REED D. BENSON

WINSTON S. HOWARD DISTINGUISHED ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LAW

Office: 208 College of Law Building
Telephone: 307-766-6107
Email address: rdbenson@uwyo.edu

Reed Benson has been a University of Wyoming College of Law, Assistant Professor since 2002. He teaches courses in Environmental Law, Legislation, Water Law, and Administrative Law.

Prof. Benson spent ten years with nonprofit conservation groups, including five years as executive director of WaterWatch of Oregon, before joining the UW faculty. He also worked as an attorney for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and for the Colorado law firm of Hutchinson, Black & Cook.

Benson's writing focuses on water law and environmental issues facing the West. His most recent publications examine water quantity issues arising under Clean Water Act Section 303, a National Academy of Sciences study regarding Columbia River water rights, and the similarities between western water law and the Endangered Species Act.

Education

B.S., Economics and Environmental Studies, with honors (1985) Iowa State University.

J.D. magna cum laude (1988) University of Michigan.

Publications

Western Instream Flows Conference, Portland, OR (April 20-21, 2006).

 

Wallace Stegner Center Distinguished Young Scholar, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law (April 5, 2006).

 

American Bar Association 24th Annual Water Law Conferences, Coronado, CA (February 23-24, 2006).

 

Pollution Without Solution: Flow Impairment Problems Under Clean Water Act Section 303, 24 Stanford Environmental Law Journal 199 (2005).

"The Supreme Court of Science" Speaks on Water Rights: The National Academy of Sciences' Columbia River Report and Its Water Policy Implications, 35 Environmental Law 85 (2005).

So Much Conflict, Yet So Much in Common: Considering the Similarities between Western Water Law and the Endangered Species Act, 44 Natural Resources Journal 29 (2004).

The Interior Department's Water 2025: Blueprint for Balance, or Just Better Business as Usual? 33 Environmental Law Reporter 10837 (2003).

Giving Suckers (and Salmon) an Even Break: Klamath Basin Water and the Endangered Species Act, 15 Tulane Environmental Law Journal 197 (2002).