Join SLS alum and leading water law expert at UC Davis, Karrigan Börk for a discussion on illegal infrastructure and failed fish passage and ecosystem protections on the West Coast. There is a long history of laws in California (and other states) that tried to protect fish passage and other aspects of ecosystems before the 1970s, but they almost all failed. Through this lens, Börk examines what successful environmental law requires and how our accepted history of environmental law isn’t quite right.

Bio

Karrigan Börk is a Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at UC Davis. Professor Börk graduated with Distinction and Pro Bono Distinction from Stanford Law School in 2009, and completed his PhD dissertation in Ecology at UC Davis in September 2011. He received the Shapiro Family Award in 2011 as the Outstanding  PhD Graduate in Ecology at UC Davis. He clerked for Tenth Circuit Chief Judge Mary Beck Briscoe, U.S. District Court Judge Julie Robinson, and Judge Janice Karlin on the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Kansas.

Professor Börk graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Kansas in 2002 and was named a Truman Scholar in 2001 and a Switzer Fellow in 2010. Professor Börk’s publications run the gamut from the definitive text on the history and application of California Fish and Game Code Section 5937 to a hatchery and genetic management plan for spring-run Chinook salmon. Professor Börk is currently examining legal and ethical issues in ecological restoration. His past work has focused on the management of guest species, those invasive species that managers invite in and make comfortable, and on the evolution of law via administrative actions. He is currently working on local governance issues in ecosystem management.

Read more about Karrigan’s work here.

Lunch will be provided to those who RSVP.