University of Kansas (KU) in the KU School of Law and the Indigenous Nations Program. In the spring of 2008, she was selected as the recipient of the KU Center for Indigenous Nation’s Crystal Eagle Award for showing leadership and dedication toward helping community members or students within indigenous communities. EagleWoman has served several terms as a board member of the National Native American Bar Association and believes in staying firmly tied to the Native American legal field. She also maintains membership in the bar associations of the District of Columbia, Oklahoma, and South Dakota. Highlights of her legal career include serving as General Counsel to the Sisseton-Wahpeton (Dakota) Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation, working as an associate attorney with Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse & Endreson in Washington, D.C. and serving as Tribal Public Defender for the Kaw Nation and the Ponca Nation, both of Oklahoma.
Recent scholarship: Mastering American Indian Law (Carolina Academic Press 2013) co-authored with Dean Stacy Leeds. “The On-going Traumatic Experience of Genocide for American Indians and alaks Natives in the United States: The Call to Recognize Full Human Rights as Set Forth in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,” American Indian Law Journal at Seattle University School of Law, Vol. III Issue II (Spring 2015). “Balancing Between Two Worlds: A Dakota Woman’s Reflections on Being a Law Professor,” 29 Berkeley J. Gender & Just. 250 (Summer 2014).
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Professor Dale Goble Natural Resources for his interdisciplinary work, the University Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity, and the Idaho State Bar’s Outstanding Service Award. In addition to the usual numerous articles and essays, he is the co-author of four books: Wildlife Law: A Primer (Island Press 2008), Wildlife Law: Cases and Materials (Foundation Press, 1st ed. 2002, 2d ed. 2009), and Federal Wildlife Statutes: Texts and Contexts (Foundation Press, 2002). Goble has co-edited two volumes that grew out of the Endangered Species Act @ 30 Project, The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Renewing the Conservation Promise (Island Press, 2006) and The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Conserving Biodiversity in Human-Dominated Landscapes (Island Press, 2006). He also coedited a collection of essays on the environmental history of the Pacific Northwest, Northwest Lands, Northwest Peoples: Readings in Environmental History (University of Washington Press, 1999). Recent scholarship: Professor Dale Goble has been at the College of Law since 1982. He teaches natural resources law, including public land law and wildlife law, natural resources history, and torts. His scholarship focuses on the intersection of natural resources law and policy, constitutional law, and history. Goble is a University Distinguished Professor and the Margaret Wilson Schimke Distinguished Professor of Law. He taught at Oregon for a year before joining the Solicitor’s Office at the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. as an Honor’s Program Attorney. He subsequently worked in the Lands and Minerals Division where his responsibilities included sagebrush rebellion litigation, wilderness, landuse planning, and wild and scenic river issues. Between 2001 and 2008, Goble was an organizer of a multidisciplinary, multi-interest evaluation of the Endangered Species Act at its 30th anniversary. The ESA @ 30 Project hosted two national conferences, nearly a dozen smaller workshops, and a series of briefings to groups including congressional staffs, the Associate Regional Directors of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, the Nature Conservancy-Smith Fellows, and the Western Association of Fish and Game Administrators. During the 20082009 academic year, he was the Distinguished Environmental Law Scholar at Lewis and Clark’s School of Law in Portland, Oregon. Professor Goble has received four Alumni Awards for Excellence in Teaching, the Bridge Builder Award from the College of
