Jason Robison

Professor Robison is the Jerry H. Housel/Carl F. Arnold Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Wyoming, where he also serves as the Co-Director of the Gina Guy Center for Land & Water Law, and an Adjunct Professor for the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources. Professor Robison joined the University of Wyoming faculty in 2013 after completing 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.

Professor Robison’s scholarship generally revolves around water, public lands, and Indigenous Peoples in western North America, as well as comparative and international projects involving these areas. His articles have appeared in Yale Law Journal, UCLA Law Review, Colorado Law River, and Utah Law Review, among other journals. Professor Robison is the author of the long-running treatise, Law of Water Rights & Resources (Thomson Reuters 2026). He also served as the lead editor of the 1869 Powell Expedition sesquicentennial volume, Vision & Place: John Wesley Powell & Reimagining the Colorado River Basin (Univ. of Cal. Press 2020), and the editor of the Colorado River Compact centennial volume, Cornerstone at the Confluence: Navigating the Colorado River Compact’s Next Century (Univ. of Ariz. Press 2022). Professor Robison was the recipient of the College of Law’s Faculty Research Award in 2025.

Professor Robison’s regular courses include Federal Courts, Public Lands & Natural Resources Law, and Water Law & Policy, as well as alternating Colorado River, Native Waters, and International Environmental Law seminars. He also occasionally co-teaches field courses in Latin America (Chile) and the Grand Canyon. Professor Robison received the College of Law’s Outstanding Faculty Award in 2022.

Professor Robison is honored to serve on the Northern Arapaho Endowment Committee, and the Chief Washakie Foundation graciously conferred on him the Distinguished Leadership Award in 2019. He has the privilege of serving on Leadership Team of the Water & Tribes Initiative in the Colorado River Basin and also as a member of the Colorado River Research Group.

 

Prior to embarking on his teaching career, Professor Robison served as a petitions law clerk for former Chief Justice Paul J. De Muniz of the Oregon Supreme Court. He also worked as a fellow for the Harvard Water Security Initiative, a visiting fellow for the Colorado River Governance Initiative at the University of Colorado Law School’s Getches-Wilkinson Center, and a law clerk for the Special Litigation Unit of the Oregon Department of Justice.