University of Colorado Law Review

Volume 77 Issue 2, Spring 2006

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

ALEXANDRA KLASS, Adverse Possession and Conservation: Expanding Traditional Notions of Use and Possession. Professor Klass is an associate professor of law at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota. Prior to joining the William Mitchell faculty, Professor Klass was a partner at the Dorsey & Whitney law firm in Minneapolis, where she spent ten years as an environmental and land use trial attorney. She serves on the Governing Council of the Environmental and Natural Resources Section of the Minnesota State Bar Association and is the co-chair of the Environmental Law Committee of the Hennepin County Bar Association. Professor Klass received her B.A. From the University of Michigan and J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School. She was a law clerk to the Honorable Barbara B. Crabb, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. Professor Klass has previously written on the impact of state and federal environmental statutes on common law strict liability claims and current developments in pesticide damage litigation, including issues relating to pesticides and children's health. Professor Klass will be joining the faculty of the University of Minnesota Law School beginning in fall 2006.

DAVID M. DRIESEN, Is cost-Benefit Analysis Neutral? Professor Driesen is the Angela S. Cooney Professor at Syracuse University College of Law. He holds a J.D. from the Yale Law School and served as an attorney in the Natural Resources Defense Council's air and energy program prior to entering academia. His first book, THE ECOMOMIC DYNAMICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (MIT Press 2003), won the Lynton Keith Caldwell award for the best book of the year in science, technology, and environmental studies.

NOAH D. HALL, Toward A New Horizontal Federalism: Interstate Water Management in the Great Lakes Region. Professor Hall joined the Wayne State University Law School faculty in 2005, having previously taught at the University of Michigan Law School. Before teaching, Professor Hall was an attorney with the National Wildlife Federation, where he managed the Great Lakes Water Resources Program for the nation's largest conservation organization. He also worked in private practice for several years, representing a variety of business and public interest clients in litigation and regulatory matters. Professor Hall graduated from the University of Michigan Law School and the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment, concentrating in environmental policy. He clerked with the Honorable Kathleen A. Blatz, Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court.

HEATHER FREDRIKSEN, The Roadless Rule That Never Was: Why Roadless Areas Should Be Protected Through National Forest Planning Instead of Agency Rulemaking. Heather S. Fredriksen is a candidate for Juris Doctor at the University of Colorado School of Law. After graduating from Harvard University in 1998 with a degree in environmental science and public policy, she worked for a small landscape architecture and planning firm in Vermont before moving to Boulder, where she was a planner for the Boulder County Land Use Department until starting law school. After graduation, Ms. Fredriksen will clerk for the Honorable Michael Bender, Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court

JULIA S. WALTERS, Safeguarding Colorado's Water Supply: the New Confluence of Title Insurance and Water Rights Conveyances. Julia S. Walters is a candidate for Juris Doctor at the University of Colorado School of Law. She received her Bachelor of Arts in psychology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1999. As a law student, she was a Legal Writing research and teaching assistant. She has also worked as a summer associate for the law firm of Kamlet Shepherd & Reichert, LLP, in Denver, Colorado. Upon graduation, Ms. Walters will join Kamlet Shepherd & Reicherts as a real estate associate.

JUSTIN C. KONRAD, The Shrinking Scope of Judicial Review in Norton v. Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. Justin C. Konrad is a candidate for Juris Doctor at the University of Colorado School of Law. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Harvard University in 1997. As a law student, he worked as a summer associate in Denver, Colorado, with Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons and in Boulder, Colorado, with Hutchinson, Black & Cook. He also completed a semester-long externship in the Denver office of Earthjustice. Upon graduation, he will serve as a judicial clerk for the Tenth Circuit in Denver before joining Hutchinson Black & Cook as an associate.