Eric T. Freyfogle
Max L. Rowe Professor

Phone: 217-333-8713 Email: efreyfog@law.uiuc.edu B.A. Lehigh University J.D. University of Michigan Courses Environmental Law & Policy Conservation Thought Natural Resources Law Property Law Wildlife Law Vita Publications Low Resolution Photo (~550k jpg) High Resolution Photo (~2Mb jpg)		Selected Recent Writings on Private Property and Conservation Thought Professor Freyfogle received his J.D. degree summa cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was Managing Editor of the Michigan Law Review. He served as an assistant to the Army general counsel in Washington, D.C., and practiced law in Indianapolis before joining the faculty. He is the author or editor of several books, including the recently-published Why Conservation is Failing and How It Can Regain Ground (Yale University Press, 2006), The Land We Share: Private Property and the Common Good (2003); The New Agrarianism (2001); Bounded People, Boundless Lands (1998); and Justice and the Earth (1993). Professor Freyfogle has lectured widely, including recent appearances in England, Brazil, and Korea. Professor Eric Freyfogle visited the Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon in September, 2005 for three days as its annual Distinguished Natural Resources Law Visitor. His visit included a public lecture, "Goodbye to the Public-Private Divide." In September, he also spoke at the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, presenting the lecture, "Conservation In Whole." In early October, Professor Freyfogle spoke at a conference on Environmental Law/Environmental Letters at the University of Virginia Law School, presenting "Ends and Means in Environmental Law, or the Unlikely Marriage of Law and Letters." A native of central Illinois, he has long been active in local, state, and national conservation efforts. He currently serves as president of the Prairie Rivers Network, the Illinois affiliate of the National Wildlife Federation.