ROBERT GLENNON
Morris K. Udall Professor of Law and Public Policy
The University of Arizona, Rogers College of Law
Tucson, AZ 85721-0176
(520) 621-1614 Fax: (520) 621-9140
glennon@law.arizona.edu
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Morris K. Udall Professor of Law and Public Policy, University of Arizona College of Law (1997- )
Professor of Law, University of Arizona College of Law (1985-1997)
EDUCATION
M.A., 1972; Ph.D., 1981, Brandeis University, History Department
J.D., 1969, Boston College Law School
Editor, Boston College Law Review
Member, Order of the Coif.
A.B. in English Literature, 1966, Boston College
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What To Do About It,
(Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2009).
Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America’s Fresh
Waters (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2002)
ARTICLES (since 2005)
Moving Agricultural Irrigation Water to Municipal Use: The Legal and Institutional Context for Voluntary Transactions, The Water Report, December 2008 (with Alan Ker, Gary Libecap, Sharon Megdal, Susanna Eden and Taylor Shipman).
Law and the New Institutional Economics: Water Markets and Legal Change in California, 1987-2005 (with Jedidiah Brewer, Michael Fleishman, Alan Ker, and Gary Libecap), 26 Wash. U.J. of Law & Policy 183 (2008).
Water Markets in the West: Prices, Trading, and Contractual Forms (with Jed Brewer, Alan Ker and Gary Libecap), 46 Economic Inquiry 91 (2008).
The Conflict Between Law and Science in the San Pedro River, in Ecology and Conservation of the San Pedro River, edited by Julie Stromberg and Barbara Tellman (University of Arizona Press, 2009).
Water Supply in Arid Regions: A Forecast for the American Southwest, in Thinking the Present: Urban Design in Arid Regions (2008).
Tales of French Fries and Bottled Water: The Environmental Consequences of Groundwater Pumping, 37 Environmental L. 3 (2007).
Transferring Water in the American West: 1987-2005 (with Jed Brewer, Alan Ker, and Gary Libecap), 40 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 1021 (2007).
Transferring Mainstem Colorado River Water Rights: The Arizona Experience (with Michael J. Pearce), 49 Ariz. L. Rev. 235 (2007).
Good Intentions, Unintended Consequences: The Central Arizona Groundwater Replenishment District (with Christopher Avery, Carla Consoli, and Sharon Megdal), 49 Ariz. L. Rev. 339 (2007).
Groundwater and Surface Water Issues in Arizona, in Arizona Water Policy: Management Innovations in an Urbanizing, Arid Region, edited by Bonnie Colby and Kathy Jacobs (Resources for the Future Press, 2007).
Water Scarcity, Marketing, and Privatization, 83 Texas L. Rev. 1873 (2005).
MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS (since 2005)
Glue Traps Can Lure Innocents Like Screech Owls, Cactus Wrens, Arizona Daily Star, April 21, 2010.
Occasional blogger, The Huffington Post.
When Renewable Is Not Sustainable, In These Times, September 10, 2009
Water is a Resource with Financial and Economic Value, Arizona Daily Star, August 30, 2009.
Our Water Supply, Down the Drain, The Washington Post, August 23, 2009.
Arizona’s Precious Water Factor, Arizona Republic, August 11, 2009.
America’s Water Crisis and What To Do About It, Environmental Law Institute, The Environmental Forum, July, 2009.
Is Solar Power Dead in the Water?, The Washington Post, June 7, 2009
Myth: The U.S. Constitution Guarantees the Right to Vote, Arizona Daily Star, September 14, 2008.
Committee Did Not Approve Pornography, Arizona Daily Star, Feb. 27, 2007.
The Quest for More Water: Why Markets Are Inevitable, PERC Reports 7 (Sep. 2006).
General Stream Adjudications and the Environment, Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education, Issue 133, page 11 (2006).
Turning on the Tap: The World’s Water Problems, 3 Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 503 (2005).
A Pernicious Threat, 15 River Voices 26 (2005).
The Implications of Legal and Political Institutions on Water Transfers in the West, (with Gary L. Libecap and Alan Ker) 3 Arizona Review 3 (2005).
Find a Justice, not merely a judge, Arizona Republic, July 19, 2005.
FUNDED RESEARCH (selected)
Co-principal Investigator (with 2 others), Transaction Costs and Institutional Change: An Analysis of Western Water Law Regarding Transfers from Agriculture to Urban and Environmental Uses (2003-2005) (National Science Foundation grant of $385,000).
Co-principal Investigator (with 4 others), Restoring and Maintaining Riparian Ecosystem Integrity in Arid Watersheds (1999-2003) (National Science Foundation and Environmental protection Agency grant of $849,000).
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (selected, since 2005)
Keynote speaker at 42 conferences.
Consultant, project to draft a water code for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (2008 - ).
Julian Simon Fellow, Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), Bozeman, Montana (June and July, 2006)
Member, American Rivers’ Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (2006- ).
Water Policy Advisor to Pima County, Arizona (2003- ).
Interviewee for print stories on constitutional law and water law and policy. Since 2005, publications include the New York Times, the New York Sun, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Markets, the Arizona Republic, the Arizona Daily Star, the Omaha World-Herald, the Detroit Free Press, United Press International, the Albuquerque Journal, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Sacramento Bee, Salt Lake Tribune, Bozeman Chronicle, Great Falls Tribune, Tampa Tribune, San Diego Union Tribune, the Portland Oregonian, and the Las Vegas Sun.
