Western water law, based on prior appropriation, is not associated with a sharing mentality. Instead, it’s first in time, first in right, and the devil take the hindmost.
Join us as our esteemed panel of experts explore the multi-jurisdictional nature of water appropriation from historical pueblo water rights, to the Supreme Court’s recent Arizona v. Navajo Nation decision, to some cutting edge ideas on fair water allocation coming out of Orange County.
Welcome by Chief Judge Philip S. Gutierrez
DETAILS
WHEN: Tuesday, Sept. 19
Reception at 5:00 pm | Program at 6:00
WHERE: The First Street U.S. Courthouse
350 W. 1st Street, Los Angeles, California
& virtually over Zoom.
COST: Attendance is free!
CLE Add-On: $40
Sponsored by the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society, the Los Angeles Chapter of the Federal Bar Association,
the California Lawyer’s Association Environmental Law Section, and the
L.A. County Bar Association’s Environmental Law Section.
MEET OUR PRESENTERS
ROBIN KUNDIS CRAIG is the Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. She specializes in all things water, including water law, and is the co-author of a leading water law textbook.
PETER L. REICH, J.D., Ph.D. is Lecturer in Law and Academic Director, Law & Communication Intensive, at UCLA School of Law. His research focuses on constitutional and natural resources law in Latin America and the U.S. Southwest. Reich’s most recent book is The Law of the United States-Mexico Border: A Casebook (Carolina Academic Press, 2017).
SHELLEY SAXER, Laure Sudreau Chair in Law, has been a law professor at Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law for over thirty years, teaching first-year Property, Land Use, and Environmental Law. She has co-authored the three books that she uses to teach these classes and has focused her scholarship on topics such as eminent domain, conflicts between local governmental units over commercial land use decisions that impact surrounding communities, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, water law, and zoning conflicts with First Amendment rights.
CLE INFORMATION
1.0 hour CA CLE sponsored by Hughes Hubbard & Reed
CLE Materials:
Read the latest double issue of Western Legal History entitled “Water” for 14 terrific articles including from our program’s panelists.
Read Western Legal History Vol 33: Water
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Watch these program recordings:
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- Water Law: How Public Policy Got Us Here and Could Get Us Where We Need To Be: Oct. 23
- Las Vegas: Early 2024
- Sacramento: Early 2024
*All programs will also be available virtually over Zoom.