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Karl Brooks
Associate Professor, History and Environmental Studies (Ph.D. Kansas, 2000; J.D. Harvard, 1983; M.Sc. London School of Economics, 1980; B.A. Yale, 1978). Environmental law and policy in North America; energy and environment; non-governmental organizations in American politics, especially environmental policy; and American social and political history since 1945. Teaching interests include environmental law; North American environmental history and policy; American legal history; and postwar American culture and politics.
A Boise, Idaho, native, Karl Brooks returned to Boise in 1983, where he practiced law until 1993 and served three terms in the Idaho Senate, 1986-1992. Before returning to graduate school, Brooks also worked for the Idaho Conservation League, Idaho's largest citizens' environmental group. Brooks has published numerous articles in the fields of environmental history and environmental law. The University of Washington Press published in 2006 Brooks' Public Power, Private Dams: The Hells Canyon High Dam Controversy in its Weyerhaeuser Environmental History Series. He recently published a commissioned article about current environmental historiography and Kansas history, "Environmental History as Kansas History: Review Essay," in Kansas History. He is currently working on "A Rising Wind: The Emergence of American Environmental Law, 1945-1980," under contract (Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas). Brooks spent 2001-2002 in Washington, D.C., as a Supreme Court Fellow.
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