Professor Dunning Honored with Mono Lake Committee's Defender of the Trust Award

Professor Harrison "Hap" Dunning will receive the Mono Lake Committee's 2014 Defender of the Trust award at the Committee's awards dinner in Lee Vining, California on September 27.

Dunning helped to found the environmental law program at UC Davis School of Law and is one of California's most respected environmental law scholars. In 1980, he organized a Law School symposium on the public trust doctrine, and several articles that were subsequently published in the UC Davis Law Review were cited by the California Supreme Court in National Audubon Society v. Superior Court, the precedent-setting 1983 decision that preserved Mono Lake.