| A Natural Resources
Law Teachers Program was initiated in 1978 to improve law school
education in natural resources. A teachers committee reviews law
school programs and curricula, evaluates teaching materials and
courses, makes recommendations for improvements, and serves as a
forum for the exchange of ideas. Since 1981, the Foundation has
co-sponsored biennial Institutes on Natural Resources Law
Teaching with the Energy & Mineral Law Foundation, The Center
for American and International Law, and the Section on
Environment, Energy and Resources of the American Bar
Association.
The Clyde O. Martz Teaching Awards
were introduced in 1994. The first awards were made to
Professors Williams, Maxwell, and Meyers (dec'd.) for their
book, The Law of Oil and Gas, originally published in
1956 and now in its sixth edition, and for their many subsequent
contributions to scholarship in this area.
The second Clyde O. Martz Teaching
Award was made in 1998 to Professor Ernest E. Smith for his
lifelong dedication and many contributions to natural resources
law teaching and scholarship.
The third Clyde
O. Martz Teaching Awards were made in 2004 to Professor Harrison
(Hap) C. Dunning and Don H. Sherwood (former Adjunct, Denver)
for excellence in teaching.
The fourth and
fifth Clyde O. Martz Teaching Awards were made in 2007 to
Professors Bruce M. Kramer and Robert E. Beck for excellence in
teaching. |
