Professor
of Law Debra L. Donahue
Professor Donahue recently returned from New Zealand, where she taught an intensive course in Biodiversity Conservation and the Law for the University of Auckland School of Law’s postgraduate program. Students from six countries enrolled in the week-long course, which was being offered for the first time. The University of Auckland offers specialized postgraduate programs in Commercial, Environmental, or Public Law, encompassing a wide range of specialized courses taught by professors from law schools around the world. Programs and degrees offered include Master of Laws (LLM), Master of Environmental Law, and PhD.
In Spring 2009, Prof. Donahue will teach an undergraduate course in Federal Indian Law for UW’s American Indian Studies Department. Her article “Federal Rangeland Policy: Perverting Law and Jeopardizing Ecosystem Services,” has just appeared in a symposium issue on the topic of ecosystem services, published by the Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law.
Prof. Donahue serves on the campus-wide Climate Change Coordinating (C3) Committee, which is organizing three symposia designed to enhance awareness within the campus and local communities of global warming issues and mitigation strategies. She presented at the first symposium in November, which focused on the international level. The C3 Committee is now planning events for Jan. 31, which will emphasize state and national responses. The third symposium, scheduled for Earth Day in April, will address local issues.
Centennial Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of Law Library
Timothy G. Kearley
Exciting events are happening which stem from Professor Kearley's work
in the spring of 2005, when he was granted a sabbatical to start editing
and digitizing former Wyoming Supreme Court Justice Fred Blume’s
single-handed translation of Justinian’s Code and his extensive
annotations. Kearley received a grant from the American Association of
Law Libraries/Aspen Publisher’s Research Grant to pay for typing
assistance for the project.
When classicists and legal historians learned of Kearley's work, they asked for copies of Kearley's project document that he was creating from Justice Blume’s 4500+ page manuscript. They wished to use Blume’s translation as the basis of a definitive, collaborative English translation of Justinian’s Code, a hugely important ancient document. Currently, Professor Kearley is working in cooperation with Professor Bruce Frier, who has a joint appointment at the University of Michigan in law & classics. Recently, the Cambridge University Press offered Frier and his committee of experts a contract to publish a print version of their translation (based on Blume’s work but without the annotations).
Professor Kearley will author an introduction describing the work done by Blume. The introduction will be a condensed version of an article Kearley wrote and published this past summer: Justice Blume and the Translation of Justinian’s Code, 99 Law Lib. J. 525 (Summer 2007). When the work is completed, Professor Kearley will create a web site on a UW server that contains Blume’s entire Annotated Justinian’s Code.
Professor Kearley wishes to express his sincere gratitude for the gracious cooperation of Justice Blume’s nephew and literary executor, Fred P. Blume; and to Fred Blume's daughter and Justice Blume’s great niece, Kristen Blume. Kristen Blume clerks at the Wyoming Supreme Court for Justice Golden who wrote a lengthy, two-part biography of Justice Blume for the 1993 Land & Water Law Review.
Associate Dean and Professor of Law Dee Pridgen
In October, Dean Pridgen served as an ABA site team member for an accreditation visit at a law school in New Hampshire.
