Professor Joseph L. Sax Gives 2001 Foulston & Siefkin Lecture
Professor Joseph L. Sax presented the 2001 Foulston & Siefkin Lecture on April 20, 2001. Titled The New Edge of Environmental Restortation: Here and Now, Professor Sax's paper discusses the use of the Endangered Species Act to protect environmental heritage. The paper will be the lead article in volume 41 of the Washburn Law Journal in Fall 2001.
Professor Joseph L. Sax is the James H. House & Hiram H. Hurd Professor of Environmental Regulation at the Boalt Hall Law School, University of California (Berkeley). The recipient of numerous teaching awards, he currently teaches Biodiversity and the Law, as well as Environment and Culture. Sax has been a visiting professor at Stanford University and the Universities of Utah and Paris, and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He is currently a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and his awards and citations include the Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award from the University of Michigan, the Elizabeth Haub Environmental Prize of the Free University of Brussels, the Audubon Society's Conservationist of the Year Award, the William O. Douglas Legal Achievement Award from the Sierra Club, and the Environmental Quality Award of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Professor Sax earned an A.B. from Harvard University in 1957, and a J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1959. After working for the U.S. Department of Justice and in private practice in Washington, D.C., Joseph Sax began teaching law at the University of Colorado in 1962. In 1966, he moved to the University of Michigan, where he became the Philip A. Hart Distinguished University Professor. He joined the Boalt faculty in 1986.
The author of eight books and over 130 published articles, Sax writes mostly about issues of environmental law, including conservation, water law, animal rights, and public land use. His latest book is Wolves and Human Communities (Washington, D.C. : Island Press, 2001). He is the author of two environmental classics: Defending the Environment (New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1971) and Mountains Without Handrails (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1981). His articles have appeared in such varied journals as The New York Times, Natural History, The Saturday Review, American Heritage, The Yale Review, Esquire, Architectural Forum, and The New Republic.
Sax has served as a consultant or board member of 19 different environmental public service organizations and was awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree by the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Professor Sax with Professor Myrl Duncan (center) and members of the volume 40 Washburn Law Journal Editorial Board.
Each year for the past twenty-three years the Wichita law firm of Foulston & Siefkin has generously sponsored the Foulston & Siefkin Lecture Series. This lecture series brings a prominent legal scholar to Washburn School of Law to challenge and enhance the legal thinking of our students and faculty and the Washburn Law Journal readership. The visiting scholar delivers a lecture and also provides an article for the next volume of the Journal.
Professor Sax also gave the after-dinner address at the Law Journal / Moot Court / Trial Advocacy Banquet on Thursday, April 19, 2001.
