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Agenda: A Celebration Of The Work Of Charles Wilkinson: Served With Tasty Stories And Some Slices Of Roast, University Of Colorado Boulder. Getches-Wilkinson Center For Natural Resources, Energy, And The Environment

A Celebration of the Work of Charles Wilkinson (Martz Winter Symposium, March 10-11)

Conference held at the University of Colorado, Wolf Law Building, Wittemyer Courtroom, Thursday, March 10th and Friday, March 11th, 2016.

Conference moderators, panelists and speakers included University of Colorado Law School professors Phil Weiser, Sarah Krakoff, William Boyd, Kristen Carpenter, Britt Banks, Harold Bruff, Richard Collins, Carla Fredericks, Mark Squillace, and Charles Wilkinson

"We celebrate the work of Distinguished Professor Charles Wilkinson, a prolific and passionate writer, teacher, and advocate for the people and places of the West. Charles's influence extends beyond place, yet his work has always originated in a deep love of and commitment to particular places. We …

Natural Resources Law: Private Rights And The Public Interest, Eric Freyfogle, Michael Blumm, Blake Hudson

Contributions to Books

This casebook offers a view of natural resources law rich in history, yet exposing students to the complexities of practicing natural resources law in the 21st century. Given that the focus of most Natural Resources Law casebooks is public lands and public law (often at the federal level), this casebook is unique in its primary focus on natural resource conflicts on private lands and its significant focus on private law (though public law is also a focus). While we include chapters on federal public lands and areas of federal primacy like wetlands regulation and endangered species protection, our focus is …

Antimonopoly And The Radical Lochean Origins Of Western Water Law, Michael Blumm

Michael Blumm

This review of David Schorr's book, The Colorado Doctrine: Water Rights, Corporations, and Distributive Justice on the American Frontier, maintains that the book is a therapeutic corrective to the standard history of the origins of western water law as celebration of economic efficiency and wealth maximization. Schorr's account convincingly contends that the roots of prior appropriation water law--the "Colorado Doctrine"--lie in distributional justice concerns, not in the supposed efficiency advantages of private property over common property. The goals of the founders of the Colorado doctrine, according to Schorr, were to advance Radical Lochean principles such as widespread distibution of water …

Island Here Today, Gone Tomorrow (H. Milton Wagner, Et Al. V. Mayor And City Council Of Baltimore, 1956), Brandy Reazer, Scott Yager

Legal History Publications

Court of Appeals of Maryland. H. Milton Wagner, Jr., Amelia W. Sutton, Florence C. Mulligan et al. v. City of Baltimore is an appeals case that started in Anne Arundel County, Maryland in 1916 over an island that was at one point in Maryland state history part of Anne Arundel County. A land patent was issued to John P. Bruns in 1909 and later sold to H. Milton Wager, Sr. The island in question, known as Reed Bird Island, was surveyed in 1908 by the County Surveyor of Anne Arundel County. The land was not found to be covered by …

Water Wrongs: Why Can’T We Get It Right The First Time?, David Getches

Publications

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The Metamorphosis Of Western Water Policy: Have Federal Laws And Local Decisions Eclipsed The States’ Role?, David H. Getches

Publications

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The Unsettling Of The West: How Indians Got The Best Water Rights, David H. Getches

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Colorado River Governance: Sharing Federal Authority As An Incentive To Create A New Institution, David H. Getches

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From Askhabad, To Wellton-Mohawk, To Los Angeles: The Drought In Water Policy, David H. Getches

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One Hundred Years Of Wyoming Water Law, Mark Squillace

Publications

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In Memoriam: Prior Appropriation, 1848-1991, Charles F. Wilkinson

Publications

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The Field Of Public Land Law -- A Ten-Year Retrospective, Charles F. Wilkinson

Publications

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The Headwaters Of The Public Trust: Some Thoughts On The Source And Scope Of The Traditional Doctrine, Charles F. Wilkinson

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Groundwater Quality Protection: Setting A National Goal For State And Federal Programs, David H. Getches

Publications

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Water Marketing In Wyoming, Mark Squillace

Publications

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A Critical Look At Wyoming Water Law, Mark Squillace

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Aldo Leopold And Western Water Law: Thinking Perpendicular To The Prior Appropriation Doctrine, Charles F. Wilkinson

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Water And The American West: Essays In Honor Of Raphael J. Moses, David H. Getches

Books, Reports, and Studies

This digital resource contains only an abstract, cover image and table of contents information from the published book.

