Mark Squillace (University of Colorado, Boulder) is the Spring Roosevelt Visiting Professor from 20 March to 20 April 2026.
Mark Squillace is the Raphael J. Moses Professor of Natural Resources Law at the University of Colorado Law School in Boulder, Colorado. USA. His teaching, research and writing focus on natural resources, public lands, water resources, and government decisionmaking processes.
Professor Squillace is the author or co-author of several books, including Environmental Decisionmaking for the 21st Century, and most recently Natural Resources Law and Policy, a textbook just released in its 4th edition. His numerous articles encompass a wide range of topics including public lands conservation, water resources law and policy, mining and mineral law, and renewable energy.
Professor Squillace is a two-time Fulbright Scholar, having served most recently in Nepal at the Kathmandu University School of Law where he lectured and worked with the faculty and staff to improve their Ll.M. (Masters) program in energy law. He is the author or co-author of several amicus briefs filed on behalf of various non-governmental organizations and represented an elderly fisherman to secure his right to fly fish from the bed of a major river in Colorado. Earlier in his career, he served as a lawyer at the U.S. Department of the Interior, worked with the Commercial Law Development Program at the U.S. Department of Commerce to train mining professionals and government officials on best mining practices, and was one of six members of the expert panel that developed the Global Tailing Standard in response to several disasters that resulted from catastrophic mine tailings dam failures.
While at RIAS, Professor Squillace will be working on several projects including – (1) a paper that promotes policies for the recycling and reuse of batteries and other devices that contain critical minerals; (2) a paper that describes strategies for addressing water scarcity in arid regions; and (3) a book tentatively titled Governing in the Public Interest, which focuses on his longstanding concern that governments are dismissive of their duty to act in the public interest.
