University of Wisconsin Law School Professor Arthur F. McEvoy delivered the keynote speech on February 1, 2007, at Stanford University’s conference "Transcending Borders: Pacific Salmon and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Fisheries Conservation."

The invitational conference, sponsored by Stanford’s Bill Lane Center for the Study of the North American West, brought together scholars, policymakers, journalists, and industry players from the U.S. and Canada for an interdisciplinary conversation about the challenges involved in managing western fisheries.

McEvoy’s keynote address was titled  "Situating Fisheries in History, Nature, and Culture."

McEvoy is the UW Law School’s J. Willard Hurst Professor of Law, and author of the landmark book The Fisherman’s Problem: Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850-1980, which established the field of fisheries history and continues to shape its scholarship.

For more information on the two-day conference and workshop, see http://west.stanford.edu/events/conferences.html.

Submitted by on February 5, 2007

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