Print copy of book is available in the University of Colorado’s Wise Law Library: http://lawpac.colorado.edu/record=b131940~S0

Contents: Foreword / [David H. Getches] -- Biographical note : a tribute to a great lawyer / John M. Sayre -- To settle a new land : an historical essay on water law in Colorado and in the American West / Charles F. Wilkinson -- A global perspective on western water / Gilbert F. White -- The international problem with Mexico over the salinity of the lower …

The Law Of The American West: A Critical Bibliography Of The Nonlegal Sources, Charles F. Wilkinson

Publications

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Innovative Approaches To Water Allocation: The Potential For Water Markets, Charles W. Howe

Western Water: Expanding Uses/Finite Supplies (Summer Conference, June 2-4)

20 pages.

Innovative Transfer And Exchange Plans, Glenn E. Porzak

Colorado Water Issues and Options: The 90's and Beyond: Toward Maximum Beneficial Use of Colorado's Water Resources (October 8)

36 pages (includes maps).

Contains footnotes (page 32).

Interstate Transfers Of Water: Many A Slip ‘Twixt The Cup And The Lip, Howard Holme

Colorado Water Issues and Options: The 90's and Beyond: Toward Maximum Beneficial Use of Colorado's Water Resources (October 8)

44 pages (includes maps and tables).

Contains 6 pages of footnotes.

Engineering And Hydrologic Issues In Changing Water Uses, Leonard Rice

Colorado Water Issues and Options: The 90's and Beyond: Toward Maximum Beneficial Use of Colorado's Water Resources (October 8)

26 pages (includes maps, charts and illustrations).

Contains references (page 18).

Voluntary Approaches To Basinwide Water Management, Neil S. Grigg

Colorado Water Issues and Options: The 90's and Beyond: Toward Maximum Beneficial Use of Colorado's Water Resources (October 8)

13 pages (includes illustration).

Contains references (page 11).

Nontributary Ground Water: A Continuing Dilemma, William A. Paddock

Colorado Water Issues and Options: The 90's and Beyond: Toward Maximum Beneficial Use of Colorado's Water Resources (October 8)

47 pages.

Contains 2 pages of footnotes.

Wasted Water: The Problems And Promise Of Improving Efficiency Under Western Water Law, Steven J. Shupe

Colorado Water Issues and Options: The 90's and Beyond: Toward Maximum Beneficial Use of Colorado's Water Resources (October 8)

61 pages.

Includes footnotes (pages 49-56).

The Development Of Colorado’S Water Law, Raphael J. Moses

Colorado Water Issues and Options: The 90's and Beyond: Toward Maximum Beneficial Use of Colorado's Water Resources (October 8)

23 pages.

Contains references (pages 22 - 23).

Administering Colorado’S Water: A Critique Of The Present Approach, Clyde O. Martz, Bennett W. Raley

Colorado Water Issues and Options: The 90's and Beyond: Toward Maximum Beneficial Use of Colorado's Water Resources (October 8)

41 pages.

Contains footnotes.

Agenda: Colorado Water Issues And Options: The 90'S And Beyond: Toward Maximum Beneficial Use Of Colorado's Water Resources, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center, Colorado Water Resources Research Institute. Cooperative Extension Service

Colorado Water Issues and Options: The 90's and Beyond: Toward Maximum Beneficial Use of Colorado's Water Resources (October 8)

Presented by Natural Resources Law Center, University of Colorado School of Law and Cooperative Extension Service, Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Colorado State University.

Conference organizers and/or speakers included University of Colorado School of Law professors Lawrence J. MacDonnell, David H. Getches and Stephen F. Williams.

The conference theme is "Toward Maximum Beneficial Use of Colorado's Water Resources." The purpose of the conference is to provide a forum for public discussion of Colorado's system of water law and administration and to make recommendations for future action.

A Market-Based Approach To Water Rights: Evaluating Colorado’S System, Stephen F. Williams

Colorado Water Issues and Options: The 90's and Beyond: Toward Maximum Beneficial Use of Colorado's Water Resources (October 8)

33 pages.

Contains footnotes.