S.J. Quinney College of Law

Brig is a professor of law at University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law and a co-founder of the Great Salt Lake Project. He has also taught as a professor at BYU Law and the University of Houston Law Center and as a lecturer at Duke Law School. Daniels is a graduate from Duke University (PhD), Stanford University (JD), and the University of Utah (MPA and BS). He teaches a wide range of environmental law courses.

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Beth Parker is the Law & Policy Lead for the Great Salt Lake Project. Beth is a Senior Attorney and Wallace Stegner Center Senior Fellow at the Wallace Stegner Center’s Law & Policy Program. She also teaches Air Pollution Law & Policy, coaches the College of Law’s Pace Environmental Moot Court team, and co-teaches the College of Law’s Environmental Policy Accelerator class focusing on Great Salt Lake.

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Norman K. Johnson was appointed Chief of the Natural Resources Division of the Utah Attorney General's Office in 2002 and served until 2022. He advised all Utah Department of Natural Resources agencies, concentrating on water issues. He represented the State Engineer in administrative and judicial proceedings, worked extensively on Colorado River matters, helped negotiate the settlement of federal reserved water right claims, and argued cases before the Utah Supreme Court. He earned his J.D. from the S. J. Quinney College of Law in 1982.

Bill Prince has more than 40 years of experience with all aspects of natural resources development.  His practice has included both domestic and international mining transactions and has embraced mineral acquisition and financing, technical and legal due diligence, natural resources-related environmental and compliance matters, permitting, development and use rights for Federal, Indian and state lands, public lands issues, and natural resources and environmental litigation and administrative hearings. Bill was the first managing partner in the Salt Lake City office of Dorsey & Whitney LLP and recently retired as a senior partner. Among other professional activities, he served as Board Member and President of the Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law (formerly, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation), Chair of the American Bar Association Hard Minerals Committee, Section on Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Law, Chair of the Utah State Bar Section of Energy, Natural Resources and Environmental Law  and co-founder and Executive Committee member of the International Mining Professionals Society.  He received his J.D. from the University of Utah, S. J. Quinney College of  Law in 1978.

Jake Dreyfous is a recent graduate from Middlebury College where he studied Environmental Studies and Biology. Jake works for the environmental movement and non-profit, Grow the Flow, as a government relations and program coordinator.