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Professor Davidson remains active in scholarship, speaking
and public service. In February he spoke at the
annual meeting of the National Association of Environmental
Law Societies at the Washington University School of
Law. In March 2002 he spoke at Principia College’s
annual Public Affairs Conference, which this year focused
on international issues of water shortage.
In June 1992 at the United Nations Conference on Environment
and Development [UNCED] in Rio de Janeiro, the nations
of the world formally endorsed the concept of sustainable
development. In August 2002 at the World Summit
on Sustainable Development, the nations will gather
in Johannesburg to review progress since UNCED and to
identify next steps. In preparation for that meeting
the Environmental Law Institute of Washington, D.C.,
will publish a book that assesses progress that the
United States has made on sustainable development.
Davidson is author of the chapter titled “Sustainable
Development and Agriculture in the United States,”
which also appeared in the May issue of the Environmental
Law Reporter.
His interest in protection of the wetlands resource
is reflected in an extended research article due to
appear in the summer issue of the Washington University
Journal of Law & Policy, and an article on Swampbuster,
co-authored by Phil Chandler, which also appeared in
Environmental Law Reporter. In addition, he and
his colleague Tom Geu had an article in the June 2002
issue of Nebraska Law Review titled “The
Missouri River and Adaptive Management: Protecting Ecological
Function and Legal Process.”
Davidson continues to donate substantial time to pro
bono representation of groups and individuals interested
in protecting the environment and natural resources.
He also volunteers his time to the Northern Prairies
Land Trust, which assists private landowners who seek
to protect the conservation values of their land.
During the next year he plans to dedicate his research
to a complete re-write of three of his chapters in the
treatise Waters and Water Rights. Dealing with
special water districts and municipal water systems,
this research will complement his re-introduction into
the Law School curriculum of a course in local government
law.
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