Amy Kelley

Amy Kelley Professor of Law akelley@lawschool.gonzaga.edu (509) 313-3720 B.A., College of St. Catherine, 1973 J.D., University of South Dakota School of Law, 1977 Editor-in-chief, South Dakota Law Review Phi Beta Kappa

Biographical Information

Former law clerk for U.S. District Court, Sioux Falls, and in private practice in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Taught as visiting professor at University of Texas, University of San Diego, and University of San Francisco schools of law. Former Treasurer, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, and chair, AALS Sections of Environmental Law and Natural Resources Law. Editor-in-Chief and contributing author to leading treatise on water law, Waters and Water Rights (Lexis/Nexis).

Teaching Areas

• Water Law
• Public Lands
• Constitutional Law
• Criminal Procedure
• Comparative Constitutional Law
• State Constitutional Law

Publications

Treatise

• Amy K. Kelley, Ed., IV Waters and Water Rights, (Lexis/Nexis 3rd ed. 2009) (Updated Annually): Constitutional Foundations of Federal Water Law, Chapter 35
• Federal-State Relations in Water, Chapter 36
• Acquisition of Property for Federal Water Projects, Chapter 38
• Planning, Authorization and Operation of Federal Water Projects, Chapter 39
• Federal Reclamation Law, Chapter 41
• Immunities of the United States, Chapter 42
• Water Law Newsletter, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation (Ed.-in-Chief and Washington Reporter)

Presentations

• Emerging Issues in Constitutional Law - State and Federal, Appellate Judges' Conference, Lake Chelan, WA, 2010
• Developments in Federal and State Constitutional Criminal Procedures, Appellate Judges' Conference, Seattle, WA 2011

Participation

• Law school representative on the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Scholarship committee

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