Montana Youth Group

GWC and Getches-Green Clinic Partner With Outdoor Athletes to Support Montana Youth

April 3, 2024

Photo by Robin Loznak; Courtesy of Our Children鈥檚 Trust The Getches-Wilkinson Center and the Getches-Green Clinic recently partnered with Conrad Anker, famed mountaineer, and eight other professional outdoor athletes to submit an amicus curia e brief in the Montana youth climate change case. The brief was submitted to the Montana...

Sally Jewell

Sally Jewell, Former U.S. Secretary of the Interior, visited with Colorado Law Students

April 2, 2024

Growing the Next Generation of Conservation Leaders: A Student Conversation with Secretary Jewell The Getches-Wilkinson Center and Wyss Scholars Program invited CU Law students to join Sally Jewell, former Secretary of the Interior during the Obama administration, for an interactive conversation on the future of conservation. In addition to her...

Student Research Assistant Positions Open for Summer 2024

March 27, 2024

The Getches-Wilkinson Center (GWC) is seeking a Colorado Law student interested in natural resources, energy, and environmental law to serve as the GWC Research Assistant. The Research Assistant will work closely with GWC staff, including the Executive Director, the GWC Senior Water Fellow, and the Water Law Fellows, who will...

Oliver Skelly

Oliver Skelly (Colorado Law '25) Named Inaugural 2024 Conscience Bay Company Western Water Policy Fellow

March 21, 2024

University of Colorado Law School student Oliver Skelly ('25) is this year鈥檚 inaugural Conscience Bay Company Western Water Policy Fellow. The Conscience Bay Company Western Water Policy Fellowship, initiated in 2023 by leaders of the Conscience Bay Company , is awarded each year to a Colorado Law student on the...

Tori Matson

Victoria Matson (Colorado Law '26) Named 2024 David Harrison Innovations in Water and Energy Law & Policy Fellow

March 21, 2024

University of Colorado Law School student Victoria (Tori) Matson ('26) is this year鈥檚 David Harrison Innovations in Water and Energy Law & Policy Fellow. The Fellowship, initiated in 2010 by partners of the law firm of Moses, Wittemyer, Harrison and Woodruff, P.C. in honor David L. Harrison (Law 鈥71), is...

Mariah Bowman

Mariah Bowman (Law '25) Named 2024-2025 Colorado Law Wyss Scholar

March 20, 2024

University of Colorado Law School student Mariah Bowman (鈥25) has been named the 2024-2025 Colorado Law Wyss Scholar in U.S. Lands Conservation. Bowman, a J.D. candidate, is Colorado Law鈥檚 seventh Wyss Scholar. The Wyss Scholars Program , funded by the Wyss Foundation , is awarded to one Colorado Law student...

Acequia Assistance Project Group Photo

Acequia Assistance Project Members Attend 12th Annual Congreso de Acequias

March 19, 2024

Members of the Acequia Assistance Project, in conjunction with the Getches-Wilkinson Center and the Colorado Law School, made their way down to San Luis, CO earlier this month to attend the 12th annual Congreso de Acequias. There, Project members took a walking tour of San Luis, visited the People鈥檚 Ditch...

Frannie Monasterio

Historic Upper Colorado River Basin Agreement Requires States to Meet with Tribes

March 18, 2024

A historic interstate, inter-governmental agreement is finally institutionalizing the much-needed practice of including the six Native American Tribes of the Upper Colorado River basin in Colorado River discussions. On Monday, March 4, 2024, the Upper Colorado River Commission, a multi-state water administrative agency tasked with ensuring the states of Colorado,...

Artwork by Sally Deng

Acequia Assistance Project Featured in The Coloradan Alumni Magazine鈥檚 Spring Issue on Water in the West

March 13, 2024

Acequia Assistance Project Director Gregor MacGregor, co-founder Peter Nichols, and student deputy director Mary Slosson were all featured in an article about the project鈥檚 pro bono legal assistance in the San Luis Valley entitled 鈥淗ow Law Students Are Keeping a Historic Water Distribution Tradition Alive in Southern Colorado.鈥 Approximately 400...

Treaty Justice

Celebrating the Boldt Decision and Treaty Justice

March 5, 2024

The Getches-Wilkinson Center, Native American Rights Fund, CU American Indian Law Program and Ridges to Riffles Indigenous Conservation Group are thrilled to co-host: Celebrating the Boldt Decision and Treaty Justice. An evening of scholarship, storytelling and celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Boldt decision and the release of Treaty...

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