Laitos, Zellmer, Wood and Cole's Natural Resources Law

by Jan G. Laitos, Sandi B. Zellmer

Much more than a traditional casebook, this exciting new text speaks the language that is most easily comprehended by the current generation of law students. Web resources, rich visual aids, and articles from recent periodicals are interspersed throughout the text, all with the aim of better enabling students to grasp key concepts and practical applications of this continually evolving and changing field of law. This comprehensive text covers all the traditional topics that are included in natural resources classes. In addition, it focuses on every level of natural resource federal, tribal, private, and state. The book also includes an extensive discussion of the economic aspects of natural resources law and policies.

1367 pages, Hardcover

First published April 25, 2006

About the author

Jan Laitos holds the John A. Carver, Jr., Chair, and is the Director of the nationally ranked Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program at the Sturm College of Law. He is a Reporter for the Planning and Environmental Law Review, published by the American Planning Association, a regional board member of the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute, the Legal Analyst for KUSA 9News, and Trustee of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation. He was Vice Chair of the Colorado Water Quality Control Commission. In 1996, he was given the University of Denver's Distinguished Teaching Award, and in 2005, he was selected a "DU Law Star." Prior to joining the faculty at the law school, he was the law clerk to the Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, and an attorney with the Office of Legal Counsel within the U.S. Department of Justice. He has written and had published nearly 40 law review articles on natural resources, environmental law, and protection of private property. He is the author of ten books, published by West, Foundation Press, and Aspen.