Professor Robison's Presentations

“‘Try Again’: Arizona v. Navajo Nation & the Colorado River.” Presentation for University of Utah Global Change and Sustainability Center Fall 2023 Seminar Series, Salt Lake City, Utah; Sept. 12, 2023.

“In the Courts of the Conqueror: Arizona v. Navajo Nation.” Plenary address at Universities Council on Water Resources/National Institute of Water Resources 2023 Annual Conference, Fort Collins, Colorado; June 13, 2023.

“Cornerstone at the Confluence: Navigating the Colorado River Compact’s Next Century.” Presentation at Special Session on Management in the Colorado River Basin, Universities Council on Water Resources/National Institutes for Water Resources 2023 Annual Conference, Fort Collins, Colorado; June 13, 2023.

“Twenty Year Drought in the West: Plans for the Future.” Moderator at American Bar Association, Energy, Environment, and Resources Section, 52^nd Spring Conference on Environmental Law, Denver, Colorado; April 27, 2023.

“Tradeoffs & Turbulence: Lessons for Times to Come.” Moderator at Colorado River Water Users Association Annual Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada; Dec. 15, 2022.

“The Future of the Colorado River Compact.” Moderator at Living Rivers/Colorado Riverkeeper and Great Basin Water Network panel, held in conjunction with Colorado River Water Users Association Annual Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada; Dec. 14, 2022.

“Cornerstone at the Confluence: Navigating the Colorado River Compact’s Next Century.” Presentation at Water & Tribes Initiative Luncheon, Colorado River Water Users Association Annual Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada; Dec. 14, 2022.

“Climate Change & Colorado River Governance.” Panelist at University of Arizona AIRES/CCASS Symposium, Confluence: The Colorado River at the Compact’s Centennial, Tucson, Arizona; Dec. 6, 2022.

“Climate Change & Apportionment.” Moderator at University of Arizona AIRES/CCASS Symposium, Confluence: The Colorado River at the Compact’s Centennial, Tucson, Arizona; Dec. 6, 2022.

“From Winters to the 2026 Guidelines: Tribal Water Rights in the Colorado River Basin.” Presentation at Dividing the Waters 2022 General Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Dec. 1, 2022.

“The Centennial Crises of the Colorado River Basin.” Presentation at 68^th Annual Natural Resources and Energy Law Institute, Vail, Colorado; July 21, 2022.

“Our Future Park: A Student Discussion with Park Service Leadership.” Moderator at University of Wyoming Yellowstone National Park 150^th Anniversary Symposium, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming; May 20, 2022.

“Confluence at the Compact’s Centennial.” Opening Address at Water & Tribes Initiative and Stegner Center The Colorado River Compact: Navigating the Future Symposium, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, Salt Lake City, Utah; March 17, 2022.

“Confluence: The Colorado River Compact’s Centennial.” Presentation at University of Wyoming College of Law 2021 Trelease Dinner, Laramie, Wyoming; Oct. 15, 2021.

“Equity Along the Yellowstone.” Presentation at 39^th Public Land Law Conference, Forging a Climate of Justice: Reconnecting People & Place, Alexander Blewett III School of Law, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana; Oct. 1, 2021.

“Vision & Place: John Wesley Powell & Reimagining the Colorado River Basin.” Moderator at Wallace Stegner Center Green Bag, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, Salt Lake City, Utah; Feb. 18, 2021.

“Toward a Colorado River Community: Past, Present, Future.” Moderator at Colorado River Days Flagstaff 2020, Flagstaff, Arizona; Sept. 10, 2020.

“150^th Anniversary of John Wesley Powell Expedition: A Look Into the Future of the West Through Education, Art, Science, and Policy.” Presentation at Colorado River Water Users Association Annual Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada; Dec. 12, 2019.

“Downstream of Montana v. Wyoming: Equity, Tribes & the Yellowstone River Compact.” Wallace Stegner Center Young Scholar Lecture at Holland & Hart, Salt Lake City, Utah; Nov. 8, 2019.

“Beyond Bears Ears: Post-Colonialism & Grand Canyon National Park.” Wallace Stegner Center Young Scholar Lecture at University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, Salt Lake City, Utah; Nov. 7, 2019 (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdsHYmWGcCg)

“Imagining Place—John Wesley Powell & the Colorado River Basin: Reflections upon the 1869 Colorado River Exploring Expedition’s Sesquicentennial.” Moderator at Western History Association 2019 Annual Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada; Oct. 18, 2019.

“John Wesley Powell and Reimagining the Colorado River Basin: Sesquicentennial Perspectives.” Moderator of Native Americans Panels I & II, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona; Sept. 10, 2019.

“Past, Present, and Future of the Colorado River.” Presentation at Sesquicentennial Colorado River Exploring Expedition Symposium, Glen Canyon Conservancy, Page, Arizona; July 11, 2019

“Law & Native Lives: An Introduction to U.S. Law & the Wind River Treaty,” Presentation at Native American Summer Institute, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming; June 10, 2019.

“Powell’s ‘Grand Canyon’: A Centennial Perspective,” Presentation at Sesquicentennial Colorado River Exploring Expedition Launch, Green River, Wyoming; May 23, 2019.

“The Silala River Case: A U.S. Perspective on Transboundary Water Law.” Presentation at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile; Jan. 15, 2019.

“Water in the West.” Panel Participant on Collaboration and Equity in the Colorado River Basin in a Future of Drought Panel, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming; Nov. 12, 2018.

“2018 Tribal Water Summit.” Panel Participant on The Role of Tribes in the Colorado River Basin Panel, WestWater Research, Gila River Indian Community, Arizona; Oct. 25-26, 2018.

 “The Law of the Colorado River: Construct, Context & Evolution.” Presentation for University of Wyoming, Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources “Thinking Like a Mountain” Course, Laramie, Wyoming; Sept. 27, 2018.

“The Life of the Yellowstone River Compact.” Presentation at Columbia Law School, Sixth Annual Sabin Colloquium on Innovative Environmental Law Scholarship, New York, New York; June 1, 2018.

“A Survey of Wyoming Water Law.” Presentation at University of Wyoming, College of Law, Energy, Environmental, and Natural Resources Law Clinic, Laramie, Wyoming; March 8, 2018.

“Western Water Law: An Overview.” Presentation at University of Wyoming, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Watershed Management, Laramie, Wyoming; Feb. 14, 2018.

“Colorado River: Building A Science Agenda.” Presentation for Cultural, Institutional, and Legal Issues Panel, University of Arizona Institute of the Environment, Tucson, Arizona; Oct. 11, 2017.

“Indigenous Water Justice in the Colorado, Columbia & Murray-Darling Basins.” Presentation at Waterkeeper Alliance 2017 Annual Conference, Park City, UT; June 9, 2017.

“Indigenous Water Justice.” Presentation at Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation’s Eighteenth Institute for Natural Resources Law Teachers, Indigenous Rights and North American Natural Resource Activity Panel, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta; June 2, 2017.

“Let’s Talk About Water: A Film Festival Exploring Water Issues Through Social Justice.” Panel Participant at University of Wyoming Multicultural Association of Student Scientists’ Film & Water Symposium, Laramie, Wyoming; April 13, 2017.

“The Life and Times of the Yellowstone River Compact:  Reflections & Visions at the Close of Montana v. Wyoming.”  Presentation at University of Wyoming, Water at Risk Panel, Fall 2016 Earth, Wind, and Water Series, Laramie, Wyoming; September 13, 2016.

“The Life and Times of the Yellowstone River Compact:  Montana v. Wyoming and Beyond.”  Presentation at Wyoming State Bar, Energy and Natural Resources Section Summit, Casper, Wyoming; July 28, 2016.

“Synthesis of the Indigenous Water Justice Symposium.”  Panel Moderator at University of Colorado Law School 2016 Martz Summer Conference, Coping with Water Scarcity in River Basins Worldwide:  Lessons Learned from Shared Experiences, Boulder, Colorado; June 9, 2016.

