Sam Kalen
Assistant Professor of Law
B.A., Clark University (1980)
J.D., Washington University School of Law (1984)
skalen@uwyo.edu • (307) 766-6706 • 202 College of Law

Office Hours:
By appointment or drop in any time. If my door is closed, please feel free to knock and come in.

In 2009, Professor Sam Kalen was appointed to the University of Wyoming College of Law faculty as an associate professor of law. Prof. Kalen comes to UW from the Washington, D.C., law firm of Van Ness Feldman and various teaching positions at the University of Baltimore, Florida State University, Washington & Lee University, and Penn State University. Van Ness Feldman is one of the nation's leading energy, environmental and natural resources law firms. Before joining Van Ness Feldman, Mr. Kalen began his career as a law clerk for Justice Warren D. Welliver of the Missouri Supreme Court.

With his experience in our nation's capital, Prof. Kalen hopes to bring not just a D.C. lawyer's perspective, but the experiences of someone who has practiced law in a variety of areas for many years. In addition to working in private practice, he also has served in the Office of the Solicitor of the U.S. Department of Interior.
 

Teaching:
Climate Change Law & Policy, Energy Law & Policy, Environmental Law, Indian Law, and Legislation

Publications:

Current Publications

Kalen, S. (2009).  The Transformation of Modern Administrative Law: Changing Administrations and Environmental Guidance Documents, 35 ECOLOGY L. Q. 657 (2009).

Kalen, S. (2009).  The APA's Influence on the Development of the National Environmental Policy Act, 23 NAT. RESOURCES & ENVIRONMENT 3 (Spring 2009).

Kalen, S. (2009).  The Devolution of NEPA: How the APA Transformed the Nation's Environmental Policy, 33 WM. & MARY ENVTL. LAW & POL'Y REV. 483 (2009).

Kalen, S. (2008).  Changing Administrations and Environmental Guidance Documents, 23 NAT. RESOURCES & ENVIRONMENT 13 (Fall 2008).

Kalen, S. (2007).  Is "Significant Nexus" Really Significant? Justice Kennedy's Concurrence in Rapanos, NATURAL RESOURCES & ENVIRONMENT 9 (Summer 2007).

Kalen, S. (2006).  The Coastal Zone Management Act of Today: Does Sustainability Have a Chance?, 15 SOUTHEASTERN ENVT'L. J. 191 (2006).

Kalen, S. (2005).  Replacing a National Energy Policy with a National Resource Policy, NATURAL RESOURCES & ENVIRONMENT 9 (Winter 2005).

Kalen, S. (2000).  An 1872 Mining Law for the New Millennium, 71 U. COLO. L. REV. 343 (2000).

Kalen, S. & Turner, P. (1998).  Takings and Beyond: Implications for Regulation, 19 ENERGY L. REV. 25 (1998).

Kalen, S. (1997).  Standing on its Last Legs: Bennett v. Spear and the Past and Future of Standing in Environmental Cases, 13 J. LAND USE & ENVT'L L. 1 (1997).

Kalen, S. (1996).  Where Do We Go From Here?: The Federal Coal Leasing Amendments Act – Past, Present, and Future, 98 W. VA. L. REV. 1023 (1996).

Kalen, S. (1993).  Commerce to Conservation: The Call for a National Water Policy and the Evolution of Federal Jurisdiction Over Wetlands, 69 N.D. L. REV. 873 (1993) (Cited and Quoted in Supreme Court Opinion).

Kalen, S. (1988).  Reawakening the Dormant Commerce Clause in its First Century, 13 U. DAYTON L. REV. 417 (1988).

Kalen, S. (1983).  Comment, Durational Residency Requirements and the Equal Protection Clause: Zobel v. Williams, 25 WASH. U. J. URB. & CONTEMP. LAW 329 (1983).

Other Publications

Kalen, S. (2008).  Note on Sosna v. Iowa, 419 U.S. 393 (1975), in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (2008).

Kalen, S. (2002).  An Overview of Section 10, reprinted in ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT: LAW, POLICY AND PERSPECTIVE (Baur & Irvin, Eds., 2002).

Kalen, S. & Simon, J. (1999).  No Relief for Landowners: 7th Circuit Bars Recovery of Cleanup Costs Incurred After Filing RCRA Suit, LEGAL TIMES, S32 (May 24, 1999).

Kalen, S. & Simon, J. (1998).  No-Standing Zone Deters Citizen Suits, NAT. L. J. (DEC. 1998).

Kalen, S. (1998).  Passive Migration: A Limit to Liability, 14 ENVT'L COMPL. & LIT. STRATEGY 4 (1998).

Kalen, S. (1993).  The Endangered Species Act: Unlawful Takings and an Incidental Take Permit, reprinted in VOL. 1 WATERPOWER '93, at 420 (1993).

Speeches and Presentations

Kalen, S. (2008).  Presentation to Tallahassee Community Group on "Climate Change and Energy Options for the Future", January 2008.

Kalen, S. (2006).  National Hydropower Conference, Panelist, Panel discussion about City of Tacoma v. FERC, a D.C. Circuit decision (2006).

Kalen, S. (2006).  Panelist, Symposium, Bridging the Divide: Public and Private Interests in Coastal Marshes and Marsh Islands, University of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, SC.  Paper, "The Coastal Zone Management of Today: Does Sustainability Have a Chance?", September 2006.

Kalen, S. (1992).  National Waterpower Conference, "The Endangered Species Act: Unlawful Takings and an Incidental Take Permit" (1992).