19th Distinguished Visitor Robert Glennon

"The Environmental Consequences of
Groundwater Pumping:
Herein Tales of Bottled Water
and French Fries"

On September 14, 2006, Lewis & Clark Law School will be pleased to host Distinguished Visitor Robert Glennon for an entertaining and provocative public lecture, "The Environmental Consequences of Groundwater Pumping: Herein Tales of Bottled Water and French Fries." The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 5:45 pm in Law School Classroom 1. Immediately preceding the lecture at 5:30 pm, the environmental law faculty will present the 2006 Distinguished Environmental Graduate Awards, as well as the Environmental Law Alumni Association Williamson Award to a recent public interest environmental law graduate.

Robert Glennon is the Morris K. Udall Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Arizona Rogers College of Law. He has more than 30 years of professional experience and specializes in constitutional law, American legal history, and water law. He holds a J.D. from Boston College Law School and an M.A. and Ph.D. in American History from Brandeis University. He is a member of the bars of Arizona and Massachusetts.

Glennon's funded research activities have included two National Science Foundation grants. He has served as trustee, director or chair for various institutional organizations. His professional activities include serving as Water Policy Advisor to Pima County, Arizona; as a member of American Rivers' Science and Technical Advisory Committee; and as a commentator and analyst for various television and radio programs.

Glennon is the author of many books, articles, and other writings. His best-known work is Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Waters (Island Press, 2002), the first book ever published to focus on the environmental problems caused by groundwater pumping. Glennon received numerous accolades for Water Follies from such publications as Scientific American, The Washington Post, and The New York Review of Books.