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The Water & Tribes Initiative: Tribal Water Rights & a Sustainable Vision for the Colorado River Basin April 27, 2021 The 30 federally recognized tribes in the Colorado River Basin depend on the Colorado and its tributaries for a variety of purposes, including cultural and religious activities, domestic, irrigation, commercial,...

Featured Articles: Professor Krakoff Named Deputy Solicitor for Parks and Wildlife GWC Water Law Fellows file Amicus Brief in La Plata County v. Colorado Department of Public Health Colorado Law Student Environmental Law Award Winners Read the newsletter .

Colorado Law Dean James Anaya leads a moderated conversation with Secretary Haaland and Congressman Neguse exploring both agency and legislative priorities regarding public lands and water management, resource extraction, energy development, and related tribal issues – with an environmental/climate justice lens. Land, Water, and People Event Video Now Available CLE...

Jacqueline Patterson, director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program, joined students Natasha Viteri and Cynthia Vitale for a wide-ranging discussion of her work to rectify the unequal distribution of benefits and burdens around energy, environmental, and climate law and policy; on issues of intersectionality; on the false trade-off...

Getches-Wilkinson Center Water Law Fellows Jaime Garcia and Chelsea Colwyn filed an amicus brief on behalf of Eco-Cycle and Conservation Colorado in an important environmental protection case On April 7, the Colorado Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Board of County Commissioners of the County of La Plata County, Colorado...

2021 Ruth Wright Distinguished Lecture in Natural Resources: Are We Saved? Tempering Our Expectations for Natural Resources Management Under the Biden Administration Marcilynn A. Burke Dean and Dave Frohnmayer Chair in Leadership and Law University of Oregon School of Law Wednesday, April 7, 2021 Almost forty years ago, Dean Derrick...

13th Annual Schultz Lecture in Energy: Climate Change and Innovative Paths to a Sustainable Future Dr. Steven Chu U.S. Secretary of Energy 2009-2013 William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology Stanford University Thursday, March 4, 2021 Multiple industrial and agricultural revolutions have profoundly...

Kayla Carey and Nathan Stottler are recent graduates of CU’s Masters of the Environment program specializing in environmental policy. They took Professor Sharon Jacobs’ Energy Law and Regulation class this past spring and have prepared their capstone project, Cooperatives at a Crossroads: Identifying the Opportunities and Challenges of Clean Energy...

A Report from the Acequia Assistance Project The Getches-Wilkinson Center is pleased to present the work of a team of students with the Acequia Assistance Project, who spent the last two years digging into the history, the politics, and law surrounding attempts to export water from the San Luis Valley...

Session One: Expanding the Toolbox of Water Financing Options Tuesday, September 15, 2020 Gone are the days when funding western water needs was merely a task of gaining Congressional authorization and appropriations for new dams and reservoirs. Today, federal funds are limited, and much of what needs to happen does...