University of Colorado Law Review

Volume 74 Issue 2, Spring 2003

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

GREGORY A. HICKS, Community Acequias in Colorado's Rio Culebra Watershed: A Customary Commons in the Domain of Prior Appropriation. Gregory A. Hicks is Professor of Law at the University of Washington in Seattle where he teaches courses in water law, property law and history, and public lands, and conducts seminars on natural resource commons property institutions. Professor Hicks serves on the boards of trustees of The Nature Conservancy of Washington and the Pacific Forest Trust and is an adviser to the Office of the Washington State Attorney General on water law and policy matters. Professor Hicks is a graduate of the University of Texas Law School and of Yale College. He studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and served in the Carter Administration as Special Assistant to the President of the U.S. Export-Import Bank.

DEVON G. PEÑA, Community Acequias in Colorado's Rio Culebra Watershed: A Customary Commons in the Domain of Prior Appropriation. Devon G. Peña received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Texas-Austin in 1983. He taught at Colorado College for fifteen years (1984-99) before moving the the University of Washington (UW). He is currently Professor of Anthropology and American Ethnic Studies at the UW where he is also affiliated with the Center for Water and Watershed Studies and the Restoration Ecology Network. Professor Peña is the coordinator of the Ph.D. Program in Environmental Anthropology at the UW. The author of several award-winning books and numerous other publications, Peña is completing work on his next book, Mexican Americans and the Environment: Tierra y Vida (forthcoming in 2004 from the University of Arizona Press). Professor Peña is also the co-editor of a new book series, Culture, Place, and Nature: Interdisciplinary Studies in Anthropology and Environment, published by the University Press. And he serves as a Senior Editor for the Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos in the United States. Professor Peña was Executive Director of La Sierra Foundation in San Luis, Colorado from 1993 to 1997 during negotiations with the State of Colorado and the Taylor Estate for the acquisition of the Taylor Ranch by a local-state partnership and is now chief research consultant for the Colorado Acequia Association. Professor Peña is a member of the Executive Board of the Second National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit and an internationally recognized leader in the environmental justice and sustainable agriculture movements.

JASON SCOTT JOHNSTON, The Tragedy of Centralization: The Political Economics of American Natural Resource Federalism. After graduating summa cum laude from Dartmouth College, Professor Johnston obtained both his J.D. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. He served as law clerk for United States Court of Appeals Judge Gilbert Merritt, was a civil liability fellow at Yale Law School, and taught at Vanderbilt University Law School before taking his current position at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Professor Johnston's research includes both theoretical and empirical projects exploring various aspects of natural resource and environmental law and policy, as well as more general studies of legal rights and legal entitlements. He is currently focusing on a series of articles exploring various aspects of environmental and natural resource regulation. Johnston's work has appeared in a number of major American law journals such as the Yale Law Journal, Virginia Law Review and Columbia Law Review, and peer-reviewed economics journals such as the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization. He currently serves as Associate Editor of the Law and Society Review. He has served on the Board of Directors of the American Law and Economics Association, was a member of the National Science Foundation's Law and Social Science grant review panel and is currently on the Board of Governors of the Pennsylvania Consortium for Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy. He has also been an Olin Visiting Fellow at the University of Southern California Law Center and Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law.

MICHAEL LEWYN, Twenty-First Century Planning and the Constitution. Michael Lewyn is an associate professor at John Marshall Law School in Atlanta, Georgia. Before joining the John Marshall faculty, he taught at the University of Miami School of Law, clerked for Judges Theodore McMillian and Morris Arnold of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and practiced law for several firms.