University of Colorado Law Review
Volume 75 Issue 4, Fall 2004
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
JOHN D. LESHY, A Property Clause for the Twenty-First Century. John Leshy is the Harry D. Sunderland Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California Hastings College of Law. Previously, he was Solicitor of the Department of the Interior in the Clinton Administration, special counsel to the Chair of the Resources Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, a law professor at Arizona State University, Associate Interior Solicitor in the Carter Administration, and with the Natural Resources Defense Counsil and the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. He has published widely on public lands, water and other natural resources issues, and on constitutional and comparative law, including books on the Mining Law of 1872 and the Arizona Constitution. Professor Leshy is also a co-author of leading casebooks on federal public land and resources law and water law.
DANIEL KEMMIS , Re-examining the Governing Framework of the Public Lands. Daniel Kemmis is the Director of the Center for the Rocky Mountain West in Missoula, Montana. He was formerly Mayor of Missoula as well as Speaker and Minority Leader of the Montana House of Representatives. His newest book, The Sovereign Land: A New Vision for Governing the West, was the top choice for the Interior Department's Executive Forum Speaker Series. Mr. Kemmis is also the author of Community and the Politics of Place and The Good City and the Good Life, as well as numorous articles on public policy in the West, democratic theory and practice, community and community building, and bioregionalism. In 1997, President Clinton awarded Mr. Kemmis the Charles Frankel Prize for outstanding contribution to the field of the humanities; in the same year, he received the Society for Conservation Biology's Distinguished Achievement Award. In 1998, the University of Colorado Center of the American West awarded him the Wallace Stegner Prize for sustained contribution to the cultural identity of the West.
ROBERT D. COMER, Cooperative Conservation: The Federalism Underpinnings to Public Involvement in the Management of Public Lands. Robert Comer is Rocky Mountain Regional Solicitor for the U.S. Department of the Interior in Lakewood, Colorado. His office provides legal services to every agency of the Department, including for those issues involving public lands. Previously, Mr. Comer served an appointment as the Department's Associate Solicitor for Land and Water Resources in Washington D.C., was an attorney with Snell & Wilmer in Denver, and Associate General Counsel for Asarco, a Fortune 500 specialty metals and chemical company. Prior to the practice of law, Mr. Comer had been president, vice president, and Director of Applied Ecology at Thorne Ecological Institute. He has written exrtensively on environmental and natural resource topics and has chaired the American Bar Association Public Land and Resources, Water Quality and Wetlands, and Mining Committees. He has degrees in biology, environmental conservation and law from CU-Boulder and a Masters in Forest Science from the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
SARAH KRAKOFF, Settling the Wilderness. Sarah Krakoff joined the University of Colorado faculty in 1996 to direct the Indian Law Clinic, was appointed as a tenure-track professor in 1999, and is the Acting Director of the Natural Resource Law Center for 2004-2005. Her teaching and scholarship focus on environmental, natural resources, and American Indian law. Before coming to CU, Professor Krakoff lived and worked as a legal services lawyer on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. She directed important litigation and other efforts to improve education of Native American children. Professor Krakoff is currently working on a book that examines the social, legal, philosophical and environmental consequences fo the enormous increase in outdoor recreation.
DALE D. GOBLE, The Property Clause: As If Biodiversity Mattered. Dale Goble is the Margaret Wilson Schimke Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Idaho. Before joining the Idaho faculty, her was in the Solicitor's Office at the U.S. Department of the Interior where his responsibilities included the Sagebrush Rebellion, wilderness, land-use planning, and wild and scenic rivers. He teaches and writes in the fields of natural resource law and policy, constitutional law, and history. Professor Goble is the author of numerous articles and two books on wildlife law; two addtional books on wildlife issues should be published next spring.
ALLISON H. EID, The Property Clause and New Federalism. Allison Eid clerked for Judge Jerry E. Smith of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and for Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court. After practicing with Arnold & Porter in Denver, she joined the University of Colorado law facutly teaching torts, legislation, and constitutional law. Her scholarship focuses on issues of tort reform and constitutional federalism. She has served as president of the Colorado Association of Corporate Counsel and is a member of the Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise.
ROBERT J. CYNKAR, Dumping on Federalism. Robert Cynkar is a prominent member of the Washington D.C. legal community as a trial and appellate lawyer. He was a founding partner of Cooper & Kirk, one of the nation's premier firms handling cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. He has recently joined the firm of Egan, Fitzpatrick, Malsch & Cynkar, where he represents the State of Nevada in the federal courts on challenges to the federal government's plans for a nuclear waste disposal site at Yucca Mountain. He has previously served as a Special Assistant to Attorney General Edwin Meese, as a Deputy Assistant Attorney in the Justice Department's Civil Division, and on the Senate Judiciary Committee staffs of Senators Robert Dole and Paul Laxalt.
JOHN C. YOO, Judicial Safeguards of Federalism and the Environment: Yucca Mountain from a Constitutional Perspective. John Yoo is a professor of law the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall) and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. From 2001-2003, he was the deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice, working on issues of foreign affairs, national security, and separation of powers. He was General Counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee from 1995-1996. Professor Yoo clerked for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia Circuit and for Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court. He has published articles on foreign affairs, national security, and constitutional law in a number of the nation's leading law journals and is the author of War, Peace, and the Constitution (forthcoming).
JENNIFER L. KOESTER, Judicial Safeguards of Federalism and the Environment: Yucca Mountain from a Consitutional Perspective. Jennifer Koester served as the Special Assistant to the General Counsel of the Department of Defense, where she worked on national security, international law, and constitutional law matters. From 2002-2003, she was an attorney advisor in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice, working on issues in national security, separation of powers, as well as other constitutional law issues. Prior to her service at the Justice Department, she was an associate at Wiley, Rein & Fielding. She clerked for Judge Emilio M. Garza on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.