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Dream job: Alum Steve Bloch reflects on 25 years at the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance

Oct 11, 2024

Steve Bloch (’97) started his career thrilled at the chance to work outside most of the time. He studied botany and political science in college and worked several seasons as a field technician for the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, doing biological surveys in Oregon, Washington and Louisiana.

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To overcome divisiveness, we need to focus on interests (and not positions)

Oct 01, 2024

In the hope that it helps us all navigate this challenging election season, I want to build on ideas I’ve explored in prior blogs to directly address the problem with focusing on positions and highlight some approaches for focusing on what really matters—our interests.

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Achieving flow: Alumna Emily Lewis builds a satisfying career in water law

Sep 25, 2024

Though Emily Lewis has now been practicing water law for 15 years, her love of the outdoors originally spawned a different career.

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All that flows downhill: How mining in Canada threatens downstream communities in Alaska, Washington, Idaho and Montana

Sep 19, 2024

As the world transitions to electric vehicles and renewable energy, the demand for critical minerals like lithium, nickel, cobalt, and graphite is growing rapidly.

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Research Professor John Ruple discusses CEQ appointment and Law and Policy program

Sep 11, 2024

Research Professor John Ruple, who also serves as director of the Wallace Stegner Center’s Law and Policy (LPP) program, recently returned from a two-year appointment as senior counsel in the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). He will discuss his time on the CEQ at a Stegner Center Green Bag on Thursday, Oct. 3, from 12:15-1:30 p.m.

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The problem with compromise

Sep 01, 2024

In my classes and trainings, I often ask people what skills are necessary for effective conflict resolution. One of the most common responses I get is “compromise.” When people say this, I ask them a follow-up question: How does compromise make you feel? I encourage you to take a moment to sit with that question yourself.

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Stegner Center Student Scholarship Recipients and Writing Awards

Sep 01, 2024

The Stegner Center oversees a rich array of scholarships, fellowships, and awards for College of Law students, ranging from cash awards for outstanding papers to […]

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Wallace Stegner Center Fall 2024 Green Bag Series

Sep 01, 2024

The Wallace Stegner Center’s popular noon-hour green bag series includes presentations on a variety of topics this fall semester, including Cancer Alley, the Great Salt […]

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Joshua Macey Joins Stegner Center as 20th Annual Young Scholar

Sep 01, 2024

Professor Joshua Macey, an Associate Professor of Law at Yale Law School, will join the Wallace Stegner as the 20th Annual Young Scholar on November 7, 2024. Professor Macy’s Lecture, […]

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Stegner Center Faculty Updates Fall 2024

Sep 01, 2024

Anthony Anghie Panels: “The Authority of Scholarship” (panelist), American Society of International Law Annual Meeting (April 2024). Other activities: Named Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal […]

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Research Professor John Ruple featured in media about Utah lawsuit to take control of federal lands

Aug 26, 2024

Research Professor John Ruple, an expert on public land and resource management and director of the Wallace Stegner Center’s Law and Policy program, is quoted in several media outlets about the lawsuit Utah has filed targeting unappropriated public land.

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Leveraging the environmental impact analysis to reduce ambiguity and delay in mine permitting

Aug 16, 2024

The Law and Policy Program was honored to join one of the CLDP’s missions as a subject matter expert on strategies for aligning Fiji’s mineral laws and policies with their ambitious climate and environmental laws.

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Extra dialogue required: Get to know EDR Director Danya Rumore

Aug 13, 2024

Research Professor Danya Rumore has been on a mission to figure out how to help people work together since her days as an undergraduate.

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To flourish, we need to teach people how to make conflict productive

Aug 01, 2024

We live in a highly interconnected world in which people from all walks of life interact with each other on a daily basis. This unavoidable reality of modern life creates many amazing opportunities, including for greater creativity and innovation. However, it can be difficult to navigate if we don’t have skills for productively working through our differences. 

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Professor Lincoln Davies returns to Utah Law and co-directs Stegner Center

Jul 31, 2024

Professor Lincoln Davies has returned to Utah Law, where he previously served as the associate dean for academic affairs until 2019 before leaving to serve as dean at The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law.

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Working to close the water gap in Indian Country by filling an information gap

Jul 30, 2024

Heather Tanana, previously a member of the Law and Policy Program, is doing as the team lead for the Universal Access to Clean Water for Tribal Communities Initiative (UACW). She previously wrote on this blog about her personal experience with the water gap in the Navajo nation.

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Stegner Center names Daniels and Davies as incoming co-directors

Jul 23, 2024

The S.J. Quinney College of Law is pleased to announce that professors of law Brigham Daniels and Lincoln Davies have been named co-directors of the Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment. Daniels and Davies began jointly leading the Stegner Center on July 1. Together, they will guide the scholarly and educational activities of one of the nation’s top centers for environmental law. 

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Making waves: Utah Law professors and alum Brian Steed partner to save the Great Salt Lake

Jul 15, 2024

In early 2023, a widely publicized report predicted that the Great Salt Lake would disappear within five years if its loss rate continued. To highlight legal pathways to restoring the lake, the Wallace Stegner Center launched the Great Salt Lake Project—and a brand-new class called the Environmental Policy Accelerator to give students firsthand experience working with policymakers to address environmental challenges.

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When dealing with conflict, don’t just be nice—be kind and firm

Jul 01, 2024

As I explain, being kind and firm helps us focus on what really matters and get good outcomes for ourselves and others when dealing with conflict—and, in doing so, it helps us avoid many of the problems people create by focusing on “just being nice.”

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Trees to torts: Rising 3L Natalie Merline pursues interest in environmental justice

Jun 25, 2024

Rising 3L Natalie Merline earned her bachelor’s degree in environmental science and says she always assumed she would work within science. While earning her undergraduate, however, she couldn’t see a clear career path within science.

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Joining ELI’s Summer School Series

Jun 17, 2024

According to Alice Cooper, “School’s out for summer.” But that refrain is a bit outdated. For the past few summers, the Environmental Law Institute has been hosting the Summer School Series for those who see the leisurely summer schedule as a chance to get ahead.

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