Author Description
Barb Cosens is an Associate Professor at the University of Idaho, College of Law and Waters of the West Graduate Program. Barb teaches water law and law and science at the University of Idaho. She is a member of the Universities Consortium on Columbia River Governance and formerly an Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Program at San Francisco State University. Professor Cosens was a mediator for the Walker River dispute and previously was legal counsel for the Montana Reserved Water Rights Compact Commission. She acted as lead counsel on negotiations to settle the reserved water rights of the Fort Belknap Reservation, the Chippewa Cree of the Rocky Boy’s Reservation, the National Park Service, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service, in Montana. She earned an LL.M. from Northwestern School of Law, Lewis and Clark College, a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College
Authored Reports
New Era of Interbasin Water Transfers,New Era of Interbasin Water Transfers: Part II,The Future of the Columbia River Treaty,Columbia River Treaty Options: Protocols for Transboundary Adaptive Management Examined - Edited/Condensed from Monk School of Glo
