George A. Gould
Professor of Law
B.A., J.D., University of Wyoming
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Tel: 916.739.7013
Professor Gould is a noted expert on water law. He was in private practice in Denver before beginning his academic career at the University of Wyoming Law School. He was the associate dean from 1975 to 1982 before coming to Pacific McGeorge. Professor Gould co-authored Cases and Materials on Water Law, a casebook which is used at many law schools throughout the country. He also wrote State Water Law in The West: Implications for Energy Development. Professor Gould is a frequent speaker at public policy conferences on Water Law and Public Lands. He is a past president of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation and the editor of that group’s water law newsletter.
Courses: Land Finance | Property | Water Law
Recent Publications: Water Law, Cases and Materials 7th Ed. (with Douglas L. Grant & Gregory Weber), West Publishing Company (2005).
Curriculum Vitae:
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1983 to present
Professor of Law
McGeorge School of Law
University of the Pacific
1974 to 1983
University of Wyoming College of Law
Professor, 1983; Associate Professor, 1978-1983; Assistant Professor, 1974-1978; Associate Dean, 1975- 1982
1973-1974
Associate
Keller, Bloomenthal, McSwain, & Wing
Denver, Colorado
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
Wyoming State Bar
Admitted 1973 (currently on inactive status)
Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation
President, 1985-86; Trustee, numerous other positions, 1977-present
American Bar Association
PRIMARY TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES:
Water Law
Public Land Law
Mining Law
Real Estate Financing
Property
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Water Law, Cases and Materials 6th Ed. (with Douglas L. Grant), West Publishing Company (2000).
Water Law, Cases and Materials 5th Ed. (with Douglas L. Grant), West Publishing Company (1995).
Supplement, Water Law Cases and Materials, 4th Edition, West Publishing Company (1993).
Water Law, Cases and Materials 4th Ed. (with Frank J. Trelease), West Publishing Company (1986).
State Water Law in the West: Implications for Energy Development, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (1979).
Journal Articles:
"A Westerner Looks at Eastern Water Law: Reconsideration of Prior Appropriation in the West," 25 U.Ark. Little Rock L.Rev. 89 (2002).
Recent Developments in the Transfer of Water Rights, Water Law: Trends, Policies, and Practices; American Bar Association, Section of Natural Resources, Energy, and Environmental Law (1995).
Agriculture, Nonpoint Source Pollution, and Federal Law, 23 U.C. Davis Law Review 461 (1990).
The Public Trust Doctrine and Water Rights, 34 Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute 25-1 (1989).
Transfer of Water Rights, 29 Natural Resources Journal 457 (1989).
Water Rights Transfers and Third Party Effects, 23 Land and Water Law Review 1 (1988).
Forward to Symposium on California Water Law, 19 Pacific Law Journal, xii (1988).
Conversion of Agricultural Water Rights to Industrial Use, 27 Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute 1971 (1981).
Access to Public Lands Across Intervening Private Lands, 8 Land and Water Law Review 149 (1973).
Chapters:
Water Rights Systems, Chapter in Water Rights of the Eastern United States, American Water Works Association (1998).
Water Rights Systems, Chapter in Water Rights of the Fifty States and Territories, American Water Works Association (1990).
Water Law in 1986: Selected Issues, Water Resources Law, Proceedings of the National Symposium on Water Resources Law, American Society of Agricultural Engineers (1986).
Regulation of Point Source Pollution Under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, Chapter in Water Quality Administration, Lamb, Editor (1980).
Editorial Positions:
Editor, Water Law, Published by the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Newsletter Foundation, (1974 to present).
Editor, California Water Law & Policy Reporter, Published by Shepard's/McGraw Hill (1990 to 1991).
Other Publications:
The Public Trust Doctrine, Opportunities to Protect Instream Flows in Montana, Biological Report 86(4), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (1986); Opportunities to Protect Instream Flows in Colorado and Wyoming, Biological Report 87(10), US Fish and Wildlife Service (1987); Opportunities to Protect Instream Flows in California Biological Report 89(10), US Fish and Wildlife Service (1989).
Contributor, Constraints on Acquiring Water for Energy Development, John Muir Institute (1981).
Wyoming Water Rights -- A Primer, Volume 3, No. 3, Wyoming Issues, University of Wyoming, Institute for Policy Research (1980).
Preserving Instream Flows Under the Appropriation Doctrine--Problems and Possibilities, Promising Strategies for Reserving Instream Flows, US Fish and Wildlife Service (1977).
