Moderator,"Ethics and the Assessor," Maine Property Tax School, Colby College, August 8, 2008.
Organizer, Colby Environmental Studies/Goldfarb Conference, Protecting Livelihoods and Landscapes in Northern Maine, Colby College, March 13 & 14, 2008 (Future of Northern Maine in the aftermath of Plum Creek LURC decision).
Panelist, “Water Gap: Conflict or Collaboration?” National Conference of State Legislatures, Annual Meeting, Boston, August 9 2007 (The quandary of resolving water use conflicts among states, cities, farmers, industry and the environment).
Panelist, “Ethical Politics in (Water) Compact Negotiations,” Utton Center Conference on Model Interstate Water Compacts, Albuquerque, NM, June 7-8, 2007 (Discussion of the interplay between legal issues, politics and ethics in multi-party intergovernmental water negotiations).
Moderator, "Forums for Changing Values: Do We Still Need Adjudications?" 25th Annual ABA Water Law Conference, San Diego, February 23, 2007. (Panel considering fairness, efficiency and cost of water rights process).
Moderator, “Conflicts of Interest in Water Law: Views from the Bench,” 23rd Annual ABA Water Law Conference, San Diego, February 25, 2005. (Panel of federal, and state judges discussing ethical issues in complex water litigation and settlements involving Indian tribes).
Moderator, “Examples of Successful Water Resource Collaborations,” Utton Center Conference on Transboundary Waters, Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico, September 2, 2004. (Conference considering how Tribal, state, federal and other entities resolve water disputes, focusing on Pueblos of New Mexico and traditional Spanish acequias).
Moderator and panel organizer, “Environmental Water Settlements: Can We Make a Deal?” 22nd Annual ABA Water Law Conference, San Diego, February 19, 2004. (Panel on environmental aspects of complex Indian water settlements).
Speaker, “Fluid Ethics and the Public Interest.” 2nd annual ABA Eastern Water Law Conference, Hollywood Florida, May 5, 2004. (Discussion of conflicts of interest in water settlements involving the Federal Advisory Committee Act).
Speaker: “Conflicts of Interest in Water Law.” CLE International Conference on California Water Law, San Francisco and Irvine, CA, April 8 and October 19, 2002. (Conference of specialists in water rights, policy and environmental regulation; similar speeches in 1991, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998 and 2000).
Moderator and panel organizer: “Ethics: the Federal Attorney and Her Client(s).” 20th Annual ABA Water Law Conference, San Diego, February 21, 2002. (Panel on federal, state and tribal natural resource decisionmaking for national conference of water attorneys, consultants and policy professionals).
Moderator: “The Role of Negotiated Settlements in the Development and Enactment of Federal Legislation,” ABA conference on Indian Tribes, Natural Resources Conflicts and Alternative Dispute Resolution. St. George, Utah, October 9, 2001. (Panel presentation on interplay between court decrees and legislation for 100 natural resource law specialists; similar speech in 1994 at Stanford Law School conference).
Moderator and panel organizer: “How Should the Bureau of Reclamation React to Changing Demands for Water?” 18th Annual ABA Water Law Conference. San Diego, CA, February 25, 1999. (Discussion of tailoring federal water projects to work with environmental and Indian water rights).
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