Protecting Alaska’s National Public Lands: An Exploration of Contemporary Issues

UC Law SF Distinguished Professor Emeritus John Leshy prepared this curriculum (a syllabus, instructional materials, and an introductory note) intending to spark interest in the academic community on various important legal and policy questions raised by the federal government’s treatment of lands it owns in Alaska. Approximately 25,000 words, it provides a general overview aimed at a non-Alaska audience and is readily adaptable for use as a segment of a semester or full-year course.    

The primary academic target is law and graduate school professors and students studying natural resource, public land, environmental, and Native American law and policy, and it can be adapted for use by others.