William S. Boyd School of Law University of Nevada, Las Vegas
 




































  Douglas Grant
Cord Foundation Professor of Law
 
Phone: 702 895-2439
Email: doug.grant@unlv.edu
 
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
   
  Education:
B.A., University of Iowa, 1962
J.D., University of Colorado, 1967
   
  Professor Grant earned his J.D. in 1967 from the University of Colorado School Of Law, where he served as editor-in-chief of the University of Colorado Law Review. He proceeded into private law practice with the firm of Davis, Graham, and Stubbs in Denver, Colorado. From 1968 to 1998, Professor Grant was a faculty member at the University of Idaho College Of Law, holding the title of Allan G. Shepard Professor of Law. Among the courses Professor Grant has taught are property, real estate finance, environmental law, natural resources law, and water law. He is the co-author of Water Law: Cases and Materials (West Publishing Company) and a contributing author of Waters and Water Rights (Lexis Law Publishing). Professor Grant has published articles on many aspects of water law. He has served on the Board of Trustees of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation. Professor Grant teaches Property, Real Estate Finance, and Water Law.

   
 
Areas of Expertise: 
Property Law
Water Law
   
  Selected Publications:

BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Water Law: Cases And Materials (7th Ed. 2005) (with George A. Gould & Gregory S. Weber) (5th and 6th Editions with George A. Gould).

Interstate Water Allocation, Part VIII, in Waters and Water Rights (Robert E. Beck ed., Repl. Vol. 2004) (Part VIII, Consisting of Six Chapters, Appears in Volume Four of Seven-Volume Annually Supplemented Treatise.  Prior Editions in 1991 and 1996.)

 

LAW REVIEW AND OTHER ARTICLES

Conjuctive Management of the Hydrologically Connected Surface Water and Ground Water: The Problem of Sustainable Use, 54 Rocky Mt. Min. Inst.__ (forthcoming 2008).

Collaborative Solutions to Colorado River Water Shortages: The Recent Basin States Agreement and Beyond, 8 Nev. L. J.__ (forthcoming 2008).

ESA Reductions in Reclamation Water Contract Deliveries: A Fifth Amendment Taking of Property?, 36 Envtl. L. 1331 (2006 ). Hein Lexis Westlaw

Two Models of Public Interest Review of Water Allocation in the West, 9 U. Denv. Water L. Rev. 485 (2006). Hein Westlaw

Interstate Allocation of Rivers Before the United States Supreme Court: The Apalachacola-Chattahoochee-Flint River System, 21 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 401 (2005). Hein Lexis Westlaw

 

OTHER PUBLICATIONS  

Economic and Legal Considerations for Leasing Cropland in Idaho (Agric. Experiment Station Bull. No. 727, U. of Idaho, 1991) (with Clark F. Seavert and Russell V. Withers).  

Background on Solicitor's Opinion on Federal Water Rights, in Idaho's Water and Energy 2 (Idaho Water & Energy Resources Res. Inst., July 1980).  

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