Fall Lecture: John Leshy, The Past and Future of America's Federal Lands

John Leshy, The Past and Future of America’s Federal Lands
November 1
1:30–2:30 PM
Online via Zoom

John Leshy is Professor Emeritus at the University of California College of the Law in San Francisco. Yale University Press published his comprehensive political history of America’s public lands, Our Common Ground, in 2022. Leshy was Solicitor (General Counsel) of the Interior Department throughout the Clinton Administration, and earlier served as special counsel to the Chair of the Natural Resources Committee of the US House of Representatives, a law professor at Arizona State University, Associate Solicitor of Interior for Energy and Resources in the Carter Administration, an attorney-advocate with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and a litigator in the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. He headed the Interior Department transition team for Clinton-Gore in 1992 and was co-lead for Obama-Biden in 2008. He has four times been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1969, after earning an AB at Harvard College. His many publications include a book on mining law and co-authoring casebooks on public land and resources law (now in its 8th edition) and water law (7th edition forthcoming 2025). 

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