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LAWRENCE Legal scholar Justin Pidot will explore the law and policy surrounding natural resources law topics when he delivers the Distinguished Public Lands Lecture at the University of Kansas School of Law this spring.
Pidot will present “Protecting Sacred Lands and the Bears Ears National Monument” at 4:30 p.m. March 9 via Zoom. The lecture is free and open to the public. Advance registration is required.
Pidot is a professor of law and the co-director of the environmental law program at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. Pidot has recently been appointed general counsel for the White House Council on Environmental Quality. He will make remarks in his personal capacity as a scholar and not as a representative of the federal government.
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