CONFERENCES, COURSES, AND PROGRAMS:
Speeches and Conference Presentations:
Colorado River Issues
Natural Resources Subsection, Environmental Law Section, California State Bar, October 12, 1999
Federal Control of Western Water
17th Annual Educational Conference, American Agricultural Law Association, Seattle, Washington, October 3-5, 1996
Legal Update on Water Law
42nd Annual Institute, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 18-20, 1996
Water for the Delta
California Bar Association, Natural Resources Subsection, Sacramento, California, April, 1996
Reallocation of Water to the Environment: The Case for Priority
1996 Annual Water Law Conference, American Bar Association, San Diego, California, February 8-9, 1996
Questioning Free Market Environmentalism
Federalist Society and Environmental Law Forum, Sacramento, California, October, 1995
Historical Overview of California's Water Rights System
Conference on California Water Law, CLE International, San Francisco, California, April 14-15, 1994
California Water Law
Commercial Lenders Advisory Group, Sacramento, California, December 7, 1993
California Water Rights
California Water Law Conference, CLE International, San Diego, California, September 23-24, 1993
California Water Law
Conference on Water Law, CLE International, San Francisco, California, March 18-19, 1993
Legal Structure of California Water Rights
California Water Law Conference, CLE International, Los Angeles, California, September 5-6, 1991
The American Law Review
University of Wyoming, College of Law, March 24, 1990
Recent Developments in Transfers Water Rights: Increasing Economic Efficiency
1990 Annual Water Law Conference, American Bar of Association, Palm Springs, California, January 18-19, 1990
Nonpoint Source Pollution
American Agricultural Law Association, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, November 3-4, 1989
Current Trends in Western Water
Nevada Water Law Conference, Nevada State Bar, Law Reno, Nevada, September 15, 1989
The Public Trust Doctrine and Takings
The Public Trust and Waters of the American West: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Northwestern School of Law, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon, November 18-19, 1988
The Public Trust Doctrine: Practical Implications
34th Annual Institute, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Seattle, Washington, July 21-23, 1988
Water Rights of the United States Water Rights Transfers
American Water Works Association, Annual Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, June 14-18, 1987 New Challenges to Western Water Law, American Bar Association, Tucson, Arizona, May 14-15, 1987
Water Rights Transfers and Third Party Effects
Western Water Rights Symposium, University of Wyoming College of Law, Jackson, Wyoming, February 27-29, 1987
Water Law in 1986: Trends and Developments (Keynote Speech)
National Symposium on Water Resources, American Society of Agricultural Engineers, Chicago, Illinois, December 15-16, 1986
Water Use and The Prior Appropriation Doctrine
Western Water: Expanding Uses/Finite Supplies, University of Colorado College of Law, June 2-4, 1986
New Water Projects in Overappropriated Basins
Water Law Conference, University of Texas School of Law, October 3-4, 1985
Water Law and Federal-State
New Sources of Water for Energy and Growth, Relations University of Colorado College of Law, June 8, 1983
Valuation of Water Rights
Wyoming Association of Appraisers, Casper, Wyoming, April 25, 1982
Conversion of Agricultural Water Rights to Industrial Use
27th Annual Institute, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, San Diego, California, July 16-18, 1981
Installment Land Contracts
Wyoming Banking Association, Casper, Wyoming, June, 1979
Lectures:
Water Rights of the United States
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, January 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 (2-3 day courses)
Water Law Short Course
US Fish & Wildlife Service: 17 courses between 1977-90, various locations throughout United States
Water Law Short Course
US Park Service, 1985, 1989, and 1990, Fort Collins, Colorado
Mining Law Short Course
Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Laramie, Wyoming, June 14-26, 1982
Wyoming Water Law
Wyoming Legislature: 1980, 1981, 1982
Water Management Seminar
Dahl-Lamb Associates, Denver, Colorado, 1980; San Francisco, California, 1980; Palm Springs, California, 1981
Groundwater Law
US Bureau of Land Management, 1979, 1980, 1981, Denver, Colorado Wyoming Water Law University of Wyoming College of Law, June 2l-23, 1979
Panels:
Panel Moderator, Colorado River Issues
Environmental Law Section, California State Bar, Yosemite, California, October 16-19, 1998
Inyo County/Los Angeles Groundwater Cases
Natural Resources Subsection, Environmental Law Section, California State Bar, Sacramento, CA, February 24, 1998
Panel Moderator, Interstate Water Management--New Trends in Water Policy
Interstate Council on Water Policy, 1997 Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, September 19, 1997
San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta Symposium
Hastings College of Law, San Francisco, California, March, 1994
Riparian Rights
Property Rights Symposium, Spokane Chamber of Commerce, Spokane, Washington, January 31- February 1, 1991
Short Course on the Federal and State Endangered Species Acts
State Bar of California, Sacramento, California, October 26, 1990
Federalism and Natural Resources Development
Western Association of Law Schools, Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 16, 1979
Teaching Public Land Law
Conference on Teaching Natural Resources Law, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Denver, Colorado, February, 1979
Panelist, Protecting Instream Flows Under Western Water Law
American Fisheries Society, Tucson, Arizona, 1977
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation
President, 1985-86; Vice-President, 1985-85; Secretary, 1982-83; Executive Committee, 1978-83, 1985-1988; Trustee, 1977-present; Numerous Committees, 1977- present
Editorial Advisory Board, Rivers (interdisciplinary periodical)
1988-present
Expert Testimony, Deeds and Federal Mining Law
Lancaster v. United States et al, United States District Court, Las Vegas, Nevada, March, 1993
Editorial Advisory Board, Water & Water Rights, multi-volume treatise published by Michie Company)
1988-1991
Legislative Testimony
California Legislature, Assembly, Committee on Water, Parks and Wildlife, November, 21, 1988
Program Chairman, Water Section, 29th Annual Institute
Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Vancouver, B.C., July 21-23, 1983
Institute Chairman, Institute For Natural Resources Law Teachers
Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation and Eastern Mineral Law Foundation, Boulder, Colorado, May 25-27, 1983
Director, Mining Law Short Course
Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Laramie, Wyoming, June 14-26, 1982
Legislative Testimony
Wyoming Legislature, January, 1981
