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Sparks fly: Britt Ide discusses her 15-year career in energy law consulting
Jan 08, 2026After earning a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, Britt Ide (JD ’99) began working for a consulting company doing energy analysis and policy work. As she listened to hearings with the Department of Energy and saw what lawyers were involved in on the policy side, Ide started considering a different career path.
2025 EDR blog year in review
Jan 01, 2026As we move into 2026, we’ve been looking back at the last year. Topics we covered in our blogs in 2025 included facilitation, situation assessment, lessons learned about how to set collaboratives up for success, making your meetings count, and setting effective boundaries.
Wide-open views: Founding director Professor Robert Keiter tells the story of Utah Law’s renowned environmental law program
Dec 08, 2025Wallace Stegner passed away in 1993, not long before Professor Robert Keiter began teaching at Utah Law. At the time, the law school’s environmental program had morphed from an energy law center in the 1970s to a general land, water and energy program, and it needed some rejuvenation.
If you want to move conflict in a productive direction, start with an assessment
Dec 01, 2025Situations—including conflict situations—are always ready for something. Unfortunately, people tend to act without really stepping back to understand the situation and what would move it in a productive direction.
Research Professor John Ruple quoted in Bloomberg Law about resource management plan rollback
Nov 26, 2025Research Professor John Ruple, an environmental law expert, is quoted in a Bloomberg Law article about lawmakers using the Congressional Review Act to get rid of land use plans restricting fossil fuel development.
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.