America’s Public Lands: What Will Donald Trump’s Legacy Likely Be?

Each semester the Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law at the Center for Environmental Energy and Land Use Law brings the nation's foremost scholars in Land Use & Environmental Law to FSU College of Law. The lecturer's paper appears in the proceeding issue of the Journal. 

The series is made possible by contributions to the Journal particularly the continuing support of the Environmental & Land Use Law Section of The Florida Bar.

John Leshy Emeritus Harry D. Sunderland and Distinguished Professor of Real Property Law at UC Law San Francisco is the featured speaker. Drawing on his comprehensive public lands history Our Common Ground published in 2022 his extensive experience in public land policy and administration and relevant events in the first Trump Administration Professor Leshy will sketch out possible answers to the question posed in the lecture title and offer some preliminary predictions.

Professor John Leshy came to UC Law SF in the fall of 2001 after serving as Solicitor (General Counsel) of the U.S. Department of the Interior throughout the Clinton Administration. Previously he taught at Arizona State University College of Law and served in the Interior Department in the Carter Administration as special counsel to the Chair of the Committee on Natural Resources U.S. House of Representatives and with the Natural Resources Defense Council in California. He started his legal career as a litigator with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.

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