University of Colorado Law Review
Volume 75 Issue 2, Spring 2004
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
OLIVER A. HOUCK, More Unfinished Stories: Lucas, Atlanta Coalition, and Palila/Sweet Home. Professor Houck is a graduate of Harvard College and Georgetown Law Center and currently directs the environmental law program at Tulane University. He served as an Assistant United States Attorney and as General Counsel to the National Wildlife Federation prior to joining the Tulane faculty. He enjoys teaching, writing, and the "bizarro world" environment of South Louisiana.
THE HONORABLE GREGORY J. HOBBS, JR., To See the Mountains: Restoring Colorado's Clear and Healthy Air. Following his service as an air pollution enforcement attorney for Region VIII of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and subsequently as a Colorado Assistant Attorney General, Justice Hobbs was appointed by Governors Dick Lamm and Roy Romer to virtually every state and metropolitan Denver public body assigned to air quality and transportation. At that time, he also practiced water law as a partner of Davis, Graham & Stubbs and later Hobbs, Trout & Raley. Justice Hobbs was appointed to the Colorado Supreme Court by Governor Roy Romer in 1996. Justice Hobbs holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall). He began his career in Colorado as a law clerk to United States Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge William E. Doyle.
DAVID A. THOMAS, Finding More Pieces for the Takings Puzzle: How Correcting History Can Clarify Doctrine. Professor Thomas was educated at Brigham Young University (B.A. 1967) and Duke University Law School (J.D. 1972), and has been a professor at the Brigham Young University Law School since 1974. He has taught and published in the areas of property law, legal history, civil procedure, and legal writing. He is the principal author and editor-in-chief of Thompson on Real Property, Thomas Edition and has written several other treatises and articles. He is an officer in the American Bar Association's Real Property, Probate and Trust Section and the Association of American Law School's Real Estate Transactions Section