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Let’s be clear about boundaries
Nov 01, 2025One thing I have noticed is that many people seem to understand the importance of healthy boundaries, while also struggling to really understand what boundaries are—and are not—and how to implement them.
What are we co-creating?
Oct 01, 2025In the wake of recent events here in Utah and around the world, I have been thinking a lot about where we are as a society. We have managed to create scarcity and suffering amid a world of abundance and opportunity.
3L Isaac Santos explores Indian law and environmental justice
Sep 25, 2025Environmental advocacy has been on 3L Isaac Santos’ mind since high school, spurred in part by his childhood on the Kitsap Peninsula west of Seattle, Washington.
Wallace Stegner Center faculty write letter to Congress urging lawmakers not to repeal BLM resource management plans
Sep 03, 2025Members of the Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment faculty joined law professors across the country Sept. 2 to ask Congress not to use the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to repeal three Bureau of Land Management (BLM) resource management plans.
How to make your meetings count
Sep 01, 2025How do you honestly feel about most meetings you participate in? If your experience has been similar to that of most people, some descriptors that likely come up include “frustrating,” “waste of time,” “boring,” “unproductive,” “drawn out,” or maybe “necessary evil.”
Stegner Center Faculty Updates
Sep 01, 2025Antony Anghie Publications: Antony Anghie, Europe and International Law: Colonial Legacies, in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW IN EUROPE, Anna Van Aaken, Pierre D’Argent, […]
Danielle Stokes joins Stegner Center as the 21st Annual Young Scholar
Sep 01, 2025Professor Danielle Stokes, an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Richmond School of Law, joined the Wallace Stegner Center as the 21st Annual […]
Stegner Center 2025-26 Annual Programs
Sep 01, 2025The Stegner Center has a robust lineup of programs for the 2025-26 academic year. Professor Danielle Stokes joined the Stegner Center as the 21st Annual […]
Save the Date! Stegner Center 31st Annual Symposium
Sep 01, 2025The Wallace Stegner Center’s 31st annual symposium, to be held on March 19-20, 2026, will focus on the future of public lands—a topic that is of […]
Research Assistant Professor Beth Parker quoted in Washington Post article about Great Salt Lake
Aug 17, 2025Research Assistant Professor Beth Parker was quoted in a Washington Post article about the impact of dust from the Great Salt Lake.
10 key elements of successful and sustainable networks and long-term collaboratives
Aug 01, 2025We believe the collective is more effective. Collective work can be difficult, messy, and take a long time—but the results of collaborative work tend to be far more effective and long-reaching than work at the individual scale.
Appeal for Donations
Aug 01, 2025The Wallace Stegner Center depends on donors to support our extensive programs and activities. These include student competitions and scholarships; the annual symposium, lectures, and […]
Professor Robert Keiter publishes new book about Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Jul 29, 2025Professor Robert Keiter, an environmental law expert, has published a new book, “Conserving Nature in Greater Yellowstone: Controversy and Change in an Iconic Ecosystem.”
Public lands are not “enclaves” and other errors in the report to Utah’s Legislative Commission on Federalism
Jul 15, 2025Earlier this year, the Utah’s Legislative Commission on Federalism released a report entitled “Jurisdiction Over Federal Areas Within the States. The report sets forth an expansive interpretation of state jurisdiction over federal lands that should be read with caution.
Understanding and identifying different kinds of interests
Jul 01, 2025When navigating conflict and collaborating—and in life in general—one of the most important things we can do to set ourselves up for success is to focus on interests and not positions.
“Shifting power:” Nagra advances justice in an era of climate crisis
Jun 23, 2025Here’s a thought: In responding to the climate crisis, what if less is actually more? That’s the question animating Associate Professor Ruhan Nagra’s current research—and she says it’s a mindset that could be essential for our shared future.
How to share the gift of centering and self-regulation (including with potentially skeptical audiences)
Jun 01, 2025I firmly believe based on two decades of doing conflict resolution work and a lot of research that practicing self-regulation ourselves and helping others do so as well is one of the most important gifts we can give ourselves and the world.
Kyle Lowe on finding law and fighting for the Great Salt Lake
May 19, 2025For as long as he can remember, Kyle Lowe (JD class of 2026) has understood the power of being a lawyer. When he was young he read the book “To Kill A Mockingbird,” and he credits its legendary character Atticus Finch, in part, for laying out a moral vision of the profession that resonated with him.
My survival guide for these “interesting times”
May 01, 2025In these times of major uncertainty and rapid change, most of us—no matter our political orientation, values, or beliefs—are worried about shifts that could affect the things we love and care about. Some of us are already feeling the impacts. Here are a few insights that are my “survival guide” for navigating these wild times.
Why the Great Salt Lake’s decline could force a financial reckoning
Apr 29, 2025What do stocks and bonds have to do with the shrinking Great Salt Lake? A lot more than you might think. In a new Environmental Law Reporter article, Great Salt Lake Project co-leads Elisabeth Parker and Brigham Daniels collaborate with coauthors Abigail Allen and Corinne Doerner to explore a consequential but often overlooked angle of the lake’s decline: securities liability.
The Stegner Center remembers Shireen Khazeni
Apr 28, 2025The S.J. Quinney College of Law is saddened by the passing of Shireen Khazeni, a longtime advocate for environmental conservation and supporter of the Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment.