Office of Academic Affairs
1000 E. University Ave - Dept 3302
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: (307)766.4286
Fax: (307)766.2606
Temple Stoellinger, Law & Haub School (B.S. Environment and Natural Resources and Communications, University of Wyoming;
J.D. with honors, University of Wyoming College of Law). Professor Stoellinger is
an Assistant Professor in the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources with
a joint appointment at the College of Law where she is also the Co-Director of the
Center for Law and Energy Resources in the Rockies. Professor Stoellinger also oversees
the Haub School’s JD/MA program, a joint master’s degree offered in collaboration
with the Law School and she is also a faculty fellow with the School of Energy Resources
new Center for Energy Regulation and Policy Analysis. Professor Stoellinger’s work
and engagements continue to have a direct and impactful benefit to the State of Wyoming.
During the fall 2019 semester she taught the following courses: Environment and Natural
Resource Law and Policy (ENR 4750/5750), and Environment and Natural Resource Problem
Solving (ENR 5000). During the spring 2020 semester she taught Wildlife Law for the
first time, which was offered to graduate students and law students; as well as a
seminar course for JD/MA students on interdisciplinary thesis writing. Professor Stoellinger’s scholarship
continues to focus on natural resource law and policy, with an emphasis on wildlife
law and policy including the Endangered Species Act. Highlights of her scholarship
this past year include the completion of an interdisciplinary law review article focusing
the need for the integration of ecology and economics into big game migration policy,
written in collaboration with two economists at the University of Wyoming (Dr. Jo
Albers and Dr. Jason Shogren) as well as Dr. Arthur Middleton, a big game ecologist
at the University of California at Berkley. Again, working with Dr. Middleton, Professor Stoellinger contributed
to an interdisciplinary paper entitled Harnessing Visitors’ Enthusiasm for National
Parks to Fund Cooperative Large-Landscape Conservation, an article that explores opportunities
to capture additional visitor revenue from Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Park
visitors to fund conservation efforts in the area. She was also the lead author of
a law review article entitled Improving Cooperate State and Federal Species Conservation that
was the end product of a 2019 Haub School workshop on the Endangered Species Act (ESA)
that Professor Stoellinger organized at the University of Wyoming in collaboration
with Texas A&M University. The workshop featured key ESA experts from across the country,
who were invited to discuss the state-federal relationships with regards to species
conservation as well as opportunities for state to engage more meaningfully in species
conservation efforts. This law review article features the agreements in principle
reached by the workshop participants and through significant outreach efforts, it
is hoped that this workshop and law review article help to positively influence the
implementation of the ESA. As a spin-off from this effort, Professor Stoellinger is
currently working on a project to examine the effectiveness of ESA section 4(d), a
unique and flexible policy tool embedded within the ESA. Working with Rebecca Watson,
the president of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Professor Stoellinger completed
an eBibliography on the National Environmental Policy Act, intended to be a helpful
resource to attorneys and NEPA practitioners. As co-director of CLERR, Professor Stoellinger’s main
effort was the organization of the 2019 Landscape Discussion on Energy Law and Policy
in the Rockies, which was attended by 200 participants and covered the following topics:
The Energy Transition: The Disparate Roles, Impacts and Influences of Federal and
State Law and Regulation, Hop Topics in Oil and Gas, and Legal Uncertainty in Coal
Country. As a faculty fellow with SER’s new Center for Energy Regulation and Policy
Analysis, Professor Stoellinger is currently working on a law review article with
other SER colleagues examining coal plant retirement polices in western states.
Office of Academic Affairs
1000 E. University Ave - Dept 3302
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: (307)766.4286
Fax: (307)766.2606