Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation funds grant for Law professor

The Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation is supporting Professor Michael Blumm’s research on the public trust doctrine with a $5,000 grant that will help fund research assistants.  His students have already compiled a 20-state analysis of the doctrine, and the grant will enable them to expand the number of jurisdictions analyzed.  Blumm has written three articles associated with the project:  “The Public Trust Doctrine: A Twenty-First Century Concept,” available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1468601; The Public Trust Doctrine and Private Property: The Accommodation Principle,” available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1543885; and “The Internationalization of the Public Trust Doctrine: Natural Law and Constitutional and Statutory Approaches to Fulfilling the Saxion Vision,” available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1816628.  Blumm plans a book on the doctrine that will be written with Professor Mary Wood of the University of Oregon.