Hillary M. Hoffmann
Associate Professor
College of Law
B.A., Spanish (High Honors), Middlebury College (1997) - Sigma Delta Pi National Collegiate Spanish Honor Society
J.D., S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah (2003) - Richard L. Dewsnup Fellow in Natural Resources Law (2001), Utah Law Review
Hillary Hoffmann is an Associate Professor in the College of Law, where she teaches in the areas of Natural Resources Law and Federal Indian Law. Prior to joining the faculty of the University of Wyoming in 2026, she served as Co-Director of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition, leading the multi-year collaborative resource management planning process for the Bears Ears Commission. She has also held academic appointments at Vermont Law School, where she received the Dean’s Teaching and Service Award and the Richard O. Brooks Scholarship Award, and the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, where she served as the inaugural Robert H. McKinney Visiting Chair in Environmental Law.
Professor Hoffmann is a member of the state bars of Utah and Vermont and is admitted to the Ninth and Tenth Circuit Courts of Appeals. She has been a member of the American Law Institute since 2020.
Professor Hoffmann’s research focuses on natural resources governance frameworks, federal regulation of natural resources and public lands, and tribal environmental and natural resources law and policy.
Teaching: Indian Law, Public Lands and Natural Resources Law, Legislation, Yellowstone Seminar
The University of Wyoming has earned its Research Level 1 (R1) status from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, placing Wyoming's only four-year university with the top research universities in the United States.