University of Colorado Law Review
Volume 78 Issue 2, Spring 2007
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
Bradford C. Mank, After Gonzales v. Raich: Is the Endangered Species Act Constitutional Under the Commerce Clause? Professor Mank is the James B. Helmer, Jr., Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. He graduated summa cum laude in History from Harvard University and received his law degree from Yale Law School, where he served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal. After graduating from law school, Professor Mank clerked for Justice David M. Shea of the Connecticut Supreme Court. He practiced law with a private law firm in Hartford, Connecticut and served as an Assistant Attorney General with the State of Connecticut. As a law professor, he teaches in the areas of environmental law and administrative law. He has written over thirty articles and book chapters on environmental law, environmental justice, and statutory construction. His publications can be found in the Washington and Lee Law Review, the Ohio State Law Journal, the Tulane Law Review, the Arizona Law Review, the Georgia Law Review, the Harvard Environmental Law Review, the Ecology Law Quarterly, the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, the Stanford Environmental Law Review, the New York University Environmental Law Journal, the Virginia Environmental Law Journal, the Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review, and the Environmental Law Reporter.
Mary L. Lyndon, Secrecy and Access in an Innovation Intensive Economy: Reordering Information Privileges in Environmental, Health, and Safety Law. Professor Lyndon is a Professor of Law at St. John’s University School of Law. She holds a J.S.D. from Columbia University, a J.D. from Northeastern University, and a B.A. from Manhattan College. Before teaching, Professor Lyndon served as an Assistant Attorney General with the State of New York, where she headed up a group of attorneys working on acid rain and other environmental problems. Her current areas of interest include science and the law—particularly the regulation of chemical pollutants and biotechnology—and the economic and scientific impacts of regulation and the civil liability system. She teaches environmental law, international environmental law, torts, and toxic torts.
Amy Sinden, The Tragedy of the Commons and the Myth of a Private Property Solution. Professor Sinden is an Associate Professor of Law at Temple University Beasley School of Law. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was both an editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and a Public Interest Fellow. Her expertise in environmental law stems from her prior experience as a public interest lawyer with Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future and Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund. The subjects of her law journal articles include endangered species and cost-benefit analysis, as well as welfare and family law issues. Professor Sinden served twice as a judicial clerk, first for Judge John F. Gerry of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, and later for Judge Dolores K. Sloviter of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
L. James Lyman, Coalbed Methane: Crafting a Right to Sell from an Obligation to Vent. Mr. Lyman is a candidate for Juris Doctor at the University of Colorado Law School. Mr. Lyman also earned his B.A. from the University of Colorado, graduating summa cum laude with a degree in Communication. During law school, he worked as a summer associate at Hogan & Hartson, LLP, and Faegre & Benson, LLP. After graduation, Mr. Lyman will eventually join Hogan & Hartson, but not before serving as a clerk to the Honorable Lewis T. Babcock, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. Mr. Lyman is also an accomplished jewelry designer.
Michael C. Blumm, From Martz to the Twenty-First Century: A Half-Century of Natural Resources Law Casebooks and Pedagogy. Professor Blumm is a Professor of Law at the Lewis and Clark Law School, where he teaches environmental and natural resources law. Indeed, Professor Blumm is one of the architects of the Lewis and Clark Law School’s Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program. His principal interests are in the restoration of the Pacific Northwest salmon runs, the preservation of the West’s public lands and waters, the management of natural resources by Indian tribes, and governmental authority to regulate private property for public purposes. For over a decade, Professor Blumm edited the Natural Resources Law Institute’s Anadromous Fish Law Memo. He authored an anthology on environmental law, Environmental Law (2002), and co-authored (with Judith Royster) the first casebook on Native American natural resources law, Native American Natural Resources Law: Cases and Materials (2002). He also wrote a critically acclaimed book on salmon law and policy called Sacrificing the Salmon: A Legal and Policy History of the Decline of the Columbia Basin Salmon (2002). Professor Blumm holds an LL.M. and a J.D. from George Washington University and a B.A. from Williams College.
David H. Becker, From Martz to the Twenty-First Century: A Half-Century of Natural Resources Law Casebooks and Pedagogy. Mr. Becker is a Staff Attorney for Western Resource Advocates, a non-profit environmental law and policy organization dedicated to restoring and protecting the natural environment of the Interior American West. He joined the organization in 2006 after earning his LL.M. from Lewis and Clark Law School, where he worked as a law clerk at the Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center and received the Bernard F. O’Rourke Award for an article on Washington’s Condit Dam. Mr. Becker holds numerous other degrees: an A.B. in International Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, an M.A. in International Relations from the Australian National University, an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and a J.D. from Cornell Law School. After law school, he served as law clerk to federal judges on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and the District of Oregon, and practiced environmental law in the private sector in New York and Newark. Mr. Becker’s most recent publications include another article with Michael Blumm (and Joshua Smith), The Mirage of Indian Reserved Water Rights and Western Streamflow Restoration in the McCarran Amendment Era: A Promise Unfulfilled, 36 Environmental Law 1157 (2006).
Dale D. Goble, Email to Rebecca. Professor Goble is the Margaret Wilson Schimke Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Idaho College of Law. He has taught public land law, natural resources law, water law, and wildlife law since joining the faculty in 1982. A graduate of Columbia University and the University of Oregon School of Law, Professor Goble worked as an Honors Program Attorney for the Solicitor’s Office at the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. He is the co-author (with Eric Freyfogle) of Wildlife Law: Cases and Materials (2002) and Federal Wildlife Statutes: Texts and Context (2002). Since 2001, Professor Goble has been involved in a multidisciplinary, multi-interest examination of the Endangered Species Act called the ESA @ 30 Project. The project has produced two books—The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Renewing the Conservation Promise (2006) and The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Conserving Biodiversity in Human-Dominated Landscapes (2006)—both of which Professor Goble co-edited.
Robert L. Fischman, What is Natural Resources Law? Professor Fischman is a Professor of Law at the University of Indiana School of Law, where he teaches environmental law and administrative law. He graduated summa cum laude in Geological and Geophysical Sciences from Princeton University, and received his law and master’s degrees simultaneously from the University of Michigan School of Law and the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources, respectively. After law school, Professor Fischman served as the Natural Resources Program Director and Staff Attorney for the Environmental Law Institute in Washington, D.C. As a law professor, he has been a Visiting Professor in the environmental law programs at Vermont Law School and Lewis and Clark Law School and has taught at the University of Wyoming College of Law. He is a prolific scholar who has written on subjects such as public lands management, endangered species recovery, biological diversity protection, environmental impact analysis, global climate change, administrative appeals, and property interests. His most recent work is as a co-author (with Greg Coggins, Charles Wilkinson, and John Leshy) of Federal Public Land and Resources Law (6th ed. forthcoming 2007)
Sarah Krakoff, Keeping an Eye on the Golden Snitch: Implications of the Interdisciplinary Approach in the Fourth Generation of Natural Resources Law Casebooks. Professor Krakoff is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School. She holds a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. from Yale University, where she graduated cum laude. After law school, she clerked for Judge Warren J. Ferguson of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Before joining the faculty at the University of Colorado in 1996, Professor Krakoff spent three years living and working on the Navajo Nation as the founder and director of the DNA’s Youth Law Project in Tuba City, Arizona. Her scholarship focuses on Indian law and natural resources issues. Her current projects include two books that examine the social, legal, philosophical, and environmental consequences of outdoor recreation.