Professor Börk Speaks at University of Utah

On March 20, Professor Karrigan Börk spoke on the panel “The Dust Bowl?: Air Pollution, Great Salt Lake, and Utah’s Critical Challenge” at the Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment’s 30th symposium, “Breathing Easier: Air Pollution Challenges and Solutions.”

The Stegner Center is part of the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law.

Professor Börk teaches and researches in the areas of environmental law, natural resources, and administrative law. He graduated with distinction and pro bono distinction from Stanford Law School in 2009 and completed his Ph.D. in Ecology at UC Davis in September 2011. He received the Shapiro Family Award in 2011 as the outstanding Ph.D. graduate in ecology at UC Davis. He clerked for Tenth Circuit Chief Judge Mary Beck Briscoe, U.S. District Court Judge Julie Robinson, and U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Kansas Judge Janice Karlin.