Professor A. Dan Tarlock, distinguished professor of law and director of the Environmental and Energy Law program at Chicago-Kent College of Law, will speak at the University of New Mexico School of Law Wednesday, April 21, at 4 p.m. in room 2402.
His talk, “Ecosystem Restoration of the Colorado Delta,” is free and open to the public.
Tarlock is an internationally recognized expert in environmental, land and water use law. He has published a treatise “Law of Water Rights and Resources” and is co-author of four casebooks. A frequent consultant to local, state, federal and international agencies, from 1989 to 1992 Tarlock was chair of a National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council committee to study water management in the western United States. He is currently one of three United States special legal advisors to the NAFTA Commission on Environmental Cooperation.
Marilyn O'Leary, director of the Utton Transboundary Resources Center at the UNM School of Law, invited Tarlock to speak to an international water law class she teaches.
“As we struggle to find solutions for our water resource management problems we have a responsibility to solicit ideas and knowledge from recognized experts. Professor Tarlock is an expert of such stature that all students, both graduate and undergraduate and members of the community must be invited to hear him,” O'Leary said.
There will be a question and answer period following the talk.
For more information call 277-5655.
Contact: Laurie Mellas-Ramirez (505) 277-5915