Jan G. Laitos
University Of Denver Sturm College Of Law
Prof. Jan G. Laitos holds the Joe T. Juhan Endowed Professorship in Property Rights and Policy at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. He is a regional board member of the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute, and since 1981 a Trustee of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation. He graduated from Yale, went to law school at the University of Colorado, and has an SJD from the University of Wisconsin School of Law.
He was vice-chair of the Colorado Water Quality Control Commission. He was also the director of the nationally ranked Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program at the University of Denver Law School from 1981 until 2004. Prior to joining the faculty at the law school, he was the law clerk to the chief justice for the Colorado Supreme Court, and an attorney with the Office of Legal Counsel within the United States Department of Justice. He is the author of several books and treatises, published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Edward Elgar Publishing, West Academic, Foundation Press, Wolters Klewer, Aspen, Duke University Press, and Michigan State University Press.
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