NRLI Distinguished Environmental Law Scholar

We are please to announce our 2008-09 Distinguished Environmental Law Scholar is Dale Goble, the Margaret Wilson Schimke Distinguished Professor at the University of Idaho, College of Law.

At the University of Idaho, Dale teaches natural resource law (including public land law and wildlife law), environmental legal history, and torts. He has written more than 50 articles and essays and is the co-author of three books: Wildlife Law: A Primer (Island Press 2008), Wildlife Law: Cases and Materials (Foundation Press, 2002) and Federal Wildlife Statues: Texts and Contexts (Foundation Press, 2002). He has also co-edited two volumes that grew out of the Endangered Species At @ 30 Project, The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Renewing the Conservation Promise (Island Press, 2006) and The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Conserving Biodiversity in Human-Dominated Landscapes (Island Press, 2006).

Dale received his J.D. from the University of Oregon. Following law school, he taught at Oregon for a year before joining the Solicitor's Office at the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. as an Honor's Program Attorney. He subsequently worked in the Lands and Minerals Division where his responsibilities included sagebrush rebellion litigation, wilderness, land-use planning, and wild and scenic river issues. Dale has been at the University of Idaho College of Law since 1982.

Find out more about the Distinguished Environmental Law Scholar program, or apply for the 2008-09 Scholar position.