James GrijalvaKenneth & Frances Swenson Professor of Law  Professor Grijalva received his J.D. cum laude from the Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College, with a Certificate in Environmental and Natural Resources Law. During law school, he was an associate editor of environmental law and the assistant director of forensics at Lewis & Clark College. Following law school, Professor Grijalva was law clerk to the Honorable Charles E. Wiggins of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He then practiced law in Seattle, Washington at Stoel Rives Boley Jones & Grey. While in Seattle, Professor Grijalva was also a visiting lecturer at the University of Washington's Institute for Environmental Studies and a lecturer at the University of Puget Sound School of Law. He currently serves on the summer faculty at Vermont Law School. Professor Grijalva writes and lectures on environmental law and federal Indian law, especially in the area of protection of the Indian country environment. He directs the Tribal Environmental Law Project and teaches American Indian law, property law, environmental law and administrative law. Professor Grijalva has been a technical services contractor for the American Indian Environmental Office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and a environmental law trainer for EPA's Office of Environmental Justice. He is the Fulbright Scholar for Aboriginal Legal and Resource Rights at the University of Alberta in 2009.
PUBLICATIONSClosing the Circle: Environmental Justice in Indian Country,
Compared When? Teaching Indian Law in the Standard Curriculum, The Tribal Sovereign as Citizen: Protecting Indian Country Health and Welfare Through Federal Environmental Citizen Suits, The Origins of EPA's Indian Program, Where Are the Tribal Water Quality Standards and TMDLs?, Indian Country Environmental Law: Cases and Materials (2002) (co-author) Author of one of two sections of an Amicus Curiae brief filed in Bugenig v. Hoopa Valley Tribe, Chapter 2: Native American Sovereignty, in GUIDEBOOK FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP ON NATIVE AMERICAN LANDS, Book Review, James M. McClurken, et al. Fish in the Lakes, Wild Rice, and Game in Abundance: Testimony on Behalf of Mille Lacs Ojibwe Hunting and Fishing Rights. Native American Resources Committee Annual Report for 1998, Native American Resources Committee Annual Report for 1997, Tribal Governmental Regulation of Non-Indian Polluters of Waters, Closing the Circle: Tribal Implementation of the Superfund Program in the Reservation Environment, The Assertion of Natural Resource Damage Claims by Indian Tribal Trustees, ADDRESSES AND PAPER PRESENTATIONSThe Thirty-Year History of EPA?s Policies For Protecting the Environment of Indian Country: Is the Indian Country Environment Cleaner, or Is That the Wrong Question? Avoiding Unreasonable Consequence of Tribal and State Water Quality Standards Administration, Supreme Court Restraints on Tribal Regulatory
Authority Over Non-Indians, Litigation Risks and Alternatives, Legal Strategies for Tribal Environmental Program Development, Understanding Tribal Sovereignty, Judicial Developments in Indian Country Environmental Law, Environmental Justice in Indian Country, presented at Lewis & Clark College of Law as part of a Virtual Environmental Speaker Series with 12 law schools participating via the Internet (including law schools in Israel and China), Portland, OR, 1999. Tribal Sovereignty In A Federalist Environmental System, Trends in Recent Indian Country Environmental Law Cases, State-Tribal Litigation over Water Quality Standards in Indian Country, Update on Judicial Developments, New Developments in Tribal Regulation and Enforcement of Environmental Programs, Tribal and Community Environmental Programs, Tribal Land Use Planning, The Importance of Tribal Courts as Protectors of Individual and Business Rights and the Continuing Deference of Federal Courts toward Tribal Adjudications, Environmental Citizen Suits In Indian Country, Tribe-State Cooperative Agreements for Environmental Program Implementation, Overview of the Pollution Prevention Regulatory Framework for Indian Country, Treating Tribes as States under the Clean Water Act: The Good and the Bad, Environmental Restoration by Indian Tribes, |
