CEES ADVISORY BOARD
William Boyd, Associate Professor of Law,
University of Colorado Law School
William Boyd joined the University of Colorado Law School faculty in 2008. Professor Boyd received his Ph.D. from the Energy & Resources Group at UC-Berkeley and his J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he was an Articles Editor on the Stanford Law Review. After law school, Professor Boyd clerked for Judge Diana Gribbon Motz of the United State Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Professor Boyd then served as American Association for the Advancement of Science Congressional Science Fellow and Counsel on the Democratic minority staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works. He then practiced with the firm of Covington & Burling LLP in Washington DC, focusing on energy law and regulation, environmental law, and climate change law and policy.
Larisa Dobriansky, Director, Global Energy Network
Larisa Dobriansky is the Director of the Global Energy Network and Senior Advisor to numerous governments, energy companies, utilities, non-governmental organizations, and others. She advises and counsels on energy and environmental matters and participates in domestic and international development projects relating to climate change, sustainable buildings and communities, and clean energy technology commercialization. Prior to joining the Global Energy Network, Ms. Dobriansky served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for National Energy Policy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Ms. Dobriansky was also senior counsel in the Washington office of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P., focusing on environmental and energy policy issues. She joined the firm after serving in senior legal and public policy positions in the executive and legislative branches of the Federal Government, including senior counsel to the Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources and Regulatory Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, and deputy assistant general counsel in the Office of General Counsel, U.S. Department of Energy. Ms. Dobriansky received her B.S.F.S. cum laude in international relations, J.D. and L.L.M. in securities regulation and taxation from Georgetown University.
David Getches, Dean and Raphael J. Moses Professor of Natural Resources Law, University of Colorado Law School
David Getches was appointed Dean of the University of Colorado Law School in July 2003. In his more than two decades at the law school, Professor Getches has become a national authority on natural resources and Indian law issues. His academic interests were prompted by his experience; prior to joining the faculty of CU Law School in 1979, he was the founding Executive Director of the Boulder-based Native American Rights Fund and spent several years in private practice. Professor Getches has had a prolific academic career. He has written casebooks, as well as books intended for a more general audience, and has published numerous articles and book chapters, including some written in Spanish and French. He has taken two leaves from the University of Colorado, first to serve as the executive director of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources from 1983 to 1987, and then to serve as a special consultant to the Secretary of the Interior in 1996. His current research focuses on a variety of topics, including the United States Supreme Court's Indian law decision-making, changing patterns of governance in water law, the law of the Colorado River, and indigenous and water law issues in Latin America.
Lakshman Guruswamy, CEES Director & Nicholas Doman Professor of International Law, University of Colorado Law School
Lakshman Guruswamy is the Director of the Center for Energy & Environmental Security (CEES) and the Nicholas Doman Professor of International Environmental Law at CU Law. He was born in Sri Lanka and is one of the world’s recognized experts in International Environmental Law. He teaches International Law, International Environmental Law, and U.S. Environmental Law at CU, and is widely published in these subjects in legal and scientific journals. Prior to joining the University of Colorado in 2001, he taught in Sri Lanka, the UK, and the Universities of Iowa and Arizona. Guruswamy is a frequent speaker at scholarly meetings around the country and the world and was among 20 distinguished international law scholars (and 3 Americans) specially chosen by the International Court of Justice to speak at the symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of the ICJ or the World Court. He is the author of several books on international environmental law and has organized numerous interdisciplinary symposia including “The Cartography of Governance: Exploring the Province of Environmental NGO’s” (2001).
Jim Martin, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
James B. Martin is the Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Mr. Martin is responsible for broad-based health and environmental protection programs, including: bioterrorism; disease prevention control and epidemiology; health statistics and vital records; maternal, child, adolescent, and women’s health; suicide and injury prevention; emergency medical services; and the prevention and intervention services for children and youth. The department’s environmental responsibilities span a full array of activities, including air and water quality protection and improvement; hazardous waste; solid waste management; radiation services; pollution prevention; consumer protection; and environmental leadership. Prior to joining the department in 2007, Mr. Martin was the executive director of Western Resource Advocates, a Boulder-based environmental law and policy organization and served as the director of the Natural Resources Law Center at the University of Colorado School of Law. He also was senior attorney and director of the energy program for Environmental Defense, and from 1986 to 1992 he worked for former U.S. Representative and Senator Tim Wirth, including four years as state director and counsel. Mr. Martin also served on the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission from February 21, 2003 to January 12, 2007.
Beth Osnes, Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder
Beth Osnes, Ph.D., is a theatre professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Malaysia where she conducted research on traditional shadow puppet theatre, the Wayang Kulit, and is currently finishing up a book on this subject for the National University of Singapore Press. Professor Osnes is author of Acting: An International Encyclopedia (ABC-Clio) and Twice Alive: A Spiritual Guide to Mothering (Woven Word Press) as well as many articles on theatre, mothering, and activism. She is a co-founder of Mothers Acting Up (http://www.mothersactingup.org), an international movement to inspire and mobilize mothers to advocate on behalf of the world’s children. In partnership with the Philanthropiece Foundation, Beth is currently touring her (M)other Tour, which consists of an original one-woman performance and workshop for vocal empowerment, to locations across North America and parts of Southeast Asia and Latin America. Her Theatre for Development and Social Justice work includes piloting a methodology for giving voice to poor women in relation to energy justice, with projects in Panama and Guatemala that use interactive theatre to include poor women in the conversation about how sustainable energy technology, namely fuel-efficient cook stoves, is implemented in their lives. Professor Osnes holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Theatre, and a B.A. from Marquette University, Theology.
