Writing
Book Review: Instream and Onshore, Two Authors Dive Into Water Law, Policy and History
31 Environmental Law News 2 (Fall/Winter 2022). Book review of Paul Stanton Kibel’s Riverflow: The Right to Keep Water Instream and Elizabeth Rose Middleton-Manning’s Upstream: Trust Lands and Power on the Feather River.
Crimea’s Water Woes as an Impetus for Russian Aggression and Comparisons to California’s Embattled Water Management System During Drought
Co-authored with Mo Roeckl-Navazio, CLA Perspectives (Forthcoming, Summer 2022)
Implementing GSPs and CEQA Review: Planning Today for Streamlined Groundwater Sustainability
30 Environmental Law News 1 (Spring 2021)
Environmental Law News is the publication of the California Lawyers Association, Environmental Law Section. This article: (1) provides an overview of SGMA’s and CEQA’s goals and frameworks; (2) discusses CEQA provisions for tiering, streamlining and preparing program EIRs, and how these methods can provide an opportunity for GSAs to complete CEQA review in a timely and cost-effective manner; (3) examines a case study from one GSA putting advance CEQA planning into practice; and (4) provides practical suggestions to GSAs to incorporate CEQA review into the GSP planning process.
Paved With Good Intentions: Title IX Campus Sexual Assault Proceedings and the Creation of Admissible Victim Statements
46 Golden Gate U. L. Rev. 117
How is it that survivors of sexual assault on college campuses can be questioned about a felonious sex crime in the context of an extrajudicial campus disciplinary proceeding, and for those statements not to have implications for future criminal action? Couldn’t those statements be used against the complaining witness for the purpose of impeachment? My Comment addressed those questions, explored the complex social and legal web of Title IX campus sexual assault proceedings and posited solutions for improvements in the process.
Events
California Lawyer’s Association, Environmental Law Section Book Club (2022)
Coordinated this bimonthly event, which is free and open to the public. We read two books related to the environment, land use and natural resources, usually with a legal spin (but accessible for broad audiences.)
Moderator: Judicial Accountability: A Better Judiciary Makes a Better Society
California Lawyers Association, April 20, 2023. Speaker: Aliza Shatzman
Event Coordinator & Moderator: Administrative Law Judges on the Environmental Administrative Hearing Process
Sacramento County Bar Association, June 1, 2022. Panelists: Hon. Alan Lilly, Hon. Pat Tsen and Hon. Danette (Dee) Brown
Event Coordinator & Moderator: Indigenous Rights & the Public Trust
California Lawyer’s Association, Environmental Law Section, May 18, 2022. Panliests: Elizabeth (Beth) Rose Middleton Manning and David Sandino
Event Coordinator: Natl. Audubon Society & Mono Lake Com. v. Superior Court : Behind the Case
California Lawyer’s Association, Environmental Law Section, May 5, 2022. Panelists: Andy Sawyer (moderator), Martha Davis, Harrison Dunning and Stuart Somach.
Event Coordinator: Environmental Law Miscellany, The American Chestnut Foundation
California Lawyer’s Association, Environmental Law Section, March 24, 2022
Event Coordinator & Moderator: How to Get Hired as a Lawyer, a Conversation with Brian Potts
California Lawyer’s Association, Environmental Law Section & New Lawyer’s Section, February 23, 2022. Panelists: Marisa Choy (co-moderator) and Brian Potts.
Event Coordinator & Moderator: Conservation Easements to Create Access to Native American Cultural and Ceremonial Gathering Sites
Sacramento County Bar Association, February 18, 2021. Panelists: Ellen Fred and Robert Benson (Tsnungwe Council)
Event Coordinator: Riverflow and Instream Rights, Professor Paul Kibel in Conversation with Professor Karrigan Bork, Moderated by Austin Cho
Sacramento County Bar Association, May 5, 2021. Panelists: Karrigan Bork, Paul Kibel and Austin Cho (moderator)
Event Coordinator & Moderator: Health & Stress Management in the Time of Covid-19 & Beyond
Sacramento County Bar Association, August 20, 2020. Speaker: Gabrielle O’Neill
Event Coordinator & Moderator: Changing Tides, State & Federal Wetlands Permitting
Sacramento County Bar Association, May 6, 2020. Panelists: Clark Morrison and Scott Birkey
Event Coordinator: AB 619 and AB 1000: Implications for the CEQA Entitlement Process
Sacramento County Bar Association, May 1, 2019. Speaker: Martin Stratte.
Event Coordinator & Panel Host, Domestic Violence In Your Neighborhood - Warning Signs, When & How to Help
South Land Park Neighborhood Association, February 12, 2017.
Moderator: Curtains of Death: The Pacific Coast Drift Gillnet Fishery, Issues & Options.
California Animal Law Symposium, March 18, 2017.
Event Coordinator & Moderator: The Illegal Trade in Bear Bile: Federal Law & Legislative Initiatives to Stop the Practice
Golden Gate University School of Law, Student Animal Legal Defense Fund, March 27, 2012.
Event Coordinator & Moderator: The Struggle for Freedom in Cuba's Libraries: An Evening with Robert Kent
Special Libraries Association, SF chapter, October 20, 2011.
Speaker: Careers in Special Libraries: Law Librarianship
San Jose State University, June 30, 2008
Speaker: Blogging: What Employment Lawyers Need to Know
MCLE accredited presentation, Severson & Werson, PC; June 9, 2006.
Speaker: Legal Research on the Web: Using In-house, Public and Fee-based Resources
MCLE accredited presentation, Severson & Werson, P.C., June 19, 2003.