On 'Fish Water Trout' Podcast, Professor Börk Details History of California Water Rights

Professor and UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences Director Karrigan Börk appeared on the May 29 episode of the Fish Water Trout podcast presented by the conservation nonprofit California Trout.

Börk explained the historical development of water rights, including riparian and appropriative rights, and how the public trust doctrine has evolved to protect ecological interests.

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.