The Environment, Energy & Natural Resources Center will host Professor Rhett Larson as its 2nd Distinguished EENR Scholar, at the University of Houston Law Center on March 24, 2025. He will give a talk titled, "Water, Ai and the Future of Energy".
Professor Rhett Larson
Richard Morrison Professor of Water Law
Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
Arizona State University
Tuesday, March 24th, 2026
12:00 – 1:00 PM Central
Gregory C. King '85 Energy Law Classroom, Room 310
Refreshments will be served
Speaker Bio
Rhett Larson is the Richard Morrison Professor of Water Law at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. 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. Professor Larson serves on the Board of Directors of the Arizona Mexico Commission, on the Water Conservation Grant Committee of Arizona's Water Infrastructure Finance Authority and is legal counsel to the Arizona Municipal Water Users Association. 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).
Education
Co-hosted by EENR and Environment & Energy Law Society.(EELS)
The University of Houston Law Center is part of a Carnegie-designated Tier One public research university and an EO institution.
