Justin R Pidot

Fellow since 2026

University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law

Professor of Law, Ashby Lohse Chair in Water & Natural Resources, and Co-Director of the Environmental Law Program

Tucson, Arizona

Region 9 serving AZ, CA, HI, NV, and certain territories

Justin Pidot is the Ashby Lohse Chair in Water & Natural Resources and co-director of the environmental law program at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. He has written more than a dozen law review articles and co-authors a textbook on environmental law. He has served as General Counsel for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, Deputy Solicitor for Land Resources at the U.S. Department of the Interior, an appellate lawyer at the Environmental and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and a law clerk for Judge Judith Rogers of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Degrees

B.A. Wesleyan University
J.D. Stanford Law School

Admissions

Arizona
California
District of Columbia

Court Admissions

U.S. Supreme Court

Representative Publications (not including ACOEL Blogs)

"Rethinking Multiple Use Management of America’s Public Lands," Ground Shift (February 26, 2026), https://www.groundshift.us/rethinking-multiple-use-management-of-americas-public-lands/
PRACTICING ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (3d ed. 2025) (2d ed. 2021) (1 ed. 2017) (with Todd Aagaard and David Owen)
"Quantifying the substantive influence of public comment on United States federal environmental decisions under NEPA," ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS (2025) (with Ahsley Stave et al.)
"Conservation Rights-of-Way on Public Lands," 55 U.C. DAVIS LAW REVIEW 89 (2021) (with Zeke Peterson)
"Compensatory Mitigation and Public Lands, "61 BOSTON COLLEGE LAW REVIEW 1046 (2020)
"Contingent Delisting," 91 COLORADO LAW REVIEW 649 (2020)
"The Common Law of Liable Party CERCLA Claims," 70 STANFORD LAW REVIEW 191 (2018) (with Dale Ratliff)
"Public-Private Conservation Agreements and the Greater Sage-Grouse," 39 PUBLIC LAND & RESOURCES LAW REVIEW 161 (2018)
"Governance and Uncertainty," 37 CARDOZO LAW REVIEW 113 (2015)
"Deconstructing Disaster," 2013 BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 213 (2013)