Daniel M. Evans, Judy P. Che-Castaldo, Deborah Crouse, Frank W. Davis, Rebecca Epanchin-Niell, Curtis H. Flather, R. Kipp Frohlich, Dale D. Goble, Ya-Wei Li, Timoth D. Male, Lawrence L. Master, Matthew P. Moskwik, Maile C. Neel, Barry R. Noon, Camille Parmesan, Mark W. Schwartz, J. Michael Scott, & Byron K. Williams, Species Recovery in the United States: Assessing the Endangered Species Act, ISSUES IN ECOLOGY (in press) Alexander K. Fremier, Michael Kiparsky, Stephen Gmur, Jocelyn Aycrigg, Robin Kundis Craig, Leona Svancara, Dale Goble, Barb Cosens, Frank W. Davis, & J. Michael Scott, A Riparian Conservation Network for Ecological Resilience, GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY (in press)
Professional papers, invited lectures, and roundtables: Improving the ESA without Congress: Funding Species Conservation, NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY — PRESIDENT OBAMA’S PATH TO PROGRESS, Center for Progressive Reform Annual Scholars Meeting, Washington, DC (January 6, 2015) Carnivores and Corridors: Linking Isolated Populations, 20TH ANNUAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY SUMMIT, Tulane University Law School, New Orleans, Louisiana (February 27-28, 2015) Conserving Biodiversity in the Anthropocene: Has the Law Kept Pace with Our Changing Planet, ROCKY MOUNTAIN MINERAL LAW FOUNDATION BIENNIAL NATURAL RESOURCE LAW TEACHER CONFERENCE, Salt Lake City, Utah (May 29, 2015)
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Professor Jerrold Long Long grew up in Rexburg, Idaho. He attended Utah State University where he was a National Merit Scholar and graduated magna cum laude in 1997 with a B.S. in Biology. Long received his J.D. degree from the University of Colorado School of Law in 2000. He was president of his first-year class and associate editor of the Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law & Policy. While in law school, Long served as an intern for Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund in Honolulu, Hawai`i, and worked for the U.S. Department of Justice, General Litigation Section, Environmental & Natural Resources Division. After law school, Long joined the Cheyenne office of the western regional law firm Holland & Hart LLP. At Holland & Hart, his practice focused on environmental compliance and litigation before the U.S. Department of Interior Board of Land Appeals. Most recently, Professor Long attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was an instructor, Distinguished Graduate Fellow, and earned a Doctorate degree from the interdisciplinary Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. His dissertation– New West or Same West?: Evolving land-use institutions in the American West– explored how local land-use regimes respond to social and cultural change.
Recent Scholarship: Sy Adler’s Oregon Plans: The making of An Unquiet Land Use Revolution (book review), Pacific Historic Review 82(3): 485-486 (2013). Local Flood Control: Using Idaho’s Flood Control District Statute to Enable Place-Based Stream Restoration, The Advocate, June/July 2013, at 51-54 (with Samuel Finch). Waiting for Hohfeld: Property Rights, Property Privileges, and the Physical Consequences of Word Choice, 48 Gonzaga L. Rev. 307-364 (2013). Professor Jerrold Long has been at the UI College of Law since 2007. He teaches land-use law, environmental law, property, and subjects relating to the interdisciplinary “Water of the West” program at the University. Long is also an Affiliate Professor in the University’s Water Resources and Bioregional Planning programs.
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Professor Stephen R. Miller Miller is a commissioner on the Boise City Planning and Zoning Commission. Professor Miller’s academic works have been published by or are forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, the Harvard Environmental Law Review, the Harvard Journal on Legislation, and a number of other law reviews and professional journals. In 2013, he was named Faculty Advisor of the Year by the Idaho Law Review and also received the Alumni Award for Faculty Excellence. Miller can also be found at Land Use Prof Blog and @LandUseProf.
