University of Colorado Law Review

Volume 76 Issue 2, Spring 2005

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

ROBERT G. NATELSON, Federal Land Retention and the Constitution's Property Clause: The Original Understanding. Robert Natelson is Professor of Law at the University of Montana, where he teaches constitutional law and constitutional history. He has wide substantive expertise, having had a general law practice and having taught property law, contracts, remedies, real estate, legal history, commercial law, water law, trusts, and other subjects. He has written extensively on federal and state constitutions, real property, remedies, and legal history. Professor Natelson is a graduate of the Cornell Law School, where he was elected to the University Senate and to the Law Review. He practiced law in New York and Colorado. For several years while in Colorado, he was the real estate law columnist for the Denver Rocky Mountain News and is now a weekly public affairs columnist for the Billings Outpost. A former visiting professor at Utah (1990-91) and an assistant professor at Oklahoma City University (1985-87), he has written three books and countless scholarly and popular articles. Professor Natelson is also a leading citizen figure in Montana. The founding chairman of Montanans for Better Government and twice a leading candidate for governor of Montana, he has served as a volunteer public affairs program host and as an advisor to various lawmakers. He lives in Missoula, Montana, with his wife and three children.

DAVID W. CASE, Corporate Environmental Reporting as Information Regulation: A Law and Economics Perspective. David Case is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law and teaches and publishes primarily in the areas of environmental law and torts. He obtained his Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies: Environmental Law, Management and Policy from Vanderbilt University and is a Senior Research Associate with the Vanderbilt Center for Environmental Management Studies ("VCEMS"). Prior to joining the University of Memphis law faculty in 2001, he spent three years at VCEMS as a Bridgestone Americas Fellow in Environmental Management. Professor Case also has degrees from Columbia University (LL.M.) and the University of Mississippi (J.D., B.A.). He is a former law clerk to the Honorable Rhesa H. Barksdale of the of United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

DAVID A. THOMAS, The Effectiveness of the NAFTA Environmental Side Agreement's Citizen Submission Process: A Case Study of Metales y Derivados. Tseming Yang is Professor of Law at Vermont Law School, where he teaches courses in torts, administrative law, international environmental law, and environmental justice. Before joining the Vermont faculty, Professor Yang served as an attorney in the Policy, Legislation and Special Litigation Section of the U.S. Department of Justice's Environment and Natural Resources Division. From 1999 to 2003, he was a member of the Environmental Protection Agency's National Environmental Justice Advisory Council; he was also the Chair of the International Subcommittee in 2002-2003. For the fall semester of 2005, Professor Yang has been awarded a Fulbright Research and Lecturing Grant for China. He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall) School of Law and Harvard College.

HAROLD H. BRUFF, Executive Power and the Public Lands. Hal Bruff was Dean of the University of Colorado School of Law from 1996 to 2003. Professor Bruff, a native of Colorado, received his B.A. from Williams College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. After graduation, he enlisted as a lieutenant in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve in the San Francisco District, serving as an assistant district legal officer. Professor Bruff has served on the law faculties of Arizona State University, the University of Texas (as the John S. Redditt Professor of Law), and the George Washington University School of Law (as the Donald Rothschild Research Professor of Law). From 1979 to 1981, he served as senior attorney and advisor for the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ"). In this position, he advised the DOJ, the White House, and executive agencies on issues of constitutional and administrative law. He also served as consultant to the chairman of the President's Commission on the accident as Three Mile Island. He testified before Congress on numerous occasions in his areas of expertise. Professor Bruff's research and teaching interests include constitutional and administrative law. He has authored two casebooks on the administrative process and separation of powers (and is working on a third book), as well as numerous articles. His recent public service activities include work on the Council of the Administrative Law Section of the American Bar Association, Colorado's Judicial Advisory Council, and the Colorado Bar Association Board of Governors.