James Rasband

Jim Rasband is Dean and Hugh W. Colton Professor of Law at Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School.  He received his B.A. from Brigham Young University in 1986 and his J.D. in 1989 from Harvard Law School.  He joined the BYU law school faculty in 1995.  Before becoming dean, he served as Associate Academic Vice President for Faculty at the University.

Prior to entering law teaching, Dean Rasband served as a law clerk to Judge J. Clifford Wallace of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and practiced law in Seattle, Washington where his practice focused on Indian treaty litigation and endangered species act issues.  He has taught courses in public lands and natural resources law, water law, torts, and international environmental law.  He has also published a number of articles and book chapters on a variety of natural resource topics, with a particular focus on the public trust doctrine, the Antiquities Act, and wilderness issues.  He is a co-author, along with James Salzman at Duke and Mark Squillace at Colorado, of Natural Resources Law and Policy, a casebook published by Foundation Press.

Dean Rasband is married to Mary Williams Rasband and has four children