Recent scholarship: First Principles for Regulating the Sharing Economy, 53 HARVARD JOURNAL ON LEGISLATION __ (2016) (forthcoming). Community Rights and the Municipal Police Power, 55 SANTA CLARA LAW REVIEW __ (2015) (forthcoming). A Coordinated Approach to Food Safety and Land Use Law at the Urban Fringe, __ AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LAW & MEDICINE __ (2015) (peer-reviewed). Professor Stephen R. Miller joined the faculty of the UI College of Law in 2011. His courses include Property, Administrative Law, Environmental Law, State & Local Government Law, and a seminar in land use planning. Miller is also the director of the College of Law’s Economic Development Clinic. In 2013, the Clinic received the Planning Excellence Award for Best Practice from the Idaho chapter of the American Planning Association for Area of City Impact Agreements in Idaho. In 2014, the Clinic released Agritourism at the Rural-Urban Interface: A National Overview of Legal Issues with 20 Proposals for Idaho, which received national media coverage. The Clinic helped bring New Markets Tax Credits to Idaho, which has funded over $60 million in investment in low income communities throughout the state. In 2014, Miller was faculty advisor to the Idaho Law Review’s symposium, Resilient Cities. Three articles from the symposium edition of the Idaho Law Review were selected for inclusion in the prestigious 2015 Zoning and Planning Law Handbook, which reprints the year’s best articles in land use law. Along with Professor Barbara Cosens, Miller also coordinated the inaugural Idaho Symposium on Energy in the West. The second symposium in the series will be held in Spring 2016. Miller also coordinated the second meeting of the Environmental Law Collaborative in Jackson, Wyoming. Along with Professor Robin Craig of the University of Utah, Miller is co-editing a volume of essays resulting from the Jackson meeting to be published by the Environmental Law Institute in 2016.
The Bottom-Up Climate Consensus, in A Response to the IPCC Fifth Assessment, 45 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REPORTER 10027 (2015). Symposium Introduction: Transmission and Transport of Energy in the Western U.S. and Canada: A Law and Policy Road Map, 52 IDAHO L. REV. 1 (2015). Contributor, Constitutional Law Report, A.B.A. SECTION OF ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY AND RESOURCES, 2014 YEAR IN REVIEW (2015).
Social Media Co-Editor, Land Use Prof Blog (Jan., 2012; May, 2012 present); http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/land_use/. Site received over 120,000 page views last year.
Public Service Commissioner, Boise City Planning and Zoning Commission, June, 2014 – present. Pace Law School Land Use Law Center, National Advisory Board, 2014 – present.
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Professor Anastasia Telesetsky In 2003 and 2004, Telesetsky was a Bosch Fellow in Germany where she worked for the German Foreign Ministry on promoting international food security and assisted in drafting guidelines on implementation for the “Right to Food.” As a Fulbright Fellow and a Berkeley Human Rights Center fellow, she collaborated with communities in the Philippines and Papua New Guinea on developing culturally appropriate legal solutions to environmental protection problems.
Recent scholarship: Professor Anastasia Telesetsky presented “Where have all the fish gone? –Reflections on Global Fishing Law” at the interdisciplinary University of California Irvine symposium on “Ocean Health, Global Fishing and Food Security” as part of a “Law, Governance, and Science” panel on November 21, 2014.
Professor Anastasia Telesetsky joined the UI College of Law in 2009. She teaches Conflicts of Law, Public International Law, International Environmental Law and International Trade and Investment Law. Before coming to the UI College of Law, Telesetsky spent eight years practicing as an attorney in California, Washington, and abroad. Her practice focused on public international law and environmental law. She had the distinction of representing the Government of Ethiopia before the Ethiopia-Eritrea Claims Commission at the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
Professor Anastasia Telesetsky presented on a panel on Ecosystem Services at the 7th National Summit on Coastal and Estuarine Restoration. The summit was held in Maryland and was well-attended by federal and state agency decision makers. Telesetsky’s presentation forms the basis of an upcoming chapter for a 2015 book on Ecosystem Restoration and Law that Professor Telesetsky is co-authoring with Professor Afshin Akhtarkhavari from Griffith University in Australia and Professor An Cliquet from Ghent University in Belgium. On October 30 and 31, 2014, Professor Telesetsky, as one of the co-editors of the International Law of Disaster Relief published by Cambridge University Press, was invited to participate in two international disaster law meetings held at King’s College London School of Law with a select group of participants from government, academia, non-governmental organizations, and business.
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