Gina Guy Center for Land and Water

Finding Solutions to Public and Private Resource Challenges

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The Gina Guy Center for Land and Water Law examines the complex intersection of natural resource management across private and public lands.

The Center takes a holistic approach to stewardship, balancing conservation and sustainable use to address the evolving challenges of managing natural resources in a changing world. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, it integrates expertise from law, environmental science, and policy to develop innovative solutions to public and private resource challenges. Together, the Center and its collaborators focus on finding solutions to public and private resource challenges, advancing innovative and practical approaches for a resilient future.

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About Gina Guy

Gina Guy graduated from the University of Wyoming with a Bachelor of Arts in History in 1964 and later earned a Juris Doctorate from the UW College of law in 1975. She went on to have an impressive and storied career in law spanning several decades of service as a lawyer, regional Solicitor for the U.S. Department of the Interior, and later as Deputy General Counsel for the Air Force at the Pentagon. Gina was passionate about the environment, the outdoors, and the symphony. 

The Patten-Davis Foundation made a gift to the University of Wyoming in 2020 in honor of Gina Guy (UW College of Law Class 1975).

Click here to read Gina Guy’s memorial in the Wyoming State BAr’s Wyoming Lawyer (August 2018).

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Co-Directors

Professor Temple Stoellinger

Temple Stoellinger is the Associate Dean of the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources and a Wyoming Excellence Chair at the University of Wyoming. She holds a dual appointment in the Haub School and the College of Law, where she co-directs the Gina Guy Center for Land and Water Law. She also leads the Haub School’s JD/MA program in Environment and Natural Resources and teaches courses in wildlife law, public land law, environmental law, and the National Environmental Policy Act.

Professor Stoellinger’s research focuses on a broad spectrum of environmental and natural resource law and policy issues, including wildlife conservation, endangered species protection, energy development, and public and private land management and conservation. Her work often emphasizes the unique challenges and opportunities within the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and the American West.

Before joining the University of Wyoming, she served as a natural resource advisor to Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal, legal counsel for Shell International B.V., and natural resource counsel for the Wyoming County Commissioners Association.

She currently serves as an at-large Trustee for FNREL, a member of the ABA SEER NR&E Editorial Board, and co-chair of the ABA SEER Biodiversity Committee. Additionally, she is a Senior Fellow with PERC and an adjunct faculty member with the School of Energy Resources.

 

Professor Jason Robison

Jason is the Carl M. Williams Professor of Law & Social Responsibility, the Co-Director of the Gina Guy Center for Land and Water Law, and an adjunct professor at the Haub School. His research and teaching revolve around water, public lands, and Native peoples in western North America, including comparative and international projects in these areas. Among other writings, Jason authors the treatise Law of Water Rights and Resources and has served as the editor and lead editor, respectively, of Cornerstone at the Confluence: Navigating the Colorado River Compact's Next Century and Vision & Place: John Wesley Powell & Reimagining the Colorado River Basin. Jason teaches lecture courses on Water Law & Policy and Public Lands; seminars on the Colorado River, Native Waters, and International Environmental Law; and field courses in Chile and the Colorado River Basin. Beyond UW, Jason is honored to serve on the Water & Tribes Initiative’s leadership team and the Colorado River Research Group.

Prior to joining the UW faculty, Jason earned his S.J.D. and LL.M. at Harvard Law School, J.D. at the University of Oregon School of Law, and B.S. in environmental studies at the University of Utah. He clerked for the Oregon Supreme Court and held various positions with the Harvard Water Security Initiative, Harvard Law School’s Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, Colorado River Governance Initiative at CU Law School’s Getches-Wilkinson Center, Special Litigation Unit of the Oregon Department of Justice, and Motions Department and Office of Appellate Legal Counsel of the Oregon Court of Appeals.

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Student Director

Jacy Rudloff

Jacy is a third year law student and a lifelong resident of Wyoming. After earning dual degrees in Environmental Systems Science and Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming, she decided to further pursue her interest in conservation and the environment by going to law school. Following graduation, she plans to stay in the Rocky Mountain West, working diligently as an advocate for the natural world and enjoying all the outdoor possibilities the region has to offer.