Rhett Larson is the Richard Morrison Professor of Water Law at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. He is a faculty fellow in the Center for Law and Global Affairs, and the Center for Law, Science, and Innovation. He is also a senior research fellow with the Kyl Center for Water Policy at ASU's Morrison Institute for Public Policy. Professor Larson’s research and teaching interests are in property law, administrative law, and environmental and natural resource law, in particular, domestic and international water law and policy.
Professor Larson’s research focuses on the impact of technological innovation on water rights regimes, in particularly transboundary waters, and on the sustainability implications of a human right to water. He works on dispute resolution and improved processes in water rights adjudications in Arizona and the Colorado River Basin with the Kyl Center for Water Policy. He is the Principal Investigator on a USAID-funded applied research project improving water supplies for refugee host communities in Lebanon and Jordan. Professor Larson was a visiting professor and Fulbright Scholar at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, a PLuS Alliance visiting fellow with the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, a Lady Davis Fellow and visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of Just Add Water: Solving the World’s Problems Using its Most Precious Resource (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Professor Larson also practiced environmental and natural resource law with law firms in Arizona, focusing on water rights, water quality, and real estate transactions.
Domestic and international water law and policy
Just Add Water: Solving the World's Problems Using Its Most Precious Resource (forthcoming from Oxford University Press)
Water Security, 112 Northwestern Law Review 139 (2017)
Inter-State Lessons for International Water Law, 2.3 Brill Research Perspectives on International Water Law 1-82 (2017)
Law in the Time of Cholera, 92 Notre Dame Law Review 1271 (2017)
Bankrupt Rivers, 49 U.C. Davis Law Review 1335 (2016) (with Kelly Kennedy)
Adapting Human Rights, 26 Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum 1 (2016)
Interstitial Federalism, 62 UCLA Law Review 908 (2015)
The New Right in Water, 70 Washington & Lee Law Review 2181 (2013)
Innovation and International Commons: The Case of Desalination under International Law, 2012 Utah Law Review 759 (2012)
Principal Investigator, A Holistic Water Solution for Underserved & Refugee Host Communities in Lebanon & Jordan, Arizona State University (sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development), Tempe, Arizona ($1,940,000)
Spring 2021 | |
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HON 494 | Special Topics |
LAW 523 | Property |
SDO 548 | Water Law: Masters |
LAW 643 | Water Law |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Fall 2020 | |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Spring 2020 | |
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LAW 523 | Property |
SDO 598 | Special Topics |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SDO 598 | Special Topics |
LAW 643 | Water Law |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Summer 2019 | |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 523 | Property |
SDO 598 | Special Topics |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SDO 598 | Special Topics |
LAW 643 | Water Law |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Summer 2018 | |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 523 | Property |
SDO 598 | Special Topics |
LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
Fall 2017 | |
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LAW 631 | Environmental Law |
LAW 643 | Water Law |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Summer 2017 | |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Spring 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HON 494 | Special Topics |
LAW 523 | Property |
LAW 643 | Water Law |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Fall 2016 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 631 | Environmental Law |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |