Research Interests & Background
Professor Robison鈥檚 research primarily revolves around water, public lands, and Native peoples in the American West, with a particular emphasis on the complex body of laws and policies governing transboundary relations over the Colorado River system鈥�i.e., the Law of the River. He is the editor of , a multi-disciplinary volume published by University of Arizona Press for the historic compact鈥檚 2022 centennial, and the lead editor of , a multi-disciplinary volume published by University of California Press examining water, public lands, and Native Americans in the basin upon the 1869 Powell Expedition鈥檚 sesquicentennial. Professor Robison also authors the long-running treatise . Beyond serving on the Colorado River Research Group, Professor Robison is a proud member of the Water & Tribes Initiative leadership team.
Selected Colorado River Publications & Presentations
Publications
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Jason Anthony Robison ed.,听Cornerstone at the Confluence: Navigating the Colorado River Compact鈥檚 Next Century听(Univ. of Arizona Press, forthcoming 2022) (UA Press听)
Jason A. Robison & John C. Schmidt,听The Colorado River Compact: A Centennial Perspective, 68听Rocky Mtn. Min. L. Fdn.听8-1 (2022)
Jason Anthony Robison,听Confluence: The Colorado River Compact鈥檚 Centennial, 21 Wyo. L. Rev. 1 (2022) ()
Jason Anthony Robison,听Walking, in A River Out of Time, Thomas Minckley et al. eds. (2021)
Jason Robison, Matthew McKinney & Daryl Vigil,听Community in the Colorado River Basin, 57 Idaho L. Rev. 1 (2021) ()
Jason Robison, Daniel McCool & Thomas Minckley eds., Vision & Place: John Wesley Powell & Reimagining the Colorado River Basin (Univ. of California Press, 2020)听
Jason Robison, Barbara Cosens, Sue Jackson, Kelsey Leonard & Daniel McCool, Indigenous Water Justice, 22 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 841 (2018)听
Erum Sattar, Jason Robison & Daniel McCool, Evolution of Water Institutions in the Indus River Basin: Reflections from the Law of the Colorado River, 51 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 715 (2018)听
Jason Anthony Robison, The Colorado River Revisited, 88 U. Colo. L. Rev. 475 (2017)听
Jason Anthony Robison, Climate Change & Allocation Institutions in the Colorado River Basin, in Western Water Policy and Planning in a Variable and Changing Climate 289 (2016)听
Jason A. Robison, Colorado River Water in Southern California: Evolution of the Allocation Framework, 1922-2015, 27 W. Legal. Hist. 139 (2015)听
Jason Robison, Katja Bratrschovsky, Jaime Latcham, Eliza Morris, Vanessa Palmer & Arturo Villanueva, Challenge and Response in the Colorado River Basin, 16 Water Pol鈥檡 12 (2014)听
Jason A. Robison & Lawrence J. MacDonnell, Arizona v. California & the Colorado River Compact: Fifty Years Ago, Fifty Years Ahead, 3 Ariz. J. Envtl. L. & Pol鈥檡 130 (2014)听
Jason A. Robison & Douglas S. Kenney, Equity & the Colorado River Compact, 42 Envtl. L. 1157 (2012)听
Presentations
鈥淚n the Courts of the Conqueror: Arizona v. Navajo Nation.鈥� Plenary address at Universities Council on Water Resources/National Institute of Water Resources 2023 Annual Conference, Fort Collins, Colorado; June 13, 2023.
鈥淐ornerstone at the Confluence: Navigating the Colorado River Compact鈥檚 Next Century.鈥� Presentation at Special Session on Management in the Colorado River Basin, Universities Council on Water Resources/National Institutes for Water Resources 2023 Annual Conference, Fort Collins, Colorado; June 13, 2023.
鈥淐ornerstone at the Confluence: Navigating the Colorado River Compact鈥檚 Next Century.鈥� Presentation at Water & Tribes Initiative Luncheon, Colorado River Water Users Association Annual Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada; Dec. 14, 2022.
鈥淐limate Change & Colorado River Governance.鈥� Panelist at University of Arizona AIRES/CCASS Symposium, Confluence: The Colorado River at the Compact鈥檚 Centennial, Tucson, Arizona; Dec. 6, 2022.
鈥淔谤辞尘 Winters to the 2026 Guidelines: Tribal Water Rights in the Colorado River Basin.鈥� Presentation at Dividing the Waters 2022 General Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Dec. 1, 2022.
鈥淭he Centennial Crises of the Colorado River Basin.鈥� Presentation at 68th Annual Natural Resources and Energy Law Institute, Vail, Colorado; July 21, 2022.
鈥淐onfluence at the Compact鈥檚 Centennial.鈥� Opening Address at Water & Tribes Initiative and Stegner Center听The Colorado River Compact: Navigating the Future听Symposium, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, Salt Lake City, Utah; March 17, 2022.听
鈥淐onfluence: The Colorado River Compact's Centennial.鈥� Presentation at University of Wyoming College of Law 2021 Trelease Dinner, Laramie, Wyoming; Oct. 15, 2021.
鈥淰ision & Place: John Wesley Powell & Reimagining the Colorado River Basin.鈥� Moderator at Wallace Stegner Center Green Bag, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, Salt Lake City, Utah; Feb. 18, 2021.
鈥淭oward a Colorado River Community: Past, Present, Future.鈥� Moderator at Colorado River Days Flagstaff 2020, Flagstaff, Arizona; Sept. 10, 2020.
鈥淚magining Place鈥擩ohn Wesley Powell & the Colorado River Basin: Reflections upon the 1869 Colorado River Exploring Expedition鈥檚 Sesquicentennial.鈥� Moderator at Western History Association 2019 Annual Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada; Oct. 18, 2019.
鈥淛ohn Wesley Powell and Reimagining the Colorado River Basin: Sesquicentennial Perspectives.鈥� Moderator of Native Americans Panels I & II, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona; Sept. 10, 2019.
鈥淧ast, Present, and Future of the Colorado River.鈥� Presentation at Sesquicentennial Colorado River Exploring Expedition Symposium, Glen Canyon Conservancy, Page, Arizona; July 11, 2019.
鈥淧owell鈥檚 鈥楪rand Canyon鈥�: A Centennial Perspective.鈥� Presentation at Sesquicentennial Colorado River Exploring Expedition Launch, Green River, Wyoming; May 23, 2019.
鈥淲ater in the West.鈥� Panel Participant on Collaboration and Equity in the Colorado River Basin in a Future of Drought Panel, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming; Nov. 12, 2018.
鈥�2018 Tribal Water Summit.鈥� Panel Participant on The Role of Tribes in the Colorado River Basin Panel, WestWater Research, Gila River Indian Community, Arizona; Oct. 25-26, 2018.
鈥淐olorado River Workshop: Building a Science Agenda.鈥� Panel Participant on Cultural, Institutional, and Legal Issues Panel, University of Arizona Institute of the Environment, Tucson, Arizona; Oct. 10-12, 2017.
鈥淚ndigenous Water Justice in the Colorado, Columbia & Murray-Darling Basins.鈥� Presentation at Waterkeeper Alliance 2017 Annual Conference, Park City, Utah; June 9, 2017.
鈥淚ndigenous Water Justice.鈥� Presentation at Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation鈥檚 Eighteenth Institute for Natural Resources Law Teachers, Indigenous Rights and North American Natural Resource Activity Panel, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta; June 2, 2017.
鈥淪ynthesis of the Indigenous Water Justice Symposium.鈥� Panel Moderator at University of Colorado Law School 2016 Martz Summer Conference, Coping with Water Scarcity in River Basins Worldwide: Lessons Learned from Shared Experiences, Boulder, Colorado; June 9, 2016
鈥淭he Colorado River Revisited.鈥� Presentation at Vermont Law School Sixth Annual Environmental Scholarship Colloquium, South Royalton, Vermont; Oct. 3, 2015.
鈥淐limate Change and the Colorado River.鈥� Presentation at University of Denver, Sturm College of Law, Environmental Law Workshop, Denver, Colorado; Feb. 23, 2015.
鈥淐olorado River Water in Southern California: Evolution of the Allocation Framework, 1922-2014.鈥� Presentation at Rocky Mountain Junior Scholars Forum, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, Salt Lake City, Utah; Nov. 14, 2014.
鈥淐olorado River Water in Southern California: Evolution of the Allocation Framework, 1922-2014.鈥� Presentation at Western History Association 2014 Annual Conference, Newport Beach, California; Oct. 16, 2014.
鈥淩eckoning Arizona v. California with the Colorado River Compact.鈥� Presentation at University of Colorado Law School Conference, Arizona v. California at 50: The Legacy and Future of Governance, Reserved Rights, and Water Transfers, Boulder, Colorado; Aug. 16, 2013.
鈥淔orging Ahead in the Era of Limits: The Evolution of Interstate Water Policy in the Colorado River Basin.鈥� Presentation at Harvard University Water Federalism Project Conference, Cambridge, Mass.; April 20, 2012.