“Montana v. Wyoming:  The Yellowstone River Compact in the U.S. Supreme Court.”  Presentation at University of Wyoming Saturday University, Western Wyoming Community College, Rock Springs, Wyoming; April 23, 2016.

“What’s at Stake in the Negotiation and Litigation of Interstate Water Compacts?” Panel Moderator at University of Denver Water Law Review Ninth Annual Symposium, Conflicts & Cooperation: The Past, Present, and Future of Interstate Water Compacts, Denver, Colorado; April 8, 2016.

“The Colorado River Revisited.”  Presentation at Vermont Law School Sixth Annual Environmental Scholarship Colloquium, South Royalton, Vermont; October 3, 2015.

“Wyoming’s Big Horn General Stream Adjudication, 1977-2014.” Presentation at Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation’s Seventeenth Institute for Natural Resources Law Teachers, Frontiers in Water Adjudication Panel, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, Salt Lake City, Utah; May 28, 2015. (panel materials)

“Water Master Joseph Sax:  A Tribute.”  Presentation at American Society for Environmental History Conference, The Multifaceted Legacies of Joe Sax, 1936-2014, Panel, Washington, D.C.; March 19, 2015. (panel materials)

“From Trial to Tribulation:  Equitable Apportionment of the Laramie River & Formation of the Colorado River Compact.”  Presentation at Laramie Rivers Conservation District, Laramie Conservation   Expo, Laramie, WY; March 7, 2015.

“Wyoming Water Law:  An International, Interstate & Intrastate Survey.”  Presentation at University of Wyoming, College of Law, Energy, Environmental, and Natural Resources Law Clinic, Laramie, WY; February 19, 2015.

“Colorado River Water in Southern California:  Evolution of the Allocation Framework, 1922-2014.”  Presentation at Western History Association, 2014 Annual Conference, Newport Beach, CA; October 16, 2014.

“Western Water Law & Sustainable Food Production.”  Presentation at University of Wyoming, Consumer Issues Conference, Laramie, WY; October 10, 2014.

“Climate Change and Allocation Institutions in the Colorado River Basin.”  Presentation at University of Wyoming, College of Law, Advanced Water Law Seminar, Laramie, WY; May 1, 2014.

“Climate-Based Institutional Change Within the Colorado River Basin.”  Presentation at University of Wyoming, Department of Geography, Laramie, WY; February 14, 2014.

“The Ambiguous Colorado River Compact.”  Presentation at Laramie County Bar Association, Cheyenne, WY; September 19, 2013.

“Reckoning Arizona v. California with the Colorado River Compact.”  Presentation at University of Colorado Law School Conference, Arizona v. California at 50:  The Legacy and Future of Governance, Reserved Rights, and Water Transfers, Boulder, CO; August 16, 2013.

“The Indeterminacy of the Colorado River Compact.”  Presentation at University of Wyoming College of Law for Natural Resources Law Club, Laramie, WY; April 26, 2013.

“Water as Property:  The Law of the River in the Colorado River Basin.”  Presentation at Harvard Law School, Graduate Program, Second Dissertation Colloquium, Cambridge, MA; March 6, 2013.

“Forging Ahead in the Era of Limits:  The Evolution of Interstate Water Policy in the Colorado River Basin.” Presentation at Harvard University Water Federalism Project Conference, Cambridge, MA; April 20, 2012.

“Water as Property:  The Law of the River in the Colorado River Basin.”  Presentation at Harvard Law School, Graduate Program, First Dissertation Colloquium, Cambridge, MA; November 30, 2011.

“Institutions for Environmental Governance:  Water Rights Systems in the Colorado River Basin.”  Presentation at Harvard Law School Graduate Program Environmental Law Panel, State and Nature: Global Perspectives on Institutions for Environmental Governance in the Twenty-First Century, Cambridge, MA; April 14, 2011.